The Comedy Channel (American TV channel)

The Comedy Channel

The Comedy Channel logo from 1989 to 1991 before merging with HA! to become its current form, Comedy Central.
Ownership
Owner	Home Box Office, Inc. (Time Inc./TimeWarner)
History
Launched	November 15, 1989; 34 years ago (1989-11-15)
Closed	April 1, 1991; 33 years ago (1991-04-01) (1 year, 137 days)
Replaced by	Comedy Central

The Comedy Channel was an American comedy-oriented cable television network owned by Home Box Office, Inc., a division of Time Warner (now Warner Bros. Discovery). It launched on November 15, 1989 at 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time. In 1991, HBO agreed to merge the channel with Viacom's competing channel, Ha!.^[1] The new network, CTV: The Comedy Network, premiered on April 1, 1991, but rebranded to Comedy Central on June 1, 1991.

Most of the Comedy Channel's original programs were produced in the HBO Downtown Studios on East 23rd Street in Manhattan.^{[citation needed]}