no offense, but you must be a satellite guy. Cable Television started in Pennsylvania in 1947, before Sputnik, you know the first satellite and I'm sure it wasn't for HBO. This will help in your education of the real pioneer of CATV (which actually stands for community antenna television) HTTP://www.kabling.co.uk/
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