Zenith

The Zenith Network (stylized as ZENITH) is an American pay television channel owned by a joint venture of Mas Media and New York-based company Complex Media. Operating under the creative direction of Complex Media's Brent Rollins and Mas Media's Mariela Rodriguez-Johnson, daughter of Wilmer K. Rodriguez (the co-founder of Rodriguez-Baughman Media, predecessor to Mas Media), Zenith is focused on style, pop culture, music, sports, lifestyle-oriented documentaries and reality series aimed towards millennials.
Zenith was previously known as Nitrogen since 1996. From that year until 2016, the channel aired science programs and would later compete with the Science Channel. The channel was relaunched in 2016 to its current genre.
== History ==
=== As "Nitrogen" (1996-2018) ===
==== 1996-2016: Nitrogen TV - "All Science, Every Day" ====
Launched on February 1, 1996, the channel focused on the fields of space, ufology, manufacturing, technology, and animal science. It competed with the Science Channel. 
==== 2016-2018: Joint Venture with Complex, and re-launch ====
On the channel's 20th anniversary, which is February 2016, Mas Media's predecessor Rodriguez-Baughman Media, had signed an agreement with Complex Media for them to hold a 50% stake of the channel as well as launch programs to the millennial audience. Both companies ran Newspaper ads, billboards, and TV commercials, only containing the network's new logo and a phone number that, when called, invited viewers to contribute answers to questions. The channel was re-launched to its current format on September 1st, at 7:00 am ET, starting off with a 6-hour long commercial-free program containing Hip-Hop and Pop music videos. 
=== As "Zenith" (2018-Present) ===
On October 21, 2018, Nitrogen was renamed "Zenith". According to Brent Rollins and Mariela Rodriguez-Johnson, Nitrogen became very successful since its 2016 relaunch and it deserved the "Zenith" name, and Zenith meant "something that is most powerful or successful".
Nitrogen 2016 logo.png|Previous logo (2016-2018)
 
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