AN!

Tier 2 Brand*This brand is a Tier 2 Brand. This means it is a highly regarded Fictionverse brand and will be actively updated and protected.* **Amir Network**, otherwise known as **AN!**, is an American English-language commercial broadcast television and radio network owned by **AmirMedia**.

## History

### Predecessors

Before AN! was launched in 1928, there were two other radio networks, ZAR Radio and TIO Radio (born in 1906 and 1907 respectively), these two were competing Radio stations giving jabs at each other, and they were successful. However they both fell on tough times during the 1910s, and they decided to save their businesses, they would have to merge.

### Beginnings

ZAR Radio and TIO Radio merged to become Amir Radio in 1928, with it generally being a news station telling people what was going on in the world at the time. Like it’s predecessors, it was very successful. Amassing 4 million people listing in a few short months. However in 1938, money was running out again, as the station failed to attract more people, and failed to pay rent for the station offices.

### 1940s-1980s era

In 1941, Amir Radio attempted to rebrand itself, calling itself instead ZARTIO, this was a disaster tho and they returned to the original name 2 years later. With the advent of television in the 50s, Amir Radio joined the new bustling format and renamed themselves Amir Network (AN!). With this jump to television AN! began to introduce new series and broadcast ones at the time. It introduced Disneyland (series) to its network in 1958, then Texaco star theater in 1963, that same year, it was bought by a electronics company named TriTronics. The station introduced a show in 1971 that would then become a icon to it, and became their first hit series, The Amir Show. This brought the station about 12 million new watchers, and they officially cemented themselves in pop culture. In 1985, AN! purchased transponder space from a satellite so it could be available to the entire country.

### Reva and ANAJAYMAY era

In 1989, the station was bought by another electronics company called Reva Electronics. This company also bought the Tei Studio lot a year earlier, and launched Reva Studios last month. With this deal AN! was immediately given Reva’s library of content, including Looney Tunes content due to a deal they made with Warner Bros around the time Reva bought the network. In 1993, Reva sold all of their electronics business to TriTronics (now called just Tri around this time) and merged with AJAYMAY Media Group to become ANAJAYMAY, this immediately gave them access to AJAYMAY’s content and network portfolio, Reva Studios was also renamed AN! Studios in 1994. Making new content from the network. In 1995, Amir Radio became AN! Radio, and immediately got new shows. In 1996 a new ceo was brought in named StudiCatto, who immediately started ruining the network and adding cringe and underperforming shows. In 2004, the network changed it’s name to the StudiCatto & Friends Network, which was one of the worst nights in AN!’s history, and attracted barely, if all, viewers. Profit also gone down tremendously. These combination of factors led to the forced resignation of Studiocatto from the company, and after that, they removed the cringe shows and renamed the network back to Amir Network. In 2008, AN! launched the AN! Sports brand, bringing sports to the network for the first time in 30 years. In 2014, ANAJAYMAY launched AmirFilms, which made original content for the network.

### AmirMedia era

On December 25, 2022, NEALYAJAYMAY was spun off from the company, as they were getting ready to merge with another company named Kaulin Media, this company became to be known as AmirMedia, and officially came to be on January 1, 2023. This merger also saw changes to AN!, it added The Kaulin Experience to the network and removed AJAYMAY Peachette’s Adventures from DiZtrict. AN! also became part of a new division called AmirNetworks. They released the Dreamcast last month and currently it has made a lot of money for them. AN! is currently celebrating it’s 95 anniversary, and it’s currently showing no signs of shutting down.