USA Network (usually called only USA as styled as usa network since 2005) is a basic American cable and satellite TV channel owned by the NBC Division of Cable Cable Entertainment Group NBCUniversal, which is a subsidiary of Comcast. It was originally launched in 1977 as the Madison Square Garden Sports Network , one of the nation's first national cable television channels, before it was relaunched as a US Network in 1980. After a small player on base cable, the US has been steadily getting popularity due to the original programming; it also broadcast syndicated replays of current and previous network television series (ie, broadcast) and feature films released theatrically, as well as limited sports programs and WWE.
As of January 2016, the USA Network is available for 94.3 million US households.
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Histori
Paramount dan kepemilikan Universal (1977 - 1994)
USA Network was originally launched on September 22, 1977 as the Madison Square Garden Sports Network (not to be confused with the regional sports network of New York City with the same name now simply known as MSG). The network was established by UAL Columbia Cablevision and Kay Koplovitz cable providers. This channel is one of the first national cable television channels, utilizing satellite delivery as opposed to microwave relays (which later became the norm in the industry) to distribute its programs to cable systems. Initially, the network runs a mixture of colleges and lesser-known professional sports, similar to those found during the early years of ESPN. This channel starts its broadcast day after 5:00 pm. Eastern Time on weekdays and 12:00 pm Eastern Time on weekends.
On April 9, 1980, the channel changed its name to United States Network after the ownership structure was reorganized under a joint operation agreement by UA-Columbia and then-MCA Inc./Universal City Studios. That fall, the US began to enter at noon in Eastern Time on weekdays; it also added some talk shows and children programs called Calliope to his schedule. The sports program starts airing at 5:00 am. Eastern Time weekdays, and aired all day on weekends. In the fall of 1981, the US began its daily program at 6:00 am Eastern time, with talk shows and children's programs running until noon, the sport airing from midday onwards over the weekend and until 3:00 pm. working days, talk shows from 03:00 to 06:00. working days, and sports aired again after 6:00 am. Eastern time.
Then, in 1982, Time Inc. and the West Bay Paramount Pictures unit (now part of Viacom) will buy shares in the venture. The three partners have a non-competing clause that will prevent them from having other basic cable networks independently of the US joint venture. The clause will cause Time Inc. left the company in 1987, as the company sought to buy CNN from Ted Turner and run it independently from the United States. MCA and Paramount then become the sole owner of the channel (with each company owning 50% of the shares). In the fall of 1982, the US began operating on a 24-hour schedule, running a mix of talk shows, children's programs and low-budget films from 6:00 to 19:00. Eastern time. This channel began to incorporate the Hanna-Barbera cartoons of the 1960s and 1970s every night on weekdays from 6 am to 7 pm. as part of the Cartoon Express USA block, with airshow programs broadcast after 7:00 pm, re-broadcasted overnight. The weekends feature a mixture of films, some older drama series and talk shows during the morning hours, and sports during the afternoons and evenings. Overnights consist of short films and short films, and music as part of a show called Night Flight .
Between 1984 and 1986, the US began to shift from sports programs, and began focusing on public entertainment programs not found on broadcast stations, including some less common drama and cartoon films.
For the 1985-1986 season, this channel has 4 hours of original and exclusive performances. One original series from season 1985-1986, Check It Out! , updated for the following season. The US, which wants to become a major cable channel and compete directly with the broadcast network, is committed to 26 and a half hours of exclusive non-broadcast network parts and the original programming section for the 1986-1987 season with an increase of $ 30 million. In one case, the channel took Airwolf for 58 episodes outside the network, while assigning 24 new episodes without the original star.
One of the traditions in the US is a series of afternoon matches mixed with some of the original low-budget production being aired for years. It started in October 1984 with a re-show of The Gong Show and Make Me Laugh . In September 1985, the network began to air its first original game show, an uprising of the mid-1970s game show Jackpot ; two more original game shows, Love Me, Love Me Not , and the brief revival of the Chain Reaction series , added in September 1986. More shows added progressively soon afterwards like Wild Joker , Tic-Tac-Dough , Press Your Profit , High Rollers > Hollywood Squares (along with John Davidson), along with Wipeout , Face the Music and Name That Tune . In June 1987, the channel debuted the other original game debut, Bumper Stumpers (all four original US gaming shows in this era were recorded in Canada). When it started, the game blocks show ran for an hour, but expanded significantly the following year. In 1989, the network ran game shows Monday to Friday from 12:00 to 5:00 pm. Eastern time.
