ONTV Pay Television: The Complete ONTV Experience (1970's - 80's)
The most thorough ONTV website out there!!!
Welcome to my Website for all things ONTV
Thank you for visiting my website and I am excited to be sharing this historical perspective of ONTV with you. I will be adding content regularly, so please be patient, but come back often and any true fan of ONTV will be pleased with the final product.
ONTV Guides, Season Ticket Guides & any ONTV Memorabilia
While my collection of ONTV guides and memorabilia is extensive, I am still in need of some Season Ticket Program Guides for the Los Angeles Market for 1977 and 1978, along with ONTV guides for the Phoenix, Miami, Chicago, Cincinnati, Detroit, Dallas, and Portland Markets. Also, any other memorabilia is welcome. I would be interested in potentially purchasing them from you, or if you would like to donate them for inclusion on this website, that would be great. Please contact me by email at drfreeze3@verizon.net and just put in ONTV in the subject line.
Thank you for your interest and remember that I am doing this for all the ONTV fans out there.
Site Content
ONTV Website Update - 9/8/26
9/8/26 - Hi Everyone, I went ahead and posted some ONTV ads from the Los Angeles market. You can see them under the memorabilia tab. I am going to try and post something different each time, whether it is articles, advertisements, photos, program guides, etc. This way I can slowly fill the website up and work on all areas simultaneously.
By the way, it looks like I will be acquiring 6 new guides for the Chicago market soon, so I will post those up as soon as I get them.
Feel free to message me with any input, comments, suggestions, etc. Remember, this is a website for the fans and I am just trying to make it as inclusive of all things ONTV as possible.
Stay tuned as I may have a special posting coming up in the near future.
Also, at the moment, I have not figured out how to set it up so that you can click a photo and enlarge it on your screen. For the time being, you can save the image to your phone or computer and then open the image up that way. I'll be working on this fix soon. - Orlando
ONTV Program Guides - Throughout the Years
1977 Los Angeles
1977 Los Angeles
1977 Los Angeles
Only 9 guides were produced in 1977, the first year of ONTV beginning with April. There were only 500 subscribers to begin with. They were initially called Season Ticket Program Guides
1980 Los Angeles
1979 Los Angeles
12 Guides - During this year in the Los Angeles Market, ONTV changed their Season Ticket font style on their guides
1982 Los Angeles
12 Guides - During this year in the Los Angeles Market, the guides changed over to ONTV Program Guide as the cover title
1983 Los Angeles
1983 Los Angeles
12 Guides - During this year in the Los Angeles Market, ONTV changed their logo on the guides
1984 Los Angeles
1983 Los Angeles
12 Guides - During this year in the Los Angeles Market, ONTV changed their logo on the guides again.
1985 Los Angeles
10 Guides - During this year in the Los Angeles Market, ONTV had been acquired by SelecTV and as a result once again changed the logo and name on the guide to ON/SelecTV
1980 Chicago
1980 Chicago
Only 3 guides were produced in 1980, the first year of ONTV in Chicago beginning with October
1982 Chicago
1980 Chicago
1981 Chicago
12 Guides - During this year in the Chicago Marker, ONTV began offering SportsVision, a pay tv sports service for an additional charge.