Extinct Television Networks

All News Channel

Alpha Repertory Television Service 

America's Collectibles Network (became Jewelry Television 15 October 1993)

America's Store (founded September 1986 as HSN2, HSC Spree turned into America’s Shopping, which slid into America’s Store. Networks became Home Shopping CLUB, one on tv and one on cable)

America’s Health Network (founded 1996, ran thru 2003(?))

American Value Network

American Christian Television Service (ACTS) launched June 1984, merging in September 1988 with Vision Interfaith Satellite Network (itself launched in 1988) as VISN/ ACTS, which became Faith & Values Channel in 1994, changing to Odyssey in September 1996

American Political Channel

America's Voice (became Real America’s Voice 2006))

America's Talking (formed 04 July 199x. became MSNBC)

America’s Disability Channel (into Kaleidoscope)

America’s Marketplace

American Catalogue Shoppers Network (Cox)

American Health Network (into The Health Network)

American Independent Network (became Urban American Network)

AmericanLife Television Network (became Youtoo)

American Broadcasting System (40s. Became ABC)

American Sports Network (dedicated 08 January 2016, into Stadium 06 September 2017)

American Transport. Tv Net. (Trucker TV)

Animania HD

Appalachian Community Service Network (became TLC)

Arts (Alpha Repertory Television Service. into A & E)

AT&T Sports Network (RSNs)

ATV: Advertising Television

Auction HD

Axon (Gen. X tv. Was Xtv , project cancelled May 1996)

  Baseball Network (MLB-prod. on NBC & ABC, 1994 & 1995)

BayTV (local SF)

The Beauty Channel

BET On Jazz (became BET Jazz)

BET Jazz (became BET J)

BET J (became Centric)

Black News Channel (2020-2022)

The Box (aka Jukebox Network. Into MTV2)

The Box Tejano

Burly Bear Network (bought 2002 by National Lampoon)

C1TV

C3D Television Network

Cable Health Network (into Lifetime)

Cable Health Channel (founded 93 by Jake Steinfeld, as part of IFE, became FitTV September 1995. Steinfeld got $500M in 1997 as Fox absorbed IFE and Fox/ Liberty Sports got CHC)

Cable Music Channel (Turner effort, into VH1)

Cable Value Network (founded 1986, merged with Quality Value Cable 1989 to form QVC)

Calliope (into US)

CalSPAN

Campus College television (became Zion Networks)

Caravan of Values

Career TV Network

Career Television Network

Catholic Cable Network

CBN (Launched April 1977. Became Family Channel 1989, Fox Family Channel 1996, ABC Family Channel 2002, Freeform 2010ish)

CBS Cable

CBS Eye On People (formed 96 by Discovery & CBS, lasted until 98)

Centric (became BET her)

Channel America

Channel Earth (circa 1997)

Children’s Channel (became Children’s Cable Network)

Children’s Cable Network

Chiller (NBC 2007-17. Too hard for NBC to find carriage)

Christian Television Network

The Church Channel became Hillsong Channel 2016

Classic Arts Network became Classic Arts Showcase

Classic Sports Network now ESPN Classic Sports. Bought for $180 million in 1997

CN8 – The Comcast Network (regional 03 December 1996 - 06 January 2009. Came to be called NBC Sports)

CNN Airport Channel (1991-2021)

CNN Checkout Channel (1991-1993)

CNNfn (founded 1995. Shuttered December 2004)

CNN Headline News (became HLN)

CNN Sports Illustrated (ASN)

College Television Network (became MTVU)

Comedy Channel became Comedy Central

Community College Network

Consumer Discount Network

CourtTV became TRUtv 01 January 2008

Current TV (became Al Jazeera America in 2013)

Crazy Eddie World Of Home Entertainment Shopping Network

CTV: Comedy TV (became Comedy Channel)

Daytime (into Lifetime)

Direct 2 U Network

DirecTV Sports Network (RSNs)

Discovery Civilization Channel (2000. Still on in Canada)

Discovery Health Channel (became the Oprah Winfrey Network)

Discovery Kids (became the hub 2010)

Discovery Music Network

Discovery People (1998- 1999, formerly CBS Eye On People. Became Discovery Civilization)

Discovery Science (became Science Channel in 2002)

Discovery Times (NYTimes buys half Discovery Civ, doc-heavy new channel. 2002- 06)

Discovery Wings (became Military Channel)

Divine HD

DIY Network (became Magnolia Network)

Du Mont Television Network

Early Childhood Network

Ecology Channel

Educating Everyone

Edge TV (Canadian digital channel, folded)

The Entertainment Channel (into A & E)

Epics [part of Voom HD]

Epix (became MGM+ 15 January 2023)

