Pinwheel launch off (December 1, 1977)

Pinwheel was the flagship program of C-3, a children's network in Columbus, Ohio, in the earliest days of cable television broadcasting. C-3 soon changed its name to Pinwheel. In April 1979, Warner Cable purchased the Sat-1 communications satellite from Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker and rebranded the Pinwheel Channel as Nickelodeon, where it reformatted Pinwheel as hour-long episodes shown in three- to five-hour blocks, a format which would eventually become the model for the Nick Jr. programming for younger children. It ended in 1984 but continued to re run until 1990. No recordings exist, aside from this ID logo here it seems we hope that one day some one will come forward with a masters tape of when Pinwheel launched as a channel in Ohio.