4.2 Reading map CH.3

"if there were no local signals available, these companies carried the three network signals by importing them from stations in nearby communities, a practice that became known as distant signal importation."

it was important because if a small town had one tv station, the cable system would import the signals from two TV stations in a large city several hundred miles away.

it played a role which was what programming planned and produced by the cable system came to be called.

The multitude of cable tv programming networks launched during the 1980s.

Well the MSOs started to purchase cable companies that were unable to expand were sold to large corpoartions that could withstand the unprofibility of the freeze period.

Original Satellite TV dishes were 10 meters in diameter and cost almost $150,000, a sstiff price for cable systems, many of which were just managing to break even. But satellite tech moved quickly enough that by 1977 dishes in the range of 3 meters sold for less than $10,000.

telecomunications Act of 1996.. It was written largely for radio , it served broadcasting well for decades, mainly because the american system of government allows laws to be interperted by the courts and regulatory bodies such as the FCC