From its origin as Community Antenna TV (CATV), a solution to poor over-the-air reception in the late 1940s, cable distribution is now the dominant delivery method for all TV programming. Even with ...

Today’s cable systems are increasingly digital. Armed with a rank of receivers, multiplexers and remultiplexers, a headend can produce hundreds of channels for delivery to viewers. Photo courtesy ...

Paramount Global and Comcast Corp. renewed their distribution agreement, allowing television channels like MTV, CBS and Nickelodeon to continue airing on Comcast’s Xfinity cable service. As part of ...

Line skill technicians prepare the infrastructure for assessment by isolating the spans and connecting the assessment equipment. A 50/60-Hz overvoltage is applied to the cable system for approximately ...

CBS and Time Warner Cable are taking their business battle public, with each launching ad campaigns critical of the other. At issue is a new distribution deal for media properties owned by CBS ...