107-508: The Superman/Batman Adventures is a television series that aired on USA Network in 1995. It was later aired on Cartoon Network and Boomerang . The episodes were edited from various seasons of the Hanna-Barbera -produced Super Friends , as well as Filmation 's 1960s series The New Adventures of Superman , The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure , and The Batman/Superman Hour . The Superman/Batman Adventures included for
214-402: A Notre Dame Fighting Irish football game was scheduled for USA Network due to NBC's commitments to the 2020 U.S. Open . Coverage of a primetime game against Clemson on November 7, 2020 , was also briefly moved from NBC to USA Network due to NBC News coverage of a victory speech by president-elect Joe Biden . With the shutdown of NBCSN at the end of 2021, USA Network once again became
321-465: A "magazine group" in 1985 (under Kelso F. Sutton to 1986,and then Reginald K. Brack Jr.) and then became president and CEO of a newly incorporated subsidiary,"The Time Inc. Magazine Company" in 1988 (initially with John A. Meyers as chairman). In 1992, Time Warner reorganized so that the non-magazine parts of Time Inc. came directly under the parent and the Time Inc. name was downgraded to only include
428-571: A $ 100,000 goal, the first issue of Time was published on March 3, 1923, as the first weekly news magazine in the United States. Luce served as business manager while Hadden was editor-in-chief. Luce and Hadden annually alternated year-to-year the titles of president and secretary-treasurer. Upon Hadden's sudden death in 1929, Luce assumed Hadden's position. Luce launched the business magazine Fortune in February 1930 and created/founded
535-540: A Baby . The tradition of game show reruns continued into the 1990s with the $ 25,000 and $ 100,000 Pyramids , the early 1990s revivals of The Joker's Wild and Tic-Tac-Dough , and other well-known shows such as Scrabble , Sale of the Century , Talk About , and Caesars Challenge . Additionally, two more original game shows were added in June 1994; these were Free 4 All and Quicksilver. In September 1991,
642-566: A Canadian version of USA Network on January 1, 2025. The channel will be a relaunch of Bell's Discovery Channel , following that company's loss of rights to the former Discovery, Inc. channel brands to Rogers Media. This iteration of USA Network will still be maintained by CTV Specialty Television, which is a joint venture of Bell Media and ESPN Inc. , stemming from its ownership of The Sports Network (TSN). Time Inc. Time, Inc. (also referred to as Time & Life, Inc. later on, after their two onetime flagship magazine publications)
749-531: A few TV shows in 2014 and 2015, the company formed Time Inc. Productions in 2016 as its in-house production company. On February 11, 2016, Time Inc. announced that it has acquired Viant, a leading people based marketing platform and owner of MySpace . With the purchase of Time Warner by AT&T, it was agreed that Time Warner television assets such as HBO also came under the AT&;T umbrella; after WarnerMedia spun off from AT&T in 2021, these assets came under
856-579: A later date, when Shaw instead offered to carry the channel on the digital cable tiers of its Shaw Cable systems. In spite of this, the CRTC has since rejected the restructured proposal on the basis that USA's programming would be competitive with Mystery TV. Many of USA's original programs currently air on either Showcase or CTV Drama Channel . WWE programming that airs on USA also airs on Rogers Media -owned Sportsnet 360 . On October 17, 2024, NBCUniversal announced an agreement with Bell Canada to launch
963-489: A mix of 1960s and 1970s Hanna-Barbera cartoons each weekday evening from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. as part of the new USA Cartoon Express block, with sports programming airing after 7:00 p.m., which were rebroadcast during the overnight hours. Weekends featured a mix of movies, some older drama series and talk shows during the morning hours, and sports during the afternoons and evenings. Overnights consisted of old low-budget films and film shorts, and music videos as part of
1070-465: A multibillion-dollar purchase, renaming the merged company NBC Universal . GE retained an 80% ownership stake in the new company, while Vivendi retained a 20% stake. NBC Universal officially took over as owner of USA and its sibling cable channels (except for Newsworld International) in 2004. That year, USA premiered the sci-fi series The 4400 . In 2005, USA Network introduced a new logo and associated marketing campaign, "Characters Welcome". The slogan
1177-754: A new building, also in Rockefeller Center , 1271 Avenue of the Americas . Time rented additional offices in the adjacent 135 West 50th Street building. In 2014, Time moved to Brookfield Place in lower Manhattan . When they were being built, both the Rockefeller Plaza and Avenue of the Americas buildings were given the name "Time & Life Building" at the time after their main soon-to-be tenant, but also lost it when that tenant moved elsewhere. This incidentally, did not apply to their 153 New Bond Street, London W1Y0AA UK premises; it too
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#17328013322411284-475: A publicly traded company. Time Warner 's chairman/CEO Jeff Bewkes said that the split would allow Time Warner to focus entirely on its television and film businesses, and Time Inc. to focus on its core print media businesses. It was announced in May 2014 that Time Inc. would become a publicly traded company on June 6 of that year. The spin-off was completed on June 9, 2014. As of September 13, 2016, Rich Battista
1391-763: A revival of the short-lived 1980 series Chain Reaction , were added in September 1986. More shows were progressively added soon afterward such as The Joker's Wild , Tic-Tac-Dough , Press Your Luck , High Rollers , and Hollywood Squares (with John Davidson as its "Square-Master", or host), along with Wipeout , Face the Music , and Name That Tune . In June 1987, the channel debuted another original game show, Bumper Stumpers (all four USA original game shows in this era were taped in Canada). When it began,
