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The Z Channel was one of the first pay cable stations in the United States. Launched in 1974 from Los Angeles California this station was known for its devotion to the art of cinema due to the eclectic choice of films by the programming chief Jerry Harvey. It also popularized the use of letterboxing on television as well as showing ‘director’s cut’ versions of films (which is a term popularized after Z Channel’s showing of Heaven’s Gate).