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Shortest-Lived Cable Channels?
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caller10 said:
Actually, All News Channel (co-owned by Viacom and Hubbard Broadcasting) only lasted from 1999 to Sept. 30, 2002:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_News_Channel
The All-News Channel was launched in 1989, not 1999. For awhile, KMOV-TV (CBS) in St. Louis, which was owned at the time by Viacom (before they took over CBS) would air at least an hour of ANC early in the morning, I think at 4AM. I can also recall a low-power station in Columbia, MO airing ANC for at least part of their broadcast day back in the early '90s.
In my neck of the woods, Star Channel, an Atlantic Canadian regional pay-TV channel, only lasted a few months in the early 80s. The national C-Channel (think of old-skool A&E and you've got the idea), which launched around the same time, only lasted 17 weeks before going down the tubes.
Satellite News Channel was a joint effort of ABC News and Group W -Westinghouse Broadcasting. ANd their slogan taken from Group W all-news radio stations like WINS in NYC, was ,"Give Us 18 Minutes, and We'll Give You The World". Like CNN and Headline News, they gave all the national and world news, plus quick regional bulletins for your region. This bonus was something not found on the two CNN's,but later on in the Bay Area cable outlets who carried Headline News, gave viewers a quick look at Bay Area news from KRON-TV ,when it was the NBC station there, before the Peacock flew to KNTV 11 San Jose, leaving Monterey-Salinas with no ABC outlet ,but on Dish and DirecTV, KGO-TV is the ABC station for Monterey-salinas by default.
SNC was in a sea of red ink, and on 10/27/1983, SNC signed off at 6pm EST, and Ted Turner bought them out for $25M.
SNC was in a sea of red ink, and on 10/27/1983, SNC signed off at 6pm EST, and Ted Turner bought them out for $25M.
How about the Black Family Channel? When we first got digital cable in 2006, that was part of the lineup, and very soon thereafter it was replaced by the Gospel Music Channel.
BobbyNBC10 said:
Some cable systems nationwide have included special locally-produced segments inserted into Headline News, produced either by a local station, an independent producer or the cable system itself.
Here in the Tampa Bay area, WFLA produced HN inserts for Time Warner subscribers in Hillsborough County, while WTSP produced the inserts for Pinellas viewers -- don't know if either station still produces the inserts, since the arrival of Bay News 9 in 1997. The trouble with these inserts is that they're generally produced twice a day on weekdays only, which can get dated pretty quick, especially on weekends.
One example of an independently-produced HN insert is "Local Edition", which is seen on Charter systems in the Cadillac-Traverse City area:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Edition
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tothedj said:
Yes, I remember the Satellite Program Network. They used to run some really dusty, crusty old movies in the mornings. Would catch them whenever my college schedule did not start till later. I recall a lot of country music video blocks on there as well. They had an odd kind of VJ format. A guy or gal sitting at a control board someplace (Tulsa, Oklahoma maybe?) who would read promos of upcoming shows. I am guessing their actual BoardOp doing double-duty? They used some really cheesy electronic titling like what used to come on the early camcorders.
Then there was the short-term versions of the two comedy cable outlets 1989-91 (Time-Warner's "The Comedy Channel" and Viacom's "Ha!" before they merged into "Comedy Central").
I remember "The Comedy Channel" quite well ... it basically started as a low-budget thing with comedy clips hosted by different hosts/shows ... or I think they were also called CJs (comedy jockeys). I was a big big fan in particular of singer Rachel Sweet who hosted "The Sweet Life" (included a young writer who did some on-camera skits by the name of Jon Stewart), as well as "Night after Night" with comedian Allen Havey, "The Higgins Boys and Gruber" (Dave "Gruber" Allen and brothers David Anthony Higgins and Steve Higgins), "Tommy Sledge P.I", Mystery Science Mystery Science Theater 3000 (Joel Hodgson), and "Onion World" (Rich Hall).
I remember "The Comedy Channel" quite well ... it basically started as a low-budget thing with comedy clips hosted by different hosts/shows ... or I think they were also called CJs (comedy jockeys). I was a big big fan in particular of singer Rachel Sweet who hosted "The Sweet Life" (included a young writer who did some on-camera skits by the name of Jon Stewart), as well as "Night after Night" with comedian Allen Havey, "The Higgins Boys and Gruber" (Dave "Gruber" Allen and brothers David Anthony Higgins and Steve Higgins), "Tommy Sledge P.I", Mystery Science Mystery Science Theater 3000 (Joel Hodgson), and "Onion World" (Rich Hall).
...hmmm...I recall seeing National Empowerment Television on one of my Dish Network channels, and I didn't get Dish until October 1999 at the earliest...PDXREXX said:
...Star Channel was also the name of an early Warner Amex premium channel; circa December 1978 it was rechristened The Movie Channel...Bluenoser said:
How about the short-lived shopping network VIA-TV? One of the hosts from QVC used to be a host on it? It was around in the mid 90s and I remember it airing on Channel 59 in New Haven. After it folded Channel 59 switched to Shop-at-Home in the overnight hours.
Then there was another cheap-o shopping network that was around, but I don't think it was ever on in my area - Panda Shopping Network.
And there was a short-lived shopping network run by Carmella formerly of Cable Value Network (and later ValueVision which became ShopNBC). The network was called WSS - Worldwide Shopping Source.
Then there was another cheap-o shopping network that was around, but I don't think it was ever on in my area - Panda Shopping Network.
And there was a short-lived shopping network run by Carmella formerly of Cable Value Network (and later ValueVision which became ShopNBC). The network was called WSS - Worldwide Shopping Source.
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In the winter/spring (Feb-Apr) of 1990, we had the JukeBox Network on Rogers or Paragon cable company, (the first cable company in San Antonio, TX was Rogers, but don't remember when it changed to Paragon). I don't recall when it actually disappeared, but it was shortly after it started sharing its channel with someother network, JBN in the AM and someone else in the PM. JBN was a music video channel w/o commercials or VJs, but a 1-900 (remember those?) phone number to request music videos for a small fee. I guess some people actually paid for those music videos. They rolled a tickertape at the bottom of the screen featuring special requests, dedications and parts of their available music video library with the appropriate catalogue numbers.
Actually the Jukebox channel was a broadcast channel that was on low power tv all over the country. It was mostly rap video. They would play lots of fairly dirty ones that were banned from MTV. Madonna's banned "justify my love" was played. Along with a lot of booty shaking 2 live crew video's such as "Its your birthday" and "Me so Horny" Cocktales by 2 Short was also popular. The Box as it was later called was bought out by MTV and became MTV2 with mostly music video until they started to suck just like the original MTV and started running reality show reruns and other garbage.
Certain songs on the Jukebox would be played back to back or many times a day, because the artists themselves were calling the 1-900 number over and over. And the dirtier or more gangsta the song, the more it was played. It was really nothing more than payola, but somewhat legal, i guess.
Certain songs on the Jukebox would be played back to back or many times a day, because the artists themselves were calling the 1-900 number over and over. And the dirtier or more gangsta the song, the more it was played. It was really nothing more than payola, but somewhat legal, i guess.
I remember "The 90's Channel" a leftist documentary channel, it was pretty lame.
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