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78-543: Champ Car World Series ( CCWS ) was the series sanctioned by Open-Wheel Racing Series Inc., a sanctioning body for American open-wheel car racing that operated from 2004 to 2008. It was the successor to Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART), which sanctioned open-wheel racing from 1979 until dissolving after the 2003 season. Champ Cars were single-seat, open-wheel racing cars , with mid-mounted engines. Champ cars had sculpted undersides to create ground effect and prominent wings to create downforce . The cars would use

156-456: A Times Square advertisement asking viewers to phone and email Paramount Network's chief marketing officer Niels Schuurmans to protest Spike's "firing,” as well as a string of self-deprecating posts by the network's Twitter account about its history and programming (including that "My favorite number is 329 because it's the number of times Cops is on every night,” "We had a show called The Joe Schmo Show . Apparently every decent show name

234-456: A movie channel "within the next year" (to be tentatively known as Paramount Movie Network ). The relaunched network was to focus primarily on original made-for-TV films featuring major talent, with a plan to premiere 52 films per-year. The films would have been largely produced by Paramount Pictures and MTV Studios , with plans for co-productions with ViacomCBS International networks such as Argentina's Telefe , Australia's Network 10 , and

312-582: A "flagship" outlet for scripted programming, as opposed to making inefficient investments into them across individual channels. He added that Paramount Network's offerings would be distinguished from its competitors by continuing to emphasize Middle America as a key viewer base. Even with its subsequent rebrandings, Paramount Network still had significant carriage strength and viewership in the Midwest and South due to its heritage as TNN. Kay argued that its initial slate of original dramas were not as "dark,” citing

390-412: A "sort of populist middle-America flavor" rather than "another network for New York or Los Angeles." Football also became more prominent on the network, as it began airing games of the original Arena Football League (AFL) with Eli Gold as an announcer. TNN was also one of three networks to air games of the ill-fated, WWF-backed XFL (along with NBC and UPN ). As part of its contract, TNN had

468-489: A 'de facto' all road-course format. The series would experiment with dramatic rule changes, including special compound tires that were to be used for a fixed portion of the race, standing starts, and timed races. Both Champ Car and the IRL continued to suffer from reduced fields, sponsorship, and television ratings. Merger talks in 2006 were halted after disagreements regarding Champ Car's upcoming Panoz chassis and leaked details of

546-679: A February 22 agreement in principle to merge with the IRL. The IRL purchased the CCWS's sanctioning contracts, the Champ Car Mobile Medical Unit, the series history, and goodwill for $ 6 million, with Forsythe and Kalkhoven signing a non-compete agreement in exchange for $ 2 million each. While the first "merged" event of the rechristened " IndyCar Series" was the GAINSCO Auto Insurance Indy 300 from Homestead-Miami Speedway on March 29, 2008, due to

624-562: A different aerodynamic kit on the occasions they raced on an oval. With funds low, development was effectively frozen with a focus on developing a universal chassis, and the series generally ran on CART-spec 2002 Lola chassis from 2003 to 2006. The new chassis was developed by Panoz and debuted in 2007 as the Panoz DP01 . The chassis was well received by drivers and fans. The series leased 750hp 2.65 L V-8 turbocharged Cosworth XFE engines to teams, which had been purchased by CART for

702-517: A different format to suit a cinematic presentation), but the channel was to abandon non-scripted programming. In preparation for the relaunch, it was stated that Bar Rescue and Lip Sync Battle would move to another ViacomCBS channel to be determined, while Ink Master and Wife Swap were both cancelled. Former Lifetime SVP of original movies Meghan Hooper White had been brought on as ViacomCBS's head of original movies and specials in May 2020, and

780-590: A more mature direction, which were described as an aim to be less like Maxim magazine and more like Esquire . A promotional campaign emphasized adversity as a common theme in Spike's programming. The following year, Spike ordered the new series Rat Bastards (a series following a pest control business in Mississippi), Tattoo Nightmares , along with a revival of World's Wildest Police Videos , and Full Bounty —a bounty hunting reality series that

858-532: A reality series carried over from Spike, has also continued to air new episodes on Paramount Network. As Spike, male-oriented programs constituted the majority of the network's schedule upon its original relaunch in 2003. By 2011, Spike had shifted its programming towards shows aimed at a broader audience, such as Bar Rescue . Finally, with its 2015 rebrand, Spike attempted to add more "gender-balanced" programming. The network had formerly carried combat sports programming throughout its various incarnations; being

