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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 ...
Wometco Home Theater (WHT) was an early pay television service in the New York City area that was owned by Miami-based Wometco Enterprises, which owned several major network affiliates in mid-sized media markets and its flagship WTVJ in Miami (then a CBS affiliate on channel 4, now an NBC owned-and-operated station on channel 6).
Preview was an American subscription television service that launched in 1980. [1] Like its competitors, such as ONTV and SelecTV, Preview was a scrambled UHF subscription channel requiring a special set-top box to decode the signal.
The Box, originally named the Video Jukebox Network, was an American broadcast, cable and satellite television channel that operated from 1985 to 2001. The network focused on music videos, which through a change in format in the early 1990s, were selected by viewer request via telephone; as such, unlike competing networks (such as MTV and VH1), the videos were not broadcast on a set rotation.
QUBE remote from 1980 (updated for 60-channel service) The Qube remote was a book-size box with 18 buttons on it that sent signals across a long tether cable to a box with no display, but otherwise similar in size and function to modern cable set-top boxes.
Wright was tasked with casting thousands of extras from Lawrence. In one pivotal scene, more than 1,000 Lawrence locals were made to lie on cots in the University of Kansas’ basketball arena ...
The new box, called XUMO, replaces the old set-top cable box and has several new features. ... Spectrum customers get cable TV access through what’s called a “set top box,” or cable receiver ...
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.