In January 1989, USA debuted USA Up All Night , a show of low-cost movies aired as part of its weekend itinerary. Up All Night is a cult favorite among viewers for the comedy comedy segment that is typically displayed during breaks leading to (and sometimes, out of) advertisements and between films hosted by comedian Gilbert Gottfried and model/actress Rhonda Shear (who last replaced original host Caroline Schlitt in 1991); the program was discontinued on March 7, 1998, however, the broadcast of late-night films in the United States continued to be branded under the banner of "Up All Night" until 2002.
Short news updates, branded as US Updates , are shown from 1989 to 2000. These segments were first generated from KYW-TV in Philadelphia, due to the fact that the station has generated the number of syndicated news services ( including the W Newsfeed Group) and Steve Bell, a former newsreader at Good Morning America, were hired as the main anchor at the station. However, when KYW news operations were heavily revamped in response to the 1991 downgrade, the USA Update production was later taken over by All News Channel (operated by Hubbard Broadcasting and the Viacom joint venture, CONUS Communications). Updates produced by the ANC continued until 2000 (the ANC suffered substantially around this time because of competition with other cable news channels such as CNN and Headline News which were then formatted, and ended closing in 2002); USA Network has not run any news programs since news updates have been stopped.
USA was the first basic cable channel that preceded the syndicated TV market by purchasing a pack of 26 films from the Touchstone Pictures library in October 1989. The package cost around $ 50 million to $ 60 million, with movies including box office hits such as the Dead Poets Society , Good Morning, Vietnam and Three Men and a Baby .
The tradition of game show replaying continued into the 1990s with $ 25,000 and $ 100,000 Pyramids , a revival of the early 1990s The Joker Wild and Tic-Tac- Dough as well as other famous events like Scrabble , Sales of the Century , Talk About and Caesars Challenge Free 4 All and Quicksilver . In September 1991, the block was reduced to three hours, from 2:00 to 5:00 pm. East. However, an additional hour was added in March 1993. In November 1994, the show's match block was cut back to just two hours, from 2:00 to 4:00 pm. On September 24, 1992, USA launched its sister network, Sci-Fi Channel (now Syfy), focusing on science fiction and film series. In September 1993, the United States adopted a new aerial view centered on the slogan "The Remote Stops Here", with a flat graph showing the symbols and music inside the camera lens consisting of electric guitars and synthesized sounds (though the movie presentation opener is preserved) from previous view).
Network Ownership USA (1994 - 2001)
In 1994, Paramount Pictures Paramount Communications parent was sold to Viacom; the following year, the MCA was acquired by Seagram. In April 1996, Viacom, which also owns MTV Networks, launched a new classic television network called TV Land. The MCA then sued Viacom for breach of contract, claiming that it has violated a non-competing clause in a joint venture agreement with MCA. A judge presiding over the case sided with the MCA, and Viacom then sold its stake in the US and the Sci-Fi Channel to Seagram for $ 1.7 billion. In turn, Seagram sold controlling interest in the network to Barry Diller in February 1998, which led to the creation of USA Networks, Inc. ; the company also incorporates cable channels with Diller's existing television properties including Home Shopping Network and its broadcasting unit Silver King Broadcasting (which was restructured as USA Broadcasting, and eventually sold its station to Univision Communications in 2001 to form Telefutura's core).
In October 1995, the network dropped all blocks of the game show; it was replaced by a block called USA Live , which brought reruns of Love Connection and The People's Court , with live host segments between shows; the block was dropped in 1997 (some shows that the United States has aired can still be seen on GSN and Buzzr). In 1994, the US began a new business news channel simulation, Bloomberg Information TV every workday morning from 5:00 to 8:00 am Eastern and Pacific (and then, from 5:00 to 6:00 am, East and Pacific on Saturdays); in 2004, Bloomberg's simulation moved to E !, where it runs until 2007 (the United States is actually the second television network to simulate the Bloomberg programming, the now-defunct Independent American Network also did a live broadcast of the channel during the mid-1990s).
