The Cable and Satellite Television Industries

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Parsons, Patrick and Robert Frieden, (1998). The Cable and Satellite Television Industries. Boston: Allyn and Bacon. 371 pp. Paperback, $24.

Any author writing a book about telecommunications today is taking a risk. Because of technological developments and innovation, mergers and acquisitions, laws and lawsuits, what is today may certainly not be tomorrow. Such is the mercurial environment that greets Patrick Parsons and Robert Freiden's book, and the authors acknowledge that both industries exist "in interesting times." Although the environment is dynamic, the two Pennsylvania State University faculty members have succeeded admirably in writing a book that comprehensively …