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Among the programs broadcast on SPN were ''[[Video Concert Hall]]'', an early music-video show (before the launch of MTV); ''News from Home'', a program for Canadians in the US, hosted by early [[CNN]] news anchor Don Miller; ''[[The Shopping Game]]'', a Nicholson-Muir [[game show]] produced in [[Nashville]] and hosted by [[Art James]]; ''The Susan Noon Show'', featuring celebrity interviews; ''Nutrition Dialogue'', hosted by Dr. Betty Kamen; ''[[Sewing with Nancy]]''; and ''Moscow Meridian'', a [[Current affairs (news format)|current-affairs]] program produced by [[Soviet]] authorities and hosted by [[Vladimir Posner]]. [[Rerun]]s of old [[situation comedies]] and movies, mostly from [[B movie|low-budget]] studios, rounded out the schedule.

SPN later became '''Tempo Television'''.<ref name="CRTC 1988-58">"Public Notice CRTC 1988-58: Revised List of Part II Eligible Satellite Services and List of Part III Non-Canadian Eligible Satellite Services." [[Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission]]. April 13, 1988. [http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/1988/PB88-58.htm]</ref> A Canadian regulatory description of the channel in 1988 said that Tempo's "schedule consists of outdoors, travel, general information and entertainment programming and classic feature films that are in the public ___domain."<ref name="CRTC 1988-58"/> In 1988, by which time Tempo had 1215 million subscribers (mainly in the South and Southwest), the channel was purchased by [[NBC]].<ref>"The Media Business: NBC to Buy Cable Service." ''[[The New York Times]]''. May 3, 1988. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DEEDC103FF930A35756C0A96E948260]</ref> It was relaunched in 1989 as the Consumer News and Business Channel, [[CNBC]].

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