On June 17, 1996, the network launched a new appearance in the air, which included the introduction of a new logo (incorporating a star fenced into the "U" of the now-serifed "USA" logotype, replacing the Futura-typeface logo that has been in use since 1980 ), and a three-tone jingle. Network ID, feature presentation intro for promo movies and graphics based on the behind-the-scenes look "Studio USA" fictitious; some IDs show people in the control room, while a studio being prepared by the crew is the background for the "Tonight" menu that displays the evening's schedule. The opening sequence leading to the movie shows people running through "Studio Studio Studio Vault". The new look coincides with the focus shift, more towards network reruns and native programming; game events and court appearances are canceled from the schedule, while cartoons are removed gradually. USA Studios is also a branding for programming produced in the US at this point. The logo was replaced in July 1999 to support the 'US flags' style logo (modified in 2002).
In September 1996, USA replaced USA Cartoon Express with an action-oriented children's block, USA Action Extreme Team ; the channel stopped the live animation block in September 1998 (in addition to showing the first teen sitcom run USA High and reruns Saved by Bell: The New Class from 1997 to 2001, The United States has not aired children's programs since then), and replaced them with a block called "USAM", which advertises itself as "Primetime Comedy in the Morning". This block mainly displays sitcoms broadcast on network television being canceled before making it into 100 episodes (such as The Jeff Foxworthy Show , Hearts Afire and Something Right ); However, for the time being, the block also incorporated the 1989-1994 episode of the run of Bob Saget from The Most Guilty House of Videos in America . "USAM" was discontinued in 2001; at the time, the only sitcoms aired in the US were the late-night and late-night imitations of Martin and the overnight airing of Living Single , Cheers and Wings , with drama and movie series that fill many daytime and channel primetime schedules.
In 2000, USA Networks purchased Canadian media company North American Television, Inc. (a joint partnership between Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and Power Corporation of Canada), owners of the cable channel Trio and Newsworld International (the CBC continued to handle programming responsibilities for NWI until 2005, when the USA owner Vivendi eventually sold the channel to a group led by Al Gore launch it as a TV Right now).
Vivendi Ownership (2001 - 2003)
In 2001, USA Networks sold its non-shopping television and film assets (including USA Network, Sci-Fi Channel, Trio, USA Films (renamed Focus Features) and Studios USA) to Vivendi Universal. USA and other channels folded into Universal Television Group Vivendi.
In July 2002, the channel debuted Monk , which became one of the first breakthrough series of the USA Network. This is a comedy-drama police procedure starring Tony Shalhoub as Adrian Monk, a former San Francisco police inspector who turns into a consultant who suffers from various obsessive-compulsive behaviors that include the ability to pay attention to details when completing crime. It lasted for eight seasons until it ends on December 4, 2009.
NBC Universal Ownership/Comcast (2003 - - present)
In 2003, General Electric agreed to merge NBC and its sister companies with North America-based Vivendi Universal's movie-based entertainment assets, including Universal Pictures and Universal Television Group in multibillion-dollar purchases, renaming the NBC Universal joint venture. GE retained an 80% stake in the new company, while Vivendi held a 20% stake. NBC Universal officially took over as the owner of the United States and its brother's cable channel (except for Newsworld International) in 2004. That year, the US aired the sci-fi series The 4400 . In 2006, USA aired a psychic drama focusing on Shawn Spencer (James Roday), a man with photographic memory and studying observational skills that claimed he was psychic after being accused of being an accomplice in a series murder and open a detective agency with childhood friend Burton Guster (DulÃÆ' Â © Hill) as an unconscious partner; The series runs for eight seasons (being the longest network series) until ending in March 2014.
"Welcome Character", "blue sky" era (2005 - 2016)
In 2005, USA Network launched a new branding campaign (including a new logo) and the slogan, "Characters Welcome". The slogan is designed to help emphasize the wide range of programming offered by the network, and help USA Network build itself more prominently as a brand. The launch of this campaign features promos that are themed around the everyday life of characters from networking programs. To distinguish itself from the "grittier" offerings of other major cable networks, the original programming of the USA Network during this era was marked by a focus on comedy and "optimism" and drama series, the so-called "blue sky" approach. Notable examples of this programming strategy include Psych (2006), Burning Notice (2007), and Royal Pains (2009).
