All Television and Cable Milestones

The turning points of television and cable as broadcast and subscription media, the atlas's single largest milestone group, grouped together because cable milestones and general broadcast-policy milestones are television-driven in this atlas's current holdings; a future wave that grows radio-specific or cross-medium policy milestones past today's size should reconsider folding them in here. Belongs here: named television firsts and landmarks such as the first public television demonstration, the first television broadcast, the BBC Television Service launch, the first televised Olympic Games, the first televised presidential debate, the introduction of color television broadcasting, the Telstar transatlantic broadcast and the Moon landing broadcast, channel launches such as CNN, ESPN and MTV, the launch of HBO as a landmark cable milestone, and the Fairness Doctrine repeal as a broadcast-policy milestone. Does not belong here: radio-only milestones, grouped under radio milestones, or interactive and digital milestones, grouped under interactive and digital media milestones.