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 ...

The first cable systems in the U.S. started to appear in the early ’50s. Even with the rapid changes in technology and distribution methods, cable has maintained a prominent position as a conduit for ...

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 ...

Comcast Corp., Time Warner Inc. and Time Warner Cable Inc. on Tuesday finished distributing assets of their Texas and Kansas City Cable Partnership. By Staff reports, The Associated Press Comcast Corp ...

Cloo's closure, effective today, came after it lost cable distribution. Meanwhile, NBCUniversal shifts Oxygen to a more crime-centric programming approach. NBCUniversal no longer has a Cloo. The ...

Earlier this month, the close-knit world of unscripted cable-TV producers became convinced that A+E Networks was about to pull the plug on its FYI channel, making the three-year-old lifestyle outlet ...