On May 13, 2007 (before the 2007-08 NBC presentation fell ahead), NBC Universal announced that a new episode of Legal & amp; Order: Criminal Intent will be moved to the US starting with its seventh season in the fall of 2007; the episode will then be aired again later in the season on NBC, most likely to shore up the programming hole created by the failed new series cancellation. Although this is not the first time a broadcast series has moved to cable (the US has obtained a first-run right to revive Alfred Hitchcock Presents from NBC in 1987, while The Paper Chase I have moved first from CBS to Showtime in 1983), it marks the first time that the series that moved the first episode run from broadcast to cable television will continue to show episodes on the broadcast network while it's still a first-run program. On December 7, 2007, it was announced that USA Network will continue broadcasting the first episode of WWE Raw until at least 2010.
The premiere of June 1, 2008 from In Plain Sight , starring Mary McCormack, is the highest-grossing series in the USA since the debut of 2006 Psych , with 5.3 million viewers. In early 2009, USA Network acquired network television rights for 24 upcoming and upcoming Universal Pictures movies, including Duplicity , Funny People , Frost/Nixon >, Land of the Missing , Milk , and Play Country .
In 2011, control and majority ownership of NBC Universal's parent-past switch from General Electric to Comcast. Comcast will buy GE's remaining holdings at NBCU two years later. USA Network is considered a key part of the NBC-Comcast merger; Wunderlich Securities analyst Matthew Harrigan projected that the United States contributed $ 9.5 billion to NBCUniversal worth $ 44.8 billion, with NBC contributing only $ 408 million. By 2014, channels have fallen by 18% in views and are out of first place among main cable channels. The US has become NBC Universal's primary asset that accounts for one-third of advertising revenue for NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Group and $ 1 billion in annual revenue over the past few years.
In April 2015, it was announced that WWE Smackdown would move to the US from Syfy's sister network.
"We the Bold" (2016 - present)
In April 2016, USA Network launched a new branding campaign and slogan, "We the Bold". The campaign is designed to reflect the current channel's focus on "rich and captivating stories about heroes who are not likely to challenge the status quo, push the limits and willing to risk everything for what they believe."
The Washington Post feels that re-branding, along with the premiere of 2015 from Mr. Robot , symbolically marks the end of the "blue sky" network era, as USA Network has progressively produced an "intense" series with darker themes. NBCUniversal marketing executive Alexandra Shapiro explained that the "Welcome Character" campaign and related program were a reflection of the "oddly optimistic" atmosphere of the network's key demographics at the time, but that did not match the changing public atmosphere ever since. USA has quietly stopped the "Characters Welcome" tagline in leading to rebranding, which is linked to a program shift led by the premiere of Mr. Robot and Colony ; Variety reports that the new programming strategy is designed to draw the theme of "authenticity, resilience, courage and innovation".
In August 2016, NBCUniversal acquired television rights to the Harry Potter film franchise, including their main films and spin-offs, and other content, from 2018 to 2025. On cable, these films primarily aired by USA Network and Syfy, and the agreement also includes the ability for Universal Parks & amp; Resorts to offer "exclusive content and events" associated with franchising (Universal Parks is already involved in the The Wizarding World of Harry Potter attractions ). The deal succeeded one with Freeform; The Wall Street Journal reported that the deal was valued at about $ 250 million during the agreement, making it one of the high value franchise film deals.
Slogan
- This is a Great Place to Stay (1984-1986)
- All American Entertainment Network (1986-1988)
- Cable Entertainment Network (End of 1988)
- America's Favorite Cable Network (1989-1993)
- Remote Stop Here (1993-1996)
- Drugs for Public Performance (1996-1999)
- You Are Here (1999-2001)
- Have fun (2001)
- Welcome Characters (2005-2016)
- We're Bold (2016-present)
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Programming
USA Network has reached the foothold of the audience with its original programming; this started in the 1990s with early hits like Silk Stalkings and La Femme Nikita, gradually being followed in the next two decades by series like Monk , Psych , Shooter , White Collar , Covert Country , sir. Robots , Settings , Burning Notice and Royal Pains . Most of the original series is a drama script, some of which combine elements of comedy.
In addition to the original production, the network shows syndication reruns from current and previous network settings such as Legal & amp; Order: Special Victim Unit , Legal & amp; Order: Criminal Intent (who spent the last four seasons running it as the first program run in USA) and NCIS . The network also broadcasts movies from the Universal Pictures library and selects movies from other movie studios (such as Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures and Warner Bros Entertainment), aired primarily as part of an overnight and weekend schedule, and sometimes during primetime on the night when native programming or the acquired program marathon is not scheduled.
