USA Network

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USA Network

Country United States

Broadcast area Nationwide

Slogan All in. All day.

Headquarters 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York

City, New York

Programming

Language(s) English

Spanish

Picture format 1080i HDTV

(downscaled to letterboxed 480i for

the SDTV feed)

Ownership

Owner NBCUniversal Television and Streaming

Parent NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment

Group
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List

History

• September 22, 1977; 43 years

Launched
ago

• (original launch; as UA-

Columbia/MSG)

• April 9, 1980; 41 years ago

• (relaunch; as USA Network)

Former names Madison Square Garden Sports Network

(1977–1980)

Links

Website usanetwork.com

Availability

Cable

Available on most cable Channel slots vary on each operator

providers

Satellite

Dish Network Channel 105 (HD/SD)

DirecTV Channel 242 (HD/SD)

IPTV

Verizon FiOS • Channel 50 (SD)

• Channel 550 (HD)

Prism TV • Channel 124 (SD)

• Channel 1124 (HD)

AT&T U-verse • Channel 124 (SD)

• Channel 1124 (HD)

 Streaming media

YouTube TV, Hulu with Live TV, Sling TV, AT&T TV

USA Network (on-air simply as USA) is an American basic cable channel owned by
the NBCUniversal Television and Streaming division
of Comcast's NBCUniversal through its Cable Entertainment Group subsidiary. It was
originally launched in 1977 as Madison Square Garden Sports Network, one of the
first national sports cable television channels, before being relaunched as USA Network
in 1980. Once a minor player in basic-tier pay television, USA has steadily gained
popularity due to its original programming; it is one of four major subscription-television
networks (with TBS, TNT and FX) that also broadcasts syndicated reruns of current and
former network television series and theatrically-released feature films, as well as
limited sports programming and WWE.
As of September 2018, USA Network is commercially available to about 90.4 million
households (98% of households with pay television) in the US.[1]