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936-414: A rebrand in an effort to clarify the network's focus. At its upfront presentations in 2006, Viacom unveiled a new logo for the channel (officially shortening its name to "Spike"), and the new slogan "Get More Action.” The new brand was described as being "authentic" and "unapologetically" masculine, and emphasizing action as a core genre of programming for the network. The new branding would launch alongside

1014-625: A record for the highest-rated premiere in Paramount Network history, and on cable overall since 2015, with 4.9 million viewers. McCarthy described this practice as a method of using its linear platforms as a "launch pad" for streaming content. In January 2022, Deadline reported that the network relaunch had been shelved, partly due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on television and film production , in addition to Yellowstone ' s ratings success—which had been influenced by

1092-460: A return to original scripted programming. On January 18, 2018, Spike relaunched as Paramount Network , aiming to align the network with its namesake studio (which previously lent its name to the now-defunct United Paramount Network ), and to position it as a flagship, "premium" channel. Paramount Network's most successful original program was Yellowstone — which quickly became its flagship series, and has spawned multiple spin-offs on Paramount+ ,

1170-417: A scheduling conflict with the 2008 Indy Japan 300 , the 2008 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach was held on April 20, 2008, as a Champ Car sanctioned event using CCWS-spec Panoz-Cosworth cars and the winners getting IRL points, with the event described as a final celebration of CART/CCWS. Spike TV aired all races in 2004, with select races aired on high definition channel HDNet . In 2005 and 2006, coverage

1248-402: A shared new series upset IMS. The 2007 season saw the withdrawal of Bridgestone and Ford as presenting sponsors and some race cancellations. By January 2008, both the IRL and Champ Car feared they did not have enough participating cars to maintain their TV and sanctioning contract minimums. After successful merger negotiations, in mid-February 2008, Champ Car authorized bankruptcy to facilitate

1326-519: A strategy eventually abandoned to refocus Spike.com as a general network site. The iFilm.com domain redirected to the Screen Junkies website for a period of time. During the era where they hosted user generated content, Spike.com's managers only approved videos pre-screened to meet their standards. On January 18, 2018, Spike.com was sunsetted, and viewers were redirected to the new Paramount Network site and domain. In April 1984, while as TNN,

1404-496: A taken geopolitical system (such as a state ) by establishing laws . Other types of governing include an organization (such as a corporation recognized as a legal entity by a government), a socio-political group (chiefdom, tribe, family, religious denomination, etc.), or another, informal group of people. In business and outsourcing relationships, governance frameworks are built into relational contracts that foster long-term collaboration and innovation. A board of governors

1482-409: A web-based screenwriting community. In January 2011, Spike ordered two new reality television series, Bar Rescue and Repo Games . During Viacom's upfronts presentation that May, it was announced that Spike would undergo a brand repositioning, with a larger focus on reality programming and a broader audience of males in the key demographic . The changes were intended to pivot Spike's brand in

1560-469: A wider demographic, including younger viewers; capitalizing on the success of RollerJam (a roller derby -inspired series with elements of professional wrestling ), TNN reached a three-year deal to broadcast a weekly television series from the Philadelphia-based wrestling promotion Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), which would air on Friday nights beginning in late August 1999. Under

1638-424: Is often the governing body of a public institution, while a board of directors typically serves as the governing body of a corporation or other company larger or more complex than a partnership. Many professional sports have a sports governing body that serves as their regulating authority. Governing bodies can vary widely in size, which is "important not only for acquiring the necessary range of skills to oversee

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1716-716: The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approved the channel for carriage by Canadian cable and satellite television providers. Following its re-branding as Spike TV, the Canadian Association of Broadcasters filed a complaint with the CRTC on behalf of Canwest Global , demanding the channel be removed from Canadian television providers. The CAB felt that its new general entertainment format would unduly compete with various Canadian-run specialty channels, arguing that there

1794-527: The Gaylord Entertainment Company in 1983. After Gaylord bought CMT in 1991, TNN's music programming was shifted to CMT, leaving TNN to focus on entertainment and lifestyle programming. In 1995, TNN and CMT were acquired by Westinghouse, which was in turn acquired by Viacom in 1999. Under Viacom ownership, TNN would phase out country-influenced programming in favor of a general entertainment format appealing to Middle America . It

