Development and launch
In 1965, Charles Dolan, who had already done pioneering work in the commercial use of
cables, won a franchise to build a cable system in Lower Manhattan in New
York. The new system, which Dolan called Sterling Manhattan Cable, became the first urban underground
cable-system in the United States.
Rather than stringing cable on telephone
poles or using microwave antennas to receive the signals, Sterling laid underground cable
beneath the streets of Manhattan - because the multitude of tall buildings
blocked television signals. In the same year Time-Life,
Inc. purchased 20 percent of Dolan's company.
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