Documentary Channel (American TV channel)

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Not to be confused with other TV channels named Documentary Channel.
Documentary Channel
Participant Media
History
LaunchedJanuary 26, 2006; 18 years ago (2006-01-26)
ClosedAugust 1, 2013; 10 years ago (2013-08-01)
Replaced byPivot

The Documentary Channel was an American

Participant Media, and debuted on August 1, 2013.[4]
Pivot ceased operations on October 31, 2016, folding the former Documentary Channel channel space.

Background

Documentary Channel launched in January 2006. It was founded by

Nashville PBS
station.

Documentary Channel won its first

Emmy Award, for Outstanding Documentary, in September 2007, for Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire.[6]

Documentary Channel's signature series, DocTalk, entered its third season July 1, 2011. DocTalk was a weekly half-hour program featuring filmmakers and their newest documentary film projects and releases.

The channel was independently owned and operated until it was purchased by

Participant Media
in December 2012.

Closure

In March 2013, Participant Media announced that Documentary Channel and new sister network

Pivot
, a network focused on 18 to 34 year olds, with elements of programming from both networks. The change was later announced to take place on August 1 of that year.

Documentary Channel built up to the launch of Pivot with a countdown clock in the bottom right hand corner of the screen, where the logo normally is, saying "xx Hours xx Minutes until we Pivot", but there was no special programing taking a look back at the channel's history, instead just showing a normal day of programing.

At approximately 6 p.m ET on Dish receivers, the channel's EPG name changed from "DOC" to "PIVOT", signifying the change happening overnight, in 12 hours time.

At 5:40 a.m ET, the channel's final documentary,

Indian Head test card, and started playing Edward R. Murrow
's "Wires and Lights in a Box" speech, talking about how television can help people learn, but only if they accept it. Midway through the speech, in the bottom right, a message said:

Good night, and good luck. Coming in October, pivot.tv

At 6:00:04 a.m ET, Documentary Channel ended, and Pivot begun, with the final words spoken on the network being "Good night, and good luck." When the successor channel Pivot folded three years later the last program on the network was five consecutive showings of the film Good Night, and Good Luck from 8PM on the 30th onward until the shuttering. The film choice was likely a nod to the final words spoken on Documentary Channel.[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ What Channel is the Documentary Channel on DIRECTV?
  2. ^ Documentary Channel Channel Information|DIRECTV vs. DISH
  3. ^ The future of high quality documentaries reaching a world audience - Medium.com
  4. ^ Wake Up, Kids: Disruptive TV Is Here Via Participant Media’s Pivot Cabler, Variety, March 27, 2013.
  5. Nashville Business Journal
     March 13, 2009
  6. ^ Nashville-based Documentary Channel grabs an Emmy Nashville Business Journal October 17, 2007
  7. ^ "Pivot On-Air Schedule | Pivot.tv". Pivot.tv. October 28, 2016. Archived from the original on October 28, 2016. Retrieved October 28, 2016.

External links

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