About: ON TV (TV network)

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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 signal on a UHF television station and leased decoders to subscribing customers. At its peak in 1982, ON TV boasted more than 700,000 customers—more than half of them in Los Angeles, its most successful market. However, the rapidly expanding availability of cable television, coupled with a recession, caused the business to quickly lose subscribers at the same time that Oak Industries was experiencing severe fi

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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 signal on a UHF television station and leased decoders to subscribing customers. At its peak in 1982, ON TV boasted more than 700,000 customers—more than half of them in Los Angeles, its most successful market. However, the rapidly expanding availability of cable television, coupled with a recession, caused the business to quickly lose subscribers at the same time that Oak Industries was experiencing severe financial difficulties. Between March 1983 and June 1985, all eight operations closed. (en)
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  • Ed Morris (en)
  • Milton Grant, general manager of KTXA (en)
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  • 1977-04-01 (xsd:date)
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  • Ontvlogo.jpg (en)
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  • In an extended sans serif, the letters "ON" and "TV" with a space between them. The letters ON are divided horizontally into striped portions with a blue to purple to yellow gradient. The letters TV are solid and in blue. (en)
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  • Original ON TV logo used in most Oak markets and in Portland (en)
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  • ON TV (en)
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  • National Subscription Television, a joint venture of Oak Industries and Chartwell Communications (en)
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  • Oak would like more hours, but we're not going to do it for them. We've probably come on full-force more than any other 'STV station'. (en)
  • We were rarely profitable in the year before we went into subscription television. We're not making a lot of money now, but we're making more than we were then. (en)
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  • general manager of WSNS, at the station's full-time conversion to subscription television in 1982 (en)
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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 signal on a UHF television station and leased decoders to subscribing customers. At its peak in 1982, ON TV boasted more than 700,000 customers—more than half of them in Los Angeles, its most successful market. However, the rapidly expanding availability of cable television, coupled with a recession, caused the business to quickly lose subscribers at the same time that Oak Industries was experiencing severe fi (en)
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  • ON TV (TV network) (en)
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