1498-414: A show called Night Flight . Between 1984 and 1986, USA's programming focus began shifting away from sports, and shifted towards general entertainment programs not found on broadcast stations, including some less common network drama series, situation comedies and cartoons. For the 1985–1986 season, the channel had four hours of original and exclusive shows. One original series from the 1985–1986 season
1605-463: A showcase of low-budget feature films that aired as part of its weekend overnight schedule. Up All Night became a cult favorite among viewers for the comedic wraparound segments that were usually shown during breaks leading into (and sometimes, out of) commercials and between films that were hosted by comedian Gilbert Gottfried and model/actress Rhonda Shear , the latter of whom had replaced original co-host Caroline Schlitt in 1991. Though this program
1712-579: A time, the block also included the 1989–1994 episodes of the Bob Saget run of America's Funniest Home Videos . "USAM" was discontinued in 2002; by that point, the only sitcoms airing on USA were daytime and late night reruns of Martin and overnight airings of Living Single , Cheers and Wings , with drama series and movies populating much of the channel's daytime and primetime schedule. In 2000, USA Networks bought Canadian media company North American Television, Inc. (a joint partnership between
1819-583: A viewership foothold with its original programming; this began in the 1990s with initial hits such as Silk Stalkings , Duckman and La Femme Nikita , which were gradually followed in the following two decades by series such as Monk , Psych , Shooter , White Collar , Mr. Robot , Suits , Burn Notice and Royal Pains . In addition to its original productions, the network airs syndicated reruns of current and former network series such as Law & Order: Special Victims Unit , Chicago P.D. , Law & Order: Criminal Intent (which spent
1926-415: Is also the home of the professional wrestling company WWE . WWE (formerly WWF) has had a longstanding relationship with USA Network going back to 1977 when broadcasts of Madison Square Garden events would air on USA Network. The first weekly WWE show on USA Network debuted on September 4, 1983, with WWF All American Wrestling . WWF Prime Time Wrestling broadcast on USA Network from 1985 to 1993 until it
2033-544: The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and Power Corporation of Canada ), owner of cable television channels Trio and Newsworld International (the CBC continued to handle programming responsibilities for NWI until 2005, when eventual USA owner Vivendi sold the channel to a group led by Al Gore , who relaunched it as Current TV ). One major shock happened when USA lost the broadcasting rights of
2140-713: The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), to carry the USA Network in Canada as a foreign service that would be eligible for carriage by domestic cable and satellite providers (and to automatically allow all English-language general interest cable networks from the United States into Canada). However, because of programming rights issues with other Canadian specialty channels , certain programs would be subjected to blackout restrictions, including WWE Raw . In September 2007,
2247-796: The Hachette Book Group since its 2006 acquisition by Hachette Livre ) for $ 17 million in January 1968. Time Inc. also owned pioneering cable network Home Box Office (HBO). In 1974, Time Inc. launched the celebrity-focused magazine People . In February 1985, Time Inc. announced that it would acquire the Birmingham, Alabama -based Southern Progress Corporation, publishers of the Southern Living magazine for $ 480 million. In 1987, Time Inc. and Robin Wolaner launched
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#17328013322412354-529: The Madison Square Garden Network . The network carried Major League Baseball games on Thursday nights from 1979 to 1983, and the NHL on USA ran from 1979 to 1985. College Football on USA ran from 1980 to 1986, and its telecast of the 1981 Liberty Bowl was the first college bowl game to be exclusively broadcast on cable television. The NBA on USA also aired from 1979 to 1984,
2461-606: The NBCUniversal Media Group division of Comcast 's NBCUniversal . It was originally launched in 1977 as Madison Square Garden Sports Network , one of the first national sports cable television channels. It was relaunched under its current name on April 9, 1980, and in the years since then, USA steadily gained popularity through its original programming, a long-established partnership with WWF/ WWE and, for many years, limited sports programming. USA would increase its sports coverage significantly in 2022, after
2568-602: The Tennis Channel in 2009. The PGA Tour on USA covered the opening two rounds of the Masters Tournament from 1982 to 2007, Ryder Cup matches from 1989 to 2010, and various other events. The USA Network aired most games of the NFL-run World League of American Football (later NFL Europe/Europa) in its first two seasons of operation in 1991 and 1992; one innovation introduced for
2675-407: The "Characters Welcome" tagline in the lead-up to the rebranding, whose associated programming shift was led by the premieres of Mr. Robot and Colony . Variety reported that the new programming strategy was designed to appeal to themes of "authenticity, resiliency, bravery and innovation". The Washington Post felt that the re-branding symbolically marked the end of USA's "blue sky" era, as
2782-422: The 1970s and 1980s, purchasing what was later spun off as Temple-Inland paper company and various broadcasting and cable television operations such as HBO and what became Time Warner Cable . As the distinction between the overall corporation and the magazine operation grew, the position that had been "Group Vice President, Magazines" or "Executive Vice President, Magazines" became president and chief executive of
