What channels has Dawn been aired on?
Usually movies go to cable a year after their theatrical release. Instead of licensing it to HBO or Cinemax in the early 80s, MKR Group decided to keep “Dawn of the Dead” alive in theaters for double bills (i.e. “Mother’s Day”, “Creepshow”) and midnight screenings from 1981-83. The MKR Group licensed the first ever cable broadcast rights in the U.S. to Cinemax in 1997. Unfortunately the old Thorn EMI version (complete with the EMI leader) was the only one they were allowed to air. It was never shown on basic cable (even “Zombie” the Lucio Fulci ripoff has appeared on TNT in the middle of the night!) The Japanese aired a different version (with the meteor explanation) prime time in 1984. Eleven years later, the British aired the 139m. version. The next time it was aired on U.S. cable was on June 2, 1998 at 8 P.M. on Cinemax. MoMax (Cinemax2) aired it throughout that month as well at least four times and on Halloween. The Movie Channel aired it in 1999 and Showtime Extreme did so through
