National Jewish Television

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National Jewish Television is a three-hour Jewish television block shown Sundays on religious and public-access television cable TV channels in the United States. [1] [2] National Jewish Television was founded in 1979 by Joel Levitch. [3]

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History

National Jewish Television was founded in 1979.

By 1984 NJT was being broadcast to 175 cable channels weekly. [2]

Programming

Former shows

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