Cable Video Store

{{short description|American cable pay-per-view TV service}}

{{Infobox Network

| network_name = Cable Video Store

| network_logo = 150px

| launched = {{Start date and age|1985|}}

| dissolved = {{end date and age|1997|5}}

| country = United States

| network_type = Cable Pay-per-view television service

| available = United States, national, now defunct. Existed 1985-1997.

| owner = General Instrument (Original)
Graff Pay-Per-View (2nd)

}}

Cable Video Store (CVS), was a pay-per-view (PPV) service that was launched in 1985 by General Instrument.[https://web.archive.org/web/20160416084955/http://www.digitalmediaconference.com/rosenberg_bio.htm Jeremy Rosenberg - Cable Video Store history (Archive)] It was later owned by Graff Pay-Per-View.[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4895/is_199210/ai_n18000203 Graff Pay-Per-View plans for CVS] Cable Video Store consisted of one channel which carried first run movies and specials (however, it did not carry major sporting events, such as boxing) on a PPV basis. They also offered low cost programs to buy along with the standard PPV fare.

CVS went off the air in May 1997 as the result of other pay-per-view services such as Viewer's Choice (now known as In Demand) and Request TV that provided multi-channels of PPV and the launching of Video on Demand on many cable systems.[https://web.archive.org/web/20160505233641/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-19572513.html Cable Video Store will go dark this month (Archive)]