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Southern Satellite Systems was founded in 1976 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and was formed for the sole purpose of distributing WTCG (later WTBS), an Atlanta UHF television station (Turner Broadcasting) nationwide via satellite. In 1978, Satellite Syndicated Systems, Inc. was founded, and established as the parent to Southern.
Telefrance started broadcasting in May 1976 [1] under the initiative of Jean-Claude Baker, who, upon arriving to the city in 1973, noticed the lack of French programming in New York, in contrast to other ethnic groups who had language-specific programming on cable. [2] At the time, the three television channels in France (TF1, Antenne 2 and FR3 ...
January 11–12, 1976 The Macahans: January 19, 1976 Louis Armstrong – Chicago Style: January 25, 1976 Griffin and Phoenix: February 27, 1976 Young Pioneers: March 1, 1976 One of My Wives Is Missing: March 5, 1976 Dead on Target: March 17, 1976 Time Travelers: March 19, 1976 Most Wanted: March 21, 1976 Charlie's Angels: March 21, 1976 The ...
The movie The Sound of Music is televised for the first time, on ABC. CBS affiliates KRSD-TV in Rapid City, South Dakota and KDSJ-TV in Lead both shut down after a 5-year struggle over their unsatisfactory technical operations, which had rendered complaints from viewers, NBC (its former affiliation before 1970), and the Federal Communications ...
[4] [5] Tempo Television was a 24-hour national cable network serving all contiguous states, Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Using a counter-programming philosophy, Tempo Television fulfilled viewer needs by dividing its program schedule into various dayparts including international programming, finance, sports, leisure and classic films.
In April 1992, KJRH became the first Tulsa-area television station to relay its signal directly to a cable television system by fiber optics, after it activated a 5.6-mile-long (9.0 km) fiber cable link between the Peoria Avenue studios and the local headend facility of United Artists Cable (now operated by Cox Communications, which acquired ...
Comedy Theatre, an anthology series of unsold television pilots for situation comedies last seen in the summer of 1976, returned for its second and last season. The NBC Novels for Television segment The Innocent and the Damned was a rerun of the 1977 television miniseries Aspen .
HBO was the first true premium cable (or "pay-cable") network as well as the first television network intended for cable distribution on a regional or national basis; however, there were notable precursors to premium cable in the pay-television industry that operated during the 1950s and 1960s (with a few systems lingering until 1980), as well ...