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New York, New York, U.S. History. Launched. 2004. Closed. May 2013 [ 1] Plum TV was an American broadcast television network targeted mostly to affluent viewers in the country. The majority of the programming was locally produced largely in affluent vacation communities, marketed towards the mass affluent. [ 2]
Eve Aline Plumb (born April 29, 1958) is an American actress, singer and painter. She is best known for portraying the middle daughter Jan Brady on the ABC sitcom The Brady Bunch. [ 1][ 2][ 3] A native of Southern California, Plumb began appearing in commercials at age seven, and also had guest roles on the televisions series Family Affair, The ...
The Factory was Andy Warhol 's studio in Manhattan, New York City, which had four locations between 1963 and 1987. The Factory became famed for its parties in the 1960s. It was the hip hangout spot for artists, musicians, celebrities, and Warhol's superstars. The original Factory was often referred to as the Silver Factory. [ 1]
The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 ( 47 U.S.C. § 396) issued the congressional corporate charter for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), a private nonprofit corporation funded by taxpayers to disburse grants to public broadcasters in the United States, [1] and eventually established the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and ...
Television is one of the major mass media outlets in the United States. In 2011, 96.7% of households owned television sets; [ 1] about 114,200,000 American households owned at least one television set each in August 2013. [ 2] Most households have more than one set. The percentage of households owning at least one television set peaked at 98.4% ...
1969–70. The following is the 1967–68 network television schedule for the three major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States. The schedule covers primetime hours from September 1967 through August 1968. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the ...
[13] [14] This Stanley Cup win was the highest-rated single CBC Sports program in history to that point, a distinction that now belongs to the men's ice hockey gold medal game between Canada and the United States at the 2002 Winter Olympics, when Canada won its first Olympic ice hockey gold medal since the 1952 Winter Olympics [15] CBC ...
The written history of New York City began with the first European explorer, the Italian Giovanni da Verrazzano in 1524. European settlement began with the Dutch in 1608 and New Amsterdam was founded in 1624. The "Sons of Liberty" campaigned against British authority in New York City, and the Stamp Act Congress of representatives from ...