Key facts
- Country
- United States
- Broadcast area
- United States and Canada
- Headquarters
- 229 West 43rd Street , New York City
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Picture format
- 1080i HDTV , 4K (upscaled from 1080i, special occasions ), (downscaled to letterboxed 480i for the SDTV feed)
- Owner
- Versant
- Parent
- UA-Columbia Cablevision (1977–1981) Madison Square Garden Corp. (1977–81) Time Inc. (1981–87) Paramount Pictures (1981–97) MCA Inc. (1981–96) Seagram (1996–97) USA Networks Inc. (1997–2002) Vivendi Universal (2002–04) NBCUniversal (2004–2026) Versant (2026–present)
- Sister channels
- Golf Channel CNBC E! MS NOW Oxygen Syfy
- Launched
- September 22, 1977 ; 48 years ago ( 1977-09-22 ) (as MSG) April 9, 1980 ; 46 years ago ( 1980-04-09 ) (re-launch as USA Network)
- Founder
- Kay Koplovitz
- Former names
- Madison Square Garden Sports Network (1977–1980)
- Website
- usanetwork.com
- Affiliated streaming service
- Peacock
- Livestream services
- DirecTV Stream , FuboTV , Hulu + Live TV , Sling TV , YouTube TV
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Headquarters
- 30 Rockefeller Plaza
- Owned by
- Versant
- Parent organization
- Versant
- Official website
- www.usanetwork.com
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- topic's main category
- Category:USA Network
- inception
- 1980-04-09
- Commons category
- USA Network
- official shop URL
- usanetworkstore.com
- language used
- English language
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Encyclopedic overview
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USA Network (stylized as usa) is an American basic cable television channel owned by Versant. It was launched on September 22, 1977 as Madison Square Garden Sports Network, one of the first national sports cable television channels.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “USA Network” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.