After realizing this, the team set to work in getting the National Geographic Channel launched in the United States. By January 2001, the producers had everything they needed to launch it. Thanks to a collective effort between National Geographic Television & Film and Fox Cable Networks, the new channel was born and they expected it [...]

CBS were not always one of the world leaders in delivering news forecasts and it did take a great deal of work for them to reach their current state. Back in the 30s, CBS was simply a radio broadcaster with a fairly small following. Eventually it was time for the team of Paley, Ed Klauber [...]

Once Ailes was on board, he was used to train and create news reporters, people that could really ignite an audience. It certainly worked, as Ailes put new candidates through intensive training before allowing them on air. He broke the candidates down using 14 hour working days and several weeks of training. This was prior [...]

What many people found quite comical was the first ever track to be broadcasted on the MTV Network. Apparently, they thought it would be appropriate to use the track “Video Killed the Radio Star” by The Buggles. Of course, a lot of people thought this was simply a marketing ploy to get others to watch, [...]

Better still, by July 1985, 20th Century Fox had big announcements to make. Rupert Murdoch had completed a transaction that would see him own 50% of Fox Filmed Entertainment. This company was in fact the parent company of the then Century Fox Film Corporation. His efforts were not about to stop there either, as the [...]

One of the core developments for the corporation as a whole was CBS News. In fact, the CBS Newspath system was among one of the most innovative things ever created under the company. It has the likes of national news, sports, regional news and even some live coverage. At the time many people were taken [...]

In the past MTV has been criticized, mainly because of the lack of censorship and also the fact that it does sometimes immorally influence young people. The power that the MTV network has on this so called popular culture has been seen more and more over the last few years, even more so now than [...]

One of the most popular news channels is Fox, also known as Fox News, Fox News Channel or FNC. It is currently a subsidiary of News Corporation and is owned outright by Fox Entertainment Group. Whilst the channel start as a small news broadcasting channel, since 2009 it has been broadcasting to an audience of [...]

So the idea of being small scale and having a channel a few hours a night was soon changed. The pair realized that it was a all or nothing situation and opted for the 24 hour broadcasting option. They came up with the original name, being Entertainment and Sports Programming (ESP) although it was changed [...]

MTV is one of the most popular television Networks that is based in the United States. The idea was created, the details were developed and it was eventually launched on August 1, 1981. Whilst the intent for the network was to solely play music videos and be aided by hosts, this basic idea was soon [...]