Equator HD

Escapade (R rated sister of Bravo, bowed 1980. Into former four-hour block programmer Playboy Channel)

[Discovery] Eye On People 

Faith Broadcasting Network

Faith TV (became My Family TV)

Family Channel (became Fox Family Channel)

Family Room HD

Fanfare

Fantasy Unrestricted Network

Fashion Channel (TCI/United Cable venture. Discontinued)

Festival (premium movie. 1986- 1988)

Film Fest HD

Financial News Network (CNBC bought its remains out of bankruptcy. November 1981- 1992)

FitTV (became Discovery Fit and Health)

Fox Movie Studio (planned name, fXM used instead)

For Family Channel (became ABC Family Channel)

Fox Family Boyz Channel

Fox Family Girlz Channel

Fox Reality Channel (2005-2010)

Fox Sports Network (RSNs)

Fox Sports World became Fox Soccer Channel

fXM became Fox Movie Channel 01 March 2000

Fuel became Fox Sports 2

G4 (became Esquire Channel)

G4techtv (became just G4)

Gallery HD

Game Play HD

Game Show Network (became GSN)

[Lou Maletta’s] Gay Cable Network

Gay Entertainment Television

GEMS (female skew-er bought 2000 and became Mun2)

Global Broadcasting Network (KPOC Ponca City OK for about 3 weeks in 2001)

Golden American Network

Golden Eagle Broadcasting (became GEB Network)

Gospel Music Network

Gospel Network (?)

Green Channel (became HBO)

GRTV established 1995, acquired July 1999 for $302K cash down and $4M later

Gunslinger HD

Guy TV HD

Ha Ha HD

Hallmark Movie Channel (became Hallmark Movies & Mysteries)

Hawkvision (Chicago area)

H-TV (became History Channel)

HD Theater (Discovery replaced it with wealthy male-skewing Velocity)

HDNet

HDNews

Health Network formed 1999 by Fox and web America’s Health Channel. Purportedly almost became WebMD tv in 2000. Sold to Discovery in September 2001 for $255 million, became FitTV October 2003 

Hillsong Channel (became TBN Inspire 01 January 2022)

Hit Video USA from K05HU. Nomo national signal after 1991

HITN (Hispanic Independent Television Network. Remnants became Soprosa!) 

-Hispanic Television Network (?)

Hollywood Treasures Shopping Network (formed 1997, became National TV Liquidators)

Home Theatre Network (Group W family fare)

Home Entertainment Network

Horse Racing Television (aka HRTV, f. 03. Became TVG2 in October 2015)

Hospital Network

How-To Channel

HSN 2 (became America's Shopping)

Hughes

Ice Channel (shuttered late 2004/ early 2005)

InCourt (into CourTV)

INdTV (became Current)

International Channel (became AZN Television)

Investigation: Discovery born 2006 from Discovery Times ashes

JC Penney Television Shopping Channel (formed October 1987, channel space sold 1991 to QVC, which used it as QVC Fashion)

JokeVision

Jones Education Network

Kingdom Vision Network

Knowledge TV

Kung Fu HD

LAB HD

Liberty Sports Network (RSNs)

Live Well HD (became Live Well Network)

Live Well Network (became Localish)

Macy’s TV (effort abandoned 1994)

Main Street Television Network

Majestic HD

Major Broadcast Cable Network, aka MBC (became Black Family Channel)

MBC News

MHD [Mtv High Definition?] became Palladia

Mind Extension University

Monitor Channel

Monsters HD

MOOV HD

MovieTime (became e!)

Moviewatch (became ReelzChannel)

MTV Hits became NickMusic

MTVX (rocker became hip hop MTV Jams)

MuchMusic (became Fuse)

Musivision

MyFamily TV (became Family Channel)

MyPetTelevisionNetwork (veterinary offices)

NTV (became Nantucket Plum TV)

NASA Select (became NASA TV)

The Nashville Network (became The National Network)

National Access Television

National College TeleVision

National Community Network

National Education Television

National Empowerment Television (became The Renaissance Network)

National Jewish Television

National Madison Square Garden Network (1977 - 1980. Became USA)

The National Network (became Spike TV)

NBA.com TV (".com" dropped)

nbc Canal de Noticas

NBC Sports Network (01 January 2012 - 31 December 2021

NBC Weather Plus (shuttered digital service)

Network One (1993- 1997)

New Kid City (into Noggin)

New Urban Entertainment

Newsworld International (became INdTV)

90s Channel (became Free Speech TV)

Noggin

Nostalgia Television (became Goodlife Television)

NTA Film Network

NUE TV

Odyssey (overnight video service of 1985)

Odyssey (Jim Henson Productions, with partner Hallmark; became Hallmark Channel)

