California Advertising Television

The CAT (formerly the American Advertising Network, or AAN) is a TV network based in Fresno, California and the surrounding areas. The CAT/CMT is the second most popular channel west of the Mississippi River thanks to the separation of ads to main programming, which the ads are on the CAT. Some popular CAT/CMT TV stations (by popularity) are: KTHU-TV (Covering Milwaukee, IL and Chicago, IL), KNBC (4.5 is CAT, 4.7 is CMT, covering Los Angeles, CA and surrounding areas), KVMN-TV (Headquarters, covering Atwater, CA to Fresno, CA to Tulare, CA), and WCMT-TV (covering most of Southern Florida including Miami, FL and Fort Myers, FL).
==History==
It's founder, Nathan R., just turned 17 years old and started a pirate analog TV station near Clovis, California in 2007. The analog TV station broadcast for 6 hours a day and its programming consisted of ads. In June 2007, he was on summer break and upgraded the transmitter to a Wineguard HD7698P antenna, pointed toward Fresno downtown, but didn't reach it. In August 2007, he was watching a TV program and was annoyed by the constant ad breaks. So, in September 2007, he decided to take out a $250,000 loan from a bank and planned an antenna tower near Friant, California, 11.5 miles north of Clovis, California.
To prevent interference with TV stations in the California Bay Area, Nathan requested a prioritization to the FCC. When he turned 18 in April, he built the antenna mast with an ERP of 1 KW and callsign K13HB, shortly renamed to KVMN-LD afterward, standing for Valley Movie Network. The antenna mast broadcast on VHF 13.1 (AAN) and went live on April 21st, 2008, where it's programming consisted of ads, to mock the repetitive ads he saw on TV. At first, not many people were watching the channel, but in June 2008, a viral news story made AAN more popular. To this day, it makes over $300,000 each day due to it's viewers knowing the profits goes to the CMT, also making it the most popular separate programming TV broadcasting company ever, even beating 3ABN which wasn't even watched too much.
After the success of the CAT, Nathan decided to open a repeater station in Sacramento, California, called KSMF-TV, named after the ICAO code for Sacramento Int'l Airport. AAN gained even more popularity.