Newsround Extra | Nickelodeon and the Expansion of Cable Television (1st July 1983)
An episode of an former Newsround spin-off series from 1983 that features its former iconic presenter John Craven talking about the differences to cable television and analogue television and the expansion of cable in the U.S. thanks to the launch of QUBE in Columbus, Ohio and New York, with talks about bringing it to the U.K. for the big changes to terrestrial television (which BSB/Sky Television would later become a big part of thanks to the success of OTS and Swindon Cable).
One of the main features was the kids' cable network that used to include no commercials, Nickelodeon, which at the time was the one of Pinwheel, Standby: (Lights, Camera, Action!), Livewire and some others like the cult classic You Can't Do That on Television, notable for introducing green gunge (or slime to the American audiences) on the show that later turns out to be an iconic symbol for the network.
The report includes interviews with Geraldine B. Laybourne, the then "Boss Lady"/President of the network, and Fred Newman, host of Livewire, and talks about Nickelodeon planning to introduce advertising.
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