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 Chronomedia index
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| January 1 |
First Russian independent commercial television channel launched jointly by Moscow
Independent Broadcasting Company (MIBC) and Turner Broadcasting System (TBS), broadcasting for five hours
a day on VHF under the name TV6 Moscow. |
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| January 1 |
New Independent Television (ITV) contracts come into force in the UK.
Thames is replaced by Carlton, TVS by Meridian, TWS by Westcountry and TVAM
by GMTV. |
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| April 30 |
Virgin 1215 (later Virgin Radio) radio station begins transmissions on the AM radio band. |
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| July |
UK’s historic Elstree Film Studios closes. |
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| July |
Action Plan for the Introduction of Advanced Television Services adopted by the Council
of Ministers of the European Community, with ecu 228m budget over four years to stimulate wide-screen
television activity. |
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| July |
The first UK cable franchises are modified to allow them to offer
voice telephony in their own right. |
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| August |
Italian government allows pay TV channels a period of 12 months to move from
terrestrial broadcasting to cable and satellite but extends the period to four years. |
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| September 25 |
First Portuguese satellite, Posat, is launched. |
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| October |
Merger is proposed between Bell Atlantic Corporation, Tele-Communications Inc (TCI)
and Liberty Media Corporation, valued at $33bn. |
ŕ 1994 |
| October |
First Australian community cable television trial, run by Metro TV, begins on Telstra’s
Centennial Park Residential Video Pilot project in Sydney, reaching about 400 households. |
ŕ March 1995 |
| November |
Channel 2 television service starts in Israel. |
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| November |
In an effort to block the proposed acquisition of Paramount by Viacom, shopping channel
QVC wins an injunction forcing the latter to consider other offers. |
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| December |
Paramount accepts a takeover offer from QVC but then reverts to favouring a
revised offer from Viacom. |
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| December 18 |
First Thai satellite, Thaicom 1, is launched. |
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| December 21 |
Ukraine becomes the first former Soviet state to enact its own broadcast media legislation. |
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Director Stephen Spielberg films Jurassic Park in non-anamorphic 35mm format for
screening in an aspect ratio not exceeding 1.85:1. It becomes the second highest grossing film of all
time, after Spielberg’s ET—The Extraterrestrial, which was similarly
formatted. |
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National Digital Television Center is opened by Tele-Communications Inc (TCI) in
Littleton, near Denver, Colorado to converts analogue signals to digital for nationwide distribution
of digitally compressed programming to cable systems and DTH satellite receivers. |
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Sony acquires Psygnosis computer games software development company. |
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Sony releases model SL-HF2000, the last Betamax video recorder for the US market. |
ŕ 2002 |
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Mega CD launched. |
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Hit TV shows
US: Home Improvement, Seinfeld. |
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