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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 ...
A cable channel (sometimes known as a cable network) is a television network available via cable television. Many of the same channels are distributed through satellite television . Alternative terms include non-broadcast channel or programming service , the latter being mainly used in legal contexts.
1940: The American Federal Communications Commission, (), holds public hearings about television; 1941: First television advertisements aired. The first official, paid television advertisement was broadcast in the United States on July 1, 1941, over New York station WNBT (now WNBC) before a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies.
List of television shows filmed in New York City; List of television shows set in New York City; List of films and TV series set in Palm Springs, California; List of television shows set in San Diego; List of television shows set in San Francisco; List of television shows set in Wisconsin; List of television shows set in Washington, D.C.
Radio Rental Cable Television launches the UK's first pay-per-view movie channel, 'Cinematel', for cable viewers in Swindon. The channel later expands to Chatham in Kent. As well as showing movies, the channel also broadcasts some local programming, including one-off documentaries and shortly after a live news-magazine format programme, called ...
This is a list of television films produced for American Broadcasting Company (ABC). Many of these films were made as television pilots , four of them were United Nations television film series . 1950s
Airing every weeknight at 7:30 p.m., it was the first regularly scheduled, network television news program featuring an anchor; the nightly Lowell Thomas NBC radio network newscast was simulcast on television locally on NBC's WNBT (now WNBC) for a time in the early 1940s, and Hubbell, Calmer, Holles and Boulton on WCBW in the early and mid ...
Movie channels are television specialty channels that present film content. Popular movie channels: 7flix (Australia) ABS-CBN Corporation. Cine Mo! (Philippines) Cinema One (Philippines) Movie Central (Philippines) AMC Networks. AMC (United States) AMC (Latin America) AMC (Portugal and Spain) AMC (Europe) Canal Hollywood (Portugal and Spain)