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About Stellar Film Associates Stellar
Film Associates was created in 1997 by veteran broadcaster and radio
syndicator, Victor Ives, to provide content, on a barter basis, for in
Independent Television stations, cable systems and small networks. Among
the first users, were a few PAX Network Affiliates in the Mid-West and
five million watt ERP Channel 32 in Portland, Oregon, of which Ives was a
founding officer and General Manager. Concurrently, he was Stellar
Films Associates was an outgrowth of “The Golden Age of Radio” a daily
one hour radio retrospective which ran on as many as 350 stations station
and continues in reruns on USA Radio Network. (Over two and a half
decades.) A
unique aspect of both the radio and television syndications was that in
most situations, the advertising time acquired from the stations was
“banked” as an advertising credit and later used on as needed basis. The
Stellar Library has grown to more than 3,000 titles of motion pictures
(ranging from classic to more contemporary) and vintage television show
episodes, cartoons and newsreels. The
collection includes over 250 titles of motion pictures made for
Television. More information and titles at wwwMoviesForTelevision.com.)
these seldom seen films produced for ABC, CBS and NBC has found a ready
audience from their debut in 2007 when Portland’s Comcast Cable aired
“Thursday’s Game” with Gene Wilder, Bob Newhart, Rob Reiner and
Valerie Harper. This 1974 TV Movie tied with USA (“Law and Order”) and
came ahead of 19 other channels including A&E, FOX News, CNN, MSNBC. Stellar
has provided content to more than 400, mostly smaller, stations, dozens of
independent cable channels and
for five years was distributed via satellite to private dish and digital
receiver owners on a transponder that covered all of Canada, USA, Mexico
and part of Central America. Much of its programing was seen in China,
Korea and other countries during an experiment by Philippine Satellite,
over a two year period of time, during which the interest in English
language content proved popular among viewers. 01/19/2012
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