In 1974, I worked at the Public Broadcasting Service on implementing the first satellite network for delivering television programs to stations across the United States. HBO was on a similar pioneering path. Until this point, distributing programs to television stations was costly and cumbersome. Using telephone lines was hugely expensive. Tapes were often shipped serially from station to station — it was called “bicycling”.
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