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- USA_Broadcasting abstract "USA Broadcasting (USAB) was an American television broadcasting company owned by the veteran entertainment industry executive Barry Diller. This company was the over-the-air broadcasting arm of USA Networks.USAB dates back to the mid-1990s when Diller purchased Silver King Broadcasting and its parent company, Home Shopping Network, Inc., from Lowell W. \"Bud\" Paxson and Roy Speer. Paxson and Speer had assembled the group to expand Home Shopping Network onto broadcast television. The stations carried the Home Shopping Club (now America's Store). Home Shopping Network, Inc. later brought Universal's cable/TV production units, renaming them USA Networks, Inc., and its broadcast television subsidiary USA Broadcasting in 1998.Diller planned to remove shopping shows from most of the stations' broadcast days and replace them with local and syndicated programs. He wanted to tie each of the stations very closely to the communities they served, and to open up opportunities for locally produced programs.By 2000, four stations were transformed into Diller's new model: WAMI-TV (WAMI \"Whammy\" 69) in Miami, WHOT (\"Hotlanta 34\") in Atlanta, WHUB (\"Hub\" 66) in Boston, and KSTR (\"K-Star\" 49) in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. WAMI and KSTR aired local news, talk shows and sporting events. WHOT and WHUB broadcast syndicated programming as well as local sports. WAMI broadcast Miami Heat basketball and Florida Marlins baseball games. WHOT and KSTR also carried professional basketball games of, respectively, the Atlanta Hawks and Dallas Mavericks. WHUB acquired the rights to the annual Beanpot hockey tournament between four of Boston's colleges and also rights to Boston University's men's ice hockey games. HSC/America's Store continues to broadcast late at night and on weekends.There were also plans to convert stations in New York (proposed callsign: WORX, \"The Works\"), Los Angeles (proposed callsign: KLIK, \"Click\") and Chicago (proposed callsign: WNDE, \"Windy\") to the new local-TV model. However, due to financial troubles in 2001, USAB had scrapped those plans and reduced programming on its existing independent stations. In the same year, Diller suddenly put the entire station roster up for sale. Disney/ABC and Univision were the companies in the running to buy the stations, but Univision outbid Disney in a close race. In August 2001, Univision purchased the stations and converted them into Spanish language outlets. Some affiliated with Univision, but most joined its new sister network, Telefutura (now UniMás), which was launched in January 2002. Diller still owns HSN and other interactive and shopping services such as TicketMaster and Expedia.com.".
- USA_Broadcasting extinctionDate "2002-01-14".
- USA_Broadcasting extinctionYear "2002".
- USA_Broadcasting fate "Stations sold toUnivision Communications".
- USA_Broadcasting foundingYear "1986".
- USA_Broadcasting industry Production_company.
- USA_Broadcasting industry Terrestrial_television.
- USA_Broadcasting keyPerson Barry_Diller.
- USA_Broadcasting keyPerson Bud_Paxson.
- USA_Broadcasting keyPerson Roy_Speer.
- USA_Broadcasting location Newark,_New_Jersey.
- USA_Broadcasting parentCompany USA_Network.
- USA_Broadcasting product Terrestrial_television.
- USA_Broadcasting regionServed United_States.
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- USA_Broadcasting wikiPageWikiLink St._Petersburg,_Florida.
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- USA_Broadcasting wikiPageWikiLink The_Walt_Disney_Company.
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