NTA Film Network

NTA Film Network
Type	Defunct broadcast television network
Country	United States
Availability	United States (1956–1961)
Owner	National Telefilm Associates; Twentieth Century Fox
Key people	Charles C. Barry; Oliver A. Unger
Launch date	October 1956
Dissolved	November 1961

The NTA Film Network was an early American television network founded by Ely Landau in 1956 that operated on a part-time basis, broadcasting films and several first-run television programs from major Hollywood studios. Despite attracting more than 100 affiliate stations and securing the financial support of Twentieth Century-Fox (which purchased a 50% share of NTA in November 1956), the network proved unprofitable and was discontinued by 1961. The NTA Film Network's flagship station WNTA-TV is now WNET, one of the flagship stations of the Public Broadcasting Service.