Jerrold Electronics
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| Type | Manufacturing |
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| Founded | 1950 |
| Headquarters | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Products | Cable television equipment |
Jerrold Electronics was a provider of cable television equipment, including subscriber converter boxes, distribution network equipment (amplifiers, multitap outlets), and headend equipment in the United States.
[edit] History
The company was founded by Milton Jerrold Shapp in 1950. The company was one of the earliest pioneers of community antenna television systems (cable television). The company headquarters was located at 401 Walnut Street in Philadelphia, PA.
Shapp sold the company to General Instrument in 1967. However, the Jerrold brand name continued to be used on equipment into the 1990s.
In the late 1990s, the Jerrold name went out of use, and General Instrument merged with Motorola becoming the Motorola Connected Home Solutions division.[citation needed] The equipment was popular with many cable pirates by then[citation needed]and by 2005 most cable companies have discontinued use of Jerrold equipment in favour of digital cable.
There are a number of excellent sources available covering the history of Jerrold and the cable industry as a whole.
Online Titles
- Cable television in the United States# Cable Television in the United States’(Wikipedia, last entry 2009)
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- Extensive treatment, but some updating is needed
- [1] NCTA (National Cable & Telecommunications Association) History of Cable Television. Washington, DC 2001
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- Brief narrative history
- [2] United States: Cable Television] The Museum of Broadcast Communications 2001
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- Extensive, well documented
- Cable television in the United States Wikipedia Cable Television in the United States (Last modified 19 Feb. 2011)
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- Extensive treatment, but some updating is needed
- Keneth Alden Simons Wikipedia] Keneth Alden Simons (last modified Feb. 20, 2011)
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- Brief history of key Jerrold engineer.
- [3] Young, C. RFMD. CATV Hybrid Amplifier Modules: Past, resent, Future’’ (RFMD Greensboro 2000)
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- History of CATV amplifier development
Offline Titles
- Parsons, P. Blue Skies: A History of Cable Television Temple University Press, 2008
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- Extensive history
- Stubbs, G. From workhorse to icon. The 704 Jerrold Field Strength Meter CED Magazine, November/December 2004, p. 42
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- History of one notable instrument
- Taylor, A.S. History Between Their Ears: Recollections of Pioneer CATV Engineers The Cable Center, 2000
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- Histories of key engineering staff involved
