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{{Short description|Cable television organization designed for schools}}
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| premiered       = 1989
| closed          = July 1, 2014 (10 years ago)
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| country         = North America
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| language        = English/French (Quebec)/Spanish
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[[File:Cable in the Classroom.png|right|thumb|200px|The first ''Cable in the Classroom'' title card used at the beginning and end of select programs (see list)]]
'''Cable in the Classroom''' was an American division of the [[National Cable & Telecommunications Association]] that assisted the [[cable television]] industry in providing educational content to schools. The organization was founded in 1989. A [[Canada|Canadian]] organization, also called '''"Cable in the Classroom"''' (in Quebec, '''"'''{{Lang|fr|'''La câblo-éducation'''}}'''"''' in [[French language|French]]), was founded in 1995, and held the same scope as the US organization.

Cable channels broadcast [[educational television]] programs at specific times (usually early in the morning) commercial-free and notified Cable in the Classroom as to when the shows would air, which maintained a master list for educators to reference. This way, educators were able to record the programs for free and use them in school as learning tools for children. [[Copyright]]s were cleared so that educators could use the content of the listed programs as they wished for their syllabus and learning plans.

Over the years however, many networks discontinued promoting Cable in the Classroom or stopped using their programming for the organization's purposes, focusing more to [[direct marketing]] of their educational television programming to teachers and school districts through their [[home video]] departments, their [[internet]] sites, or in the cases of networks such as [[Freeform (TV channel)|ABC Family]], [[Disney Channel]] and [[Cartoon Network]], removing their involvement altogether, commensurate with the internet ending other cable services tied to traditional scheduling such as "near [[video on demand]]". Another factor was likely the decline in [[VHS]] recorders, as [[Digital video recorder|DVRs]] with non-portable storage became the recording format of choice over [[DVD recorder]]s, the equivalent successor to VCRs. [[Streaming media|Streaming video]] also played a factor in the decline of Cable in the Classroom, as educators can now access and play content at any time through computers connected to in-classroom televisions, [[Smart Technologies|interactive smartboards]], and [[video projector]]s, rather than on a set schedule requiring pre-recording of content.

In 2014, Cable in the Classroom was entirely discontinued in the United States with ''[[CNN Student News]]'' being the last program left under the effort, and the NCTA redirected the former Cable in the Classroom portal to promote their "Cable Impacts Foundation" [[Charitable organization|charity]] arm instead. The Canadian effort ended as [[vertical integration|vertically integrated]] cable and satellite providers purchased networks and campaigned successfully for the [[Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission|CRTC]] to relax [[Canadian content]] restrictions that defined them to schedule programming in a certain manner, including educational programming.

==Programs==
:''The following is a list of programs used for "Cable in the Classroom"''
*''A&E Classroom'' - [[A&E (TV channel)|A&E]]
*''[[A Little Curious]]'' - [[HBO Family]]
*''Al Roker Investigates'' - [[truTV]]
*''[[Baby Einstein]]'' - Veoh Network
*''[[CNN Student News]]'' - [[HLN (TV channel)|HLN]]
*''Classroom Discovery'' - [[Discovery Channel]]
*''[[Crashbox]]'' - [[HBO Family]] 
*''[[Dora the Explorer (TV series)|Dora the Explorer]]'' - [[Nickelodeon]]
*''History Channel Classroom'' - [[History (American TV channel)|History]]
**''El canal de la historia'' ([[Spanish language|Spanish]]-dubbed programs)
**''Chaîne historique'' ([[French language|French]]-dubbed programs, Quebec only)
*''[[How It's Made]]'' - [[Discovery Channel]]/[[Science Channel]]
*''[[Jep!]]'' - [[Game Show Network]]
*''[[Kids' Court]]'' - [[Nickelodeon]]
*''[[Let's Just Play Go Healthy Challenge]]'' - [[Nickelodeon]]
*''[[Little Einsteins]]'' - [[Disney Channel]]
*''[[MTV News]]'' specials and documentaries - [[MTV]]
*''[[Mr. Wizard's World]]'' - [[Nickelodeon]]
*''[[Nick News]]'' - [[Nickelodeon]]
*''[[Nickelodeon Launch Box]]'' - [[Nickelodeon]]
*''Rock N Learn'' - Veoh Network
*''[[Special Agent Oso]]'' - [[Disney Channel]]
*''[[The Weather Classroom]]'' - [[The Weather Channel]]
* Certain episodes of ''[[The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)|The Twilight Zone]]'' – [[Syfy]]
*''[[Wheel 2000]]'' - [[Game Show Network]]
*''[[You're on Nickelodeon, Charlie Brown]]'' (''[[This Is America, Charlie Brown]]'' only) - [[Nickelodeon]]
*''Zap!'' - [[Nickelodeon]]

== See also ==

* [[Channel One News]] – first a satellite channel, later an internet streaming video service offering a newscast designed for classroom use

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