Knowledge TV

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Knowledge TV
Country United States
Headquarters Centennial, CO
Programming
Language(s) English
Ownership
Owner Jones International/Jones Media Group
Key people Glenn R. Jones
History
LaunchedNovember 15, 1987 (1987-11-15)
Closed2000 (2000)
Former namesMind Extension University

Knowledge TV was a cable television channel owned by Jones Media Group that broadcast educational programming. The network was established on November 15, 1987 [1] 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. [2] The following year, Washington State University, the University of Minnesota, Oklahoma State University, and SUNY/Empire State College also signed on. [3] Eventually, 30 colleges and universities partnered with Mind Extension. [4] 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, [5] the network was renamed Knowledge TV, [6] 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 [7] and it was closed in 2000, as Discovery planned to give cable operators the option of converting the channel to Discovery Health. [8]

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Glenn R. Jones was a cable news executive from Colorado. Jones went to Allegheny College and served in the United States Navy, before receiving a law degree from the University of Colorado in 1961. Jones ran as a Republican for Colorado's 1st congressional district in 1964 but was defeated by incumbent Democrat Byron G. Rogers with a 67.52%–31.90% margin. Beginning in 1967, he grew a small cable television empire, becoming, at one point, the tenth largest provider in the nation, with his company Jones/NCTI, Inc. His main innovations were using television to educate, first in 1987 with Mind Extension University, later renamed Knowledge TV, followed in 1993 with the internet's first accredited online college, Jones International University (JIU). The for-profit college was put on notice by its accreditor in 2011, and closed in 2015, the year of Jones' death. A teach-out agreement was made whereby JIU students transferred to Trident University International to complete their degrees; additionally, Trident named its business school the Glenn R. Jones College of Business.

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