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72-586: The company was originally formed as International Family Entertainment , a spin-off of the Christian Broadcasting Network 's cable network The Family Channel . In 1993, IFE acquired the assets of defunct British ITV broadcaster Television South , whose holdings included the library of U.S. studio MTM Enterprises . In 1996, IFE was acquired by News Corporation ; the MTM library was melded into 20th Century Fox Television 's library, while

144-606: A born-again Christian. CBN entered into the broadcasting industry in October 1961, when WYAH-TV (WTOV-TV) in Portsmouth – the group's flagship station – signed on the air. Its programming was funded by small donations from individuals and local churches. In August 1962, WYAH-TV was joined by an FM sister station, Norfolk -licensed WXRI , which broadcast a format of Christian music and teaching programs. In 1966,

216-735: A "dastardly scheme, which was played out with military precision, to strip Pacific Arts of its assets by inducing Pacific Arts not to file bankruptcy, by lulling it into a sense of security while it organized a mass termination of Pacific Arts' licenses." After three days of deliberation, the nine-person jury unanimously agreed with Gradstein and found PBS liable for breach of contract, intentional misrepresentation (fraud), intentional concealment (fraud), negligent misrepresentation, and interference with contract. The court awarded Pacific Arts $ 14,625,000 for loss of its rights library, plus $ 29,250,000 in punitive damages. The jury awarded $ 3 million to Nesmith personally, including $ 2 million in punitive damages for

288-641: A 76% stake in Fox Kids Europe (which operated the European networks), as well as additional cable rights to Major League Baseball (MLB) that were assigned to Fox Family via the Fox Sports division , which included a slate of Thursday-night regular season games, and Division Series games. ESPN assumed the production responsibilities for these games as part of its ESPN Major League Baseball package, although they continued to air on ABC Family for

360-574: A Christian-based television station in South Lebanon , Hope TV, was donated to CBN, and became Middle East Television (METV). At this time METV broadcast from Marjayoun . In Israel, METV was known for broadcasting WWF wrestling that was not available on Israeli TV. The station broadcast news, sports, family entertainment, and religious programming. In August 1988, the CBN Cable Network became The CBN Family Channel . Three of

432-588: A bidding war with DIC Entertainment , Fox subsequently announced in January 2002 that it would enter into an agreement with 4Kids Entertainment to program a new children's block for the network. In March 2002, Angela Shapiro was named president of ABC Family Worldwide, after moving from president of Buena Vista Productions . She originally reported to ABC Broadcast Group president Steve Bornstein, who resigned in 2002. The post then reported directly to Disney president Bob Iger . In October 2003, ABC Family Worldwide

504-553: A cable television subscription. The channel was notable for being one of the first cable channels to distribute its signal across the United States through satellite transmission (the third overall, after HBO and TBS). CBN Cable Network began airing a late night block of classic family oriented shows like You Bet Your Life with Groucho Marx , I Married Joan , and The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis . The upstate New York radio stations were sold in 1982. On April 10, 1982,

576-553: A combined radio and TV station in Southern Lebanon. It then began to broadcast Christian programming 28 hours a week in Hebrew. CBN relocated its main headquarters from Portsmouth to Virginia Beach in 1980. About this time, CBN co-commissioned the first Superbook series of anime. This series was subsequently dubbed in many languages and distributed broadly across the world. In June 1981, The 700 Club changed from being

648-430: A competitor that would carry programming from the popular Fox Kids lineup. Viacom and Disney made competing offers for IFE; Viacom dropped out of bidding, and News Corporation offered $ 1.8 billion. News Corporation won with a bid of $ 1.9 billion. The acquisition closed on June 11, 1997; IFE was folded into Fox Kids Worldwide, which itself was renamed Fox Family Worldwide . Of the sale, Robertson stated that he "felt it

720-501: A daily Hindi program Ek Nayee Zindagi , a bi-weekly Telugu program Nireekshana and an award-winning weekly Bengali program Samadhan . CBN has broadcast programs in over 70 languages. CBN now serves mainly as a production company for The 700 Club , and four other syndicated shows: CBN NewsWatch , Christian World News , 700 Club Interactive and The Brody File , a news-analysis program hosted by one-time political journalist David Brody. Some of CBN's programs also air on

