Cable television facts for kids
Cable television is a way of letting people watch television without having to get signals from an antenna. The television signals are brought to the television through a coaxial cable or optical fiber People usually have to pay to subscribe to cable television. With cable television, people can watch hundreds of television channels carrying many television shows. Usually some of these are television stations and others are cable channels, made for the cable companies.
Cable TV is provided by many carriers, usually a place is served by only one or two cable companies. Some of those carriers in the United States are: AT&T U-Verse, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Verizon. Another method of subscription television is by Satellite television, especially in places where cable TV is not available.
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A coaxial cable used to carry cable television onto subscribers' premises
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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.
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A cable television distribution box (left) in the basement of a building in Germany (Kabel BW network, now Vodafone), with a splitter (right) which supplies the signal to separate cables which go to different rooms
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In Spanish: Televisión por cable para niños
