1. Television Today – Public Television There are approximately 370 educational or public television stations in the U.S. These stations are funded by viewers, sponsors and the federal government. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting dispenses federal funds to stations and program producers.

2. Television Today – Public Television State or Municipally Owned College or University Station Public School System Station Community Stations

3. Television Today – Public Television Typical Public Television Station Lineup Mornings: Body Electric; Between the Lion; Arthur, Sagwa, the Chinese Cat; Dragon Tales; Calilou; Mister Rogers; Teletubbies; Barney; Sesame Street; GED Connection; This Old House. Afternoons: Antique Roadshow; American Experience; NOW with Bill Moyers; Repeats of Morning Children’s Programming.

4. Television Today – Public Television Evenings: BBC World News; Nightly Business Report; NewsHour with Jim Lehrer; Antiques Roadshow; American Experience; American Masters; Charlie Rose; Nova; In Search of Shakespeare; Frontline; Washington Week in Review; Primetime Documentaries (America: Beyond the Color Line)

5. Television Today -- Cable First emerged in the fifties as CATV -- community antenna television. Cable was a redelivery system. In the sixties cable system operators looked for ways to provide other programming to subscribers (educational programs, sports, movies, cable- access)

6. Television Today -- Cable Cable expanded in the seventies because of three major developments -- the proliferation of domestic satellite relays the emergence of “super stations” the emergence of cable specific programming

7. Television Today -- Cable Cable system operators negotiate a franchise agreement with the local community to provide cable services. Multiple system operators may serve several areas. Comcast serves 21 million homes, currently the largest cable operator in the nation. DirecTV is largest satellite operator with 14.45 million homes.

8. Television Today -- Cable Cable networks deal with system operators, not stations. Cable networks have two main revenue sources – subscriptions and advertising. Cable systems generally offer subscribers three programming services -- basic, premium and pay- per-view.

9. Television Today -- Cable Cable system operators pay cable networks for the rights to air their programming. Cable system operators air over-the-air broadcast stations for free. The 1992 Telecommunications Act gave broadcasters the right to demand payment for carriage of their signals.

10. Television Today -- Cable The growth of cable television affected broadcasters in several ways: More competition for viewers More competition for ad dollars More competition for news Relaxed programming standards

11. How Cable Grew 1984-8548.9 %41.5 million subs 1988-8957.5 %52.0 1992-9365.7 %61.2 1996-9769.6 %67.5 2000-0181.8 %83.8

12. Television Today -- Cable Cable Networks Basic Channels: AE, AMC, Animal Planet, BET, Bravo, CNBC, CNN, Comedy Central, CourtTV, CSPAN, Disney, Discovery, E!, ESPN Classic, ESPN, ESPN2, EWTV, Family, Fox News, Food Channel, Fox Sports Channel, FX, GALA, Golf Channel, Hallmark, HGTV, History Channel, Home Shopping Network, Lifetime, MSNBC, MTV, Nickelodeon, OLN, QVC, SciFi, Spike, TBS, TCM, TLC, TNN, TNT, TOON, Telemundo, Travel, TV Land, USA, Univision, VH1, Weather Channel

13. Television Today – Cable Premium Channels: Cinema, Cinemax, Encore, HBO, HBOPlus, MAX, Showtime, Starz

14. Television Today – Direct Broadcast Satellite Direct broadcast satellite allows subscribers to receive hundreds of channels, but FCC laws prohibit satellite distribution of local stations in all but 40 markets.