792-923: A daily talk program began on WYAH, which eventually became known as The 700 Club . On July 7, 1968, CBN acquired the Neuvo Continente radio station in Bogota, Colombia (which was the first evangelical radio station in that country). In 1969 the organisation established CBN Northeast , a simulcast network of five FM radio stations in upstate New York (WBIV in Wethersfield , WEIV in Ithaca , WJIV in Cherry Valley , WMIV in South Bristol and WOIV in DeRuyter ). (The stations were previously

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864-595: A deal to acquire Saban Brands' entertainment assets in May 2018. On March 23, 2012, Corus Entertainment launched ABC Spark , a channel targeted towards young adults which served as a Canadian version of ABC Family. On March 24, 2012, the ABC Family division took control of Soapnet as part of the wind-down of the service in favor of Disney Junior . On January 12, 2016, the Disney division's flagship channel, ABC Family,

936-543: A decision was made to spin off the CBN Family Channel into a new, for-profit company known as International Family Entertainment, via a sale at a price of $ 250 million in convertible notes. The majority of IFE was owned by the network's management, with a 15% minority interest held by TCI Development Corporation, a subsidiary of cable provider Tele-Communications Inc. Special voting shares were issued to Pat Robertson and Timothy Robertson that gave them control of

1008-419: A desire to invest more heavily in the parent channel. The Fox Family channel struggled under their ownership; Saban attempted to force News Corporation to sell it its share in the joint venture, but were unable to agree in a proper valuation. The ensuing conflict resulted in the two companies deciding to sell Fox Family Worldwide to a third-party. At the time, Fox was also preparing to acquire Hughes Electronics,

1080-568: A failed attempt by Saban to buy out News Corporation's stake in the venture, Fox Family Worldwide was later sold to its current owner, The Walt Disney Company , in 2001 for $ 5.3 billion, after which the company was rebranded as ABC Family Worldwide until 2016. The purchase gave Disney ownership of the Fox Family channel (which was subsequently rebranded as ABC Family), the international Fox Kids channels (which were later re-branded as Jetix , and then Disney Channel or Disney XD ), and rights to

1152-522: A fundraising drive where Robertson successfully sought 700 viewers willing to contribute $ 10 a month to sustain the station. The 700 Club is the longest-running program in the variety format. Initially focused on devotional content, The 700 Club became increasingly political in the late 1970s, adding news segments. Today, CBN News provides news updates to The 700 Club and produces religious news and political opinion commentary programs such as CBN NewsWatch and Christian World News ; it also produces

1224-485: A maximum four stars), a 3-star financial rating and a 2-star accountability and transparency rating. Defunct Newspapers Journals TV channels Websites Other Economics Gun rights Identity politics Nativist Religion Watchdog groups Youth/student groups Miscellaneous Other CBN was founded in 1960 in Portsmouth, Virginia by Pat Robertson , who had recently become

1296-555: A mix of religious programming (which took up most of its stations' Sunday schedules) and secular acquired programs, including westerns , sitcoms, drama series and children's programming. (This format that would be later adopted by the LeSEA Broadcasting Corporation when it began launching its own television stations in the 1970s.) CBN transferred Neuovo Continente to Colombian pastor and broadcaster Ignacio Guevara on June 7, 1972. The International 700 Club

1368-543: A non-theatrical home video business. In 1981, Pacific Arts Productions, Inc. changed its name to The Pacific Arts Corporation, Inc. (PAC) PAC was then structured to oversee various anticipated subsidiaries for managing different types of media which included Pacific Arts Records. There have been several Pacific Arts subsidiaries over the years, including, but not limited to, Pacific Arts Productions, Inc., Pacific Arts Pictures (merged out), Pacific Arts Publishing (merged out), and Pacific Arts Audio Inc. (dissolved). Following

1440-474: A religious talk show to having a news magazine format. The CBN Satellite Service became the CBN Cable Network on September 1, 1981, and adopted a more secular programming format featuring a mix of family-oriented series and films while retaining some religious programs from various televangelists (mirroring the format used by CBN's broadcast stations). Its carriage grew to 10.9 million homes with

