VU QUBE SATELLITE MOVIE
The initial QUBE service debuted with 30 channels (a large number of cable channels at the time), including 10 pay-per-view movie channels (a then-new feature for cable TV) 10 broadcast channels (from Columbus, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Canton, Akron, and Cleveland) and 10 community channels. Hauser dispatched young New York City executive Nyhl Henson to oversee and direct the Columbus interactive channel plan. The service was first launched in Columbus, Ohio, amidst considerable national and international press coverage.
VU QUBE SATELLITE TV
Pioneer Electronics was hired to "build the box" that would transform the cable TV service in a few hundred thousand households into a device that was intended to change the entire entertainment landscape. Ross surrounded Hauser with entertainment industry executives, including Jac Holzman, who had sold his Elektra Records to Ross in 1967 Mike Dann, the CBS programming wizard responsible for The Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres former CBS general counsel Spencer Harrison, an executive involved in the launch of My Fair Lady on Broadway and super-agent Ted Ashley, whose talent agency was Ross's first show-biz acquisition. Īt the time, Warner Cable was a small division of Warner Communications, run by a former Western Union telecommunications executive and attorney, Gus Hauser. Ross was intrigued by the potential of delivering Warner Bros. History Ī closed-circuit television system at the Hotel New Otani Tokyo in Tokyo, Japan inspired Steve Ross, Chairman of Warner Communications, to wonder what could be done to improve the performance of Warner's tiny cable television division. Highly publicized as a revolutionary advancement, the QUBE experiment introduced viewers to several concepts that became central to the future development of TV technology: pay-per-view programs, special-interest cable television networks, and interactive services.
It was launched in Columbus, Ohio, on December 1, 1977. QUBE was an experimental two-way, multi-programmed cable television system that played a significant role in the history of American interactive television. This article is about cable television system that went defunct in 1984.
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