America One
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| Type | Broadcast television network |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Availability | Defunct |
| Slogan | Sports & Entertainment |
| Owner | Center Post Networks, LLC |
Launch date | 1995 |
| Dissolved | 2015 |
| 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. It was one of the first TV stations to have online live video streaming of their station before the tech bubble burst in 2000. 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 2014 that America One had merged with Youtoo TV. The merger was finalized sometime in Spring 2015, resulting in both networks being replaced by Youtoo America.
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, the ECHL, playoffs in the Indoor Football League, and the American Hockey League's all star game. America One syndicated 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 carried tape-delayed broadcasts of the English Premier League, specifically Bolton Wanderers and Everton. America One also showed Midwest-based Victory Fighting M.M.A. Usually, those events were on tape delay.
In 1999, America One broadcast NWA Wildside pro wrestling.
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.
Affiliates
Affiliates received four minutes per hour 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
Up until 2015, it was 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[5]
- B2 Broadcasting[8]
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
- ↑ Archived February 8, 2010 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Archived March 16, 2010 at the Wayback Machine
- 1 2 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
- ↑ http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20101130006637/en/America-B2-Broadcasting-Merge-Media-Corp-Holding#.Vc5fA5fOZdA
External Links
- American One website (still active, but not functional)
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