OLN (became Versus)

Olympic Channel (01 July 2017 - 30 September 2022)

OnQ (merged into Q2 October 1994)

Operation Prime Time

Outdoor Life Network (became OLN)

Overmyer Network (became United Network)

Palladia (became MTV Live 01 February 2016)

Partner Stations Network (suspended)

Paxson Television

The Pet Channel

PBSKidsGo! (cancelled)

PBS Kids Sprout became Sprout

Planet Central Television

Pleasure Channel

Popcorn

Premiere (early 1980: Getty Oil, MCA/U, Paramount, Columbia and Fox. PPV, certain films by partners on Premiere nine months before other exhibitors)

Prevue Channel (Became TV Guide Channel)

Prevue Guide (became Prevue Channel)

Prime Ticket (RSNs)

Prime Time Tonight

Puppy Channel

Queer Television Network (died 03 May 2006)

QVC Fashion

The Racing Network (four channels. 30 July 2001)

Rave HD

Rejoice TV (dead in 2018)

Renaissance Network (became America’s Voice in 1997)

Romance Classics (became W.E.)

RSVP (ESPN/ABC/Getty ppv)

RT America (nee Russia Today. Closed March 2022)

Rural Alaska Television Network (became Alaska Rural Communications Service to 235 LPTVs

Rush HD

S: The Shopping Channel (Fingerhut’s Las Vegas operation, stillborn 94)

Salon TV Network (spas & salons)

Satellite Program Network (TCI sold slot 1980, became elderly-skewing Tempo TV under NBC)

Science Channel became just “Science” 08 June 2011

Score

Shop At Home (shuttered June 2006)

Shop TV Network became the JC Penney Shopping Network

ShopNBC

Silent Network (into Kaleidescope)

Simulcast Racing Network

Singlevision Entertainment

Sky Merchant (Jones Intercable)

Sleuth (became Cloo)

Smile of child became Smile

Snap! (became ShopNBC)

SoapCity (Sony’s internet-first soap opera replay)

Solutions USA (nee Action America)

SonBeam Channel became 3ABN Kids Network

Soulbeat (KSTB)

Spike TV (became the Paramount Network)

Spotlight (into Showtime/ TMC)

Spanish Cable Network

Spanish International Network (1986)

Speedvision (became Speed)

Speed (became Fox Sports Network 1)

The Sports & Shopping Network

Sports Channel (RSNs)

Sports Network, Inc (became Hughes Television Network)

Sports News Network

Sprout bought by NBCUniversal off partner PBS to become Universal Kids on 09SEP2017

StarCast

Star Channel (bowed February 1973) became TMC

Star Television Network

Syndicated Entertainment Television (1996)

Sweepstakes Channel

Talk Television Network

Talkline Communications Tv Net

techtv (became part of g4techtv)

TeleFrance USA (died 1982)

Telefutura (became UniMas)

TeleNoticias

Teleshop (died with FNN sister)

Television Auction Channel

Tempo TV, nee SPN. Became CNBC in 1990, after sports/ business mix nixed

Tempo Galleria

Treasure HD

Tube Music Network

tv!

TVG became Fan Duel Network July 2022)

TVG2 became FanDuel Racing September 2022)

TV Guide Channel (became TV Guide Network)

TV Guide Network (became TVGN)

TVGN (became Pop)

TVS Television Network

Ultra HD

Unisphere Broadcasting System (aborted plan)

United Network

United Paramount Network (became UPN)

Universal Sports (16 June 2008- 16 November 2015)

University Network

United Paramount Network (became CW)

Urban America Television

USA Travel Network

ValueVision (became Snap! then ShopNBC)

Variety Entertainment Network

Velocity (became Motor Trend Network)

Versus (September 2006 to 01 January 2012. Became NBC Sports Network

VH1 Mega Hits (satellite space given to Logo)

Vice HD

Video Hits One (became VH1)

Video Shopping Mall (passed away quietly in the early 1990s)

Voom HD

Voom HD Movies

Voom News Bytes HD (became HDNews)

WB

WebMD TV

The Wrestling Network

Western Microwave (TCI principals relayed net TV to far-flung affil.s along a 130-mile microwave route from Salt Lake City to Great Falls Montana. At each microwave tower, the signal was fed to cable TV outfits.)

World Championship Sports Network (2005-2008. Became Universal Sports)

World Cinema HD

World Entertainment Network

World Link Television (became Link TV)

World of God Broadcasting Network

WorldNet TV

World Sport HD

WYSIWYG

You TV (1988- 1989)

Youtoo (became Youtoo America)

Z Channel (Los Angeles area 1974- 1989)

ZDTV (Ziff-Davis TV became techtv)

Z Music

ZTV Music Network