USA Network

USA Network

Country	United States
Broadcast area	Nationwide
Headquarters	30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York City
Programming
Language(s)	English Spanish
Picture format	1080i HDTV (downscaled to letterboxed 480i for the SDTV feed)
Ownership
Owner	UA-Columbia Cablevision (1977–1981) Time Inc. (1981–1987) Paramount/Viacom (1981–1997) NBCUniversal Media Group
Parent	NBCUniversal
Sister channels	List CNBC E! MSNBC NBC Bravo Oxygen Universal Kids Syfy
History
Launched	September 22, 1977; 47 years ago (1977-09-22) (as MSG) April 9, 1980; 44 years ago (1980-04-09) (re-launch as USA Network)
Former names	Madison Square Garden Sports Network (1977–1980)
Links
Website	usanetwork.com
Availability
Streaming media
Streaming Services	YouTube TV, Hulu with Live TV, Sling TV, DirecTV Stream, FuboTV

USA Network (or simply USA) is an American basic cable television channel owned by the NBCUniversal Media Group division of Comcast's NBCUniversal. It was originally launched in 1977 as Madison Square Garden Sports Network, one of the first national sports cable television channels.

It was relaunched under its current name on April 9, 1980, and in the years since then, USA steadily gained popularity through its original programming, a long-established partnership with WWF/WWE and, for many years, limited sports programming. USA would increase its sports coverage significantly in 2022, after the shutdown of NBCSN, and now serves as the main cable component of NBC Sports.

As of November 2023^[update], USA Network is available to approximately 70,000,000 pay television households in the United States-down from its 2011 peak of 100,000,000 households.^[1]