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ON TV (TV network)
ON TV was an American subscription television (STV) service that operated from 1977 to 1985, mostly owned by Oak Industries. ON TV represented the equipment manufacturer's foray into the communications industry. Subscribers paid money to rent a decoder box and receive monthly service, which was broadcast in scrambled form over eight UHF television stations and featured movies (including softcore pornography for an extra charge), sports, concerts, and special events. While ON TV operated the most successful STV service in the United States, in Los Angeles, the business dwindled after 1982 due to the rise of cable television, signal piracy, and a poor economy, as well as several content disputes with individual stations over airtime and adult programming. The last ON TV operation, in Chicago, closed in 1985; the eight stations each reverted to commercial programming, three of them becoming Spanish-language stations.


 * Contributor(s): Sammi Brie

This is my first ever GT nomination and the first GT in the field of broadcasting. I have been working toward this all year by improving each of the articles to GA status (ON TV was promoted last year). -- Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 20:58, 12 October 2022 (UTC)
 *  Comment Support: That's a lot of good work! I'm a little concerned about FT/GT criterion 1c: "All articles or lists in the topic are linked together, preferably using a template, and share a common category or super-category." The main article barely has links to some of the stations; I think it would go a long way to even just have a "Further" hatnote at the start of each station's section. Likewise, there's no shared category that I can see, and no navbox template. I suppose you can just create the category connection; probably the ON TV history is important enough to each station to justify it. I think I can support it once this is addressed. -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 01:39, 13 October 2022 (UTC)
 * @Bryanrutherford0, I just created Category:ON TV (TV network) which should cover it. A navbox would be overkill, especially as these pages tend to have several of them and this is a comparatively low-affinity grouping. (Three of the eight and another two of the eight are each linked by a navbox by virtue of having a common owner now.) I also added further hatnotes in the main article. Sammi Brie  (she/her • t • c) 05:29, 13 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Good work! I can support it now. -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 21:47, 13 October 2022 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't normally ask, but I'd like to have this promoted so I can count it with my WikiCup contributions (October 31 is the last day). Even if I might not be getting first, I'm proud of the fact that WikiCup led me to my first-ever GT, and I'd like to be able to claim it for points. Sammi Brie  (she/her • t • c) 20:47, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Support - Looks like a suitable topic to me. All items are now GAs.  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 10:43, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Support - meets the criteria IMO. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 18:58, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Whoops messed up wrong place Danubeball (talk) 21:25, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Support - Fits well enough. Danubeball (talk) 21:24, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
 * -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 20:48, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅. Promotion completed successfully. Don't forget to add to the appropriate section of Good topics. NovemBot (talk) 21:08, 31 October 2022 (UTC)