Americana Television folds as stand-alone: country cable net will continue on TCI's tv! sampler network. (Brief Article)

Broadcasting & Cable, November, 1994 by Brown, Rich

Country cable net will continue on TCI's tv! sampler network Chalk up the Americana Television Network as a casualty of the FCC's "going-forward" rules on programing. At least that was one of the reasons cited by Americana Chairman and CEO Stanley Hitchcock last week in saying his fledgling country lifestyle cable network was ceasing operation as a full-time, stand-alone service on Dec.

31, 1994. The Branson, Mo.-based operation instead will redirect its focus to the production, syndication and distribution of its programing through TCI's tv! sampler network and other networks. "Following eleven months of stifling regulations, the recent ruling became too little too late for Americana," says Hitchcock. "The cable operators loved our...

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