Cable Music Channel

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Cable Music Channel

Country	United States
Broadcast area	Nationwide
Headquarters	Los Angeles, California
Programming
Language(s)	English
Picture format	480i (SDTV)
Ownership
Owner	Turner Broadcasting System (1984) Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment (1984—1985)
History
Launched	October 26, 1984 (1984-10-26)
Closed	November 30, 1984 (1984-11-30) (1 month and 4 days)
Replaced by	VH1

The Cable Music Channel (CMC) was an American basic cable channel that was owned by the Turner Broadcasting System. The all-music video channel was created by Ted Turner and launched in 1984, providing the first national competition to MTV. Turner later stated that the channel existed at the behest of the cable industry as a defense mechanism against MTV's unsuccessful attempts to increase the fees that cable providers paid to carry the channel by twofold; Turner offered the channel without any carriage fees.^[1]