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Wometco Home Theater (WHT) was an early pay television service in the New York City area that was owned by Miami-based Wometco Enterprises, which owned several major network affiliates in mid-sized media markets and its flagship WTVJ in Miami (then a CBS affiliate on channel 4, now an NBC owned-and-operated station on channel 6).
KSWB-TV/KFDO-TV 8: 1961-1976 Defunct Initially licensed to Elk City; the station moved its city of license to Sayre when it became a satellite of Amarillo-based KFDA-TV. Sold to Stanley Marsh 3, owner of ABC affiliate KVII-TV, in 1976 and became a satellite of KVII-TV. Columbia-Jefferson City, Missouri: KOMU-TV 8: 1953-1955 (secondary) NBC KRCG 13
Manhattan Cable Television's Channel J was a public-access television channel broadcast from New York City [1] from 1976 to 1990. [2] It became famous and controversial for its lack of censorship and its depiction of marginalized communities and taboo themes.
SelecTV was an American subscription television service that was formed in 1976 and first began broadcasting in 1978; the service focused entirely on televising movies, and was shut down in 1989. As with other subscription television systems, SelecTV was transmitted via scrambled signal from a local UHF television station (it later became a ...
Telefrance USA was a satellite-fed cable television network in the United States dedicated to highbrow French programming, featuring original productions and feature films. It originated as a local cable service in New York before becoming a national service distributed by the Satellite Program Network, which broadcast its block on its transponder.
KHSL-TV 12: 1953-1978 (secondary) CBS KRCR-TV 7 Secondary affiliation, with CBS as its primary affiliation. Later shared with NBC affiliate KRCR-TV. Disaffiliated from ABC in 1978 when KRCR-TV took a full-time ABC affiliation. Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands: WSVI 8: 1965-2016 Ion Television: none; served on cable by WENY-TV, Elmira, NY
Then came the rise of pay TV, particularly cable, which helped encourage the advent of prestige TV, led by HBO in the late 1990s and early 2000s with classics like “The Sopranos,” “The Wire ...
The pay TV network Showtime makes its debut, appearing only on a Dublin, California cable system. The network would expand nationally in 1978. July 4 U.S. television networks present extensive coverage of nationwide events commemorating the country's bicentennial. July 11