Live Well Network
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| Type | subchannel network |
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| Country | US |
| Availability | 67% (past peak) 22.66% (current) |
| Slogan | Find Balance, Feel Beautiful |
| Owner |
ABC Owned Television Stations (Disney–ABC Television Group) |
| Parent | ABC |
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Key people
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Peggy Allen (vice president) Rebecca Campbell (ABC TV Stations president) |
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Launch date
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April 27, 2009 |
| Dissolved |
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Former names
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Live Well HD Network |
| Callsigns | LWN |
| Affiliation | ABC |
| Affiliates | See below |
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Former affiliations
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See below |
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Official website
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livewellnetwork |
Live Well Network is a home, health and lifestyle high definition digital subchannel network owned by ABC Owned Television Stations, part of the Disney–ABC Television Group, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. The network launched as Live Well HD Network on April 27, 2009, and is available on digital subchannels of all ABC-owned-and-operated stations.
The channel aired home, health and lifestyle programming and was similar to Ion Life, which launched in 2007, with American Public Television's Create serving as its main competitor. The network ended most national distribution on April 15, 2015, with Media General being the last to remove the network on their stations on May 29. Live Well Network continues to air in HD on the second subchannel of the eight ABC-owned television stations. However, it will not produce any new episodes of Live Well programming.
ABC Owned Television Stations (ABCOTS) began development of a potential subchannel network in 2007. To appeal to non-ABC affiliates, it was decided not to use ABC branding in any way.
Live Well Network was launched on April 26, 2009 in high definition on ABC's owned-and-operated stations as part of the stations' subchannels. Initially, the network only had three hours of original programming that are looped throughout the day which was all sourced from ABC stations. In September 2010, Belo became the first non-ABC group to sign on with the network, adding it to their stations on November 8, 2010. Not all of the Belo-owned stations originally aired the network in widescreen (unlike the ABC group), which led the network to drop the "HD" from its branding to become simply "Live Well Network".
Two LWN owned and operated stations, WJRT and WTVG, were sold to Lilly Broadcasting closing on April 1, 2011. On May 26, 2011, it was announced that a deal has been reached to air the network on nine Scripps-owned stations (several, but not all of them, are ABC affiliates). In August 2011, the network picked up CBC Television's Steven and Chris for broadcast starting that fall.
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