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The company went into original programming production starting in the late 1970s until the early 1980s with middling results. This is way before Viacom buys the full ownership of Showtime & MTV Networks in 1985. After Viacom added their first broadcast station acquisition came in 1978 when the company purchased WHNB-TV in New Britain, Connecticut, changing its call letters to WVIT. Two years later Viacom added the Sonderling Broadcasting chain, giving it radio stations in New York City, Washington, D.C., Houston, and San Francisco, and one television station, WAST (now WNYT) in Albany, New York.

Theatrical Releases

Feature Films

• The Warriors
• Real Life
• Hurricane
• An Almost Perfect Affair
• Players
• The Kirlian Witness
• Prophecy
• Escape from Alcatraz
• Meatballs
• Bloodline
• Dance of Death
• North Dallas Forty
• Sunburn
• Starting Over
• French Postcards
• Star Trek: The Motion Picture
• The Power Within
• The Return of the Mod Squad

Shows

• Friends
• Nickel Flicks
• By the Way
• Hocus Focus
• Flesh & Blood
• Mind Over Murder
• The Gift
• A Last Cry for Help
• She's Dressed to Kill
• Heaven Only Knows

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