Because unlike copper phone lines, most of the television cable already has adequate carrying capacity and would not need to be replaced.

Wait: a workman emerged from a roof, dragging a television cable.

They ran television cables through the big Roman Catholic church and put up speakers outside to make sure everyone could hear.

They reach more American homes than either telephone lines or television cables.

Underground pipes have already been laid for television cables.

Miles of telephone lines and television cables have been laid.

As he climbed down television cables to reach his girlfriend's apartment he stopped at the wrong floor.

By contrast, "television cables were designed as one-way systems to broadcast to the home," he said.

We danced as our first video films appeared nationwide on the television cable.

Find and test holes through which outdoor television cables or antenna wires pass.