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  2. Cable television in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Cable television first became available in the United States in 1948. [1] By 1989, 53 million U.S. households received cable television subscriptions, [2] with 60 percent of all U.S. households doing so in 1992. [3] Most cable viewers in the U.S. reside in the suburbs and tend to be middle class; [4] cable television is less common in low ...

  3. Basic Cable (South Park) - Wikipedia

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    Basic Cable (. South Park. ) " Basic Cable " is the ninth episode of the twenty-third season of the American animated television series South Park. The 306th episode overall of the series, it premiered on Comedy Central in the United States on December 4, 2019. The episode centers upon the character Scott Malkinson, and features an opening ...

  4. Cable television - Wikipedia

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    Cable television. A set-top box, an electronic device which cable subscribers use to connect the cable signal to their television sets. Presented unit is a Cisco RNG200N for QAM digital cable television system used in North America. Cable television is a system of delivering television programming to consumers via radio frequency (RF) signals ...

  5. USA Network - Wikipedia

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    USA Network (simply USA) is an American basic cable television channel owned by the NBCUniversal Media Group division of Comcast's NBCUniversal.It was originally launched in 1977 as Madison Square Garden Sports Network, one of the first national sports cable television channels, before being relaunched under its current name on April 9, 1980.

  6. TNT (American TV network) - Wikipedia

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    Service (s) YouTube TV, DirecTV Stream, Sling TV, Hulu [1] [2] [3] TNT (originally an abbreviation for Turner Network Television) is an American basic cable television channel owned by the Warner Bros. Discovery Networks unit of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) that launched on October 3, 1988. [4] TNT's original purpose was to air classic films ...

  7. AMC (TV channel) - Wikipedia

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    AMC is an American multinational basic cable television channel that is the flagship property of AMC Networks. The channel's programming primarily consists of theatrically released films, along with a limited amount of original programming. The channel's name originally stood for American Movie Classics, but since 2002 the full name has been de ...

  8. ESPN - Wikipedia

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    ESPN (an abbreviation of its original name, the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network [2]) is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by The Walt Disney Company (80% and operational control) and Hearst Communications (20%) through the joint venture ESPN Inc. The company was founded in 1979 by Bill Rasmussen, Scott ...

  9. Freeform (TV channel) - Wikipedia

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    Freeform (TV channel) Freeform is an American basic cable channel owned and operated by ABC Family Worldwide, a sub-division of the Disney Entertainment business segment and division of the Walt Disney Company. Freeform primarily broadcasts programming geared toward teenagers and young adults – with some skewing toward young women – in the ...