National Entertainment Network

The National Entertainment Network, commonly known as NEN, was a broadcast television network owned by a joint venture of RB Media (predecessor to GloboRB) and Stratus Communications.RB Media owned 70% of the network, while Stratus Communications owned the remaining 30%. Originally founded in 1961 as an independent station in New York City (WNTN-TV), the network made its national debut in 1970 as WNTN National ServiceMany television industries have considered it to be a "superstation", but that term was not introduced until 1976-77.. The network rebranded as National Entertainment Network in 1975. NEN aired original programming, mainly including comedy and most noticably its highly-successful soap operas, as well as syndicated programming. 
In 2000, RB Media, Stratus Communications, and NEN's then-part owner NBCNBC acquired 30% of the network in 1996. Following their acquisition of Telemundo in 2001, NBC sold its share to RB Media, giving the latter a 70% control of NEN., announced the merger of NEN and Stratus' cable network TV WorldTV World's cable and satellite spectrum was utilized for Freemont's national feed.. First named "The Free Project", the companies had the idea to shift the new network's target audience to 18-34 from NEN's demographic. In 2001, the new network was set to be named "Freemont" and planned to debut later that year. Following the September 11 attacks, its launch was pushed back to 2002. On the evening of January 7th of that year, Freemont was launched, ending the 27-year run of NEN.
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