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unusual facts about subscription television



WNUV

Channel 54 was originally programmed as a hybrid of weekday business news from the Financial News Network (now part of CNBC) and the subscription television service SuperTV.

WXFT-DT

Eychaner signed on WPWR-TV, with a large percentage of its broadcast schedule dedicated to a new subscription television service called Sportsvision that was part of ONTV, which Eychaner had developed in a deal with Chicago White Sox owners Jerry Reinsdorf and Eddie Einhorn.


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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.

Colac, Victoria

Colac is serviced by Austar Subscription Television delivered by DTH satellite transmission, via Optus C1 Ku Band Satellite located at 156E.

National Geographic

National Geographic Channel, a subscription television channel that airs non-fiction television programs produced by the National Geographic Society

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.

Starview

The Home Office had granted several experimental licenses to broadcast subscription television services, of which Rediffusion received licenses for five areas, Burnley, Hull, Pontypridd, Reading and Tunbridge Wells.

Vivasky

VivaSky is a subscription television channel under the auspices of PT Visi Media Asia Tbk.

Yupptv

YuppTV is an Atlanta-based IPTV provider, operating a Free and Subscription television service over a user's regular Internet service.

Zenith Electronics

Zenith was the first company to experiment with subscription television, launching their Phonevision concept on experimental Chicago station KS2XBS (originally broadcasting on Channel 2 before the Federal Communications Commission forced them to relinquish it to WBBM-TV).