Cable television has come a long way since Ted Turner launched the first basic cable network, WTBS, back in 1976 and HBO began delivering programming across the U.S. around the same time. Today if you have fewer than 100 televisions channels coming into your home, you may as well be living in the Dark Ages. But for the better part of the history of cable, it was viewed as a pretty niche offering – delivering video content over coaxial cable to the home. Cable companies really had no competition...