AXN is a

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channel brand by

Sony Pictures Television Sony Pictures Television Inc. (abbreviated as SPT) is an American television production company, production and broadcast syndication, distribution studio. Based at the Sony Pictures Studios complex in Culver City, California, it is a division o ...

, which was first launched in September 1997 in Asia. Local versions have since been launched in several parts of the world, including

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, and

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, with some networks operated by others and

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the AXN branding and graphical elements from SPT. Funded through

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fees, AXN primarily airs action genre and reality programming.

AXN Channels

There are various local versions of the channel, as listed below:

Current channels

Former channels

Sister channels

Current channels

Former channels

Notes

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* {{Authority control AXN Sony Pictures Television Television channels and stations established in 1997