1512-882: A special hour-long block of prime time election coverage hosted by Robertson during American presidential and mid-term elections, airing on Freeform , which also carries The 700 Club and the half-hour talk show 700 Club Interactive . CBN also operates the CBN News Channel. The company also produces a version of The 700 Club aimed at Spanish speaking Americans ( Club 700 Hoy ). CBN Asia manages Operation Blessing International Relief and Development Corporation (OBI), an international relief and missionary effort, and has international programming, producing local programs including Solusi in Indonesia and From Heart to Heart in Thailand. CBN India produces three shows,

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1584-460: A special production stage in Sand City, California for producing live performances and delivering them into virtual worlds. The live performances are delivered over the internet and seamlessly embedded into a fully multiplexed 3D environment. The first of these environments is Videoranch3D. In February 2009, Videoranch released a 6-minute song entitled "Helen's Eternal Birthday". The single track

1656-697: A time. The 16-chapter novel has been released in its entirety and is available for purchase at the Videoranch online store. Unlike the Pacific Arts release of Nesmith's first book, The Long Sandy Hair of Neftoon Zamora , which was released as a printed novel, The America Gene is only available electronically. Re-releases of the Michael Nesmith Pacific Arts' catalog (both music and videos) for UK and Europe were licensed to Demon Music Group . In January 2007, Pacific Arts built

1728-537: A total award to Nesmith and Pacific Arts of $ 48,875,000. The jury resolved the outstanding license fee issues by ordering Pacific Arts and Nesmith to pay approximately $ 1.2 million to American Documentaries for The Civil War , about $ 230,000 to WGBH , and $ 150,000 to WNET . Following the ruling, Nesmith expressed his personal disappointment with PBS and was quoted by BBC News as stating "It's like finding your grandmother stealing your stereo. You're happy to get your stereo back, but it's sad to find out your grandmother

1800-472: A virtual audience. Nesmith has two patents pending for these processes which were filed in 2007 . Videoranch3D began a series of trial productions in 2006 which consisted mostly of live music concerts. In addition, there have been and are ongoing seminars, book signings, and professional musician clinics. Pacific Arts has produced hundreds of live performances in the virtual world of Videoranch3D, including shows with Nesmith performing To continue developing

1872-475: Is a channel that would air original and classic game shows . The co-owners planned to allow viewers to interact with its programming over a 1-900 line ; revenue was to be shared with providers that carried the channel, who could also integrate their own interactive content into the service. Upon its announcement, Game Channel already faced competition from Sony Pictures Television 's upcoming Game Show Network , as well as other new cable networks launching around

1944-505: Is a thief." After the judgment against PBS, Nesmith told Entertainment Weekly , "I may not get back in business at all. If you can't trust PBS, who can you trust?" Six months after the verdict, a settlement was reached with the amount paid to Pacific Arts and Nesmith kept confidential. In 1995, Pacific Arts opened Videoranch, which hosted several multimedia projects, including video and audio clips from various albums and video productions it owned or licensed. In 1998, Videoranch began

2016-542: The PBS Home Video banner. However, in the early 1990s, Pacific Arts and PBS went through a series of serious disagreements. Lawsuits were filed: by Nesmith and Pacific Arts against PBS for breach of contract, intentional misrepresentation (fraud), intentional concealment (fraud), negligent misrepresentation, and interference with contract; and by PBS against Nesmith and Pacific Arts for lost royalties. The lawsuits escalated in 1994 and 1995 into major litigation between

2088-788: The Rural Radio Network .) CBN signed on WHAE-TV in Atlanta in June 1971. In January 1973, CBN purchased KBFI-TV in Dallas and changed its callsign to KXTX-TV . The ministry signed on its final station, WXNE-TV in Boston , in October 1977. The ministry's broadcasting subsidiary, the Continental Broadcasting Network , ran its four over-the-air outlets as family-oriented independent stations – featuring

2160-509: The Trinity Broadcasting Network , Cornerstone Television , FamilyNet , LeSEA Broadcasting Corporation , TCT and Middle East Television , all of which are Evangelical Christian networks. The secular commercial stations that continue to air The 700 Club in syndication (along with Freeform) air CBN's annual telethon during the last week of January. The Charity Navigator gave CBN a 3-star overall rating (out of

