ARTS Alpha Repertory Television Service

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Beginning in the Spring of 1981, the Nickelodeon Channel added a new service after Nick signed off for the evening at 9pm ET. It was called A.R.T.S. and was a 3 hour block of quality programming, which included opera, ballet, symphony orchestras, and classic architecture, to name a few subjects. It ran from 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific to 12 midnight Eastern/9pm Pacific time; then the 3 hour block repeated itself from 12am Eastern/9pm Pacific to 3am Eastern/12am Pacific time.
The programming filled a gap that otherwise would had been filled with a character generator changing pages on the screen, telling what programming was only on Nickelodeon during its hours of operation. Some local cable companies required a tone generated from the uplink, to turn off Nickelodeon to then turn on their Local Organization programming, and vice versa at 8am ET. ARTS is believed to be the predecessor to the Arts and Entertainment Channel, also known as the A&E Channel of today. ARTS was a co-production of Hearst-ABC Video Services.

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@arclight2012 11 лет назад

Wow, I've never seen this one. I always remembered the lowercase purple "arts" logo.

@ChristopherSobieniak 12 лет назад

I guess they didn't have a sort of sign-off/handover sequence then for that short period of time then. I'm sure after '81 they did from what I do remember of the "silver ball" era of the channel.

@GaryW48 12 лет назад

In 1980-81, there was no Nickelodeon sign-off. Whatever was the last show was that ended at 8:59pm, there was the Mime, and precisely at 9pm was the tones transmitted from the Buffalo Uplink to all of the syatems, who were going to switch off to local programming. ARTS sign-on looked like what you saw here, except that it had, I believe no ABC Video Enterprises Copyright added on. Sorry, I have no other videotape to upload showing the ARTS programs.

@tvguy1979 11 лет назад

Gary, I remember an Nickelodeon ID from then showing a pair of hands turning off a lamp for the night. I think that was Nickelodeon's sign off for a while.

@jsb1980 10 лет назад

There is no "believed to be the predecessor" to A&E. It is the predecessor to A&E. ARTS merged in 1984 with a failed service from NBC and Rockefeller Center TV called "The Entertainment Channel" that launched about a year after ARTS.

@GaryW48 10 лет назад

James, thanks for that bit of information. In 1981, we had no cable tv, so I was not aware of other services. It was not until 1984-85 that we did, and then saw the channel A&E on my system. Back then it carried a lot of very good programming, now I hardly tune to it. Thought the 'As It Happens' specials with Edwin Newman were the best (NBC coverage of the JFK Assassination and the Apollo 11 Moon Flight). Before ARTS came on the air, Nickelodeon would sign off I think by 12 midnight ET, then run a character generator all night until 8am ET.

@tvguy1979 12 лет назад

Do you have a Nickelodeon sign-off, or does the tape start with the ARTS sign-on?

@tvguy1979 12 лет назад

I meant the last minutes of Nickelodeon for the night before 9pm.

@GaryW48 12 лет назад

None at all.