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In 2017, about how many US households relied entirely on the internet for television, up from under a million in 2008?

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about 52.8%

By 1988, cable TV had reached about what share of all US households?

By the late 1980s, cable had become the dominant way most Americans watched television.

Source: Wikipedia, Cable television (2025) en.wikipedia.org

about 62.4%

By 1994, cable household penetration in the US had risen to about what level?

Cable's growth continued steadily through the 1990s before eventually peaking in the 2000s.

Source: Wikipedia, Cable television (2025) en.wikipedia.org

London

The world's first local cable TV networks operated in 1936 in Berlin and which other city?

Early cable systems were used to relay broadcasts like Olympic Games coverage before becoming a mass consumer product.

Source: Wikipedia, Cable television (2025) en.wikipedia.org

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