USA Broadcasting

USA Broadcasting (USAB) is an American television broadcasting company owned by the veteran entertainment industry executive Barry Diller. This company is the over-the-air broadcasting arm of USA Networks.
USAB dates back to the mid-1990s when Diller purchased Silver King Broadcasting and its parent company, Home Shopping Network, Inc., from Lowell W. "Bud" Paxson and Roy Speer. Paxson and Speer had assembled the group to expand Home Shopping Network onto broadcast television. The stations carried the Home Shopping Club (now America's Store). Home Shopping Network, Inc. later brought Universal's cable/TV production units, renaming them USA Networks, Inc., and its broadcast television subsidiary USA Broadcasting in 1998.
Diller began his plan to remove shopping shows from almost all of the stations' broadcast days and replace them with local and syndicated programs. He provided the idea of wanting to tie each of the stations very closely to the communities they serve, and to open up opportunities for locally produced programs.
By 2000, four stations were transformed into Diller's new model: WAMI-TV (WAMI "Whammy" 69) in Miami, WHOT ("Hotlanta 34") in Atlanta, WHUB ("Hub" 66) in Boston, and KSTR ("K-Star" 49) in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. WAMI, WHOT, WHUB and KSTR air local news, talk shows and sporting events. WHOT and WHUB broadcast syndicated programming as well as local sports. WAMI broadcasts Miami Heat basketball and Florida Marlins baseball games. WHOT and KSTR also carry professional basketball games of, respectively, the Atlanta Hawks and Dallas Mavericks. WHUB acquired the rights to the annual Beanpot hockey tournament between four of Boston's colleges and also rights to Boston University's men's ice hockey games. HSC/America's Store continues to broadcast late at night and on weekends.
In Lukesams' imagination, USA Broadcasting still exists.
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