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The History Of America's Satellite TV Service Providers

The history of satellite TV service providerslocations.In 1976, HBO became the first
in the United States goes back farther thanprogrammer to deliver satellite programming
you might think. Most people are familiarto cable companies; many other programmers
with popular current providers such as thelike Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) and the
Dish Network and DirecTV, but very few knowChristian Broadcasting Network (later called
how satellite TV has developed and evolvedThe Family Channel) followed suit, and the
since its earliest beginnings in thesatellite television industry was poised for
1970s.The Beginnings of Satellite TVThirtytremendous growth.Big Dishes, Free
years ago there was no such thing asProgrammingAs more and more programmers used
satellite TV service providers, but that wassatellites to deliver their programming to
about to change. Several private companiescable companies across the country, a
banded together in the early 1970s to launchStanford University professor developed a way
a series of geosynchronous satellitesto receive those signals in his own home. His
(geosynchronous means an orbit that keeps thereceiver dish, later known as a C-band dish
satellite directly above one area of thefor the frequency that it received, was quite
earth at all times) to transmit signals fromlarge and quite effective.
an originating source to multiple receiving



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