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| Country | United States |
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| Broadcast area | Nationwide |
| Headquarters | Los Angeles, California |
| Programming | |
| Language(s) | English |
| Picture format | 480i (SDTV) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Turner Broadcasting System (1984) Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment (1984—1985) |
| History | |
| Launched | October 26, 1984 |
| Closed | November 30, 1984 (1 month and 4 days) |
| Replaced by | VH1 |
The Cable Music Channel (CMC) was an American basic cable channel that was owned by the Turner Broadcasting System. The all-music video channel was created by Ted Turner and launched on October 26, 1984, providing the first national competition to MTV.
Turner later stated that the channel existed at the behest of the cable industry as a defense mechanism against MTV's unsuccessful attempts to increase the fees that cable providers paid to carry the channel by twofold; Turner offered the channel without any carriage fees.[1]
After realizing the channel did not have enough cable providers, the channel was sold to Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment (now known as Paramount Media Networks) on November 29, 1984 and shut down the very next day making it the shortest lived cable channels to exist. Its channel space was then used for relaunch as VH1 in 1985.
- ^ Oral & Video History - Freston, Tom Syndeo Institute at The Cable Center. Archived 2013-11-19 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved July 12, 2024.