Paramount Television Service
Unrealized American television network / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Paramount Television Service, Inc. (or PTVS for short and also known as Paramount Programming Service[3]) was the name of a proposed but ultimately unrealized "fourth television network"[4] from the U.S. film studio Paramount Pictures (then a unit of Gulf+Western, now owned by Paramount Global). It was a forerunner of the later UPN[5] (the United Paramount Network), which launched 17 years later.
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Type | Unrealized broadcast television network |
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Availability | Unlaunched |
Founded | April 1978; 46 years ago (1978-04) by Barry Diller |
Owner | Gulf+Western |
Parent | Paramount Pictures |
Key people | Charles Bluhdorn Barry Diller Martin Davis Richard Frank[1] Michael Eisner Jeffrey Katzenberg[2] Mel Harris |
Former names | Paramount Programming Service[3] |
Callsigns | PTVS |
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