Television Land
| TV Land | |
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| Launched | April 29, 1996 |
| 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 |
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Availability
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| Satellite | |
| DirecTV | 304 (HD/SD) 1304 (VOD) |
| Dish Network | 106 (SD only) |
| C-Band—H2H/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" (and a variant, "television land") had been in popular parlance since at least the late 1950s to refer to the viewing audience; early examples of its use included on The Honeymooners and The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, and clips of the use of the phrase in both shows were used in the network's early promos. 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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