2889-615: The 2015–16 season. USA also participates in NBC Sports' broader effort of carrying all ten Survival Sunday matches across its numerous channels during the final matchday of the Premier League season. Starting in 2015, USA Network was similarly incorporated into NBC's coverage of the Stanley Cup Playoffs . In 2016, USA aired three NASCAR races as overflow during the 2016 Summer Olympics . In September 2020 ,
2996-495: The CRTC refused Shaw's request to carry USA Network in Canada on the basis that the channel carried too much programming that overlapped with the English language digital cable specialty channel Mystery TV (which is then owned by Canwest – later Shaw Media – and formerly, Groupe TVA ). However, on September 20, the CRTC stated that it would reconsider their denial of the eligible foreign carriage proposal for USA Network at
3103-473: The IDs showed people in the control room, while a studio that was being set-up by a crew was the backdrop for the "Tonight" menu that displayed the evening's schedule. Opening sequences leading into movie telecasts showed people running through the "USA Studios Film Vault". The new look coincided with a shift in focus, more towards off-network reruns and original programming; game shows and court shows were dropped from
3210-472: The Sci-Fi Channel to Seagram for $ 1.7 billion. In turn, Seagram sold a controlling interest in the networks to Barry Diller – who was previously head of Paramount Pictures when the company owned part of the network in the early 1980s and who was also credited with putting together the 1981 agreement which resulted in joint Paramount-Time-MCA ownership of the network – in February 1998, which led to
3317-461: The Time Warner board, and formally by Ripp in 2013). McManus left the board of what had become Time Warner shortly before retiring, and his replacement Norman Pearlstine and successors John Huey (2006–2012) and Martha Nelson (2013) were never directors of the parent. The title was then abolished. Linen became chairman of the executive committee for a time after serving as president, then
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3424-629: The Time acquisition and the lawsuit, and allowing the formation of the two companies' merger which was completed on January 10, 1990. Effectively, Time took over Warner, resulting in a new corporate structure and the new combined company being called "Time Warner". In November 1990, Time Inc. announced that it would acquire the remaining stake in Hippocrates Partners (Time earlier purchased its 50% stake in July 1988). The Pathfinder website
3531-452: The UK magazine house Time Inc. UK (which was later sold and since has been rebranded to TI Media ), whose major titles include What's on TV , NME , Country Life , and Wallpaper . Time Inc. also co-operated over 60 websites and digital-only titles including MyRecipes , Extra Crispy , TheSnug , HelloGiggles , and MIMI . In 1990, Time Inc. merged with Warner Communications to form
3638-453: The USA joint venture; however, it was acknowledged that Time also owned powerful USA Network rival Home Box Office . The said clause would cause Time Inc. to drop out of the venture in 1987, as the company attempted (but failed) to buy CNN from Ted Turner and run it independently from USA. MCA and Paramount subsequently became the sole owners of the channel (being a 50/50 joint venture between
3745-513: The WWF to Viacom in June 2000; Raw (which had been retitled Raw is War ) was moved to TNN in September of that year. In May 2002, USA Networks sold its non-shopping television and film assets (including USA Network, the Sci-Fi Channel, Trio, USA Films (which was rechristened as Focus Features ) and Studios USA ) to Vivendi Universal for $ 10.3 billion. USA and the other channels were folded into Vivendi's Universal Television Group. In July 2002,
3852-491: The block was reduced to three hours, from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. Eastern. However, an additional hour was added in March 1993. In November 1994, the game show block was cut back to only two hours, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. On September 24, 1992, USA launched a sister network, the Sci-Fi Channel (now Syfy ), focusing on science fiction series and films. In January 1993, the channel began showing WWF Monday Night Raw , which
3959-621: The board in 2017 and John Fahey served as non-executive chairman for the months prior to the company's sale to Meredith. On May 28, 2015, Time Inc. announced the purchase of entertainment and sports news site FanSided . In July 2015, Time Inc. acquired League Athletics in Tucson , SportsSignup in Saratoga Springs , and iScore in Los Alamitos . The three companies will be a part of Sports Illustrated Play. After attempting
4066-422: The book publishing business that combined the resources of their magazines with the formation of Time Life (it later became the holding company for television and radio stations and had a film production division, Time Life Films and a record label). Time Inc. later acquired Boston -based Little, Brown and Company (later integrated into Time Warner Book Group following its merger with Warner Books, now known as
4173-495: The business news channel Bloomberg Information TV Monday thru Saturday from 5:00 to 7:00 a.m. Eastern; in 2004, the Bloomberg simulcast moved to E! , where it ran until 2007 (USA was actually the second television network to simulcast Bloomberg's programming, the now-defunct American Independent Network also carried a simulcast of the channel during the mid-1990s). Bloomberg purchased the airtime from USA. In October 1995,
4280-647: The channel debuted Monk , a comedy-drama police procedural that starred Tony Shalhoub as Adrian Monk , a former San Francisco police inspector-turned-consultant who suffers from various obsessive-compulsive behaviors that include the ability to pay attention to detail when solving crimes. It became one of USA Network's first breakout hit series, and ran for eight seasons until it ended on December 4, 2009. In 2003, General Electric (GE) agreed to merge NBC and its sibling companies with Vivendi Universal 's North American-based filmed entertainment assets, including Universal Pictures and Universal Television Group in
