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TVLand

TV Land
TV Land 2015 logo.svg
Launched April 29, 1996; 20 years ago (1996-04-29)
Owned by Viacom Media Networks (Viacom)
Picture format 1080i (HDTV)
480i (SDTV)
Country United States
Language English
Broadcast area Nationwide
Headquarters New York City
Sister channel(s) MTV
VH1
CMT
Comedy Central
Spike
Nickelodeon
TeenNick
Nick Jr.
Nicktoons
NickMusic
Website www.tvland.com
Availability
Satellite
DirecTV 304 (HD/SD)
1304 (VOD)
Dish Network 106 (SD only)
C-BandH2H/4DTV AMC 18—215 (until October 12, 2011)
Cable
Time Warner Cable 56, 121
Wave Broadband 23
IPTV
AT&T U-verse 1138 (East; HD)
1139 (West; HD)
138 (East; SD)
139 (West; SD)
Verizon FiOS 741 (HD)
241 (SD)
Sling TV Internet Protocol television

TV Land is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by Viacom Global Entertainment Group, a unit of the Viacom Media Networks division of Viacom. Originally consisting exclusively of classic television shows, the channel now airs a combination of recent and classic television series (ranging from the 1960s to the 2000s), original scripted series, and limited theatrically released movies. The network is headquartered at One Astor Plaza in New York City.

As of July 2015, TV Land is available to approximately 91.432 million pay television households (78.5% of households with at least one television set) in the United States.

TV Land launched on April 29, 1996, as a 24-hour offshoot of Nickelodeon's successful nighttime classic television block Nick at Nite, which debuted in July 1985. Until the end of 1996, it was branded as Nick at Nite's TV Land to provide reassurance to new viewers of who was behind the channel. The network initially featured a mix of a classic and short-lived television series from the 1950s through the 1980s – many of which came from the Paramount Television library, which was owned at the time by network parent Viacom as a result of its 1994 purchase of Paramount Pictures (Paramount's programming library is now owned by CBS Corporation through CBS Television Distribution) – including situation comedies, dramas and variety series. The phrase "TV Land" was originally coined on the 1960s animated series The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, in which Bullwinkle often introduced his "Bullwinkle's Corner" segments with the greeting, "Hello out there in TV Land!"; a soundbite of Bullwinkle's phrase was occasionally used in TV Land's on-air promotions. The phrase was then used by Nick at Nite in the 1980s as the name of the fictional place where the channel received its classic programming block, and was utilized in slogans such as "Nick at Nite: Hello Out There From TV Land!" for much of that decade. However, Nick at Nite quit using the term in its own branding campaigns in September 1997, seventeen months after the TV Land network launched, in order to prevent viewers from confusing the two separate channels.


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