How do they get cable TV to islands?

Question

How do they get cable TV to islands?

Answer 1

Magical unicorn fairies visit at night and zap the tv's with their wands hehe

Answer 2

Man those are some lame answers. The cable companies on any island gets their signals just like they do here in the USA, by satellite. From there, they distribute cable just like in any other major country.

Answer 3

That depends a lot on the location of the island.  Cable systems are set up as "hub" and "spokes".  A Hub covers a geographic area.  A hub can be anywhere, I've seen some built in the back rooms of strip malls and even a few in portable buildings.

A hub can have it's own satellite dishes to receive programming directly.  They also usually have optical fiber and microwave feeds back to the "head end" (main hub for the system).

So, depending on where the island is and the access to it, they may have a stand alone hub, or be fed via a combination of microwave and fiber.

Answer 4

mobile phone is the only source

Answer 5

underground

I have Cable, Internet and Phone with Comcast

There is a Cable office on the Island

I live in Galveston, Texas (it's an Island)

Adding this part for the one who said my answer was lame:

Our cable comes from the main office in Houston and it's sent to Galveston underground from the mainland to the island I live on.