4387-503: The channel had been increasingly producing more "intense" series with darker themes. NBCUniversal marketing executive Alexandra Shapiro explained that the "Characters Welcome" campaign and associated programming was reflective of the "weirdly optimistic" mood of the network's key demographic at the time. In August 2016, NBCUniversal acquired the television rights to the Harry Potter film franchise from 2018 through 2025, including
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4494-667: The cities were properly zoned,' he recalls. 'I went to the Post Office Department and showed them how we were making the zone system work. ' " In 1963, the United States Post Office introduced ZIP codes . Luce, who remained editor-in-chief of all his publications until 1964, maintained a position as an influential member of the Republican Party . Holding anti-communist sentiments, he used Time to support right-wing dictatorships in
4601-490: The creation of USA Networks, Inc. ; the company also merged the cable channels with Diller's existing television properties including the Home Shopping Network and its broadcasting unit Silver King Broadcasting (which was restructured as USA Broadcasting , and eventually sold its stations to Univision Communications in 2001 to form the nucleus of Telefutura/UniMás ). In July 1995, USA began simulcasting
4708-498: The day. In 1981, ownership of the network changed. First, Time Inc. agreed to buy UA-Columbia's share of the network contingent upon Madison Square Garden owner Gulf + Western transferring its share of the network to its Paramount Pictures division. Shortly thereafter MCA Inc. also bought into the network with the three companies all owning equal shares. The three partners had a non-compete clause that would prevent them from owning other basic cable networks independently from
4815-453: The deal was valued around $ 250 million over the length of the agreement, making it one of the highest-valued film franchise deals. To launch the new rights, Syfy and USA both aired Harry Potter marathons over the July 13–15, 2018 weekend, airing all eight films (including directors' cuts of the first six) with limited commercial interruption. Amid the growth of streaming services (including NBCUniversal's newly launched Peacock ) and
4922-434: The decline of traditional cable television, USA Network began to cut back on scripted programming, in favor of reality shows, television events (including scripted miniseries ), and live programming—the latter including WWE programs and sporting events. In 2020, the network cancelled Dare Me , The Purge , The Sinner , and Treadstone . With the announcement that NBCSN would shut down on December 31, 2021, it
5029-474: The drama's seventh season in the fall of 2007; episodes would then be re-aired later in the season on NBC, most likely to shore up any programming holes created by the cancellation of a failed new series. Although this is not the first time a broadcast series has moved to cable (USA had acquired first-run rights to the revival of Alfred Hitchcock Presents from NBC in 1987 , while The Paper Chase had moved beforehand from CBS to Showtime in 1983), it marked
5136-462: The feuds Chambers had with reporters in the field. In the 1950s, the Time Inc. executive Brumbaugh made presentations to the Post Office Department to explain how Time Inc. was using a zoning system to speed the delivery of its magazines. Although the Post Office Department had instigated zones in 1943, they were inconsistently applied. As cited in FYI, Time Inc.'s internal newsletter " 'Fewer than 40% of
5243-611: The final four seasons of its run as a first-run program on USA) and NCIS . The network also broadcasts a variety of films from the Universal Pictures library and select films from other movie studios (such as Sony Pictures Entertainment , Paramount Pictures , Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures and Warner Bros. Entertainment ), airing primarily as part of its overnight and weekend schedule, and occasionally during primetime on nights when original programming or marathons of its acquired programs are not scheduled. USA Network
5350-403: The financial news program First Business (then produced by CONUS) at 6:30am weekday mornings for a time (the network had previously carried Wall Street Journal -produced financial news updates and a late-night report in the 1980s ). The ANC-produced updates continued through 2000 (ANC was suffering heavily around this time due to competition with other cable news channels such as CNN and
5457-415: The first time on American television the "lost episodes" of the 1983–1984 season of Super Friends . This animated television series–related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This DC Comics –related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . USA Network USA Network (or simply USA ) is an American basic cable television channel owned by
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#17328013322415564-459: The first time that a series which moved its first-run episodes from broadcast to cable television would continue to air episodes on a broadcast network while it was still a first-run program. On December 7, 2007, it was announced that USA Network would continue broadcasting first-run episodes of Raw through at least 2010. The June 1, 2008, premiere of In Plain Sight , starring Mary McCormack ,
5671-508: The first time that the NBA had a cable television partner. For 17 years from 1981 to 1998, USA aired a weekly boxing show, USA Tuesday Night Fights , which showcased bouts featuring up-and-coming boxers. Tennis on USA aired professional tournaments in the United States from 1984 to 2008, and was the longtime cable home of the US Open before its cable television rights moved to ESPN2 and
5778-624: The first-run teen sitcom USA High and reruns of Saved by the Bell: The New Class from 1997 to 2001, USA has not aired children's programming since that time), and replaced it with a block called "USAM", which advertised itself as "Primetime Comedy in the Morning". The block mainly featured sitcoms originally aired on network television that were cancelled before making it to 100 episodes (such as The Jeff Foxworthy Show , Hearts Afire and Something So Right ); however, for
