Anybody but me remember these syndication networks from the 70's and early 80's?
When the NBC station here decided to go 24 hours, they went to no expense to fill their overnights with something I believe was called World International Network or similar. (Anyone who remembers the exact name, please jog my memory!) All European TV shows in their original languages...and without subtitles! They promoted it with a slogan like "Watch what the world is watching." A really odd idea; they would patch into it during whatever was running, in progress or not.
Another package was run in the early 70's by what was then Teleprompter cable TV; they called it "4th Network Television." All the shows were old even then; the series were 50's and early 60's Four Star Productions output (heavy on the westerns,) feature films entirely from NTA (National Telefilm Associates, Inc.) except a weekly "old time movie" from Manbeck Picture Corp; best known as a home-movie packager. All this stuff was run from 3/4" tape cartridges and the quality was usually lousy.
When the NBC station here decided to go 24 hours, they went to no expense to fill their overnights with something I believe was called World International Network or similar. (Anyone who remembers the exact name, please jog my memory!) All European TV shows in their original languages...and without subtitles! They promoted it with a slogan like "Watch what the world is watching." A really odd idea; they would patch into it during whatever was running, in progress or not.
Another package was run in the early 70's by what was then Teleprompter cable TV; they called it "4th Network Television." All the shows were old even then; the series were 50's and early 60's Four Star Productions output (heavy on the westerns,) feature films entirely from NTA (National Telefilm Associates, Inc.) except a weekly "old time movie" from Manbeck Picture Corp; best known as a home-movie packager. All this stuff was run from 3/4" tape cartridges and the quality was usually lousy.