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| Title | Chattanooga Cable TV Vice-President Charles A. Smithgall III and Orion the talking robot visit the Cahattanooga News-Free Press |
| Description | Original caption: "Exclusive to TVC: Orion, a talking robot, left, and Chattanooga Cable TV Vice-President Charles A. Smithgall III, right, visited the staff of the Chattanooga News-Free Press Oct. 12, the day 11, 000 basic cable subscribers were introduced to Home Box Office pay programming with a five-day free preview. Smithgall's premium service, combining Home Box Office and other cable satellite programming, has been ordered by 3, 292 subscribers in less than 2 weeks." |
| Date original | 1978 October 12 |
| Decade | 1970s
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| Subjects | Cable television--History--Photographs
Home Box Office (Firm)
Cable television--Tennessee
Robots
Chattanooga (Tenn.)--Newspapers
Chattanooga Cable TV
Cable television--Marketing
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| People | Smithgall, Charles A., III
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| Collection | Searle Photograph Collection
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| Identifier | SR00860 |
| Format | image/jpeg |
| Date digital | 2012 |
| Physical description | 8 x 10 inch b&w photograph |
| Holding institution | Barco Library, The Cable Center |
| Copyright | This image is issued by The Cable Center. Use of the image requires written permission from the staff of The Cable Center's Barco Library. All responsibility for questions of copyright that may arise in the use made of reproduced material provided by the Barco Library must be assumed by the user. The Barco Library will provide any information it has available to the user. |
| Ordering information | maito:[email protected] |
