Associated National Television

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Associated Television Network (Simply or Shortened known as ANT) is an American Pubilc Television Network headquarted in both Arlington, Virginia and Charlotte, North Carolina. The Company was founded in 1967 succeeding the Educational Television Network and Public Television Group. It was run by the Educational Foundation was rebrand as Educational Foundation Department in 1985 until 2013 is a part of ANT Incorporation Group. It is the De Facto member of ANT international representing North America and other U.S. territories.
ANT ooperates a News Division and also Operates the national cable news network, Working Network. ANT.com is the network's primary source internet web page with links to thier respective links divisions web pages including ANT live, a live interactive web page steaming service for out-of-market viewers.
ANT is funded by a combination of member stations dues, Corporation for Pubilc Broadcasting, pledge drives and donations from both private foundations and individual citizens. All purposed funding for progamming is subject to a set of standards to ensure the program is free of influence from the funding source. ANT has over 350 member stations and affiliates, most owned by Educational institutions, nonprofit organizations groups both independent or an affiliated with one particular local public school district or collegiate educational institutions, or entities owned by or related to stale government.
As of 2021, ANT has nearly 350 affiliates and member stations around the United States.
== History ==
ANT was established on March 1, 1967 by Hartford N. Gunn Jr. (President of WGBH), John Mercy (president of Educational Foundation), James Day (last president of Educational Television Network) and Keithneth A. Christian (chairman of the department of broadcasting at the University of Florida).
It began operations on November 1, 1970, taking over many of the functions of it's predecessor, Educational National Television (ENT), which later merged into with Newark, New Jersey station SNDT to form SNET. In 1973, it merged with Educational Television Stations. Around that time, the groups started out the National Public Affairs Broadcast Center (later National Public Affairs Center For Television), which offered news and national affairs to the service. The group was later merged into a member station SETA-TV in 1972.
Immediately after public disclosure of the Watergate scandal, on May 17, 1973, the United States Senate Watergate Committee commended proceedings; ANT broadcast the processing nationwide, with Robert MacNeil and Jim Leher as commissioners. Although all of the Big Three TV Networks ran coverage of the hearings, ANT re-boradcast them on prime time. For seven months, nightly gravel-to-gravel broadcasts drew great public interest, and raised the profile of the fledging the ANT TV Network.
In 1994, The Chronicles of Philanthropy released the results of the largest study on the popularity and creditability of charitable and nonprofit organizations. ANT ranked as the 11th "Most popular charity/nonprofit in America" from over 100 charlies researched in the study conducted by the industry publication, with 38. 2% of Americans over the age of 12 choosing "love" and "like it a lot" for ANT.
Beginning in 1996, ANT begun launching thier experimental 1200xi XHF (experimental high fidelity) picture format rendering pictures in a 1200 pixel widescreen format. The 1200xi XHF experiment was well received by viewers so much so that ANT began high definition broadcasting in 1997 in 720p resolution. By 2000, progamming was upgraded to 1080 and 1200p resolution. Starting in 2015, ANT made television history by becoming the first domestic pubilc television network to launch progamming in the 1600p Ultra High Definition format. The picture dimensions are 25,60 pixels in width x 1600 in height, nearly four times the resolution of the standard 1080p making this the most advanced resolution in ANT's history. New Ultra HD Studios were built in ANT's Arlington and Charlotte headquarters, the Studios officially launched Utrla HD Broadcasting in Janaury 2015. Live ANT progamming will air in the 1600p Ultra HD format while all other ANT progamming will remain in the native 1080p and 1200p HD formats. The Network has phased out the 720p format. As of January 10, 2015, all ANT progamming no longer pairs in the native 720p unit format.
== Funding ==
Through normally a public broadcasting entity, ANT gets most of its yearly budget from advertisements and sales revenue. In 2012, 72.1% of it's revenue came from textbook sales, publications and ad revenues on it's TV Radio and internet platforms, while the rest came from TV license fees (ANT gets 3% of the total license fee being collected by the Educational Foundation Department) and government grants.
