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  • noun a cable TV control centre, at which terrestrial and satellite signals are received, monitored and injected into the cable network

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Examples

  • Place the master control panel, also known as the headend, in a convenient, central spot.

    How To Buy & Sell just about Everything Jeff Wuorio 2003

  • Place the master control panel, also known as the headend, in a convenient, central spot.

    How To Buy & Sell just about Everything Jeff Wuorio 2003

  • Place the master control panel, also known as the headend, in a convenient, central spot.

    How To Buy & Sell just about Everything Jeff Wuorio 2003

  • The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on Wednesday recommended that a broadcaster should not control any distribution platform — cable, direct-to-home (DTH) broadcasting, headend in the sky (HITS), mobile TV.

    Broadcasters can't be distributors. 2009

  • And a little more work on the TV distribution system headend.

    Building Project Update for 21 June 2003 2003

  • Supply to the outer perimeter of the tertiary command is then poor, and water use tends to be focussed on the more fortunate headend cultivators.

    Chapter 20 1995

  • As noted earlier, any tertiary modification program aimed at improving equity or efficiency of water distribution is likely to reduce the supply to those cultivators who are using excess water at the headend of the system.

    Chapter 20 1995

  • However, on introduction of canal supply, cultivators generally assume that problems of deficiency are in the past, and when that proves to be not entirely the case unofficial diversions and tampering with control structures, also headend versus tailend problems, must be anticipated.

    Chapter 10 1995

  • It is in situations where the need for canal irrigation is not so pressing that cultivators may simply forgo their night-time share or headend cultivators may illegally extend their hours of day-time irrigation at the expense of tailend cultivators who then are forced into use of the night-time supply rejected by the headenders.

    Chapter 12 1995

  • For purposes of determining the royalty fee under subsection (d) (1), two or more cable systems in contiguous communities under common ownership or control or operating from one headend shall be considered as one system.

    Copyright Law of the United States of America and Related Laws Contained in Title 17 of the United States Code, Circular 92 United States

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