On August 4 , 1964 the first day of his employment in Robert S. McNamara's Department of Defense, Daniel Ellsberg received cables describing an attack on American ships in the Gulf of Tonkin by North Vietnamese torpedo boats.
The tuners of most television receivers are capable of receiving cable channels directly.
It is now available in more than 60 million of the approximately 80 million homes that receive cable or satellite television.
Cablevision Optimum Online service took the early lead in bringing broadband to Long Island, in the summer of 1998, and the service is available to anyone who can receive cable television.
So far this year, the agency has proposed reforming rules on set-top boxes so that people can pick any television device to receive cable and online video, which could cut into the industry's $19.5 billion in annual set-top-box rental fees.
India has more than 150 million homes with television, of which 25% have DTH and 51% receive cable TV.
The country has more than 150 million homes with television, of which 25% have direct-to-home (DTH) service and 51% receive cable TV.
Kirk had rounded up another group to try building a new station and broadcast tower but as that deal was being finalized he anxiously watched the number of homes receiving cable go through the roof.
Scientific-Atlanta is one of the largest makers of set-top boxes used by subscribers to receive cable TV programming and interactive services such as movies-on-demand and E-mail.
Kirk had rounded up another group to try building a new station and broadcast tower--but as that deal was being finalized he anxiously watched the number of homes receiving cable go through the roof.
The NCTA is claiming under 53% of the households in America have cable TV, but the FCC states that the first prong was met years ago (currently at 95.5%), and the second prong was just met at 71.4% of American households receiving cable TV.
