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 ...

Researchers at Spain’s Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, ICMAB-CSIC, and Spanish firms Labein Tecnalia and Nexans, and Endesa, have constructed a 30-meter superconducting electric cable that they say ...

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 ...

MR. S. W. MELSOM, of the staff of the Cable Makers' Association, has contributed a paper on the standardization of cables and equipment, with the object of reducing distribution costs, to the ...

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 ...

The measurement engineer can view the values from tan δ and partial-discharge testing directly in the cable test van. Clear representation helps to detect severe defects or locate partial discharges ...

Researchers in Spain have developed the most advanced and powerful conductivity cable in the world. This prototype measures 30 metres and was made using superconducting material. The new cable ...