User:WizardDuck/Fictional ownership lists
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Hey people!
All this is fictional, okay? So don't be posting stuff on articles that say "Disney has spun off ABC into ABC Companies and they dont own it anymore", okay? Okay.
[edit] ABC Cable Networks (a division of "ABC Inc.", spun off from Disney when "they don't want it anymore")
[edit] What's changed?
- ESPNEWS has rebranded to "ABC News Now" because ABC wants to have a secondary outlet for its news programming.
- ESPN Classic has been sold to the National Hockey League, and renamed "NHL Network", being an America-centric version of the Canadian version.
- ESPNU has been shut down because they couldn't find a buyer.
- A&E, The History Channel, related networks, and the Lifetime networks were spun off into "A&E Networks".
[edit] Disney Networks
[edit] What's changed?
- ABC and related networks have been spun off.
- ABC Family's channel space was sold back to Fox; the shows make up Disney's Jetix channel.
[edit] CBS Cable Networks (excluding Showtime)
[edit] What's changed?
- CBS News, having sagging ratings partly attributable to a lack of a cable presence, bought CourtTV and revamped it into "CBS News Channel".
- CBS Sports Network is launched.
- CSTV becomes CBS College Sports.
- CBS Spot, a general entertainment channel culling from the CBS Paramount library, is launched.
[edit] NBC Cable Networks (separate from Universal)
[edit] What's changed?
- NBC buys Versus and The Golf Channel from Comcast.
[edit] Universal Networks
[edit] What's changed?
- Universal Networks buys E! from Comcast.
[edit] Turner Broadcasting (separated from Time Warner, after breakup into four companies)
- TBS Superstation
- TNT
- CNN
- Headline News
- Cartoon Network
- Cartoon Network Classic
- Adult Swim Channel
- Cartoon Network's Toonami: The Channel (or simply Toonami)
- Turner Classic Movies
[edit] What's changed?
- Turner launches a 24-hour Toonami channel.
- Cartoon Network and Adult Swim split into two 24-hour networks.
[edit] Summary of breakup
- At the behest of the my fantasy la-dee-dah world, Time Warner broke up into four companies:
- Warner Communications, which consists of Warner Bros. Pictures, New Line Cinema, DC Comics, Warner Bros. Television, Warner Home Video, The CW (remaining 50% and stations purchased from CBS), HBO, and AOL's content assets.
- TW Multimedia, which consists of TW Cablesystems, AOL's software assets (rebranded as "Netscape Suite"), and TW Cablesystems's regional news channels.
- Time Inc, which consists of all of the non-DC publishing assets of Time Warner.
- Turner Broadcasting, which consists of all the non-HBO cable content assets of Time Warner.
[edit] MTV-Paramount Networks
- MTV
- M2
- MTVU
- VH1
- Nickelodeon/Nick at Nite (the OLD version, not this new ABC Family-esque crap)
- The N
- TV Land
- Comedy Central
- Paramount Network
- The Digital Suite: MTV Hits, MTV Latino, VH1 Classic, VH1 Jams, VHX, Nick Jr., Nicktoons TV/Nick Rewind, Comedy Central 2
[edit] What's changed?
- Spike TV and CMT have been sold to News Corporation.
- Noggin is renamed Nick Jr., ending the block on Nickelodeon after a 20-year run.
- CMT Pure Country has been replaced with Comedy Central 2, and Logo has been replaced by a general entertainment channel, Paramount Network (a basic cable channel).
- MTV Jams becomes VH1 Jams, and VH1 Soul becomes VHX (an MTVX revival)
- The long-awaited Nick Rewind channel launches as a timeshare with Nicktoons TV (which is the same thing as pre-2005 Nicktoons Network). NTTV runs from 6AM-10PM and NRW runs from 10PM-6AM.
- MTV Tr3s has become MTV Latino.
- Viacom itself has been renamed "MTV-Paramount", and split into three units, Paramount Entertainment, MTV-Paramount Networks, and MTV-Paramount Digital Media.
[edit] Fox Cable Networks
- FX
- Fox News Channel
- Fox Business Channel
- Fox Sports Net
- Fox Soccer Channel
- Fox Family
- Fuel TV
- Spike TV
- CMT
[edit] What's changed?
- Fox College Sports has been merged into FSN.
- Spike TV and CMT have been bought from Viacom.
