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He did it by substituting as his conduit the new technology of satellites for AT&T’s long distance lines. With a satellite, you could take a single station signal, like that of Turner’s WTCG in Atlanta, beam it up into space, and then beam it back down to a cable operator in, say, New Jersey or Michigan.
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
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