1872-663: The One Astor Plaza in New York City to Paramount Pictures in Los Angeles to give the network a closer association with the film studio. This was part of a restructuring plan by new Viacom CEO Bob Bakish to refocus the majority of its media business around six flagship brands, which included Paramount, BET , Comedy Central , Nickelodeon , the Nick Jr. Channel , and MTV . New original series announced in

1950-594: The Playboy Mansion , and the premiere of Most Extreme Elimination Challenge —a comedic dub of the Japanese game show Takeshi's Castle . Klasky Csupo 's Immigrants and the John Leguizamo -produced Zilch & Zero were originally slated to run on Spike TV's animation block, but these plans never materialized and the former was released as a film instead. Later that year, Spike premiered

2028-636: The reality television parody The Joe Schmo Show , and launched the Spike Video Game Awards . On January 17, 2005, Spike TV premiered The Ultimate Fighter , a reality competition series following mixed martial arts (MMA) fighters training and competing to earn a contract with the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). The series helped to raise the profile of the promotion, and would run for 14 seasons, ending its run in 2011 only after Fox Sports acquired

2106-503: The setting of Yellowstone as making it "brighter and a bit more blue sky than some of the things that are on premium cable TV now.” In regards to the programs moved to Paramount Network from TV Land, American Woman was moved to take advantage of its prominent leads Alicia Silverstone and Mena Suvari , while Heathers was moved because, in Kay's opinion, the show was not appropriate for TV Land's target audience. In June 2018, Heathers

2184-487: The 2003 season. CART, following the departure of a number of top teams and engine manufacturers to the rival Indy Racing League (IRL), declared bankruptcy after the 2003 season. Gerald Forsythe , Kevin Kalkhoven , and Paul Gentilozzi founded Open-Wheel Racing Series LLC (OWRS) to bid on CART's assets and continue the series as its own entity. The IRL intended to bid a higher amount but had only committed to purchasing

2262-501: The CRTC classified as a general entertainment channel targeting males), and that the remaining allegations of overlap with domestic Canadian specialty channels represented only a minority of Spike's overall programming. Due to programming rights issues, programs which the channel does not hold rights to air outside of the U.S. are replaced with alternate programs, consisting mainly of reruns of Spike's previous reality programs. In 2022, with Paramount Global prioritizing promotion of

2340-556: The Gaylord era was originally produced by Opryland Productions, also owned by Gaylord Entertainment. From 1983 to 1992, all of TNN's auto racing and motor sports coverage was produced by Diamond P Sports. Starting in 1993, TNN started having its NASCAR coverage produced by World Sports Enterprises, and the American Speed Association coverage produced by Group 5 Sports, while Diamond P continued to produce most of

2418-498: The Paramount-owned Bellator MMA and Bellator Kickboxing . On October 15, 2005, Viacom acquired iFilm , which was initially launched in 1997. After acquiring the website for $ 49 million, it was eventually rebranded to Spike.com and provided hosting of user-uploaded videos in a short-lived attempt to compete with YouTube (which Viacom had sued to remove user-generated uploads of its programming from),

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2496-495: The U.S. television rights to UFC programming and events under a new, seven-year deal. In March 2005, Viacom announced that it would not renew its contract with WWE when it expired in September 2005. Spike TV's new president, Doug Herzog , stated that the network had planned to "expand its investments in original programming and new acquisitions for its core audience", including new scripted programming. The following month, it

2574-469: The United Kingdom's Channel 5 . These changes would have mirrored a similar shift in programming that McCarthy undertook at sister channel Comedy Central , which also dropped live-action series development in favor of original specials, films, and adult animation . At least one scripted series or miniseries was to be carried per-quarter, such as Yellowstone (albeit with episodes premiering in

2652-603: The acquisition of streaming rights to the series by NBCUniversal 's Peacock . The network also acquired linear rights to the Spectrum Originals series George & Tammy . During the Paramount Global upfronts in May 2022, it was announced that Yellowstone spin-off 6666 had been shifted from Paramount+ to Paramount Network, the fifth season of Yellowstone would premiere in November 2022, and that

