One of Landmark Communications's holdings was TeleCable Corporation, a cable television service that began in a small Virginia town in the late 1950s. Landmark was able to get franchise licenses to operate in about 2 dozen cities, mainly throughout the eastern half of the U.S., including Overland Park KS, Plano & Arlington TX, Bloomington IL, Racine WI, Springfield MO, Wytheville VA, Princeton VA, Selma AL, as well as a number of other cities. TeleCable was a progressive company; the concept of HBO 2, Disney 2, Showtime 2 being created in OP KS. Prior to the 1980s, technology was such that you could only get 12 channels on a CATV system. TeleCable built 2 CATV systems over each other in OPKS when the franchise was granted in the late 1960s. Each customer had an A/B switch at their TVs so they could select either cable A or cable B. This gave TeleCable of OPKS twice as many channels (24) as other CATV companies. With advances in technology, TeleCable of OP was able to offer 48 channels instead of 24. In the early 80s, there were very few satellite offerings, and the big movie channels went off the air at 10 to midnight daily (later on the weekends). Customers complained to TeleCable of OP that they missed the starting of the 7pm movie because of the working late, dinner, kid activities etc. The management contacted HBO, Showtime, and Disney to ask permission to put the east-coast satellite feed of their programs on the central time zone operation. They were going to charge the customers that wanted this expanded service, another 50 cents per month. The movie channels laughed and said "OK, who in their right mind would pay it?" After several months, they had the full attention of the HBO, SHO, & Disney; thousands were signing up. All this did for customers was provide a one hour earlier start for movies. But HBO and SHOW soon decided to create completely separate services for those HBO2, MAX2, and SHOW2 channels. Disney did a few years later.