5885-404: The fold of Warner Bros. Discovery . In February 2017, it was reported that Meredith Corporation and a group of investors led by Edgar Bronfman Jr. were considering purchasing Time Inc. In 2016, Time Inc. acquired Bizrate Insights . On April 28, 2017, the company's board of directors dropped the plan of selling the company and instead focus on growth strategies. On November 26, 2017, it
5992-537: The former newsreader on Good Morning America , was employed as a primary anchor at the station. By 1993, production of USA Updates had been taken over by the All News Channel (operated as a joint venture of Hubbard Broadcasting 's and Viacom 's CONUS Communications); Bell had left KYW in 1992, when KYW's news operations were heavily revamped in response to falling ratings. Via the ANC connection, USA also aired
6099-440: The game-show block ran for an hour, but it expanded significantly the following year. By 1989, the network ran game shows Monday through Fridays from 12:00 to 5:00 p.m. eastern. USA also aired late night reruns of Procter & Gamble soap operas The Edge Of Night from August 5, 1985, to January 19, 1989, along with Search For Tomorrow from 1987 until the summer of 1989. In January 1989, USA debuted USA Up All Night ,
6206-539: The inaugural season of the revived USFL , and is one of the broadcast partners of the SuperMotocross World Championship and its Supercross and Motocross feeder series. High-definition simulcasts of USA Network sports coverage, and reruns of original programs produced in the format, were originally carried by Universal HD . In 2007, USA Network launched a HD feed. In February 2007, Shaw Communications submitted an application to
6313-470: The introduction of a new logo (incorporating a star ridged into the "U" of the now-serifed "USA" logotype, replacing the Futura-typeface logo that had been in use since the network's start under the USA Network name in 1980), and a three-note jingle. Network IDs, feature presentation intros for movies and promo graphics were based around a behind-the-scenes look at the fictional "USA Studios"; some of
6420-423: The magazine company, so the officers of the "Magazine Company" became the officers of what was now Time Inc. Later that year, CEO Brack shifted to chairman with Don Logan as president; he stepped down in favor of Logan as CEO in 1994 and chairman in 1997. Logan moved up to a group oversight position including additional Time Warner operations in 2002 ( Ann S. Moore succeeding him at the magazine operation) and left
6527-496: The magazine in 2000) In 2008, Time Inc. launched Maghound , an internet-based magazine membership service that featured approximately 300 magazine titles from both Time Inc. brands and external publishing companies. On January 19, 2010, Time Inc. acquired StyleFeeder, a personal shopping engine. In August 2010, Time Inc. announced that Ann S. Moore , its chairman and chief executive, would step down as CEO and be replaced by Jack Griffin , an executive with Meredith Corporation ,
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#17328013322416634-509: The main cable outlet of NBC Sports in 2022, with sports properties such as the Premier League, NASCAR, and the Olympics (including U.S. Olympic trials) moving to USA at this time. The U.S. Open , U.S. Women's Open , The Open Championship , and the Women's Open would move their early-round telecasts from Golf Channel to USA beginning in 2022. USA Network also carried eight games as part of
6741-613: The main film series and their spin-offs (with the first, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them , to have its cable premiere in 2019), and other content. On cable, the films are to primarily be aired by USA Network and Syfy, and the deal also includes the ability for Universal Parks & Resorts to offer "exclusive content and events" related to the franchise (Universal Parks had already been involved in The Wizarding World of Harry Potter attractions). The deal succeeded one with Freeform ; The Wall Street Journal reported
6848-592: The media conglomerate Time Warner (now Warner Bros. Discovery ). In 2018, media company Meredith Corporation acquired Time Inc. for $ 2.8 billion. Meredith was then acquired by IAC and merged with Dotdash to form Dotdash Meredith three years later, thus resulting in IAC gaining most of the former Time Inc. assets. Nightly discussions of the concept of a news magazine led its founders Henry Luce and Briton Hadden , both age 23, to quit their jobs in 1922. Later that same year, they formed Time Inc. Having raised $ 86,000 of
6955-456: The name of fighting communism. An instrumental figure behind the so-called " China Lobby ", he played a large role in steering American foreign policy and popular sentiment in favor of Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek and his wife Soong Mei-ling in their war against the Japanese. (The Chiangs appeared in the cover of Time eleven times between 1927 and 1955. In 1961, Time Inc. entered
7062-467: The nation's second-largest publisher of consumer magazines. In September 2010, Time Inc. entered into a licensing agreement with Kolkata -based ABP Group , one of India's largest media conglomerates, to publish Fortune India magazine and the yearly Fortune India 500 list. Griffin was ousted after a brief tenure, eventually being replaced by Laura Lang, who served about a year. On March 6, 2013, Time Warner announced plans to spin off Time Inc. into
7169-415: The network dropped the entire game show block; it was replaced with a block called USA Live , which carried reruns of Love Connection and The People's Court , with live hosted wraparound segments between shows; that block was dropped by 1997 (some of the game shows that USA had aired can still be seen on GSN and Buzzr ). On June 17, 1996, the network unveiled a new on-air appearance, which included
