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| Headquarters | Salt Lake City, Utah |
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| Launched | April 18, 2007 |
Starfish Television Network was an unlicensedpublic service broadcaster. It primarily broadcast programming by and about non-profit humanitarian organizations, at no cost for airtime to those organizations.
Founded in early 2007, Starfish began broadcasting on April 18, 2007. [1] It ceased on March 31, 2010. At its peak, it was available to over 13 million households and featured nearly 600 non-profit organizations.
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