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| Title | NCTA |
| Description | Highlighting the resumption of cable television hearings by the House Communications Subcommittee on July 20, 1978--a demonstration of domestic communications satellite and cable technology. Don Williams, a cable operator in Santa Monica, testified before the Subcommittee via Western Union's Westar I statellite. Williams' testimony was beamed from Westar to this SATCOM-10T small earth station antenna (Antennas for Communications, Inc.) outside the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill. National Cable Television Association (NCTA) President, Robert Schmidt and Bob Hughes and Congressman Lionel Van Deerlin (D-CA) are standing next to the satellite |
| Date original | 1978 July 20 |
| Decade | 1970s
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| Photographer | Ankers Capitol Photographers, Washington, DC |
| Subjects | Cable television--History--Photographs
National Cable Television Association (NCTA)
United States. Federal Communications Commission
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| People | Van Deerlin, Lionel
Schmidt, Robert
Hughes, Robert W.
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| Collection | NCTA Photograph Collection
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| Identifier | NC02053 |
| Format | image/jpeg |
| Date digital | 2016 |
| Physical description | 8 x 10 inch b&w photograph |
| Holding institution | Barco Library, The Cable Center |
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