America One was an American

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established in 1995 by USFR Media Group through its America One Television subsidiary.Cable Network Profiles
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on 28 July 2013. Retrieved 4 October 2014. The network served over 170

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, Class A, full-power, cable and satellite affiliate stations. It was one of the first TV stations to have online live video streaming before the tech bubble burst in 2000. At least twenty of the stations carried America One's complete 168-hour weekly transmission. In 2003, the network went through a restructuring, being placed within USFR Media Group's VOTH Network, Inc. subsidiary. In 2009, the network came under the ownership of America One Television Network, Inc. due to a shareholder buyout from USFR Media Group. In 2010, America One Television Network merged with B2 Broadcasting to create the

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One Media Corp, Inc., which America One & B2 Broadcasting then became subsidiaries of, while retaining their respective brand identities. 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." It was reported in September 2014 that One Media Corp had sold America One to Center Post Networks, LLC, owner of Youtoo TV. The sale was finalized in the spring of 2015, with Center Post Networks merging the two networks, which replaced both networks by

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. The sports assets were not included in the merger, as they had been spun off to

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and then to

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in 2017.

Programming

America One aired a mix of entertainment and US & international sports programming in

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. Cooking, travel, news shows, and classic movies made up the network's daytime programming. The network also encouraged the preemption of four hours per day of its programming for local sports, entertainment, or news.

America One Sports

America One held the U.S. broadcast rights to the

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, the

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, the

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, playoffs in the

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, and the

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'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

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family). America One also carried tape-delayed broadcasts of the English

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, specifically

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and Everton. America One also showed

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-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

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organizations. From 2010 the predominantly Britain-based

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matches were shown live (rights to that league have since transitioned to

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(then called Fuel TV) in 2013) in addition to Australasia's

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games. They also showed the

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Grand final. Historically, America One had a longstanding partnership with the

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that lasted through much of the 2000s. This partnership ended before the 2010 season when the

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took over U.S. broadcast rights; as of 2014, ESPN holds those rights. In 2012, America One became the first American network to broadcast a

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(NPB) game (

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home game) on tape delay.

Affiliates

Affiliates received four minutes per hour for ads and end breaks while having to secure cable carriage themselves. One of the stations that was affiliated with America One was KPDC-LP.

One Media Corp

From 2010 to 2015, it was owned and operated by One Media Corp, based in

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, which also operates *One CNNXT, a broadband transport company *B2 Broadcasting, a premier provider of reliable and secure international high-definition television transport and pay-per-view broadcasting service

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