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