2730-497: The action drama 18 Wheels of Justice , collegiate bowling competition series Rockin' Bowl , reruns of the Western anthology Dead Man's Gun , and a new promotional campaign targeting younger viewers, were intended to introduce a broader audience to the network. Despite ECW reportedly driving a 200% increase in young male viewership in its timeslot, the promotion had a strained relationship with TNN's management—which had given

2808-637: The attempts for rescue and recovery following the September 11 attacks at the World Trade Center site . The film proceeds through the ironworkers' dismantling of the fallen towers. On October 10, 2006, Spike aired the inaugural Scream Awards , an awards show honoring horror , science fiction, fantasy and comic book-based entertainment. In January 2007, Spike premiered the anime series Afro Samurai , whose English-language cast featured actor Samuel L. Jackson . In October 2007, Kevin Kay

2886-630: The channel's Summer 2008 lineup, including 1000 Ways to Die . In the fall of 2009, Spike broadcast live Australian rugby league semifinal games from the National Rugby League and also showed the grand final, as part of efforts by David Niu to bring the National Rugby League USA to the United States. On June 1, 2010, Spike launched into the first crowd-sourced pilot episode contest with Scripped ,

2964-586: The claim of the "first country music cable television network." TNN's flagship shows included Nashville Now , The Statler Brothers Show , American Sports Cavalcade and Grand Ole Opry Live . Nashville Now and the Grand Ole Opry were broadcast live from Opryland USA. The Gaylord Entertainment Company purchased WSM, along with TNN and the Opryland properties, in the latter half of 1987. Much of TNN's programming (except for its sports) during

3042-845: The contract, ECW also agreed to revenue sharing with TNN for all of the promotion's events (including live shows and pay-per-views ) and merchandising. These two programs would air as part of a Friday-night block themed around extreme sports programming, alongside Motor Madness and bull riding from the Professional Bull Riders (PBR); a TNN executive described bull riding as being "the original extreme sport". In November 1999, TNN announced new programming and primetime theme blocks it planned to introduce in 2000, including Movie Monday (which would target female viewers), Action Wednesday , Friday Night Thrill Zone , Classic Country on Saturday nights, and TNN Outdoors on Sundays. The new schedule, along with new series such as

3120-526: The entity, but also in promoting cohesion, flexibility, and effective participation of the members to achieve their governance objectives". A governing body is only one component of a system of governance, which also requires a written framework under which the body must operate, and governance mechanisms to both carry out directives of the governing body, and to report information back to the governing body. Examples of governing bodies include: board of director and owners. Paramount Network The channel

3198-616: The final drivers announced just before practice began. The series featured three longtime CART teams, Forsythe Championship Racing , Newman/Haas Racing , and Dale Coyne Racing . OWRS also became owners of the Trans-Am Series and the Atlantic Championship . Champ Car was able to maintain a full field and most of CART's street circuit sanctioning agreements for 2004. Champ Car eventually moved into

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3276-405: The first basic cable home of mixed martial arts promotion UFC , and including early seasons of the promotion's reality series The Ultimate Fighter . Other promotions and sports-related programming have included kickboxing events from Glory and K-1 ; professional wrestling from TNA Wrestling , WWE , and Extreme Championship Wrestling ; boxing cards from Premier Boxing Champions ; and

3354-464: The first channel to air reruns of MADtv . These moves went unnoticed for the most part, due to TNN's lack of popularity. By this time, all country-western programming had been purged from the network; some of The Nashville Network's former programming was picked up by CMT, while other classic TNN shows were picked up by Great American Country , including eventually the Grand Ole Opry , which

3432-460: The first half of 2018 included the miniseries Waco and Yellowstone , along with American Woman and Heathers —two comedies originally slated for TV Land . The Shannara Chronicles , which moved to Spike for season 2 from MTV, was not renewed by Paramount Network. Paramount Network is being positioned as a "premium" basic cable network, similar to AMC and FX . Network president Kevin Kay explained that Bakish wanted Viacom to have

3510-511: The first two episodes of Sheridan and Sylvester Stallone 's Paramount+ series Tulsa King would receive special airings as lead-outs for Yellowstone . Paramount Network's current programming consists primarily of reruns of sitcoms and drama series , as well as airings of feature films. As of 2022, the network's lone original drama is Yellowstone , which launched alongside the rebranding of Spike as Paramount Network, and grew in viewership throughout its first four seasons. Bar Rescue ,

