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SCT

Type	Television network
Country	Superior
Founded	5 May 1960 (1960-05-05) by John Wulff
Headquarters	New Hamburg, Minneapolis, Superior
Area	Nationwide
Owner	SCT Networks, Inc
Key people	Matt Goldburg (President) Stephen Clay (Director of Programming)
Launch date	27 November 1960 (1960-11-27)
Picture format	1080i (HDTV 16:9) (480i/576i letterboxed for SDTVs 16:9)
Sister channels	SCT Prime SCT Reality SCT Deutsch Sketch Sketch Junior SCT Global SCT Sierra SCT Astoria
Affiliates	List of SCT television affiliates
Webcast	Check local affiliate's website
Official website	sctonline.net (see SCT Online)
Language	English, German (on select programs)

SCT, branded as Superian Commercial Television before 2006, is a Superian television network operated by SCT Networks, Inc and is one of the largest commercial broadcasters in Superior. Founded by former Superian Broadcasting Corporation executive John Wulff, SCT is currently a general entertainment network and a primary asset of SCT Networks (renamed from Superian Commercial Television, Inc. in 2006). SCT is available as a nationwide broadcast network in Superior, with a number of themed SCT-branded channels available on cable and satellite. An international version of SCT, SCT Global, is available on satellite worldwide, with SCT Sierra and SCT Astoria being separate channels available on satellite in respective countries.

History

Television in Superior began in 1951, when the Superian Broadcasting Company launched it's SBC Television network. However, the other major radio networks didn't get into TV right away, Neu-Brandenburger Radio had only started drawing up plans for Neu-Brandenburger Fernsehen in 1960, while National Associative Broadcasting wouldn't launch it's television network until January 1961. This enabled the SBC to monopolize the TV market in the nation. One employee at the SBC, John Wulff, would begin devising his own plans for a commercial television broadcaster.

In 1960, these ten television stations met in New Hamburg:

• CNHM: Channel 3, licensed to New Hamburg, owned by Wulf Communications
• CNBR-TV: Channel 7, licensed to New Brandenburg, owned by NBR
• CWJM-TV: Channel 9, licensed to Saint Anthony, owned by National Associative Broadcasting
• CGBE: Channel 10, licensed to Green Bay, owned by NBR
• CNMG: Channel 2, licensed to New Michigan, owned by Wild Radio
• CTVQ: Channel 2, licensed to Clarke, Montana, owned by Skyline Broadcasting
• CGW-TV: Channel 5, licensed to Casper, owned by Buffalo Bill Communications
• CGFH: Channel 3, licensed to Great Falls, owned by Helena Radio Company
• CSDA: Channel 3, licensed to Augustus, owned by Metropolitan Media
• CPSD: Channel 7, licensed to Pierre, owned by Pierrot Communications

They were there to discuss a new potential network that would funded by commercials. The main idea, proposed by John Wulf, would be a co-operative in which every station would have an equal say in how the network was run, similar to NBC, Mutual, and CTV in the United Commonwealth, and MNET in Manitoba; stations owned by the same company would be counted as one for the sake of this. Most stations seemed to be onboard with this, save for four: WJM-TV, whose owner NAB was planning on setting up their own television network, KTVQ, who were concerned that WNHM would dominate the network, and WGBE and WBNR-TV, owned by the same company who wanted the latter for a German language network. Fortunately, a compromise was worked out, were KTVQ would help produce national newscasts, WJM-TV would have dual-affiliation once NAB TV was launched and until a proper SCT affiliate could be made, and German programming from NBR could be dubbed and shown on the new network. Thus, the nine networks would form the Superian Commercial Television co-op, or SCT for short.

Early years

The network launched on November 27, 1960, with the following programs:

• The Gato Family (Kingdom of Sierra, SBC)
• The Charlie Chan Mysteries (Kingdom of Sierra, Tokki)
• Buffalo Bill's Wild West Adventures (Superior)
• The Avengers (United Kingdom, ITV)
• Four Feather Falls (United Kingdom, ITV)
• Superior Living (Superior)
• San Francisco Story (Kingdom of Sierra, Tokki)
• Dancing to the Music (Superior)
• P.I. Ricardo (Kingdom of Sierra, SBC)
• What's the Word? (Superior)
• Hans House (Superior)
• Ocean 21 (Astoria, Pacific Television)

Series introduced during the the year include Talk to Me! and Minute to Win.

At first, flagship CWJM-TV was the only station that carried programming live. During SBC's off-hours, SCT used SBC's microwave system to send programming to the rest of the country on tape delay.[16] Eventually, a second microwave channel opened up, enabling live programming from coast to coast.

Stations

Main articles: List of SCT television affiliates and SCT O&Os

Related services

Sketch

Main article: Sketch (Superian Television)

Sketch is an english language specialty channel for children's programming. Much of it's programming is sourced from SCT.

International broadcasts

SCT Global is a worldwide cable and satellite channel serving as an international version of SCT. It carries much of SCT's original programming. SCT also operates cable channels in Sierra (SCT Sierra) and Astoria (SCT Astoria) that are independent of SCT Global.

See also

This page uses material from the Wikipedia page CTV Television Network, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (view authors).