In fall 1983, coinciding with the launch of Ruby-Spears ' newly-produced Alvin and the Chipmunks series on NBC, The Alvin Show was again syndicated, this time by Viacom Enterprises.

In 1983, concerned by the strategic and financial failure of its pay-TV venture The Movie Channel ( started to reap the benefits Time Inc. was having with HBO and Cinemax ), WASEC established a joint venture with Viacom, merging TMC with their premium movie network Showtime to form Showtime / The Movie Channel, Inc.

In 1983, Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment began divesting its assets and spun off Nickelodeon and two other channels, MTV and the now-defunct Radio Television Station ( RTS ) into the newly formed subsidiary ; in order to increase revenue, Nickelodeon began to accept PBS-style corporate underwriting for its programming.

In 1983, Warner-Amex merged The Movie Channel with Viacom's Showtime to form Showtime / The Movie Channel, Inc. ( which would become Showtime Networks, Inc. in 1988 ).

In 1983, he was hired as Chairman and CEO of Warner-Amex Cable Communications ( WACCI ), the joint venture between the then Warner Communications and American Express, succeeding Gustave M. Hauser.

It launched on March 7, 1983 as The Nashville Network ( TNN ), a joint venture of WSM, Inc. ( a subsidiary of National Life and Accident Insurance Company ) and Group W Satellite Communications ; Gaylord Entertainment Company acquired the channel a few months later.

During its first year, Headline News had a competitor in the form of Group W's Satellite News Channel, which lasted from June 21, 1982, until October 27, 1983.

During the mission, the crew deployed satellites for Canada ( ANIK C-2 ) and Indonesia ( PALAPA B-1 ); operated the Canadian-built Remote Manipulator System ( RMS ) to perform the first deployment and retrieval exercise with the Shuttle Pallet Satellite ( SPAS-01 ); conducted the first formation flying of the Orbiter with a free-flying satellite ( SPAS-01 ); carried and operated the first U. S ./ German cooperative materials science payload ( OSTA-2 ): and operated the Continuous Flow Electrophoresis System ( CFES ) and the Monodisperse Latex Reactor ( MLR ) experiments, in addition to activating seven Getaway Specials, Mission duration was 147 hours before landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on June 24, 1983.

The channel launched as the Atlantic Satellite Network ( or ASN ) in 1983.

Simon F. Green and John K. Davies discovered it in images from October 11, 1983 while searching Infrared Astronomical Satellite ( IRAS ) data for moving objects.

It is one of the three asteroids discovered with data from Infrared Astronomical Satellite in 1983, and was named in honour of the satellite.

The Indian National Satellite ( INSAT ) system was commissioned with the launch of INSAT-1B in August 1983 ( INSAT-1A, the first satellite was launched in April 1982 but could not fulfill the mission ).

The European X-ray Observatory Satellite ( EXOSAT ), originally named HELOS, was operational from May 1983 until April 1986 and in that time made 1780 observations in the X-ray band of most classes of astronomical object including active galactic nuclei, stellar coronae, cataclysmic variables, white dwarfs, X-ray binaries, clusters of galaxies, and supernova remnants.

** Infrared Astronomical Satellite did an all sky survey at 12, 25, 60, and 100 μm, 1983

TEMPO Enterprises ( under its former name Satellite Syndicated Systems, Inc .) entered the arena of publicly traded companies in August, 1983.

Note: following: Image: Satellite Temperatures. png the trends have been calculated from 1983 onwards, although this is somewhat non-standard.

* 1983 – The Nintendo Entertainment System, the best-selling game console of its time, is released in Japan.

In 2008, King's book On Writing was ranked 21st on Entertainment Weekly list of " The New Classics: The 100 Best Reads from 1983 to 2008 ".

Nintendo finally decided in 1985 to release its Famicom ( released in 1983 in Japan ) in the United States under the name Nintendo Entertainment System ( NES ).

" Nicks also stated in a 1983 Entertainment Tonight interview: " I spent thousands of dollars on beautiful black clothes and had to stop wearing them for a long time because a lot of people scared me.

In 2008, Entertainment Weekly listed On Writing 21st on their list of The New Classics: Books – The 100 best reads from 1983 to 2008, making it King's only entry.

In 1983, the company was split into four companies, TSR, Inc. ( the primary successor ), TSR International, TSR Ventures and TSR Entertainment, Inc.

The most notable were the SportsChannel networks, which went on the air in 1976 with the original SportsChannel ( now MSG Plus ) and later branched out into Chicago and Florida ; Prime Network, which went on the air in 1983 with the charter member being Home Sports and Entertainment ( now FSN Southwest ) and later branched out onto the West Coast as " Prime Sports "; and SportSouth, the RSN operated by Turner Broadcasting.

It was one of five graphic novels to make Entertainment Weeklys " 100 best reads from 1983 to 2008 ", ranking at 46.

In 1983, Entertainment Tonight ran a segment on censorship and " Rock Video Violence.

In 2008, Entertainment Weekly selected Clueless as one of the " New Classics ", a list of 100 released between 1983 and 2008,

* Live At Ranny Williams Entertainment Center ( 1983 ) Roots Rockers ( with Lord Sassafrass & Peter Metro )

In 1983, the group's leader Roger Clayton influenced by Funkadelic's album Uncle Jam Wants You changes the group's name from Unique Entertainment to Uncle Jamm's Army.

