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Title Premiere date Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur: January 4, 1976 Eleanor and Franklin: 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 ...
Z Channel popularized the use of letterboxing on television, as well as showing "director's cut" versions of films (which is a term popularized after Z Channel's showing of Heaven's Gate). Z Channel's devotion to cinema and choice of rare and important films had an influence on such directors as Robert Altman , Quentin Tarantino , Alexander ...
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
SelecTV began broadcasting July 23, 1978, on KWHY-TV channel 22 in Los Angeles. [1] By November, SelecTV had signed up 5,000 subscribers. [2] The service expanded to Milwaukee on WCGV channel 24 on June 27, 1980, [3] and it began broadcasting to Philadelphia over WWSG-TV channel 57—a new-to-air station—on June 15, 1981.
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 ...
This table displays the top-rated primetime television series of the 1976–77 season as ... ABC Sunday Night Movie: ... CBS 11: Three's Company: ABC: 23.1 12: All in ...
Viacom Inc. [a] (derived from "Video & Audio Communications") was an American mass media and entertainment conglomerate based in New York City.It began as CBS Television Film Sales, the broadcast syndication division of the CBS television network in 1952; it was renamed CBS Films in 1958, renamed CBS Enterprises in 1968, renamed Viacom in 1970, and spun off into its own company in 1971.
ON TV was an American subscription television (STV) service that operated in eight markets between 1977 and 1985. Originally established by National Subscription Television, a joint venture of Oak Industries and Chartwell Communications, ON TV was part of a new breed of STV operations that broadcast premium programming—including movies, sporting events, and concerts—over an encrypted ...