2232-664: The ABC Cable Group launched a new joint brand for their children's television operations, Jetix , which would be used to brand programming blocks which aired on ABC Family and Toon Disney, its television channels in Europe and Latin America, along with its program library and merchandising. On December 8, 2008, Disney reached an agreement to increase its ownership in Jetix Europe to 96%, and announced an intent to purchase

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2304-764: The Cable Health Club (later known as FitTV ), a service devoted to fitness. In December 1993, IFE opened a bidding war to acquire the Nostalgia Network , competing with a partnership of Florida-based MOR Music TV Inc. and Arizona-based Gen-She Inc., and part-owner Concept Communications (owned by the Unification Church ). In December 1993, IFE purchased three Myrtle Beach, South Carolina theaters and Calvin Gilmore Productions for $ 20 million. The Great American Entertainment Co.

2376-543: The MTM programs as part of a new syndication division, and the sale would also bolster an impending British version of The Family Channel . In June 1993, prior to its launch, IFE sold a 39% stake in The Family Channel UK to local company Flextech . The channel officially launched on September 1. Flextech would later buy out IFE's share in The Family Channel UK, which then became the game show-oriented channel Challenge . On August 20, 1993, IFE soft-launched

2448-724: The Philippines and Romania in 1994. CBN Asia was established in the Philippines & Hong Kong on October 1, 1994. Pacific Arts The Pacific Arts Corporation, Inc. is a company formed by Michael Nesmith circa 1974 to manage and develop media projects. Pacific Arts Corporation, Inc. began as Pacific Arts Productions, Inc. when incorporated on October 18, 1974, as a California corporation by Michael Nesmith (incorporated by Nesmith's accountant, Howard Leitner of Leitner, Zander, Sniderman & Co., Los Angeles). The first product released under Pacific Arts Productions

2520-758: The Saban Entertainment (now BVS Entertainment ) and Fox Kids / Jetix libraries. Currently, the subsidiary is a sub-division of Disney General Entertainment Content , the television assets division of Disney's Disney Entertainment major business segment. Saban Brands would acquire the rights to some of the properties held by BVS Entertainment (the prominent ones being Power Rangers and Digimon ); most of these assets have since been sold to Hasbro and absorbed into its current production studio Hasbro Entertainment . The company has its origins in Pat Robertson 's Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN);

2592-552: The US Founding Fathers . The year 1990 was also when CBN programs began to be broadcast in the Soviet Union, and then in its successor states after they declared independence. It started with primetime specials, and later The 700 Club and Superbook. These broadcasts were followed by 190 rallies throughout the region that resulted in the establishment of 190 churches. Similar special projects were implemented in

2664-460: The Videoranch website in various states of completion while updating those songs as he feels compelled, thus making the listener a part of each musical journey. This sense of audience inclusion in an entertainment enterprise was a recurring theme in this phase of Nesmith's career, the roots of which may be found in Nesmith's first Pacific Arts album “ The Prison ”, released in 1974. The audience reads

2736-532: The amount of $ 47 million to $ 53 million in a total of about $ 150 million. IFE's proceeds would be used for programming, marketing and possible acquisitions or investments. Plans were in the works for a home video distribution deal with Pacific Arts by the end of 1992, a South Korea cable network with Hyundai Electronics Industries Co. (now SK Hynix ), and a joint venture to bid for a Czechoslovakian TV station. Additional plans called for Family Channels in Britain and

2808-606: The company. IFE continued to use CBN's facilities under a rental agreement. As a stipulation of the spin-off, The Family Channel was required to maintain daily airings of CBN's flagship television program The 700 Club , a condition that has remained in effect to this day. CBN sold $ 23 million in notes to another cable company. An additional $ 127 million of convertible notes were converted into stock prior to an IPO in April 1992, in which CBN would sell them for $ 93 million to $ 106 million worth. More shares would be sold directly by IFE in

2880-619: The company. IFE then searched for a management company to handle the touring company for an equity stake. Instead, they sold Ice Capades in late 1995 while retaining the option of reacquiring a majority stake in Del Wilber & Associates for 10 years. By March 1995, IFE formed the Family Channel Pictures banner to produce four $ 8 to $ 12 million theatrical films per year. Amblin Television president Tony Thomopoulos

