The Hauser Oral and Video History Collection has a new look on The Cable Center's website. Videos and audios are much easier to use and we have added general subjects that we hope we prove useful. We will continue to add further information and more videos to the website. We can also use your help. Please let us know if you find a name of an individual or company that has been mispelled and we will make the correction. Enjoy reading about the history of cable television and telecommunications!

If you haven't taken a look at our Bookstore lately, all of the titles offered by The Cable Center are on sale half price. This includes Distant Signals by Thomas Southwick and Relentless: Bill Daniels and the Triumph of Cable TV by Stephen Singular. The Bookstore is located at http://www.cablecenter.org/education/bookstore/index.cfm?category=0

Begun in 1978 to redress the lack of women's history in the nation's educational curriculum, National Women's Month was originally held as a celebration during a week in March. However because of continued interest,  in 1987, Congress declared in perpetuity the entire month of March as National Women's History Month.

Women have played a significant role in the cable industry's history, beginning with the Mom portion of the Mom and Pop cable systems where you had women such as Irene Gans and Betsy Magness running the business office to Char Beales, President and CEO of CTAM, Anne Sweeney, Co-Chairman, Disney Media Networks and President, Disney-ABC Television and Tracy Jenkins Winchester, President/CEO of CoLours TV.

In celebration of Women's National History Month, view the stories of cable's inspirational women.

If you haven't visited our Photo Archives on The Center's website, you should take a look. The Archives is located at http://archive.cablecenter.org. Currently, there are 700 photographs available - just a sampling of the 100,000 photographs in the collection. You can browse the photos or do a subject search. Hopefully, these images will bring back memories!  If you would like to donate your photographs to The Barco Library, you can contact Brian Kenny (bkenny@cablecenter.org) or Lisa Backman (lbackman@cablecenter.org).

Our Library features a wealth of information about the
history of the cable industry, and one of the best sources comes from the Oral
History Program. With over 300 interviews, the oral histories cover all aspects
of the industry – programming, distribution, technology, financial and regulatory. This resource is one-of-a-kind, because every story is told directly by the interviewee. You can hear the experiences of industry legends, including John Malone, Chris Moseley, and Ted Turner., all
in their own words. The stories told here are not only told by executives who represent the past history of the industry, but also its present and future.
They are an amazing narrative of entrepreneurship and creativity.

One of our favorite stories from the Oral Histories is John Hendricks discussing the development of the Discovery Channel . You can watch it here.