America One
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| Type | Broadcast television network |
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| Country | |
| Availability | Defunct |
| Owner | Center Post Networks, LLC |
Launch date | 1995 |
| Dissolved | 2015 |
Picture format | 480i (SDTV) Not yet available in HD. |
| Language | English |
America One was an American television network established in 1995.[1] The network served over 170 LPTV, Class A, Full Power, Cable and Satellite affiliate stations. At least twenty of the stations carry America One's complete 168-hour weekly transmission.
According to its press release in 2013 it broadcast "5500 live and exclusive events, over 100 U.S. Colleges, 70 professional sports teams and hundreds of top professional leagues from Asia and Europe."[2]
It was reported in September of 2014, America One has merged with Youtoo TV. The merger was finalized sometime in Spring of 2015.
Programming
America One aired a mix of entertainment and US & international sports programming in prime time. Cooking, travel and news shows and classic movies makes up the network's day time programming. The network also encouraged preemption of 4 hours per day of programming of local sports, entertainment or news.
America One Sports
America One held the U.S. broadcast rights to the Ontario Hockey League, Australian Football League, the USAR Hooters Pro Cup, certain ECHL games, playoffs in the Indoor Football League, and (on tape delay) the American Hockey League's all star game. America One syndicates many of these broadcasts to various regional sports networks in the US (usually, those not part of the Fox Sports Net family). America One also carries tape-delayed broadcasts of the English Premier League, specifically Bolton Wanderers and Everton. America One also now shows Midwest-based Victory Fighting M.M.A. Usually, these events are on tape delay.
America One had broadcast rights to several rugby league organizations. From 2010 the predominantly Britain-based Super League matches were shown live (rights to that league have since transitioned to Fox Sports 2 (then called Fuel TV) in 2013) in addition to Australasia's National Rugby League games.[3][4] They will also be showing the American National Rugby League Grand final.
Historically, America One had a longstanding partnership with the Canadian Football League that lasted through much of the 2000s; this ended prior to the 2010 season, with NFL Network taking over U.S. broadcast rights; as of 2014, ESPN holds those rights.
In 2012, America One became the first American network to broadcast a Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) game (Hiroshima Toyo Carp home game) on tape delay.[citation needed]
Affiliates
Affiliates received four minutes per hours for ads and end breaks while having to secure cable carriage themselves.[5] One of the stations that was affiliated with America One was KPDC-LP.[6][7]
One Media Corp.
It is owned and operated by privately owned One Media Corp., based in Dallas, Texas which also operates
- ONE World Sports
- One CNNXT, a broadband transport company
- American One Sports.[5]
See also
References
- ^ Cable Network Profiles. PGMedia.tv. Archived from the original on 28 July 2013. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
- ^ http://www.hurstathletics.com/news/2013/10/3/MHOCK_1003134529.aspx
- ^ [1][dead link]
- ^ [2][dead link]
- ^ a b McAvoy, Kim (July 27, 2011). "Diginets Struggle For Place On TV's Frontier". TVNewsCheck. Retrieved August 19, 2014.
- ^ Desert Chapel KPDC CFL Schedule for 2009
- ^ Web Archive - Cable Network Profiles America One