7276-623: The network's WLAF telecasts was the in-helmet camera. Upon the 2004 purchase of Vivendi Universal by NBC, USA's sports division was immediately merged into NBC Sports . Since 2004 , the network has broadcast select events from the Olympic Games , as part of an expansion of NBCUniversal's broadcast rights to the Summer and Winter Olympics that allowed several of the company's cable channels rights to telecast Olympic events live (some of which are later re-aired on tape delay on NBC as part of
7383-538: The network's primetime and late night Olympic coverage). USA Network also carried games from the International Ice Hockey Federation in 2006 and 2010. During the 2014 Winter Olympics , USA aired Premier League soccer matches in lieu of sister channel NBCSN , due to that channel's full devotion to carrying coverage of Olympic events. After ratings success with those matches, USA began to air mid-afternoon Saturday games weekly during
7490-489: The original cast. One tradition on USA was an afternoon lineup of game show reruns mixed in with several original low-budget productions that aired over the years. It began in October 1984 with reruns of The Gong Show and Make Me Laugh . In September 1985, the network began airing its first original game show, a revival of the mid-1970s game show Jackpot ; two more original game shows, Love Me, Love Me Not , and
7597-496: The parent-focused magazine Parenting (Time Inc. later purchased the remaining stake in the magazine held by Wolaner on January 5, 1990, several days before the completion of merger with Warner Communications) In 1987, Time Inc. lost its ownership stake in the USA Network , which it held since 1981, after attempting to acquire CNN . The merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications was announced on March 4, 1989. During
7704-514: The past few years. In April 2015, it was announced that WWE SmackDown would move to USA from sister network Syfy . In April 2016, USA Network unveiled a new branding campaign and slogan, "We the Bold". The campaign was designed to reflect the channel's current focus on "rich, captivating stories about unlikely heroes who defy the status quo, push boundaries and are willing to risk everything for what they believe in". USA had quietly discontinued
7811-481: The pictorial Life magazine in 1936, and launched House & Home in 1952 and Sports Illustrated in 1954. He also produced The March of Time radio and newsreel series. By the mid-1960s, Time Inc. was the largest and most prestigious magazine publisher in the world. ( Dwight Macdonald , a Fortune staffer during the 1930s, referred to him as "Il Luce", a play on the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini , who
7918-414: The positions of president and secretary-treasurer. On Hadden's sudden death in 1929 Luce took his position and business management was entrusted to Roy E. Larsen , who had been one of their first hires. Luce cultivated a philosophy of "church and state", where the editorial and business management were separate up to the board of directors level. (This was functionally ended with the departure of McManus from
8025-515: The rights for SmackDown to Fox beginning in October 2019. In August 2019, WWE announced that its tertiary weekly program WWE NXT would return to USA Network on September 18, 2019, airing on Wednesday nights in a two-hour live format. From 1984 to 2016, USA Network was the longtime home of the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show . USA Network has a longstanding history with sports, dating back to its existence as
8132-645: The same name now simply known as the MSG Network). The network was founded by cable provider UA-Columbia Cablevision and the Madison Square Garden Corp. From its beginning (and for the next two decades) the network was run by chairwoman and CEO Kay Koplovitz . The channel was one of the first national cable television channels, utilizing satellite delivery as opposed to the then-industry standard microwave relay to distribute its programming to cable systems. Unlike other cable networks at
8239-538: The schedule, while cartoons were phased out. USA Studios also became the branding for USA-produced programming at this point. This logo was replaced in July 1999 in favor of a 'USA flag'-styled logo (whose design was slightly modified in 2002). In September 1996, USA replaced the USA Cartoon Express with the action-oriented children's block, USA Action Extreme Team ; the channel discontinued its animation block outright in September 1998 (other than airing
8346-672: The shutdown of NBCSN , and now serves as the main cable component of NBC Sports . As of November 2023 , USA Network is available to approximately 70,000,000 pay television households in the United States-down from its 2011 peak of 100,000,000 households. USA Network originally launched on September 22, 1977, as the Madison Square Garden Sports Network (not to be confused with the New York City -area regional sports network of
8453-550: The summer of that same year, Paramount Communications (formerly Gulf and Western Industries ) launched a $ 12.2 billion hostile bid to acquire Time Inc. in an attempt to end a stock swap merger deal between Time and Warner Communications. This caused Time to raise its bid for Warner to $ 14.9 billion in cash and stock. Paramount responded by filing a lawsuit in a Delaware court to block the Time/Warner merger. The court ruled twice in favor of Time, forcing Paramount to drop both
8560-546: The then-similarly formatted Headline News , and ended up shutting down in 2002); USA Network has not carried any news programming since the news updates were removed. USA was the first basic cable channel to pre-empt the syndicated television market by purchasing a package of 26 films from Disney 's Touchstone Pictures library in October 1989. To obtain the package, it spent an estimated $ 50 million to $ 60 million, with films including such box office hits as Dead Poets Society , Good Morning, Vietnam , and Three Men and
8667-430: The time, it also was the first to rely greatly on advertising revenue. At launch the network mostly broadcast sporting events from Madison Square Garden to a national audience (sharing programming with the aforementioned MSG Network). The network quickly added a mix of college and less well-known professional sports held at other venues, similar to those found during the early years of ESPN . In 1978, children's programming
