Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!think.com!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: PZ2@psuvm.psu.edu (David L. Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: The Year Was 1960 Message-ID: Date: 20 Feb 91 14:30:26 GMT Sender: news@casbah.acns.nwu.edu Organization: Penn State University Lines: 19 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 138, Message 8 of 8 Originator: telecom@delta.eecs.nwu.edu In article , KLUB@maristb.bitnet (Richard Budd) says: >> The Moderator writes in TELECOM DIGEST V11 #123 >> [Moderator's Note: Maybe there was color television by then; I forget. >> I am sure it was not all that common in households until the early >> sixties sometime. Obviously there was no cable television... [whole bunch deleted] One more piece of history: although it was not as ubiquitous as it is today, cable television (or community antenna television, as it was known then - CATV) was important to TV viewers in mountainous areas like Pennsylvania and Oregon in the early 1950's. It was the only way those folks hidden behind the hills could watch over-the-air TV. You might guess that the first system was started so a music store retailer in Lansford, PA, could sell TV sets.