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SportsChannel Los Angeles The Z Channel was one of the early pay television stations in the United States (1974–1989) best known for its devotion to the art of cinema due to the eclectic choice of films [ 1 ] by the programming chief Jerry Harvey .
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.
An ON TV decoder box. In October 1978, Oak and Chartwell, the partners in the Los Angeles system, reached an agreement to each develop six ON TV markets on their own; the Oak markets would be Chicago, Phoenix, Miami, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, and Dallas–Fort Worth, [10] while Chartwell was tasked with development in New York, Detroit, Atlanta, San Francisco, Cleveland, and Houston. [11]
Visions is a 90-minute American television weekly anthology series that aired from 1976 to 1978. It was produced by KCET in Los Angeles [1] and televised nationally on PBS.It concentrated on the works of mostly new and some prominent writers, including Cormac McCarthy (The Gardener's Son), Marsha Norman, Jean Shepherd, Luis Valdez, and Robert M. Young.
In retaliation for a lawsuit brought by Paul Winchell, who sought the rights to his children's television program Winchell-Mahoney Time, which was produced at KTTV in Los Angeles during the mid-1960s, it is believed that KTTV management destroyed the program's video tapes. In 1989 Winchell was awarded nearly $18 million as compensation for ...
The Emerald City was an American television series and self-proclaimed "world’s first television show for gay men and women" [4] that aired twice weekly [10] on Channel J from 1976 to 1979. [11] It began in New York City and was later syndicated to San Francisco and Los Angeles. [12]
Price was a story editor and writer for CBS-TV in New York from 1951 to 1953 where he worked on series such as Westinghouse Studio One, Suspense and The Web. [9] [11] [1] He moved to Los Angeles where he was story editor at Columbia Pictures from 1953 to 1957, working on shows like Ford Theater, Father Knows Best, Damon Runyon Theater, Playhouse 90 and Circus Boy.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, commonly shortened to MGM) is an American film and television production and distribution company headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. [1] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was founded on April 17, 1924, and has been owned by the Amazon MGM Studios subsidiary of Amazon since ...