8774-456: The two companies). C-SPAN finally stopped sharing satellite space with USA on April 1, 1982, after having launched its own 24-hour feed two months earlier. USA began operating on a 24-hour schedule, programming its new daytime block with the British soap opera Coronation Street , a health-oriented show named Alive and Well , and an afternoon movie. In fall 1982, the channel began running
8881-512: Was Luce, who had long opposed FDR. Historian Alan Brinkley argues the move was "badly mistaken", for had Luce been allowed to travel, he would have been an enthusiastic cheerleader for American forces around the globe. But stranded in New York City, Luce's frustration and anger expressed itself in hard-edged partisanship. Luce, supported by Editor T. S. Matthews , appointed Whittaker Chambers as acting Foreign News editor in 1944, despite
8988-646: Was USA's highest-rated series premiere since the 2006 debut of Psych , with 5.3 million viewers. In early 2009, USA Network acquired the network television rights for 24 recent and upcoming Universal Pictures films, including Duplicity , Funny People , Frost/Nixon , Land of the Lost , Milk , and State of Play . In 2011, control and majority ownership of then-parent NBC Universal passed from General Electric to Comcast . Comcast would buy out GE's remaining ownership in NBCU two years later. USA Network
9095-542: Was acquired by IAC's Dotdash and became Dotdash Meredith ; Barry Diller , the head of IAC, had previous relations with Time Inc. in the early 1980s when he was head of Paramount and helped make Time Inc. at one point a co-owner of the USA Network . Time' s offices were originally in the Chrysler Building . In 1938, they moved to the seven upper floors of the newly built 1 Rockefeller Plaza in Rockefeller Center . In 1960, they moved to fifteen floors of
9202-444: Was also added to the lineup. On April 9, 1980, the channel changed its name to USA Network. It also added a children's program called Calliope to its schedule and some talk shows in an effort to appeal to women. The new network also offered a programming block from Black Entertainment Television (which would eventually launch as its own network three years later, but now owned by Paramount as of 2001) and carried C-SPAN during
9309-494: Was an American worldwide mass media corporation founded on November 28, 1922, by Henry Luce and Briton Hadden and based in New York City . It owned and published over 100 magazine brands, including its namesake Time , Sports Illustrated , Travel + Leisure , Food & Wine , Fortune , People , InStyle , Life , Golf Magazine , Southern Living , Essence , Real Simple , and Entertainment Weekly . It also had subsidiaries which it co-operated with
9416-573: Was announced that Meredith Corporation would acquire Time Inc. in a $ 2.8 billion deal. $ 640 million in backing will be provided by Koch Equity Development , but the Koch family will not have a board seat or otherwise influence the company's operations. Prior to the sale closing in January 2018, Time Inc. sold Essence Communications to Richelieu Dennis, the founder of hair- and skin-care products maker Sundial Brands. In January 2018, Meredith removed signage and references to Time, Inc., and Time, Inc. website
9523-434: Was baptized "Time & Life Building" when it was built in 1951-53 as the then-European headquarters of "Time & Life International, Ltd.", but contrary to its New York City counterparts, it kept the name after the company had vacated the premises in late-August 2009. In the early years, when the company was just Time magazine, Luce served as business manager while Hadden was editor-in-chief, and they annually alternated
9630-613: Was called " Il Duce ".) Once ambitious to become Secretary of State in a Republican administration, Luce wrote a famous article in Life magazine in 1941, called " The American Century ", which defined the role of American foreign policy for the remainder of the 20th century, and perhaps beyond. President Franklin D. Roosevelt , aware that most publishers were opposed to him, issued a decree in 1943 that blocked all publishers and media executives from visits to combat areas; he put General George Marshall in charge of enforcement. The main target
9737-568: Was considered the key piece of the NBC-Comcast merger; Wunderlich Securities analyst Matthew Harrigan projected that USA contributed $ 9.5 billion to NBCUniversal's $ 44.8 billion value, with NBC contributing only $ 408 million. In 2014, the channel had dropped 18% in viewership and out of first place among the major cable channels. USA has been a key NBCUniversal asset accounting for one-third of advertising revenue for NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Group and $ 1 billion in annual earnings over
9844-404: Was designed to help emphasize the wide range of programming the network offered, and to help USA Network establish itself more prominently as a brand. The launch of the campaign featured promos themed around the daily lives of characters from the network's programs. To contrast itself from the "grittier" offerings of other mainstream cable networks, USA Network's original programming during this era
9951-538: Was discontinued on March 7, 1998, late-night movie telecasts on USA continued to be branded under the "Up All Night" banner until 2002. Short news updates, branded as USA Updates, were broadcast early on, from 1989 until 2000. These segments were first produced out of KYW-TV in Philadelphia , as the station had already produced a number of syndicated news services (including the Group W Newsfeed) and Steve Bell ,
10058-464: Was launched in 1994, with content from the Time, People and Fortune magazines. It was shut down in 1999. On October 20, 2000, Time Inc. announced that it would acquire the magazine division of Times Mirror Company that includes Field & Stream , Golf Magazine , Outdoor Life , Popular Science , Skiing and Yachting from the Tribune Company for $ 475 million, the merger
