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The Infinite Cat Project
Presented by Mike Stanfill, Private Hand
Illustration, Flash Animation, Web Design
www.privatehand.com
| Comedy Central is a cable television channel in the United States with stars such as John Stewart, Stephen Colbert and shows like South Park. As its name implies, the channel carries predominantly comedy programming, both original and syndicated. While once a small cable network that few watched, in recent years it has grown to be one of the most popular cable channels, earning the praise of many entertainment-based media along the way.Comedy Central began on April Fool's Day 1991, after Home Box Office, owned by Time Warner, merged its own The Comedy Channel with MTV Networks' HA! comedy channel, owned by Viacom. Viacom bought Time Warner's half in April 2003 for $1.225 billion. When the merged channel first aired, it was known as CTV: The Comedy Network, but trademark issues with the Canadian network CTV forced the name change to Comedy Central on June 1, 1991 (coincidentally, the Canadian channel The Comedy Network is owned by Bell Globemedia, which also owns the Canadian CTV, of which both names were used on the American merged network) |