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.

The Cable Center's Professional Education group is now offering e-learning classes. The Learning on Demand program will launch two courses: CableSTART, an introductory course on the cable industry and TechSTART, which covers the basic technologies behind advanced cable products. You can learn more about these programs on The Cable Center's website www.cablecenter.org or contact Shannon Novosel at 303-871-7471 or snovosel@cablecenter.org.

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In celebrating Black History Month, we are featuring the
oral history interviews of seven industry leaders.

Read and watch the interviews of on The Cable Center’s website: Tracy Jenkins Winchester, president and CEO CoLours TV; Doug Holloway, president of Cable Investments, NBC Universal Cable; Bob Johnson, founder of BET Pearlena Igbokwe, svp Original Programming Showtime Networks; Richard Parsons, former chair/CEO Time Warner; Don Anderson, former executive with Time Warner, DIVA, and HBO ; and Gayle Greer, former svp Time Warner Cable

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.