10165-562: Was let go May 19, 2016 On February 5, 2014, Time Inc. announced that it was cutting 500 jobs with most of the layoffs at American Express Publishing. From April 2014 to mid-2017, the Chairman of Time Inc. was Joseph A. Ripp, who had been Chief Executive since September 2013 and continued as Executive Chairman when replaced as CEO by Battista. Though Ripp had intended to remain Executive Chairman until 2018, he wound up leaving
10272-609: Was marked by a focus on comedic and "optimistic" action and drama series, referred to as a "blue sky" approach. Notable examples of this programming strategy included Psych (2006), Burn Notice (2007), and Royal Pains (2009). In October 2005, Raw returned to USA Network after Viacom did not renew its broadcasting agreement with the WWE. On May 13, 2007 (in advance of NBC's 2007–08 fall upfronts presentation), NBC Universal announced that new episodes of Law & Order: Criminal Intent would be moved to USA Network beginning with
10379-507: Was promoted to president and CEO, replacing Joseph A. Ripp. Time Inc. purchased American Express Publishing Corporation 's suite of titles, including Travel + Leisure , Food & Wine , Departures , Black Ink and Executive Travel on October 1, 2013. On January 14, 2014, Time Inc. announced that Colin Bodell was joining the company in the newly created position of executive vice president and chief technology officer. However, he
10486-521: Was redirected to the Meredith's website. In March 2018, only six weeks after the closure of the deal, Meredith announced that it would lay off 1,200 employees, and explore the sale of Time , Fortune , Money , and Sports Illustrated . The company felt that these brands did not align with its core, lifestyle-oriented properties. Howard Milstein had announced on February 7, 2018, that he would acquire Golf Magazine from Meredith, and Time Inc. UK
10593-463: Was sold to the original iteration of Viacom ; the following year, MCA was acquired by Seagram . In April 1996, Viacom, which also owned MTV Networks , launched a new classic television network called TV Land . MCA subsequently sued Viacom for breach of contract , claiming that it had violated the non-compete clause in its joint venture agreement with MCA. A judge presiding over the case sided with MCA, and Viacom subsequently sold its stake in USA and
10700-538: Was sold to the British private equity group Epiris (later rebranded to TI Media ) in late February. In September 2018, Meredith announced that it would re-sell Time to Marc Benioff and his wife Lynne for $ 190 million. Although Benioff is the chairman and co-CEO of Salesforce.com , Time will remain separate from the company, and Benioff will not be involved in its daily operations. In November 2018, Meredith announced to sell Fortune to Thai businessman Chatchaval Jiaravanon for $ 150 million. In December 2021, Meredith
10807-709: Was subsequently completed in November of that year, forming Time4Media (the magazines in the division, with the exception of Golf Magazine and the Parenting Group were sold to Bonnier Group in 2007) In January 2005, Time Inc. announced that it would purchase a remaining stake in New York City-based Essence Communications, publishers of the Essence magazine that it not already own. (Time already purchased 49% stake in
10914-429: Was subsequently revealed that USA and Peacock would collectively assume its remaining sports broadcasts. In December 2023, Deadline Hollywood reported that USA Network was considering a return to original scripted series in the vein of the "blue sky" era, citing the recent resurgence in the popularity of Suits (which concluded in 2019) after the series was acquired by Netflix that year. USA Network has achieved
11021-452: Was succeeded by Richard Parsons who had never been connected to legacy Time Inc. (his successor Jeff Bewkes , leader of the parent when Time Inc. was spun off, had like Levin come from the non-publishing operations). The Time, Inc. (the comma remained part of the formal title until the Warner merger but the company ceased to use it in 1933) corporate entity diversified out of publishing in
11128-577: Was succeeded by Shepley, who retained that position for a time after he, in turn, stepped down as president. Davidson also served as chairman of the executive committee after stepping down as chairman of the board. Munro was chairman of the executive committee of Time Warner from 1990 to 1996. On the merger with Warner Communications Munro and then Nicholas were co-CEOs of Time Warner with Steve Ross until 1992 when Ross squeezed Nicholas out. Gerald M. Levin , who had come up through Time's non-publishing operations, succeeded Ross later that year and in 2002
11235-558: Was superseded by WWE's flagship cable program Raw . The series originally aired on USA Network from its debut in January 1993 (when the promotion was known as the World Wrestling Federation) until the series moved to TNN in September 2000, before returning to USA Network in October 2005. On January 7, 2016, WWE's second flagship program SmackDown moved to USA Network from Syfy . In 2018, USA Network renewed its rights to Raw for five additional years, but lost
11342-411: Was the comedy Check It Out! . USA, wanting to become the flagship cable channel and compete directly with the broadcast networks, committed to 26 half-hours of part exclusive off-broadcast network and part original programming for the 1986–1987 season at an increase of $ 30 million. In one case, the channel picked up Airwolf for 58 off-network episodes, while commissioning 24 new episodes without
11449-445: Was the first weekly WWF program on USA to air in front of a live audience. In September 1993, USA adopted a new on-air look centering on the slogan "The Remote Stops Here", with flat graphics suggesting a television camera's in-lens symbols and music consisting of electric guitar and synthesized noises, though the movie presentation openers were retained from the previous design. In 1994, Paramount Pictures parent Paramount Communications
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