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Shortest-Lived Cable Channels?

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azumanga

On May 20, Dish Network launched The Weather Cast, a new weather information channel designed to replace The Weather Channel, which was in dispute with Dish and threatening to leave that service.

However, today (5/24), The Weather Cast folded after a mere four days on the air, after a deal with Dish and TWC was made (so says The Weather Cast article on Wikipedia).

Are there any other cable channels in which if you blinked, you missed it?
 
NoWayNoCC said:
Remember Ted Turner's Cable Music Channel?

It competed against MTV around late 1984 or so.
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...that one was what I thought of when I saw the subject line of this thread. I forget the name of it, but it was a joint venture between Turner and Donny Osmond when Osmond's Blue Jean Network syndicated video show tanked on terrestrial TV in 1981...
 
ICE-TV, the all-Vanilla Ice Music Video channel.
I think it was on for about 17 minutes....
 
It merged with the "Under Pressure Music Channel" in the 18th minute.
 
Probably not the shortest, but certainly short: CBS Cable, an arts programming network that actually competed for viewers with Hearst/ABC's ARTS channel, running for 14 months between October 1981 and December 1982.

ARTS merged with RCA's "The Entertainment Channel" to produce...you guessed it, Arts & Entertainment (A&E).
 
Mike Stroud said:
FreddyE1977 said:
ICE-TV, the all-Vanilla Ice Music Video channel.
I think it was on for about 17 minutes....
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Oh, come on, now, you made that one up! That's preposterous, even for times like ours.
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Vanilla Ice crashed my sister's wedding (true story!)
 
In the mid/late 1990's there was CBS Eye On People that lasted maybe a year before being sold to Discovery and turned into Discovery People. I think that incarnation lasted less than a year.
 
davect said:
In the mid/late 1990's there was CBS Eye On People that lasted maybe a year before being sold to Discovery and turned into Discovery People. I think that incarnation lasted less than a year.
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It would then morph to Discovery Times (in a joint venture with the New York Times), then to the current Investigation Discovery (after the Times left the venture).
 
There was also the Mizlou Sports News Network(SNN), which started in early 1990 and lasted
less than a year. It was carried on my local cable system along with SportsChannel Philadelphia
(now Comcast SportsNet).
 
Remember HA! which was an attempt by Viacom to compete withHBOs The Comedy Channel which they merged to become Comedy Central.
 
Ultimajock said:
NoWayNoCC said:
Remember Ted Turner's Cable Music Channel?

It competed against MTV around late 1984 or so.
Click to expand...
...that one was what I thought of when I saw the subject line of this thread. I forget the name of it, but it was a joint venture between Turner and Donny Osmond when Osmond's Blue Jean Network syndicated video show tanked on terrestrial TV in 1981...
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...or was Cable Music Channel actually the name of that signal?
 
Then there are the many cable channels that should have been short-lived, but continue to uselessly suck up bandwidth to this day... ::)
 
There was something called the 'All News Channel'. a real cheapo CNN imitator. Anyone else remember 'Channel America' besides me?
 
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