TV LAND

'TV Land' (originally "'Nick-at-Nite's TV Land'") is an American cable television network which first started transmissions on April 29, 1996. It is owned by MTV Networks, a division of Viacom, which also owns MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon and Noggin. TV Land is a spinoff of Nickelodeon's Nick-at-Nite.
TV Land's programming primarily consists of reruns of television series from the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. More recently, however, shows from the 1980s have been aired, such as ''Cheers'', ''Night Court'', ''Benson'', ''The A-Team'' and ''227'', as well as a few programs from the 1990s, such as ''Wings''.
More recently TV Land has aired some original programing, including ''Sit Down Comedy with David Steinberg'', ''TV Land Legends: The 60 Minutes Interviews'' and ''I Pity The Fool''.
For several years the station broadcast old advertisements, called "TV Land Retromercials." Examples of advertisements aired are the "Mamma mia, that's a spicy meatball!" from Alka-Seltzer and "In Soviet Georgia" from Dannon yogurt, as well as the animated Tootsie Pop owl. Some retromercials have included future stars like Judd Hirsch, Rene Russo, Roy Scheider and Jodie Foster. Retromercials have not surfaced on TV Land in recent years. In early years, current commercials were not shown on TV Land.
TV Land often airs marathon weekends devoted to a single program. In the early 2000s, TV Land aired special programming blocks on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day: the final day of the year would revolve around final episodes of classic television series, and the first day of the new year would air exclusively pilot episodes.
When a program deemed particularly important is airing on another network, TV Land will sometimes air nonsense programming (such as footage of staff members holding signs or wearing T-shirts) to encourage viewers to watch the network programming. Recent examples include the series finales of ''Friends'' (2004) and ''Everybody Loves Raymond'' (2005). The network went dark during the last episode of ''Seinfeld'' (1998).
Harry Shearer is the regular announcer for the commercials.

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TV Land Awards

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TV Land Awards

Main articles: TV Land Awards

TV Land has been the broadcast home for the TV Land Awards show since the show's inception in 2003. The TV Land Awards are celebration of past classic TV shows and TV stars. The TV Land Awards also broadcasts simultaneously on Nick-at-Nite.

See also

★ TV Land Canada

★ List of programs broadcast by TV Land

External links

★ Official Site

★ TV Land Canada

★ Clip of TV Land's first day on the air