3588-574: The form of The Game Awards . In January 2015, following a similar deal made by NBC , Spike announced they would air monthly fight cards by the Haymon Boxing -created " Premier Boxing Champions .” During its upfronts on March 3, 2015, Spike unveiled a new logo and tagline, "The Ones to Watch". The re-branding aimed to make the network more inclusive to women, emphasizing a focus on "big talent, engaging shows and hits that get people talking" and further expansions into scripted series. Alongside

3666-450: The former Nickelodeon series The Ren & Stimpy Show , led by its original creator John Kricfalusi ), and Stripperella , as well as other new series such as Ride with Funkmaster Flex , joined by its recent acquisitions CSI , Star Trek , and Raw. Other planned programming included interstitial segments on health, technology, and finance in collaboration with Men's Health , Stuff , and MarketWatch . Three days before

3744-705: The former Spike logo, culminating in its demolition. Paramount Network officially launched the following night at 9:00 p.m. ET, marked by a live, Michael Jackson -themed Lip Sync Battle special from the Dolby Theatre . The Spike trademark remains in active use as a series of channels on Paramount Global's Pluto TV , specifically targeted to men. As of January 2024, The channels’ logos are now stylized as “Pluto Spike.” In early 2020, Paramount Network began to cut back on scripted series development, having dropped upcoming projects such as Emily in Paris (which

3822-490: The inexplicable naming of Report on Business Television and CTV Travel for reasons unknown. In January 2005, the CRTC dismissed the CAB's complaint, ruling that it provided insufficient evidence that Spike was directly competing with Canadian specialty channels. The CRTC ruled that Spike did not unduly compete with Men TV, since it was licensed as a service that would carry men's lifestyle programming (in contrast to Spike, which

3900-563: The miniseries Tut and the announcement of an expanded episode order for the series Lip Sync Battle (a spin-off of a segment from Late Night with Jimmy Fallon ), the network announced an output deal with Dwayne Johnson 's Seven Bucks Productions for a series of specials, Emergency Broadcast , an original drama co-created by Max Brooks , and Sweat Inc. , a fitness-oriented reality series hosted by Jillian Michaels . On February 9, 2017, Viacom announced that Spike would relaunch as Paramount Network in 2018 and move its headquarters from

3978-567: The network with a focus on made-for-TV films . By January 2022, these plans had been scrapped due to the impact of COVID-19 , and success of the Yellowstone franchise; leaving it, and Spike holdover Bar Rescue , as the channel's only original, first-run programs. As of December 2023 , approximately 61.33 million pay television households in the United States received Paramount Network; down from 80.24 million in September 2018. The Nashville Network first launched on March 7, 1983; it

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4056-525: The network's programming, including the network premiere of Raw Is War — the flagship weekly program of the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, later WWE) — which moved to TNN from USA Network as part of a new contract with Viacom. As WWF programs were among USA Network's top programs, the move was considered a major coup for TNN. MTV Networks chairman Tom Freston described TNN as now being a general entertainment service, albeit one with

4134-487: The planned launch date, film director Spike Lee won a New York Supreme Court injunction preventing Viacom from using the name "Spike TV.” Lee claimed that because of his well-known popularity in Hollywood, viewers would therefore assume that he was associated with the new channel. Lee stated in court papers that: "The media description of this change of name, as well as comments made to me and my wife, confirmed what

4212-456: The premiere of Blade: The Series in June 2006. An aspect of the rebranding were themed promos with integrated product placement , such as "Men of Action" (which featured homages and parodies of "classic action moments"). On September 5, 2006, Spike premiered the documentary film Metal of Honor: The Ironworkers of 9/11 by filmmaker Rachel Maguire, which profiled the ironworkers' efforts in

4290-631: The program little advertising, among other issues. ECW would reference these difficulties in its storylines with its stable " The Network ,” whose leader Cyrus criticized the ECW program for its content, and showed a blatant adoration for TNN shows such as RollerJam . On September 25, 2000, TNN was folded into the MTV Networks division based in New York City, and was renamed The National Network. The rebranding coincided with major changes to

4368-533: The rest of the racing coverage. Programming included variety shows, talk shows , game shows , outdoor shows (such as hunting and fishing), and lifestyle shows; all centered in some way around country music or the country style of living. Some of TNN's popular on-air talent included local Nashville media personalities Ralph Emery , Dan Miller , Charlie Chase and Lorianne Crook , as well as established stars such as country music singer Bill Anderson and actresses Florence Henderson and Dinah Shore . By 1995, TNN

