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Spike (TV network)

Spike
Spike logo 2015.svg
Launched March 7, 1983; 34 years ago (1983-03-07)
Owned by Viacom (Viacom Media Networks)
Picture format
Slogan
  • The Ones To Watch (general)
  • Fighters First (Sports programming)
Language English
Broadcast area
  • United States
  • Canada
  • Australia
  • United Kingdom
Headquarters Los Angeles, California, United States
Formerly called
  • The Nashville Network/TNN (1983–2000)
  • The National Network/TNN (2000–2001)
  • The New TNN (2001–2003)
  • Spike TV (2003–2006)
Sister channel(s)
Website www.spike.com
Availability
Satellite
DirecTV
  • 241 SD/HD
  • 1241 VOD
Dish Network 241 SD/HD
Bell TV (Canada) 628 SD
Shaw Direct (Canada) 584 / 268
  • G-18
  • North America
  • 4040 V / 29270 / 3/4
  • VCT 766 / Channel 170 (Canada)
  • (Transponder 17)
  • 4060 H / 29270 / 3/4
  • VCT 182 / Channel 530 (East)/930 (West)
  • (Transponder 18)
Cable
Verizon FiOS
  • 554 HD
  • 54 SD
Rogers Cable (Canada) 279
Seaside Communications (Canada) 15
IPTV
AT&T U-verse
  • 1145 HD
  • 145 SD
Optik TV (Canada)
  • 390 HD
  • 9390 SD
VMedia (Canada) 279 SD

Spike (formerly and popularly known as Spike TV) is an American cable and satellite channel launched on March 7, 1983, owned by Viacom through Viacom Media Networks and based in Los Angeles, California. Spike is a general entertainment channel featuring a mix of various programs and movies, primarily oriented towards a male adult audience.

Spike's programming reaches approximately 98.7 million pay television subscribers in the United States as well as Canada. As of 2006, Spike's viewers were almost half women (45%), although many of them are reported to be watching it with male partners or family members, or were watching the CSI franchise. The average age of the channel's viewers was 42 years old.

As of February 2015, approximately 93.4 million households in the U.S. (80% of those with television) receive Spike.

On February 8, 2017 Viacom announced that Spike will be rebranded as the Paramount Network sometime early next year.

Spike was launched on March 7, 1983 as The Nashville Network, a country living and country music-themed television channel that originally operated as a joint venture of WSM, Inc. (a subsidiary of National Life and Accident Insurance Company) and Group W Satellite Communications. TNN operated from the now-defunct Opryland USA theme park near Nashville, Tennessee. Country Music Television (CMT), founded by Glenn D. Daniels, beat TNN's launch by two days, robbing them of the claim of the "first country music cable television network." TNN's flagship shows included Nashville Now, The Statler Brothers Show, American Sports Cavalcade and Grand Ole Opry Live. Nashville Now and the Grand Ole Opry were broadcast live from Opryland USA.


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