Article
Article
- Computing & Information Technology
- Radio communications
- Television networks
Television networks
Article By:
Glaab, Joseph B. General Instrument Corporation, Hatboro, Pennsylvania.
Harrington, Clifford M. Shaw Pittman, McLean, Virginia.
Last reviewed:January 2021
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1036/1097-8542.682400
- Use
- History
- Transmission requirements
- Interexchange carrier channels
- Local channels
- Television network control centers
- Fiber-optic distribution
- Fixed satellite networks
- Use of satellites for news backhaul
- Direct broadcast satellites
- Cable distribution by satellite
- Cable delivery methods
- Coaxial cable systems
- Fiber optics in cable television
- Related Primary Literature
- Additional Reading
Arrangements of communications channels, suitable for transmission of video and accompanying audio signals, which link together groups of television broadcasting stations or closed-circuit television users in different cities so that programs originating at one point can be fed simultaneously to all others.
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