4446-693: The rights to a late Sunday afternoon game each week except for the first week, when UPN aired the afternoon game instead. In 2001, TNN aired CBS Sports-produced coverage of the inaugural opening round game of the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament . The opening round game would later move to ESPN in 2002 . In 2001, TNN added off-network sitcoms and dramas such as Diff'rent Strokes , The Wonder Years , The Rockford Files , WKRP in Cincinnati , Newhart , Hangin' With Mr. Cooper , Miami Vice and Taxi . It also became

4524-505: The second season of The Last Cowboy (a reality competition series by Yellowstone co-creator Taylor Sheridan ) moved to CMT. Ink Master was also picked up for a new season by Paramount+. The channel also began a strategy of promoting new Paramount+ original series involving Sheridan, such as Mayor of Kingstown and Yellowstone prequel 1883 , under which their initial episodes were given special television airings on Paramount Network as lead-outs for Yellowstone . 1883 would set

4602-566: The series' Cosworth engines and the sanctioning contract for the Long Beach Grand Prix , effectively to make the series untenable and allow a takeover on their terms. OWRS was successful, as its bid allowed the highest probability CART vendors would get paid. Once CART's assets were secured, the series began a major push to be able to field enough cars and drivers for the April Long Beach Grand Prix, with

4680-416: The streaming service owned by its parent company Paramount Global . The network has also featured limited engagements of new Paramount+ original series by Yellowstone co-creator Taylor Sheridan , using Yellowstone as a lead-in. Between 2020 and 2021, most of Paramount Network's original programming would either be cancelled, or moved to other Paramount Global outlets, as part of a proposed plan to relaunch

4758-481: Was acquired by Westinghouse Electric Corporation , which had recently acquired CBS around that time; two years later, Westinghouse bought CMT, TNN's chief competitor. In 1998, the channel dropped its "The Nashville Network" moniker and shortened its official name to TNN. Ownership shifted to Viacom in the late 1990s after its acquisition of CBS Corporation, Westinghouse's successor. In 1999, TNN began to downplay its previous country lifestyle programming to appeal to

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4836-572: Was announced that WWE Raw would return to USA Network. Spike TV subsequently reached a deal with another wrestling promotion, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), which saw TNA Impact! premiere on Saturday, October 1, 2005. Later in the month, Spike TV debuted the video game news show Game Head , hosted by Geoff Keighley . In 2005, Viacom conducted research which found that word-of-mouth knowledge narrowly perceived Spike TV's programming as being predominantly " low-brow ,” violent, and reliant on sex appeal . These findings led Viacom to pursue

4914-496: Was announced that TNN would be relaunched as Spike TV on June 16. Promoted with the slogan "The First Network for Men ", Viacom aimed to target young adult males aged 18–34 — a demographic they believed were being served insufficiently by other cable networks. Spike's launch programming would include a slate of new adult animation series such as Gary the Rat , Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon" (an adult-oriented revival of

4992-531: Was appointed network president after serving as executive vice president and general manager of the channel for the previous two years. The post had been vacant since December 2006. In 2008, the network premiered DEA , a reality series based on the Drug Enforcement Administration . On April 7, 2008, Spike acquired cable syndication rights for the sitcom Married... with Children . Five new unscripted series were also picked up for

5070-537: Was dedicated to the culture and lifestyle of country music and the Southern United States . It originally operated as a joint venture of WSM, Inc., at the time owned by National Life and Accident Insurance Company , and Group W Satellite Communications. TNN operated from the now-defunct Opryland USA theme park near Nashville, Tennessee . Country Music Television (CMT), founded by Glenn D. Daniels, beat TNN's launch by two days, robbing them of

5148-736: Was dropped by Paramount Network and Viacom, citing network concerns over the content of the series in the wake of recent shootings in the United States, such as the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting . The series would eventually air on Paramount Network in October 2018 in an edited form, with two episodes dropped due to the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting . Paramount Network began a viral marketing campaign to promote its launch in December 2017. The campaign included

