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History (stylized in all caps), formerly and commonly known as the History Channel, is an American pay television network and flagship channel owned by A&E Networks, a joint venture between Hearst Communications and The Walt Disney Company's General Entertainment Content Division.
The History Channel UK began as a joint venture of A&E Networks (the company's first international JV) and British Sky Broadcasting [94] to launch The History Channel UK on November 1, 1995, as a part-time channel broadcasting from 3 pm to 7 pm with plans to go full-time in 1996 or 1997 when its digital transponder was launched. The three ...
John Samuel Hendricks [1] (born March 29, 1952) [2] is an American businessman and the founder and former chairman of Discovery, Inc. (later Warner Bros. Discovery), a broadcasting and film production company which owned the Discovery Channel, TLC, and Animal Planet networks, among other ventures.
The Men Who Built America (also known as The Innovators: The Men Who Built America in some international markets) is an eight-hour, four-part miniseries docudrama which was originally broadcast on the History Channel in autumn 2012, and on the History Channel UK in fall 2013.
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.
John Hendricks founded the channel and its parent company, Cable Educational Network Inc., in 1982. [9] Several investors (including the BBC, Allen & Company, and Venture America) raised $5 million in start-up capital to launch the network. The Discovery Channel began broadcasting on June 17, 1985.
Hard to believe TLC was originally founded as an instructional channel by NASA and the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in 1972. It was — back then — known as the Appalachian ...
In 1993, Turner and Russian journalist Eduard Sagalajev founded the Moscow Independent Broadcasting Corporation (MIBC). This corporation operated the sixth frequency in Russian television and founded the Russian channel TV-6. [41] The company was later purchased by Russian businessman Boris Berezovsky and an unknown group of private persons. In ...