From 1984 to 2016, the network was the old home of the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. USA is also home to WWE's main cable program Raw ; the series originally aired on the channel from its debut in January 1993 (when the promotion became known as the World Wrestling Federation) until the series moved to TNN (then Spike TV, now Paramount Network) in September 2000, before returning to the channel in October 2005. In 2016, this is also the home of the WWE secondary weekly event, SmackDown (moving from Syfy's sister channel).
Sports programming
USA Network has a long history with sports, since its existence as Madison Square Garden Network. This network brought the Major League Baseball game on Thursday night from 1979 to 1983, and the NHL in the USA lasted from 1979 to 1985. College soccer in the USA lasted from 1980 to 1986 , and its broadcast from Liberty Bowl 1981 was the first college bowl game to be broadcast exclusively on cable television. The NBA on USA also aired from 1979 to 1984, the first time the NBA had cable television partners. WWE professional wrestling company has a long-term relationship with the network; WWF Prime Time Wrestling was broadcast in the US from 1985-1993 until it was replaced by WWE Raw from 1993-2000, and again since 2005. WWE Tuesday night showed WWE SmackDown also began airing on the network in January 2016.
For 17 years from 1981 to 1998, the United States aired a weekly boxing event, Tuesday Night Fights USA, featuring a bout featuring a rising boxer. Tennis in the US aired professional tournaments in the United States from 1984 to 2008, and was the long-term US Open cable home before cable television rights moved to ESPN2 and Tennis Channel in 2009. The PGA Tour in the USA included two opening rounds of the Masters Tournament from 1982 to 2007, Ryder Cup matches from 1989 to 2010, and various other events.
USA Network aired most of the American Football League (then NFL Europe) games in its first two seasons of operation in 1991 and 1992; one innovation introduced for WLAF network broadcasts is a helmet camera.
After the purchase of Vivendi Universal 2004 by NBC, the US sports division soon joined NBC Sports. Since 2004, the network has broadcast certain events from the Olympics, as part of NBC Universal's broadcasting rights broadcast to the Summer and Winter Olympics that allow some corporate cable channel rights to broadcast live Olympic events (some of which will be -aired on tape delay at NBC as part of the primetime and late-night Olympic coverage network). USA Network also brought in games from the International Ice Hockey Federation in 2006 and 2010.
During the 2014 Winter Olympics, the US aired a Premier League football game as a substitute for NBCSN, due to the channel's sincerity to bring coverage of the Olympic event. After a successful ranking with the match, the US began airing Saturday midnight Saturday afternoon during the 2015-16 season. USA has also participated in NBC Sports' broader effort to bring all ten Survival Sunday games on its channels in the second week of May each year. Starting in 2015, USA Network is used as an abundant feed for NHL playoff coverage coverage that can not be aired either by NBCSN or CNBC. In 2016, USA aired three NASCAR races (Sprint Cup Series at Watkins Glen International and two Xfinity Race series at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course and Bristol Motor Speedway) as NBC broadcast the 2016 Summer Olympics.
High definition
USA Network operates a high definition broadcast channel simulation feed, which broadcasts in 1080i resolution format, and is available on almost all pay TV providers.
International
Canada
In February 2007, Shaw Communications filed an application to the Canadian Radio Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), to bring the United States Network in Canada as a foreign service eligible for work by domestic cable and satellite providers (and to enable all networks automatically a common English flower cables from the United States to Canada). However, due to programming rights issues with other Canada-specific channels, certain programs will be subject to blackout restrictions, including WWE Raw .
In September 2007, the CRTC rejected Shaw's request to bring the USA Network in Canada on the grounds that the channel was carrying too many programs that overlapped with the UK's Mystery TV special digital cable channel (later owned by Canwest - later Shaw Media - and earlier, Groupe TVA). However, on Sept. 20, the CRTC stated that they would reconsider their rejection of a qualified overseas train proposal for the US Network at a later date, when Shaw instead offered to bring the channel on the level of Shaw Cable's digital cable system. Apart from this, CRTC has since rejected a restructured proposal on the basis that the US program will be competitive with Mystery TV.
Many original USA programs are currently aired on Showcase or Bravo. The WWE program that airs in the United States also airs on Rogers Media Sportsnet 360.
South America
Regional versions of USA Network previously operated in certain South American countries (such as Argentina and Brazil); in September 2004, most of these services were renamed under Universal Channel banners to take advantage of more reputable brands, and to reduce the awkwardness of channels stamped with other countries' initials.
Logos
References
External links
- Official website
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