Spike (Latin America)

Spike is a Latin American pay television channel, based on the American rebranded Paramount Network. It was the second Spike channel next to the US and German version of the channel. The television channel aims at an audience of mainly men. The channel launched on October 4, 2013. Initially it only broadcast daily between 22:00 and 6:00, time-sharing with NickToons and VH1. As of 12 December 2016 the channel is broadcasting 24 hours a day in Latin America. Until April 13, 2017, the channel is also available in Brazilian Portuguese.
== History ==
On October 4 2013, Viacom announced that Spike would launch in the Latin America and Brazil on October 2013. It started broadcasting at night and broadcasts from 22:00 and 6:00 on NickToons or VH1 HD, replacing VH1 MegaHits in its time slot. This brings the American Spike channel for the first time in Latin America and Brazil.
On April 1st, 2014 Spike launched as a 24-hours channel on Latin America, Thuis 3 months later. NickToons became a 24-hours channel again. On some platforms Spike keeps on time-sharing daily between 22:00 and 6:00 with VH1 HD or NickToons, which is 2.5 hours more than before April 1st 2014. In Brazil Spike is time-sharing daily between 22:00 and 5:00 with Nickelodeon, which is 2.5 hours longer then before April 1st 2014.
On 18 January 2018, the American channel Spike was rebranded as Paramount Network by Viacom Media Networks to closely associate with the Paramount Pictures movie studio. Later followed by 5Spike in the UK.
Programming
=== Original and from Spike UK ===
* BAMMA
* Car Crash TV
* Criminals: Caught on Camera (also known as Caught on Camera)
* Fights, Camera, Action
* Outrageous Stunts (also known as Stunt Science)
* Police Interceptors Takedown
* Police Interceptors Unleashed
* Seconds From Death: Caught on Camera (also known as The World's Deadliest...)
* Sewermen
* Spike Shuffle (Music)
* Tattoo Disasters Argentina
* Catfish Colombia
* Catfish Chile
* Catfish Argentina
* Trucking Hell
* Ultimate Boxxer
* Under Attack
* World's Deadliest Weather: Caught on Camera (also known as The World's Deadliest Weather)
* World's Wildest Flights
=== From Spike US ===
* Bar Rescue
* Bellator MMA
* Caraoke Showdown
* Catch a Contractor
* Cheaters (also transmitted in TruTV)
* Cops
* Framework
* Frankenfood
* Hungry Investors (renamed as Restaurant Rescue)
* Life or Debt
* Lip Sync Battle
* Sweat Inc.
=== From Telefe ===
* Los SImuladores
* La Leona
* Amar después de amar
* Botineras
* Big Brother Argentina 2011
* NotiCampi
* El Elegido (2011)
* Campanas en la noche
* PH: Podemos Hablar
* Peligro, Sin Codificar
* Casados con HIjos (Married with Children Argentina)
* Hiperconectados
* The Voice Argentina
* Resistire (2003)
* Muñeca Brava (1998)
* Montecristo (2006)
=== Imported ===
* Airport Security: Peru
* Airwolf
* Animal Fight Club
* The A-Team
* Battlebots
* Black Sails
* Boy to Man (renamed as Wildman: Extreme Adventurer)
* Behind Bars: The World's Toughest Prisons (renamed as World's Toughest Prisons)
* Cimarron Strip (renamed as The Cimarron Strip)
* Fail Army
* Fugitive Black Ops (renamed as Manhunt: Kill or Capture)
* From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series
* Gangland Undercover
* Game Of Thrones (2014-2017) (also transmitted in HBO)
* Helix
* Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi (also transmitted in BD Network, Tooncast, Cartoon Network and BD Music)
* High Alert (renamed as High Alert: Policing the Streets)
* Impact Wrestling
* Justified
* Klondike
* Knight Rider
* Lockdown (renamed as America's Toughest Prisons)
* Megastructures (TV series)
* Olympus
* Powers
* The Player
* Ren and Stimpy (MTV)
* Rick and Morty (2017-2019) (also transmitted in ESN, TNT Series and Netflix)
* Running Wild with Bear Grylls
* Six
* 60 Days In (renamed as 60 Days In Jail)
* Sons of Anarchy
* South Park (MTV)
* Street Hawk
* Strongman Champions League
* Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
* Transporter: The Series
* Weather Gone Viral (renamed as Extreme Weather: Caught on Camera)
* Wild Catch (renamed as Chasing Monsters)
* Wynonna Earp