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{{Infobox television channel | name = Knowledge TV | logo = | logo_size = | logo_caption = | logo_alt = | image = | established = | airdate = | launch_date = {{start date|1987|11|15}} | closed_date = {{end date|2000}} | picture_format = | network = | owner = Jones International/Jones Media Group | parent = | key_people = Glenn R. Jones | slogan = | motto = | country = United States | language = English | area = | affiliates = | headquarters = Centennial, CO | former_names = Mind Extension University | replaced = | replaced_by = }}
'''Knowledge TV''' was a cable television channel owned by Jones Media Group that broadcast educational programming. The network was established on November 15, 1987<ref>{{cite book |title=Television & Cable Factbook |date=1995 |publisher=Warren Publishing |location=Washington, DC |page=H-138 |edition=Volume 63 |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1995-TV-Factbook/TV-Factbook-1995-Services.pdf |access-date=23 June 2021}}</ref> as '''Mind Extension University'''. At launch it partnered with Colorado State University and Annenberg Foundation. The network was openly broadcast, and students were charged tuition to obtain credit for the course. Students submitted homework and contacted instructors via telephone.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Old College Try |magazine=Broadcasting Magazine |date=November 23, 1988 |page=75 |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/87-OCR/BC-1987-11-23-OCR-Page-0075.pdf |access-date=22 June 2021}}</ref> The following year, Washington State University, the University of Minnesota, Oklahoma State University, and SUNY/Empire State College also signed on.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Mind extension |journal=Broadcasting Magazine |date=September 26, 1988 |page=64 |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/88-OCR/BC-1988-09-26-OCR-Page-0064.pdf |access-date=22 June 2021}}</ref> Eventually, 30 colleges and universities partnered with Mind Extension.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Jones Timeline {{!}} Jones International|url = http://www.jones.com/views/timeline|website = www.jones.com|accessdate = 2015-11-17}}</ref> Students submitted papers and assignments either by mail or fax. In 1993, Jones Media Group CEO Glenn R. Jones founded Jones International University (JIU) as a new all-online university. JIU achieved regional accreditation in 1999 but closed in 2015.
In late 1996,<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Advertisement |magazine=Broadcasting Magazine |date=October 14, 1996 |page=55 |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/96-OCR/BC-1996-10-14-OCR-Page-0055.pdf |access-date=22 June 2021}}</ref> the network was renamed Knowledge TV,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150924162237/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-67650414.html "Education Network Jumps Pond"], Rebecca Cantwell, Rocky Mountain News, 31 January 1997, "Knowledge TV, formerly called Mind Extension University, is available to about...".</ref> and by that time, it carried several programs dealing with new media and Silicon Valley businesses, including ''New Media News'' from KRON-TV in San Francisco, and many computer education programs such as Stewart Cheifet's ''Computer Chronicles''. The network reached about 25 million subscribers, although many cable systems only carried the network part-time, using it to fill downtime on public access networks and late night paid programming blocks on networks such as Discovery Channel.
In 1999, Discovery Communications bought out Knowledge TV<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dempsey |first=John |date=1999-06-18 |title=Discovery bulks up with Knowledge TV |url=https://variety.com/1999/tv/news/discovery-bulks-up-with-knowledge-tv-1117503225/ |access-date=2024-06-30 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}</ref> and it was closed in 2000, as Discovery planned to give cable operators the option of converting the channel to Discovery Health.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Discovery People Fades Out|url = http://www.multichannel.com/news/orphan-articles/discovery-people-fades-out/148472|website = Multichannel|accessdate = 2015-11-17|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20151117223439/http://www.multichannel.com/news/orphan-articles/discovery-people-fades-out/148472|archivedate = 2015-11-17}}</ref>
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Category:Television channels and stations established in 1987 Category:Television channels and stations disestablished in 2000 Category:Defunct television networks in the United States