I used to love when the sports scores came in with the bed music and the graphics. I know it was like a late night filler on some stations or 24/7 on LP stations. Whatever happened to it?
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ANC was a subsidiary of Minneapolis-based Conus Communications (owned by the Hubbard family, which also own KSTP-5-ABC in Minn/St Paul). At the time they were programming ANC, they also owned USSB (United States Satellite Broadcasting). The Hubbard's sold USSB to Hughes (which renamed it Direct-TV. Later, Hughes parent, GM, sold it to Murdoch's NewsCorp). I'm pretty sure they shuttered ANC about the same time.
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Minor Correction:When DirecTV started up, it was required for some reason to share bandwidth with another company - USSB. I'm not sure what the reasoning was. USSB carried the premium channels and Viacom basic cable channels, Fox Movie Channel, plus ANC. It was sort of a pain because you got two bills.After a time, DirecTV was getting competition from Dish Network, and USSB sold out their interest and the two services on one satellite were merged. DirecTV continued to carry ANC for a time until Hubbard folded it. Very few cable systems carried ANC and it never really took off. In a way it's too bad. Headline News is no longer all news and it would be nice to have real all news channel. We've also lost the CBC's News World International to Al Gore's slacker channel.
Is this the All News Channel that was bought out by Ted Turner?Mike
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I bet they are sorry they did not hang in a while longer. Of course, things would have gotten interesting once Group W acquired CBS and SNC became an ABC/CBS joint venture.
Satellite News Channel became CNN Headline News after Turner bought it. Makes sense.I was a USSB, DirecTV and DiSH dealer early on, and came to like USSB quite a bit. They were very retailer-friendly, the programming was affordable (and a good compliment to DTV, basic cable or even free tv), and customers liked their customer service. They uplinked from a very unusual heated indoor teleport (with a special roof) in Minnesota.The USSB and DirecTV were separate in the beginning because they each bid on ... and won ... separate spectum at 110 degrees. They came together early in the process of getting on the air, and decided to use the same encoding method (DSS) and the same Thompson designed receivers. USSB leased space from DTV on their first satellites at 110 degrees, and the two decided not to duplicate programming for the most part.A situation like this is ripe for a takeover, and DTV apparently encouraged USSB to get off their satellite. Replacing their 3 or 4 transponders with their own satellite was prohibitive, so they ultimately sold USSB.
Not really. CNN2, as Headline News was originally known, was launched by Turner as a respose to SNC's format, when that channel was still seen as a major threat. When Turner bought SNC, he just shut it down.ironbear said:
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