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