Vintage SNC Satellite News Channel (SNC) Lighters

Description

These two lighters were promotional items for Satellite News Channel which operated from 1982 - 1983.  They are not in working condition though the flint mechanisms do rotate.
Satellite News Channel (SNC)
was an American
news
-based
cable television
channel that was operated as a
joint venture
between the ABC Video Enterprises division of
ABC Inc.
and the Group W Satellite Communications subsidiary of
Westinghouse Broadcasting
(Group W). Designed as a
satellite
-delivered cable network, the channel is best remembered as the first 24-hour news cable competition to the Cable News Network (
CNN
). SNC's headquarters were based in the
New York City
suburb of
Stamford, Connecticut
.
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