Chapter 6: Cable and the Specialization of television

This chapter was informative to me in that I never really viewed cable television different from broadcasting networks. I've always had cable in my household since I was little, so I never really differentiated the two. I admit I never really watched broadcasting networks, so I could relate to this chapter. I also found it interesting that cable television had humble beginnings around the late 1940s, and that it sprung up due to people trying to get signal around tall buildings and mountains.
Even though broadcasting networks and television's professional organization tried to limit the growth of cable, it still flourished; although restricting rules such as the must-carry rules and requirement of access and leased channels. I think it's funny that eventually TV's biggerr networks decided that instead to keep trying to fight cable, they invested in it by buying certain channels.
I also found the section on MTV to be interesting. I watch it I'd say pretty regularly (I don't watch much television these days anyway) and I didn't realize that it had such a big effect on the world.