2952-431: The creation of PAC in 1981, Pacific Arts Video (a subsidiary of PAC) released the home video Elephant Parts , a long-form video featuring various comedy skits and music videos. Elephant Parts was an early home video available to consumers and would win the first Grammy Award for a music video . Koyaanisqatsi (1983) was among the titles they distributed. In 1992, Pacific Arts began releasing promotional material on

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3024-473: The first chapter were released for preview and a purchased download, respectively. Plans call for the release of one chapter of the book online per week for sixteen weeks. After its release, Nesmith holds a "live reading" of each chapter of the book in the Videoranch3D virtual world. In June 2009, Videoranch began selling a serialized version of Nesmith's novel, The America Gene , beginning one chapter at

3096-449: The multimedia platform, Pacific Arts published the audiobook of Nesmith's first novel, The Long Sandy Hair of Neftoon Zamora . The book was published and distributed by St. Martin's Press. The unabridged reading of the novel was released on a six-CD set by Pacific Arts and was sublicensed for direct download to Audible.com. In June 2009, Pacific Arts began a serialized release of Nesmith's second novel, The America Gene . A free sample and

3168-466: The newly sold channel rebranded as The Family Channel . It remained the most watched outlet for CBN programs. IFE went on to launch other TV channels in the US and UK, and planned to extend itself further. 1990 also saw CBN University become known as Regent University . CBN built luxury hotel The Founders Inn and Spa at the university campus, and this was completed in 1990. The name of the hotel refers to

3240-554: The ongoing Superbook anime , and has operated a number of TV channels and radio stations. Its headquarters are in Virginia Beach , Virginia , United States . CBN has been described as having been "at the forefront of the culture wars since the network's inception in the early 1960s". One of the company's mainstays is The 700 Club , which uses a religious variety program that mixes sermons, interviews, and religious music (such as hymns and gospel). The name refers to

3312-602: The original PBS deal in 1990. The cases went to jury trial in Federal Court in Los Angeles in February 1999. By the end of the trial, the judge and jury were leaning toward Nesmith's (Pacific Arts) counterclaims. Henry Gradstein, lead attorney for Nesmith, contended in a brief that the company's video rights were worth enough for it to have paid off any proper debts to the producers. But, he said, PBS had concocted

3384-537: The over-the-air TV stations were sold between 1984 and 1989. WXRI radio in Portsmouth was also sold in 1989. On January 8, 1990, the national TV network was sold to related entity International Family Entertainment (IFE). IFE was majority owned by the Robertson family, with a minority interest held by John C. Malone . The sale was said to have been done because the channel had become too profitable for CBN to maintain its non-profit status. On September 15 that year,

3456-687: The parent company of television provider DirecTV . On October 24, 2001, The Walt Disney Company acquired Fox Family Worldwide for $ 2.9 billion cash plus $ 2.3 billion in debt assumption, due to Fox Family Channel's 35% audience decline, which gave Disney control of the Fox Family channel (which, owing to its new ownership, was renamed ABC Family , and its parent company renamed ABC Family Worldwide ), Saban Entertainment, Saban's 49.6% stake in Saban International Paris , Fox Kids' international networks in Latin America and Europe,

3528-542: The parties over these rights and payments. PBS and Nesmith and Pacific Arts vigorously prosecuted these multimillion-dollar counter-suits. The six plaintiffs included PBS, including WGBH in signings, WNET in signings, American Documentaries and Radio Pioneers Film Project (production companies owned by producer Ken Burns ), and the Children's Television Workshop . They sought approximately $ 5 million in disputed royalties, advances, guarantees, and license fees for programs and

3600-508: The religious broadcaster had re-positioned its CBN Satellite Service, which primarily carried televangelism , as the CBN Cable Network, which carried a mixture of secular programming and religious programs. Owing to its new scope, the service was later renamed the CBN Family Channel . By the 1990s, the network had become too profitable to remain under the ownership of the non-profit CBN without legal repercussions. In January 1990,

3672-658: The remainder to give it full ownership. Following its takeover of Jetix Europe, Disney began migrating the Jetix properties in the region to a new brand, Disney XD . In 2009, Switchover Media —a company formed by the management of the Italian Jetix operation, acquired the K2 and GXT networks from Disney, and managed Jetix until its re-branding as Disney XD. Switchover would later be purchased by Discovery Communications . On May 12, 2010, Saban Capital Group 's Saban Brands bought