== Governance ==
The Board of directors is responsible for governing and setting policy for ANT, consisting of 27 members: 14 professional directors (station managers), 12 general directors (Outside directors), and the ANT president. All ANT board members have three-year terms, without pay. ANT member stations elected the 14 professional directors; the broad elects the 12 general managers and appointed ANT president.
== Progamming ==
=== Specials ===
* ANT Classics
* ANT Hot Summer Nights
* ANT's American Thanksgiving 
* A Loil-Rockin Christmas 
* ANT's rockin New Year
=== News ===
* ANT Newshour
* ANT News Nights
* Nighty News with Josh Smiley
* Goodly News 
* Toons News
=== Documentary ===
* Nova 
* Washington Week
* Docs about Life
* Frontline 
=== Drama ===
* Gammar
* Train of Danger
* Upper Management 
* Funhouse Ghost
=== Children ===
* Bluey
* The Busy World of Richard Scarry
* Tibor Time
* Sesame Street
* Funtime Freddy and Friends 
* Buddy Bud
* The Adventures of Jimbo and Clark
* Rosie Rules 
* Pororo the Little Penguin
* Noddy
* Pikwik Pack
* Rolie Polie Olie
* Doki
* Maggie and the Furious Beast
* The Fairy Castle
=== Cooking ===
* Cooking with De Fett 
* Suppertime 
* 1789 Street Journalists 
* The Boat of Food
* Goodie Mouthwash 
=== Home Inprovement ===
* This Old Home 
* We'll Fix it
* Supperti Island 
* Great Home
=== Anthology ===
* Seehow What 
* The Ruffers Show
* Great Performances 
* The Busy Street
* 766 Road 
=== Horror ===
* Goosebumps (1995)
* Goosebumps (2019)
* The Spooky House 
* Train Tricky 
=== Soap Operas ===
* Timeless
* The Bold Americans
* Slippers 
* Sooms
* General Hospital 
* Days of our Lives
=== Lifestyle ===
* Grolce City
* Trooper River
* Lovely House 
* Reporter Survey 
== Member Stations and Affiliates ==
Main article: List of ANT Member Stations and Affiliates 
== Slogans ==
These are the slogans of ANT which were seen over the years 
* This is the Associated National Television! (1967-1969)
* You're Watching our Associated National Television (1969-1970)
* We are the Associated National Television (1970-1973)
* The Pubilc, No refunds (1973-1976)
* The Best place on Television (1976-1979)
* Number one Public Television Network (1979-1981)
* Oh, ANT, you're my number one! (1981-1984)
* ANT right back at ya! (1984-1987)
* ANT, you're number one television Network (1987-1990)
* My Superstar, ANT (1990-1992)
* Do this on ANT Network (1992-1995)
* ANT, Were watching television (1995-1998)
* Totally Unreal, ANT (1998-2000)
* ANT, Let's Roll! (2000-2003)
* ANT, is the colorful sense of word (2003-2005)
* Pull your hand with ANT (2005-2008)
* Were super happy about ANT (2008-2010)
* ANT, the best place to be (2010-2011)
* ANT, my ladder Pal! (2011-2012)
* Come in the Zone with ANT (2012-2015)
* The Best Network on the universe (2015-2017)
* Happy about ANT (2017-2018)
* Amazing Refreshing ANT! (2018-2022)
* ANT, the Good Days! (2022-Present)
== Gallery ==
=== Logo History ===
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== ANT Networks ==
=== ANT Kids ===
A Progamming block that aimed at children television progams, The block was formerly called ATV Park from 1993 to 1999. Launched as a 24/7 TV Channel in 1999, but it was dissolved in 2005 but subsequently revived in 2017. 
=== ANT Satellite Service ===
A 24-hour alternate network fees that provides a mixed variety of programming secleted from the main network, as well as for carriage on progamming tiers of Satellite providers 
=== Independent Networks ===
* Create (Educational and artistic progamming)
* World (News and Documentaries)
* First Nations Experience (Religious Progamming)
== Warning, Alert and Response Network ==
ANT provides an Alternative path for Wireless Emergency Alarts to wireless carriers through its warning, alert and response Network (WARN). The alarts are transmitted through the ANT Satellite network on the AMC-21 satellite to ANT stations, who the broadcast the messages over the transmitters for Reception by wireless carriers at thier cell sites.
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