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12 unusual facts about Cable Television


Bicol Region

Cable television operators are putting up cable TV stations in an effort to spread the TV signals all over the region.

C Channel

Toronto-based company Lively Arts Market Builders Inc. was one of several companies that received a licence from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to provide a subscription television service for Canadian cable companies.

Claudia Liliana González

As of 2009, she plays Captain Lina Vargas in the Caracol TV telenovela Bermúdez, and presents Deco Art in the cable channel Utilísima.

Closed adoption

Reruns of the program (with a few new segments and updates) were also aired on the Lifetime Television cable network until mid-2006, and very briefly on Spike TV in late 2008.

Nimrod Kovacs

Nimrod Kovacs (born October 27, 1949) after finishing his Masters, started out as an Ad Man on Madison Avenue, continued on as a Cable Guy in Denver, worked around the world setting up and managing Cable, Media and Telecom businesses, till retiring to his native city of Budapest.

Oakhurst, California

Cable television services for the town of Oakhurst are contracted to Northland Cable TV.

Q Score

TVQ and Cable Q Scores are calculated for all regularly scheduled broadcast and cable shows.

Rabbit rabbit rabbit

During the mid-1990s, U.S. children's cable channel Nickelodeon helped popularize the superstition in the United States as part of its "Nick Days", where during commercial breaks it would show an ad about the significance of the current date, whether it be an actual holiday, a largely-uncelebrated unofficial holiday, or a made-up day if nothing else is going on that specific day.

Ron Kurtenbach

Kurtenbach is most well known for his long-running controversial Public-access television call-in show, Ron's World, that was seen nightly on local Lincoln cable TV.

The Magical Delights of Stevie Nicks

"The Magical Delights of Stevie Nicks" is the tenth episode of the third season of the anthology television series American Horror Story, which premiered on January 8, 2014, on the cable network FX.

Three-way hybrid

A three-way hybrid set-top box is a hybrid device typically used by Pay TV operators and Telecommunications service providers to converge content delivered via three different video transport networks – satellite, terrestrial and IP managed or public Internet.

Women's National Invitation Tournament

The national championship game is currently carried on cable on the CBS Sports Network.


2000–01 Everton F.C. season

In March 2000 American cable television provider NTL approached the club with a view to purchasing a 9.9% stake in the club.

Amazonian pop art

Originally, it is an mural art that blends prominently the colorful amazonian culture, European motifs and commercial characters, which could be influenced by American pop art when the era of cable television came to the city, like MTV.

Ben Tankard

On April 3, 2013, Bravo cable network announced that Ben Tankard and family had been cast for Thicker Than Water: The Tankards, a new reality show that showcases Tankard's family life, music career, business ventures, passion for aviation, and his role as a motivational speaker with the National Basketball Association (NBA) and his true passion : ministry.

BHB CABLE TV

BHB CABLE TV currently (September 2013) offers 61 TV channels via cable television in in the following Bosnian cities: Tuzla, Lukavac,Gračanica and Doboj Istok.

Digicable

Ltd. is a cable television company based in Mumbai, India, that also provides telephone, data, and internet services.

Fred L. Lowery

Fred Lynn Lowery (born March 16, 1943) is the retired former senior pastor of the First Baptist Church of Bossier City in northwestern Louisiana, whose Sunday sermons under the title The First Word were broadcast between 1983 and 2013 on KTBS-TV, the ABC affiliate in Shreveport, and on several cable television outlets.

KMEG

It also aired selected UPN programming out-of-pattern until the network merged with The WB (carried locally on KTIV-DT2 and cable television) to form The CW in 2006.

Lok Sabha TV

Lok Sabha TV is an Indian cable television network channel from Government of India that offers coverage of federal government proceedings and other public affairs programming.

Maeil Broadcasting Network

Maeil Broadcasting, Inc. (주식회사 매일방송) is a nationwide general cable TV network operated by Maeil Business Newspaper in the Republic of Korea.

Morning Glory Funeral Home scandal

The case was featured in the Season 3 episode "A Deadly Business" of the cable television documentary series Dr. G: Medical Examiner.

NAPLPS

In the late 1980s, Tribune Media Services (TMS) and the Associated Press operated a cable television channel called AP News Plus that provided NAPLPS-based news screens to cable television subscribers in many U.S. cities.

Nicole Brewer

Brewer interned at WGAL-TV in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and worked as a special assignment reporter for GATV, Public, educational, and government access (PEG) community access cable television station in Greeley, Colorado.

Oklahoma Lottery

Powerball numbers now are televised via Chicago-based cable superstation WGN America (available on most cable, IPTV and satellite providers in the state; it also carries Mega Millions due to the Illinois Lottery's participation in both games) or on the lottery's website.

Puff, Puff, Pass

After the two are locked out of their apartment by their landlord Lance (Jonathan Banks) for being late on rent, the two are stuck for a way to get cable television so they can watch The Shawshank Redemption during a 24-hour marathon on TNT.

Rockford, Alabama

Fred gained popularity through a regular newspaper column, "A Dog's Life," about his activities and encounters, and then national recognition after he was profiled on cable TV's Animal Planet.

Sky Deutschland

Sky Deutschland AG, branded as Sky, is a German media company which operates a Direct Broadcast Satellite Pay TV platform in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (through Teleclub) offering a collection of basic and premium digital subscription television channels of different categories via Satellite and Cable Television.

Steven Schachter

The two co-wrote the cable television movies The Con (1998), A Slight Case of Murder (1999), Door to Door (2002), and The Wool Cap (2004), all of which Schachter directed and in which Macy starred.

Tennis on TNT

Tennis on TNT is a television program produced by the basic cable television network TNT that broadcasts the main professional tennis tournaments in the United States.

The Exonerated

It was based on a successful stage play of the same name written by Erik Jensen and Jessica Blank and first aired on the former CourtTV cable television network on January 27, 2005.

The Puppy Channel

The Puppy Channel was a short-lived American cable television channel whose programming consisted entirely of video footage of puppies.

WDCW

WDCW is carried on satellite provider DirecTV (as standard definition only "CW-E") to serve the few areas of the eastern United States where a CW affiliate is not receivable over-the-air or through cable television, and on JetBlue's LiveTV inflight entertainment system though DirecTV (the other network stations featured on JetBlue are predominantly from New York City).

Witness to Innocence

The play and made-for cable television film, The Exonerated, features Witness to Innocence members Delbert Tibbs (played by Delroy Lindo) and David Keaton (played by Danny Glover) as two of its characters.

WOCH-CA

In addition to programming from South Korea, and some locally-produced programs, WOCH airs non-Korean ethnic programming on weekends (such as programming from local cable television network Bostel), in a format similar to that of FBT 26.6.

YourLink

The company sees itself as an alternative to dial-up internet for rural residents, primarily in Saskatchewan, but elsewhere in Canada, as well, where cable companies would not usually venture (due to the low density in potential customers), and serves high-speed internet via WiMax, DOCSIS, MikroTik and Motorola Canopy high-speed wireless internet.