Z Channel
Type	Pay television network
Availability	United States
Key people	Jerry Harvey
Launch date	1974

The Z Channel was one of the first pay cable stations in the United States. Launched in 1974 from Los Angeles, California, this station was known for its devotion to the art of cinema due to the eclectic choice of films^[1] by the programming chief, Jerry Harvey. It also popularized the use of letterboxing on television, as well as showing 'director's cut' versions of films (which is a term popularized after Z Channel's showing of Heaven's Gate). Harvey's devotion to cinema and choice of rare and important films had an important influence on such directors as Robert Altman, Quentin Tarantino, and Jim Jarmusch. Harvey died in 1988 when, after murdering his wife, he committed suicide. In 1989, Z Channel faded to black^[2] and was replaced by SportsChannel Los Angeles.^[3] Z Channel (one of the first pay cable stations in the United States) Z Channel (information theory) Category: ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Pay television, or pay-TV, usually refers to subscription-based television services, usually provided by both analogue and digital cable and satellite, but also increasingly by digital terrestrial methods. ... A television network is a distribution network for television content whereby a central operation provides programming for many television stations. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Jerry Harvey (1949 – 1988) was a California filmmaker and programmer, best known for his work on Z Channel, a pioneering cable station in the Hollywood Hills. ... Year 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. ... Pay television, or pay-TV, usually refers to subscription-based television services, usually provided by both analogue and digital cable and satellite, but also increasingly by digital terrestrial methods. ... Year 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. ... Los Angeles and L.A. redirect here. ... Jerry Harvey (1949 – 1988) was a California filmmaker and programmer, best known for his work on Z Channel, a pioneering cable station in the Hollywood Hills. ... A 2. ... A directors cut is a specially edited version of a film, and less often TV series, music video, commercials or video games, that is supposed to represent the directors own approved edit. ... Robert Bernard Altman (February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006) was an American film director known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective. ... Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, actor, and Oscar winning screenwriter. ... Jim Jarmusch Jim Jarmusch (born January 22, 1953 in Akron, Ohio) is a noted American independent film director. ... SportsChannel Los Angeles aired from 1989 to 1993 in the southern California area; it was a regional sports network. ...

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Live wrestling events

In the late 1980s, Z Channel broadcast a number of the World Wrestling Federation's live events from the Los Angeles Sports Arena, but nowhere near as many as Madison Square Garden (MSG Network), Boston Garden (New England Sports Network) or the Philadelphia Spectrum (PRISM). World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. ... The Los Angeles Sports Arena is an indoor arena in Los Angeles, California. ... Madison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG, known colloquially simply as The Garden, has been the name of four arenas in New York City, United States. ... The Madison Square Garden Network, now shortened to simply MSG, is a regional cable television and radio network serving the New York City area. ... The Boston Garden was a famous arena built in 1928 in Boston, Massachusetts. ... The New England Sports Network, or NESN [NESS-en], is a regional cable television network that covers the six New England states. ... The Wachovia Spectrum (formerly known as the Spectrum (1967-1994), CoreStates Spectrum (1994-1998) and First Union Spectrum (1998-2003)) is an indoor arena located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ... Launched in the 70s by Spectacor, PRISM (Philadelphia Regional In-Home Sports and Movies) was a 24-hour premium channel, intended for cable customers in the Philadelphia metropolitan area. ...

Connections with other subscription services and channels

Although it is widely believed that, in the late 1970s, Z Channel created two subscription services (SelecTV & ON TV) and a sports channel (Prime Ticket), the reality was that SelecTV and ON TV were separate entities, using the facilities of local television stations KWHY and KBSC to broadcast scrambled programming to reach households without cable. Prime Ticket was actually a later name for the Z Channel's successor, SportsChannel Los Angeles, which was a result of later owners gradually replacing the movie programming with local sports. The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, also called The Seventies. ... SelecTV is an Australian satellite based subscription television broadcasting service headed by CEO Jim Blomfield (previously CEO of FOXTEL). ... ON-TV was a subscription television service, also known as National Subscription Television. ... FSN West and FSN Prime Ticket are Los Angeles-based cable sports networks serving Southern California, southern Nevada, and Hawaii. ... This redirect page is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... “KBSC” redirects here. ...

