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It is just like radio through the air: lots of channels travel together through the mediumm (air) and don't (usually) interfere with each other. Officail (in the US the FCC does this) tables of frequency allocations set the spacing so interferance between channels doesn't occur. Radio signals can travel over copper wire even better than through the air. So a cable station effectively makes a tiny transmitter for each channel the customer receives, then combines all those signals and applies the combination signal to their end of the cable. The combined signal travels over the cable, aided by amplifiers that extend the distance, all the way to the customer's TV set. In the set, the tuner extracts the signal that you want to watch from the cable , it "tunes" in the signal out of all those that were combined, just the way it would tune in a station from an antenna in the air.

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