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3744-626: The remainder was melded into Fox Kids Worldwide (a merger of its Fox Kids unit with Saban Entertainment), to form Fox Family Worldwide . Fox and Saban planned to leverage the popular Fox Kids lineup to turn The Family Channel (which was re-branded as the Fox Family Channel following the purchase) into a competitor to other children's-oriented cable channels such as Nickelodeon , Disney Channel and Cartoon Network . The subsidiary also established international Fox Kids networks in Europe and Latin America. After facing struggling ratings and

3816-477: The rest of Europe, and additional cable channels. In consideration by IFE for the cable channel's genres were game shows, westerns, country music and sports as well as Spanish-language simulcasting. On April 28, 1992, IFE began public trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker FAM. In May 1992, IFE announced plans to launch Game Channel, a joint venture with Game Technologies, which

3888-515: The rights to the Power Rangers franchise back from Disney for $ 43 million. Rights to the then-upcoming season Power Rangers Samurai , as well as previous seasons, were acquired by Nickelodeon in 2011. In September 2012, Saban Brands also re-acquired the international rights to the Digimon franchise, partnering with MarVista Entertainment as distributor. Hasbro subsequently announced

3960-542: The same period. On June 7, 1993, The Family Channel launched a game show block with interactive segments built around its new original production Trivial Pursuit , in preparation for the planned launch of Game Channel. In February 1993, IFE acquired the assets of Television South , a former ITV franchisee in Southern England , for $ 68.5 million. The deal gave IFE ownership of the library of Mary Tyler Moore 's studio MTM Enterprises ; IFE planned to leverage

4032-464: The second-phase of multimedia via the internet by launching Videoranch 3D (VR3D), a 3-D virtual world as a test bed for technologies which could deliver live content into virtual environments. VR3D is a virtual world that is the most active of the Pacific Arts enterprises. In 2004, Nesmith developed a process for seamlessly embedding live video in virtual worlds and a companion production technique that allowed live performers to interact in real time with

4104-554: The then-upcoming video, Michael Nesmith Live at the Britt Festival . With the release, Nesmith alludes to the growing number of subsidiaries, listing the distribution of the video as a Pacific Arts subsidiary named "One of the Nesmith Enterprises". On the release of Nesmith's album The Garden in 1994, he introduced his current record company, Rio Records. PAC is the managing partner of Videoranch, LLC which

4176-602: The time being. The U.S. Fox Kids block broadcast by the Fox network was not included in the sale, and its operations were shifted to the Fox Television Entertainment division. As Fox no longer held the rights to the Saban programming that primarily aired during the block, and no longer had appropriate synergies due to the sale of Fox Family, the company chose to contract the block to a third-party. Following

4248-450: The use of the PBS logo from the defendants Pacific Arts and Nesmith. Due to the cost of the litigation, Pacific Arts was forced to cease distribution operations, and suspended the use of the PBS logo on the Pacific Arts videos. Though Pacific Arts distribution system had ceased operating, the various plaintiffs were counting on capturing a personal financial guarantee Nesmith had made to PBS in

4320-418: The video arm since the early 1980s, and he would be replaced as president by George Steele, who had been at the home video arm since 1984, and when owner Michael Nesmith was soliciting bids for a sale portion of the Pacific Arts video arm, which involved lawyers were Paramount Home Video and Nelson Entertainment . In 1990, Pacific Arts secured a contract with PBS to distribute the PBS video catalog under

4392-462: Was Tapeheads (1988). Following its release, Pacific Arts turned its attention to home video and later, at the turn of the century, the internet. Throughout the 1980s, Pacific Arts acquired what was at the time the world's largest catalog of non-theatrical video titles, and set up its own independent distribution system. By 1987, former Pacific Arts Video Distribution (a.k.a. Pacific Arts Video Classics) president Robert Fread had quit, who had been at

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4464-594: Was amalgamated into the ABC Cable Networks Group , run by Anne Sweeney . Shapiro also left the network that month. Later, programming executive Linda Mancuso died in December 2003. In early 2004, ABC Family's original movie production unit was taken over by Disney Channel's vice president of original programming and production Gary Marsh and vice president of original movies Michael Healy. In January 2004, Fox Kids Europe, Fox Kids Latin America and