Prime Ticket

Prime Ticket eventually was sold to the Fox Television Stations Group, parent company of KTTV, which had lost Los Angeles Dodgers rights after the 1992 baseball season. An affiliate of the Prime Sports network, Prime Ticket became "Fox Sports West" when Prime Sports became Fox Sports Net in 1997. Fox Television Stations, Inc., still owns that RSN which is known today as FSN West. On April 3, 2006, FSN West's additional outlet, FSN West 2, changed its name to FSN Prime Ticket. The Fox Television Stations (FTS) are a group of television stations located throughout the United States which are owned-and-operated by the Fox Broadcasting Company. ... KTTV, channel 11, is an owned-and-operated television station of the News Corporation-owned Fox Broadcasting Company, located in Los Angeles, California. ... Major league affiliations National League (1890–present) West Division (1969–present) Current uniform Retired Numbers 1, 2, 4, 19, 20, 24, 32, 39, 42, 53 Name Los Angeles Dodgers (1958–present) Brooklyn Dodgers (1932-1957) Brooklyn Robins (1914-1931) Brooklyn Dodgers (1911-1912) Brooklyn Superbas (1899-1910), (1913) Brooklyn Grooms... The following are the baseball events of the year 1992 throughout the world. ... MLB and Major Leagues redirect here. ... Fox Sports Net headquarters in Los Angeles. ... For the band, see 1997 (band). ... is the 93rd day of the year (94th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Films shown on Z Channel

• The Blue Angel (1930)
• The Leopard (1963), in its longer Italian-language version, unreleased on video in the U.S. until 2003
• McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
• Overlord (1975)
• 1900 (1976), shown in its 5-hour form for the first time in the U.S. on this station; the 5-hour cut wasn't released on video in the U.S. until 1992
• Eraserhead (1977)
• Bad Timing (1980), in its uncut form
• Heaven's Gate (1980), in its 219-minute cut, which caused many critics to reverse their decision on the film.
• Das Boot (1981), in its theatrical, director's cut, and mini-series versions
• Once Upon a Time in America (1984), shown back to back in its severely cut two-hour version, and Leone's 224-minute director's cut. Many critics reversed their negative reviews once they saw the latter version.
• Salvador (1986), many think that the showing of this on Z Channel lead to its multiple Oscar nominations.
• The Sicilian (1987), shown in its extended form, which didn't come out on video until the early 90s
• 8 1/2, Federico Fellini (1963)
• 1900, Bernardo Bertolucci (1976)
• The 400 Blows, Francois Truffaut (1971)
• A Safe Place, Henry Jaglom (1971)
• Andrei Rublev, Andre Tarkovsky (1969)
• Attilas '73, Michael Cacoyannis (1975)
• Berlin Alexanderplatz, Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1980)
• Black Orpheus, Marcel Camus (1959)
• Children of Paradise, Marcel Carne (1945)
• China 9, Liberty 37, Monte Hellman/Tony Brandt (1978)
• College, James W. Horne (1927)
• Decline of Western Civilization Part I, Penelope Spheeris (1981)
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Stanley Kubrick (1964)
• Fingers, James Toback (1978)
• Fitzcarraldo, Werner Herzog (1978)
• Images, Robert Altman (1972)
• The Main Thing is to Love, Andrezej Zulawski (1975)
• In a Lonely Place, Nicholas Ray (1950)
• Juliet of the Spirits, Federico Fellini (1965)
• La Cicala, Alberto Lattuada (1980)
• La Notte, Michelangelo Antonioni (1961)
• La Strada, Federico Fellini (1954)
• Lady on the Bus, Neville De Almedia]] (1978)
• L'Avventura, Michelangelo Antonioni (1960)
• Le Magnifique, Phillipe De Broca (1973)
• Meadchen in Uniform, Leontine Sagan (1931)
• Malizia, Salvatore Samperi (1973)
• The Moon's Our Home, William Seiter (1936)
• My Darling Clementine, John Ford (1946)
• One Deadly Summer, Jean Becker (1983)
• Pandora's Box, G.W. Pabst (1929)
• The Passenger, Michelangelo Antonioni (1975)
• Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid, Sam Peckinpah (1973)
• Paths of Glory, Stanley Kubrick (1957)
• The Red Desert, Michelangelo Antonioni (1964)
• Ride the High Country, Sam Peckinpah (1962)
• Silver Streak, Arthur Hiller (1976)
• Something of Value, Richard Brooks (1957)
• Turkish Delight, Paul Verhoeven (1973)
• Welcome to L.A., Alan Rudolph (1976)
• Wifemistress, Marco Vicario (1977)
• The Wild Bunch, Sam Peckinpah (1969)

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See also

• SuperTV - A pay-TV service similar to Z Channel located in Washington, D.C.
• Prism (TV channel) - A pay-TV service similar to Z Channel Theater located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• Wometco Home Theater - A pay-TV service similar to Z Channel located in New York, New York.
• SelecTV - A pay-TV service similar to Z Channel located in Sacramento, California.
• ON-TV - A pay-TV service similar to Z Channel.
• Spectrum - A Chicago pay-TV service and direct competitor to ON-TV.
• Phonevision - The first pay-TV station, an experimental station from Chicago in the 1950s.

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References

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External links

• Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession at the IMDB