It was ranked 95th on " 100 Best Films from 1983 to 2008 " by Entertainment Weekly.

In 1985, Nintendo started marketing the Famicom abroad under the name the Nintendo Entertainment System ( NES ) to capitalize on the 1983 video game crash that devastated Atari, Inc.

*( BAFTA awards ): Best Light EntertainmentNominated: 1970 Dad's ArmyBest Light Entertainment Production1971 Dad's Army ( With Team ) Nominated: 1971 Up Pompeii! Best Situation Comedy SeriesNominated: 1973 Dad's ArmyNominated: 1974 Dad's ArmyBest Situation Comedy Nominated: 1975 Dad's Army Nominated: 1977 Are You Being Served? Desmond Davis Award1982 Lifetime Achievement AwardBest Comedy SeriesNominated: 1982 Hi-de-Hi! Nominated: 1983 Hi-de-Hi! Nominated: 1985 Hi-de-Hi! Nominated: 1986 ' Allo ' Allo! Nominated: 1987 ' Allo ' Allo! Nominated: 1988 ' Allo ' Allo! Nominated: 1989 ' Allo ' Allo!

It was originally co-created and produced by Lancit Media Entertainment from 1983 until 2000, and was produced by On-Screen Entertainment from 2000 through 2006.

Early American Taverns: For the Entertainment of Friends and Strangers ( 1983 )

Interplay Entertainment Corporation is an American video game developer and publisher, founded in 1983 as Interplay Productions by Brian Fargo.

The Gaylord Entertainment Company purchased TNN and the Opryland properties in the latter half of 1983.

was released with the intention of portraying the Nintendo Entertainment System as something novel in order to alleviate retail fears following the video game crash of 1983.

In 1983, the Weinsteins and Lewis produced an 80-minute sequel TV special for HBO / Cinemax later released on home video by Media Home Entertainment titled The Secret Policeman's Private Parts.

The force was officially constituted in January 1983, when the various pro-Habré contingents were merged and renamed FANT.

On 1 January 1977, the polytechnic merged with the Didsbury College of Education and Hollings College, and on 1 January 1983 with City of Manchester College of Higher Education.

In addition to their initial Dixon brand they went on to produce the Educator, Gem and Prestite lines of crayons before the company merged with American Crayon to form the Dixon Ticonderoga Company in 1983.

In 1957 they merged with Joseph Dixon Crucible which eventually merged to form Dixon Ticonderoga Company in 1983 ; which continues to make and sell crayons to this day.

The Colgate Series, renamed the Toyota Series in 1981, included tournaments from the across the world, whereas the Avon sponsored events took place solely in the U. S. The two circuits merged beginning with the 1983 season, when Virginia Slims returned to take full sponsorship rights of the WTA Tour.

In February 1983, the two assistant directorates were merged to promote efficiency and recognize the interdependency of their programs.

Although Ventura underwent SEAL training, the UDTs merged with the SEALs in 1983, eight years after Ventura left the Navy.

Both groups were reorganized and merged into SSIH / ASUAG Holding Company in 1983.

Washabaugh County was merged into Jackson County in 1983.

The company was formed in 1995 when Silicon Graphics bought Alias Research, which was founded in 1983, and Wavefront Technologies, founded in 1984, then merged the two companies.

The formerly incorporated village of Fairview Acres had previously merged with Flat River on November 8, 1983.

The Seaboard Air Line merged with its rival, the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, on July 1, 1967, becoming the Seaboard Coast Line ; in 1983 this became the Seaboard System, and in 1986, after combination with the holdings of the Chessie System, was renamed CSX.

White Bear Lake High School and Mariner High School merged in 1983 to form White Bear Lake Area High School.

It was enlarged in 1983 when the Royal Dental Hospital of London School of Dental Surgery merged with Guy's Hospital Dental School, and again in 1985 with the addition of the Postgraduate Institute of Dermatology.

Starpath merged with Epyx in 1983.

In 1983, Cinemax's parent company Time-Life Inc. ( which merged with Warner Communications in 1989 to form the present-day Time Warner ), had filed a federal trademark infringement lawsuit against then-independent station KOKI ( channel 23, now a Fox affiliate ) in Tulsa, Oklahoma and its owners Tulsa 23, Ltd. over the use of the slogan " We Are Your Movie Star " ( which was Cinemax's slogan at that time ).

The role was originally founded to be distinct from the now defunct role of prime minister, but the two roles were merged in the 1983 constitution which specified a four-year term of office.

Lindenwood Colleges, Lindenwood College for Men and Lindenwood College for Women were merged into Lindenwood College in 1983.

That label merged with its parent company, Warner Bros. Records in 1983.

Veritas Software Corporation was an international software company that was founded in 1983 as Tolerant Systems, renamed Veritas Software Corp. in 1989, and merged with Symantec in 2005.

In 1983 it was merged with the European Electronic Component Manufacturers Association ( EECA ) and since then operates as an agency of the EECA.

In 1983 the papers were merged into the San Jose Mercury News, with morning and afternoon editions.

On November 15, 1980, Heihe City was created, and on June 6, 1983, Aihui County was abolished, being merged into the Heihe City.