Astrologes was named chairman of the new venture, with Carter succeeding him at Oak. While Oak was initially resistant to the idea, it ultimately agreed to develop the equipment if Perenchio fronted $200,000 for research and development, which he did. Carter, an executive at Oak Industries, attended a tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs in Houston, organized by Perenchio Perenchio approached Carter and asked if the company could build a system to scramble over-the-air signals for pay distribution. to create and operate a subscription television system in the Los Angeles market. In 1973, Oak Industries, a maker of cable television equipment and other electronic components, and Chartwell Communications, a company majority-owned by Jerry Perenchio and Norman Lear, founded a joint venture initially known as World Pay Television, Inc. Between March 1983 and June 1985, all eight operations closed. However, the rapidly expanding availability of cable television, coupled with a recession, caused the business to quickly lose subscribers at the same time that Oak Industries was experiencing severe financial difficulties.
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At its peak in 1982, ON TV boasted more than 700,000 customers-more than half of them in Los Angeles, its most successful market.
Originally established by National Subscription Television, a joint venture of Oak Industries and Chartwell Communications, ON TV was part of a new breed of STV operations that broadcast premium programming-including movies, sporting events, and concerts-over an encrypted signal on a UHF television station and leased decoders to subscribing customers. ON TV was an American subscription television (STV) service that operated in eight markets between 19. National Subscription Television, a joint venture of Oak Industries and Chartwell Communications
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