EL200. Stephens. Chapter 16. The Information Explosion. Cable Wonderful Cable
Television News in the Age of Cable. With the advent of cable, there was more of a selection in what a viewer wanted to watch. I can remember when I was a child, many years ago, and being at my grandmother's house, she had cable television, we thought that it was the greatest thing on Earth. My entire family would gather around her console television and watch it all evening. My fondest memory of cable was watching The Deer Hunter on HBO, the cable box had two buttons on it, one for accessing HBO, the other to convert back to cable television. The concept was so pure and somple then, now it has become a nightmare, high definition, 5 HBOs,Cinemax, Showtime...... Cable has definently been a landmarker of my generation.