United World Media

Logo since 2023.

The **United World Media Incorporated**, (doing business as **United World Media**) (**UWM**) is an American mass media and conglomerate headquartered and based in Manhattan, New York City. The United World Media was founded on June 24, 1930, by Jimmy White and Roland D. Cuben, as **Cuben Corp**; before changing its name to the United World Media on January 1, 2020.

The United World Media's properties are known for entertainment division UWM Media Entertainment Companies, including Oakley Entertainment, Oakley Animation, Salfurt Pictures, Markris Entertainment, Green Seas Films, Wild Films, Suddisan Productions, Thaifilm, Notey Films, and Objectmation Entertainment. Other units includes, design agency, entertainment, home video, internet, radio, and video games. United World Media operates the American broadcast television network UWN (under the division of UWM Broadcastings Inc.) (including television stations, production companies, digital subchannels (UWN 2, I Love Drama, and Eden), and other UWN-branded assets), cable networks (including Glare, Coastal, Good Overseas Channel, PN Toons, The FN, UWN Rush, Spherical, among others), entertainment (including cinema chains and events), streaming service Alumni, and video games subsidiary Syracuse Games. It also manages international networks, including United Kingdom's Channel 8, Mexico's Mexivisión, Spain's TeleOnce, Brazil's TV Diversidade, Philippines' Versatility Television, and Indonesia's Warna Televisi Indonesia; as well as non-US versions of cable TV networks.

## History

### Modern day (2003-2020)

On December 10, 2019, Cuben Corp's parent company Premiere Holdings sold Cuben Corp to United Arab Emirates-based American conglomerate CPN Holdings.

### Rebranding (2020-present)

On September 15, 2019, during the 2019 UWM Conference at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, Cuben Corp announced that it would change its name to United World Media. It was stated that it will retire the "Cuben" brand since 1930 and into the "United World" brand, first adopted by the United World Network. On January 18, 2020, the rebranding and the renaming was completed, with a new branding produced by Superunion (now Design Bridge and Partners) in New York.

On June 24, 2020, United World Media celebrated its 90th anniversary.

United World Media will be sold off from CPN Holdings in December 2020, following the controversies and scandals regarding CPN Holdings maintaining positions in media and retail through acquiring companies. In February 2021, United World Media was divested from CPN Holdings.

The United World Media acquired the internet music mashup website Rave.dj for $1.3 million of auction in August 2022. The sale led to multiple reactions from the music industry as the founders of Rave.dj are concerned about the sale.

On January 4, 2023, the United World Media went on a major rebranding. The branding was designed by Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv in New York, which also was responsible for designing logos for the NBC in 1986, Warner Bros. Discovery in 2022, the then-current WGBH-TV in 1974, and the Time Warner logos in 1990, and DixonBaxi in London.

United World Media declared an auction to sell the the internet entertainment website Newgrounds on October 28, 2023.

## Assets

#### UWM Broadcastings Inc.

* United World Network
	+ UWN Studios
		- UWN Television Distribution
			* UWN 2
			* Eden
			* I Love Drama
	+ UWN Stations
		- KFLE 17 - Springfield, Missouri
		- KNYE-TV 12 - San Francisco
		- KUDW-TV 3 - Dallas/Fort Worth
		- KUNC-TV 9 - Sacramento
		- KUWA 56 - Anchorage
		- KUWN-TV 12 - Los Angeles
		- KUWU 42 - Salt Lake City
		- KWSM-TV 15 - Kansas City, Missouri
		- WCIK 16 - Cincinatti
		- WCN-TV 25 - Atlanta
		- WMFL-TV 13 - Miami/Fort Lauderdale
		- WUCO-TV 7 - Columbus, Ohio
		- WUIN 5 - Indianapolis
		- WUNO-TV 2 - New Orleans
		- WUWC 3 - Chicago
		- WUWD 36 - Detroit
		- WUWK-TV 5 - Louisville, Kentucky
		- WUWN-TV 12 - New York City
		- WUWP-TV 16 - Philadephia
		- WUWT-TV 4 - Tampa/St. Petersburg
	+ The UWN Multi-channel Package