The channel also began airing TMC Movie Marathons, which featured three or four movies selected by the channel set around a specific theme.

In 2001, The Movie Channel began showing TMC First Run Movies -- movies premiering on the channel that never were released theatrically or on home video or DVD.

TMC also began to air softcore erotica late at night like parent network Showtime and their competitor Cinemax, which started the trend on U. S. pay cable networks as a way to better compete against other premium channels.

" In the late 1980s, TMC began airing somewhat clever graphics for their time such as a " tour of Hollywood " movie open which closed with a shot of Hollywood with a faintly visible heart in the middle of the sky.

On April 1, 2010, The Movie Channel and The Movie Channel Xtra began branding its programming with digital on-screen graphic logos of the respective channels ; the bug is an alternate version of the channel's logo with each segment of the channel's name stacked on top of each other, the only difference being the addition of the word " Xtra " when shown on TMC Xtra.

In 1990, TMC began development of an enclosed automobile-transport semitrailer.

In the spring of 2007 a new controversy arose, as students of TMC began protesting against the administrators of the college.

ET, consists of a horror movie double feature ( however until late 2008, the now-defunct Showtime series Masters of Horror aired as part of the " Splatterday " block ; it was the only television series to ever air on TMC ).

The two films airing in the initial block re-air on TMC following the conclusion of the second film and the entire block encores on The Movie Channel Xtra the Friday night before the next " Splatterday " double feature on The Movie Channel, airing on TMC Xtra also at 10: 00 p. m.

TMC products often feature special promotions aimed specifically at non-subscribers, offering special rates for subscribing or other special offers.

* Tmcft, a thousand million cubic feet, also called " TMC feet "

By the late 1990s, TMC created a reworked version of " VCR Theater " called " TMC Overnight ", which ended in 2004.

In 1996, Chidambaram quit the Congress party and joined a breakaway faction of the Tamil Nadu state unit of the Congress party called the Tamil Maanila Congress ( TMC ).

Clear Channel Communications and Tele Atlas have a TMC service called Total Traffic Network ( TTN ), using FM RDS in 77 US cities and three Canadian metropolitan areas.

Innovation continued in early 1982 with the launch of a two-hour local dance show called TMC 43 which ran from 4 to 6 p. m. From 6 to 7, KAUT aired a live local country dance show from a local bar called Oklahoma Country Live.

The company was established in 1984 after Warner Communications and American Express decided to divest the basic cable assets of Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment, renaming it MTV Networks, Inc. Warner-Amex originally created and owned Nickelodeon, MTV, VH1 and The Movie Channel ( TMC ).

The Movie Channel ( TMC ) is an American premium channel owned by Showtime Networks, Inc., a subsidiary of CBS Corporation, which shows mostly movies, as well as special behind-the-scenes features, softcore adult erotica and movie trivia.

* TMC Top Attraction: From 1988 until 1997, The Movie Channel carried the " TMC Top Attraction ", in which the channel broadcast a featured movie on Friday nights at 11 p. m.

* VCR Theater / TMC Overnight: Around the same time, The Movie Channel sought that much of its subscriber base owned VCRs as the device became more and more common during the 1980s.

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.

* Diehard film and video collectors still relish the Durango Kid films, but many are still locked away in Columbia studio vaults these many years later, with only a few recently being aired on The Movie Channel ( TMC ).

* TMC Double Vision Weekends: In turn, the channel also launched " TMC Double Vision Weekends ", which aired bi-monthly, that featured three different movies that star the same actor with each marathon changing after the previous one ended.

TMC produced WAIS servers which ran on their massively parallel CM-2 ( Connection Machine ) and SPARC-based CM-5 MP supercomputers.

* The Telephone Manufacturing Company Limited ( TMC ) had a factory at Park Hall Road which produced Temco and Chronomatic electric master clocks, synchronous clocks.

In December 1986, Greyhound was split, with Greyhound Lines being sold to an investor group, and Greyhound Lines of Canada, MCI and TMC remaining part of The Greyhound Corporation, which was renamed Dial, Inc. in 1991.

With the Warriors, he was part of " Run TMC " ( the initials of the players ' first names, and a play on the title of the popular rap group Run DMC ) which was the high-scoring trio of himself, Mitch Richmond, and Chris Mullin.

TMC has the least multiplex services of any of the major premium channels, which is a probable reason as to why the channel is not part of a separate package from Showtime.

It contains a list of up to 2048 event phrases ( 1402 as of 01. 02. 2007 ) which can be translated by a TMC receiver into the language of the user.

Also, it was stated that such broadcasts would directly interfere with that country's TMC carrier station, which would contravene the respective laws of that county, leading to criminal or civil liability.

There are also TMC adapters, which extends mobile navigation systems with integrated GPS receiver ( as mobile phones / PDAs with GPS ) with TMC functionality.

A last TMC service is 4FMTMC provided by Vialis, which is also operating TMC services in the Netherlands.

In Jun 2006, GEWI Europe GmbH & Co. KG released the first TISA certified TMC Location Table for Singapore and started a traffic broadcast service which is operated by its Singapore company, GEWI Asia Pacific Pte.

Attiki Odos features hundreds of CCTV cameras connected to the Traffic Management Centre ( TMC ), which detects any incidents occurring on the motorway and informs the intervention and maintenance patrol units to provide assistance.

These may use either TMC, which delivers coded traffic information using radio RDS, or by GPRS / 3G data transmission via mobile phones.

When one would create a WAIS server with the TMC WAIS code it would create a special kind of record containing metadata and some common words to describe the content of the index.

As part of these marathons, TMC would also air Double Vision Weekend, a marathon of movies airing for one weekend each month with two movies featuring the same actor.

The TMC Forum responded by stating that the effects of any ' pirate ' TMC broadcasts would be non-existent on users not on routes affected by any fake obstruction messages.

In June 2009 TF1 Group agreed to buy the NT1 channel from AB Groupe, as well as AB's 40 % stake in TMC Monte Carlo ( which would take TF1's total stake to 80 %).

RTS production would move to the TMC plant in Roswell, New Mexico, while the Classic bus production would remain in the former GM bus plant in Saint-Eustache, Quebec.

TMC had announced that it was possible that Monaco would return to the contest in 2009 after a two-year absence, after talks with the European Broadcasting Union ( EBU ), the organiser of the contest, as well as new voting measures implemented in the contest in that year.

TMC, however, stated that Monaco would not return for the 2012 edition of the Eurovision Song Contest due to lack of financial support for the country's participation.