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United Press International (UPI) is an American international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th century until its eventual decline beginning in the early 1980s.
Muslim television network. i-Life TV: The Inspiration Networks: October 24, 2009 Replaced by Halogen TV. PTL Satellite Network: Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker: 1989: Launched in 1974. Collapsed in the wake of a sex and embezzlement scandal that resulted in Jim Bakker being sentenced to prison. Relaunched as PTL Television Network in 2015. The ...
UPI Newstime was the second 24-hour all-news television network in the US for cable TV, following AP Newscable for 13 years and predating CNN by 2 years. UPI Newstime was unique in how it distributed its programming to local cable TV (CATV) headends via satellite, using a form of slow-scan television, or SSTV technology.
Officials with Dish and Lilly Broadcasting, which owns WICU (NBC), WSEE (CBS) and WSEE-2 (CW), announced their agreement over the weekend. The channels were pulled from Dish's schedule in mid ...
As the pay-TV sector continues its downward spiral, DirecTV and Dish Network — two longtime rivals that have explored joining up at various times for years — may be headed to the altar.
Disney — whose networks have been dark on DirecTV since Sept. 1 amid a carriage dispute — on Friday launched a campaign to alert DirecTV customers that they have “plenty of options” to get ...
PrimeStar was an American direct broadcast satellite broadcasting company formed in November 1990 by seven cable television companies including Comcast Corp. and TCI Communications Corp. [1] PrimeStar was the first medium-powered DBS system in the United States but slowly declined in popularity with the arrival of DirecTV in 1994 and Dish Network in 1996.
Originally named "UPI Audio," the United Press International Radio Network was a news service for radio and television stations from wire service United Press International. It was the first such service offered by a major news agency and existed from 1958 to 1999.