Colorado Experience: The Cable Revolution
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- The humble and innovative beginnings of the cable TV industry in Colorado sparked one of the most important industries in the world. From Bill Daniels, Bob Magness, and John Malone to Rouzbeh Yassini, meet the innovative pioneers of the industry, which continues to reinvent itself even today.
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I started in the Cable Industry right out of college in 1983 and left in 2005. I started at the bottom as an installer and left as a Technical Trainer. I worked for Dr. John Malone and felt real pride as the time. I enjoyed every bit of this program as I re-lived my personal roles in it. Their were many ups and downs as I said "I got 1 job and went though acquisition 7 times" ending with Comcast. I just went by the averages and likely installed cable in 10K homes, did 10K service calls and trained 100's more to follow in my path. I wished I knew then what we do now, as we were stumbling much of the time. From an insiders point of view, Colorado was central to much of what went on. Most would be stunned if they really understood the impact and what is still living on today!
Fantastic vision by so many people. Thank you for documenting this in video. Cable changed my life as a child growing up in a small town. Cable shows showed me a way of life I didn't see around me and gave me the inspiration to originally go into advertising.
The FIRST cable revolution was in 1880 when every mountain valley had cables strung across it to move buckets full of rich ore. Colorado probably had more of these than any other state and seldom was there a high mountain pass without a cable strung across it.
Also why CO was the first state where alternating current as a means of power transmission was utilized in SW CO. Learned that from another great Colorado Experience doc. :)
*fascinating!* much thanks.
These People were about Making Money 💰
please do a video about telecommunications history of colored, ranch lines and railroad open wire
The Right thing to do is have a Repeater on the mountain or a highrise... retransmiing the channels to the area....they should be doing this now in 2024😮
Explains why Bill Daniels' private jet is hanging in the atrium of concourse C at Denver Intl Airport
They should of had repeaters on the Hill.. retransmiting the stations over the air.. not though a cable... This was another reason to pay for TV
All these stations should of been on UHF channel 13 to 85. Over the air.... not though a cable.... should never needed to pay for TV...even now..with the Internet..we should not have to pay for TV 😮
Next up is StarLink and then instant quantum communication. What is the deal with college degrees? I have one and it didn't do anything for me. I learned everything on my own that I actually used in the real world.
This should have been a 30-minute episode. You made a bloated infomercial for the cable industry, and it doesn't really belong in this series.
Bloated with race obsessed preening.
Excuse me.
Infomercials actually sell you a product and give you a phone number, etc. to order that product.
This is a documentary on where something came from and how it works. This is not an infomercial the way that you think that it is.
@@djthereplay This is supposed to be a historical documentary series, presented by historians. Looking at all sides of a historical topic. This is just a self-serving tribute of the cable industry by... the cable industry itself. Very out of character for this series.
@@larrymelman
Opinions don't equal facts.
Just because you think that something is just about self serving does not mean that it actually is.
If there wasn't historians involved and all of these sides of the cable industry shown then it truly would have been just all self service.
Now, Based on what I am seeing and what I am being shown My Opinion is that it is informative and shows all sides of the cable industry as far as where it started off and where it is and where it is or was going to at the time.