4536-619: Was established in 2007 as a Delaware LLC. Videoranch LLC is the operating entity for Videoranch.com and Videoranch3d.com. Following the success of Elephant Parts , Pacific Arts focused its attention on producing full-length motion pictures. Its first major motion picture was the Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann (1982) . Its film Repo Man was released in 1984, for Michael Nesmith served as executive producer under its still-active subsidy, Zoomo Productions, Inc. The last major motion picture Pacific Arts produced

4608-772: Was first broadcast on November 7, 1976, in the Philippines. This 30 minute version of the US show was to go on to be broadcast in many other countries. This later became known as The 700 Club International . On April 29, 1977, CBN launched a religious channel in the United States, the CBN Satellite Service . Also that year, CBN University was founded. It was established for "the specific purpose of preparing leaders who would not only succeed in their professions but also advance as Christians equipped to effectively impact their world." Its first classes began in September 1978. Affiliated charity Operation Blessing

4680-415: Was formed as a subsidiary of IFE to control the companies. In 1994, IFE acquired Dorothy Hamill International, which had bought the ice show franchise Ice Capades out of bankruptcy. However, the company went out of business afterward due to the decreasing popularity of its shows in favor of traditional figure skating competitions and exhibitions. The tour had a lackluster season, which led Hamill to leave

4752-524: Was formed, with 75.7% being held by Haim Saban for Fox Family Worldwide, and the remainder listed on the Euronext . In an attempt at U.S. expansion in October 1999, Fox Family spun off two digital cable channels, BoyzChannel and GirlzChannel, which contained programming content targeted at the respective genders. Both networks shut down after one year of operation due to a lack of leverage and demand by cable providers (each only had 100,000 subscribers), and

4824-565: Was hired as MTM Entertainment's chief executive officer and would also oversee programing on The Family Channel, Family Channel Pictures, and creative aspects of Ice Capades and Great American Entertainment Company. In 1997, Fox Kids Worldwide, a company formed in 1996 via the merger of Fox Children's Network and Haim Saban's Saban Entertainment , made a bid to acquire IFE. With the growing shift in children's television from over-the-air programming blocks to cable channels such as Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon , Fox and Saban sought to launch

4896-409: Was released exclusively through Videoranch as a test of its download sales. Following the test, the Videoranch download sales site was made operational with most of the Videoranch software catalog available for purchase and download delivery. In 2010, a first revision to "Helen’s Eternal Birthday" resulted in it being re-titled as "January." Nesmith had suggested that he would continue to release songs on

4968-406: Was renamed to Freeform. ABC Family Worldwide formed the main body of the parent company and holds all subsidiaries and their assets. Christian Broadcasting Network The Christian Broadcasting Network ( CBN ) is an American Christian media production and distribution organization. Founded in 1960 by Pat Robertson , it produces the long-running TV series The 700 Club , co-produces

5040-471: Was set up on November 14, 1978. It was initially intended to help struggling individuals and families by matching their needs for items such as clothing, appliances, and vehicles with donated items from viewers of The 700 Club . Coordinating with local churches and other organizations, OBI expanded their matching funds program to also include food provisions and financial assistance for low-income families. In June 1979, CBN joined George Otis Ministries to build

5112-787: Was time for the Family Channel to join the consolidation that was going on in the industry." On August 15, 1998, The Family Channel was renamed Fox Family Channel; Fox continued to be subject to the mandate that The 700 Club be broadcast by the network. Rights to the MTM Enterprises library were folded into 20th Century Fox Television . In October 1996, a Fox Kids channel was launched in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and in November, it started broadcasting in Latin America and Brazil. In November 1999, Fox Kids Europe N.V.

5184-583: Was under the subsidy of the Pacific Arts Records label in September 1974 of Nesmith's own concept album, The Prison . Between 1974 and 1981, Pacific Arts Productions created a large library of various musical artists and built its own independent record distribution system. Nesmith considered Pacific Arts an umbrella corporation over two major divisions: TV and records. It was during this time that Nesmith began to develop music videos, produce PopClips (the predecessor for MTV ), and ideas for

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