Knowledge TV

Knowledge TV
Launched 1987 (as Mind Extension University)
Closed 2000
Owned by Jones International/Jones Media Group
Country United States
Language English
Headquarters Centennial, CO

Knowledge TV was a cable television channel owned by Jones Media Group that broadcast educational programming. The network was established in November 1987 as Mind Extension University. Through a partnership with more than 30 colleges and universities, accredited college courses were broadcast.[1] Students would submit papers and assignments either by mail or fax. By January 1997, the network was renamed Knowledge TV,[2] and by that time it was carrying several programs dealing with new media and Silicon Valley businesses, including New Media News from KRON-TV in San Francisco, and many computer education programs such as Stewart Cheifet's Computer Chronicles. The network reached about 25 million subscribers, although many cable systems only carried the network part-time, using it to fill downtime on public access networks and late night paid programming blocks on networks such as Discovery Channel.

In 1999, Discovery Communications bought out the network[3] and it was closed in 2000, as Discovery planned to give cable operators the option of converting the channel to Discovery Health.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Jones Timeline | Jones International". www.jones.com. Retrieved 2015-11-17.
  2. ↑ "Education Network Jumps Pond", Rebecca Cantwell, Rocky Mountain News, 31 January 1997, "Knowledge TV, formerly called Mind Extension University, is available to about...".
  3. ↑ http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-55067835/discovery-bulks-up-knowledge.html. Retrieved September 22, 2012. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ↑ "Discovery People Fades Out". Multichannel. Archived from the original on 2015-11-17. Retrieved 2015-11-17.
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