5226-447: Was later revealed to actually be a third season of The Joe Schmo Show . In 2013, Bellator MMA made its network debut with the premiere of its eighth season ; the now Viacom-owned mixed martial arts promotion previously aired on sibling channel MTV2 . Later that year, Fox reality series Cops moved to Spike beginning September 14. In the fall, kickboxing promotion Glory made its network debut with Glory 11: Chicago . This

5304-577: Was not Spike's first time broadcasting a kickboxing event as, in 2012, they partnered with K-1 to broadcast several events on their website. The end of the year saw the Video Game Awards revamped and become known as VGX. At the end of the year, Impact Wrestling would air its last episode on Spike on December 24, 2014, before moving to Destination America in 2015. Spike also announced that they would drop their video game award show; Geoff Keighley would go on to create his own award show in

5382-470: Was obvious—that Spike TV referred to Spike Lee." Spike Jones Jr., son of comic musician Spike Jones , became a party to the lawsuit as part of Viacom's defense to protect the rights to his father's name. Most of the new programming would premiere on the originally-planned date as a soft launch , at this time, the TNN name and logo was downplayed heavily in favor of the "First Network for Men" tagline. The suit

5460-408: Was originally founded by a partnership between radio station WSM and Westinghouse Broadcasting as The Nashville Network (TNN) and began broadcasting on March 7, 1983. It initially featured programming catering towards the culture of the Southern United States , including country music , variety shows , outdoors programming, and motor racing coverage (such as NASCAR ). TNN was purchased by

5538-410: Was overlap in its niche and its then-current schedule with Men TV (men's lifestyle), Space ( Star Trek ), sports channels such as TheScore (WWE), Discovery Health (interstitial segments focusing on men's health, although the network did not air any full-length programs on the topic and mainly focused on generic women's and children's health and pregnancy-related programming at the time), along with

5616-475: Was pushed off to CMT and eventually removed by Viacom after they did not renew the agreement to carry the series. In 2001, TNN began to market itself as "The New TNN", an inadvertent pleonasm in its full context. By late 2002, the channel had picked up more male-oriented shows, such as Baywatch , Monster Jam , the hidden camera game show Oblivious , Robot Wars Extreme Warriors , Star Trek: The Next Generation , and Slamball . In April 2003, it

5694-480: Was renamed The National Network in September 2000, coinciding with the network premiere of WWF Raw . In August 2003, TNN relaunched as Spike TV , which targeted a young adult male audience . From June 2006, the network's programming had a more explicit focus on the action genre, while in 2010, the network had an increased focus on original reality series. This culminated with a final rebrand in 2015 to emphasize gender-balanced series (such as Lip Sync Battle ) and

5772-437: Was settled on July 8, 2003, in announcing the settlement, Lee admitted that he did not believe that the channel intentionally tried to trade on his name. On July 28, 2003, it was announced that Spike TV would officially launch on August 11, 2003—eight weeks later than initially scheduled. Its launch night programming featured two programs originally intended to air on June 16, including Party with Spike —a launch special filmed at

5850-411: Was split among NBC, CBS, and Speed Channel. In 2007, coverage was split among NBC , CBS , ABC , ESPN , ESPN2 , and ESPN Classic . Governing body A governing body is a group of people that has the authority to exercise governance over an organization or political entity . The most formal is a government , a body whose sole responsibility and authority is to make binding decisions in

5928-472: Was subsequently picked up by Netflix ), and cancelling 68 Whiskey after a single season. On September 11, 2020, it was announced that Bellator would move to CBS Sports Network in October 2020. It would later move to Showtime in April 2021. On September 22, 2020, ViacomCBS president of Entertainment and Youth Brands Chris McCarthy told Variety in an exclusive that Paramount Network would relaunch as

6006-402: Was taken", and that "There's a reason all our early shows were CSI , UFC , TNA , MXC , UTI . No one around here knew how to read"). A network executive stated that the campaign was meant to represent a "public meltdown" by a fired employee. The campaign concluded with a live streaming event on January 17, 2018, where users could vote on various ways a crew would deface a large model of

6084-534: Was to oversee the Paramount Movie Network slate, as well as television films and specials across all other ViacomCBS networks. However, she was released from the company in August 2021 as part of a reorganization of Paramount+ and MTV Entertainment Group's executive structure. In the interim, new seasons of Bar Rescue and Yellowstone would premiere on the network in 2021, and in October 2021,

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