Private company
Channel 100
American pay television channel
Channel 100 was a pay television channel company run by Jeff Nathanson, Alan Greenstadt, and Elaine Paris. Also called Optical Systems, it was one of the first all pay-per-view cable TV channels. It used a box manufactured by TRW, in which a user inserted separately purchased punched plastic cards for access.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
Last updated Oct 21, 2026.
Overview
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Channel 100 was a pay television channel company run by Jeff Nathanson, Alan Greenstadt, and Elaine Paris. Also called Optical Systems, it was one of the first all pay-per-view cable TV channels. It used a box manufactured by TRW, in which a user inserted separately purchased punched plastic cards for access. In 1972, Mission Cable in San Diego became the first cable company to use the Optical Systems arrangement—under the name “Channel 100." Channel 100 operated on several cable television systems in the United States during the 1970s, including San Diego, California and Toledo, Ohio. It showed two movies a week.2
Timeline
- 1972Founded Founded1
Links
- WikipediaChannel 100
- WikidataQ5072251
Sources
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- 1WikidataChannel 100 on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaChannel 100 on Wikipedia