Knowledge TV

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. Sometime in or before January 1997, the network was renamed Knowledge TV,^[2] and by that time 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.

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