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Antenna TV is an American digital multicast television network that is owned by the Tribune Broadcasting subsidiary of Tribune Media, which primarily features classic television series from the 1950s to the 1990s and some feature films, with most of the network's programming coming from the Sony Pictures Entertainment library, along with a few shows from the Universal Studios and post-1986 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer libraries. Antenna TV's programming and advertising operations are headquartered in the Tribune Tower in Chicago, Illinois. The network's operations are overseen by Sean Compton, who serves as the president of programming for Tribune Broadcasting. The network is available in many media markets via digital subchannels of over-the-air broadcast television stations, and on select cable television providers through a local affiliate of the network. Antenna TV broadcasts 24 hours a day in 480i standard definition. Antenna TV is a sister network to the movie-oriented multicast service This TV, which Tribune Broadcasting maintains a 50% ownership stake. ==Background== Tribune Broadcasting announced the formation of Antenna TV on August 30, 2010, with a planned target date of January 1, 2011, for the network's launch; it was originally intended to launch on January 3, 2011, though the launch date was later pushed two days ahead of schedule. Antenna TV was launched on January 1, 2011 at 12 Midnight Eastern Time (the late evening of December 31, 2010, in other U.S. time zones), initially debuting on seventeen Tribune-owned stations and thirteen stations owned by Local TV (an Oak Hill Capital Partners-controlled holding company that Tribune had been co-managing since 2008 and was acquired by the company in December 2013).〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://blog.sitcomsonline.com/2010/10/antenna-tv-launch-schedule-starting.html )〕 The first program to air on Antenna TV was the ''Three Stooges'' first short "Woman Haters" as part of a marathon of short films involving the comedy trio (which has since become an annual New Year's Day tradition on the network, originally airing as an all-day marathon before being reduced to airing only on New Year's Day morning in 2013). On October 1, 2011, Antenna TV introduced block scheduling for most of its programs, organized by genre and the decade of their original broadcast; it included a weekday afternoon block of sitcoms from the 1950s, a weekend afternoon block of 1960s sitcoms (including the early 1970s sitcom, ''The Partridge Family''), a Saturday night lineup of drama series (a genre of television programs which had previously aired on the network in very limited form on Sunday mornings only), an overnight block of classic television series from the black-and-white era of the 1950s and early 1960s, a Sunday prime-time lineup of sitcoms from the 1990s, and a weeknight prime-time lineup of comedies from the 1970s;〔(Antenna TV Fall 2011 Schedule Updated With Beaver, Bachelor Father & More )〕 with the exception of the black-and-white program block (which was reduced to once a week and moved to Friday nights, where it remained – except for a brief sabbatical from January to April 2013 – until being dropped completely in November 2013) and the Saturday night drama block (which was reduced to Saturday evenings only, and was later replaced by movies in September 2013), most of these blocks were dropped on March 26, 2012.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://blog.sitcomsonline.com/2012/03/antenna-tv-spring-2012-schedule-with.html )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Antenna TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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