TV Channels That Are Not Around Anymore!

 Some TV Channels That Are Not Around Anymore!

• PTEN died in 1997, after only four years on the air, mostly due to owner conflicts and affiliate issues. In its final months, Babylon 5 was the only thing keeping it from going under; once Season 4 ended, that was it, and J. Michael Straczynski, thinking his masterpiece would go down with its channel and having no idea that TNT would pick it up for a fifth season, was forced to expedite the Shadow War and Earth Alliance Civil War arcs.

 

PBJ was a children's digital sub-channel which aired mostly cartoons from the DreamWorks Animation Dream Works Classics]] library, though some might also know them as being the American television home for My Life Me. The station never took off, only getting 19 broadcast affiliates in five years before shutting down in March 2016  

  

• Tuff TV, a male-oriented network carried mainly by digital subchannels and LPTV stations, abruptly went off the air in 2018. 

• JUCE-TV (a network owned by TBN) which itself was created as a result of the merger between their teen-oriented JCTV network and their preschool-oriented Smile of a Child shut down in early 2020 as a result of TBN's ongoing serious financial troubles. 

 

• Newsworld International was bought by Al Gore to start Current TV, which struggled until it was sold to Al Jazeera to form Al Jazeera America, which folded in 2016. 

• CNN+, a Spanish-language channel for Spain which went off the air in 2010.
• CNN Italia, the Italian version of CNN. It went off the air in 2003.
• CNNfn, their answer to CNBC. It too struggled with audience and cable coverage, and went off the air in 2004.
• CNN Checkout Channel, a version of CNN's Airport Network, targeted at grocery stores; it wasn't successful and was only in operation from 1991 to 1993.
• CNN Airport Network, a version of CNN found exclusively in airports, shut down in 2021, citing the ubiquity of streaming video having made the network’s purpose outdated. 

• Foxnet was intended to be a nationwide feed of Fox that served smaller areas that didn't already have a local FOX affiliate. When those areas ended up getting their own affiliates, the channel became redundant, and it was shut down in 2006
• Tech TV was purchased by Comcast and merged into G4TV before most of the Tech TV elements disappeared from the merged network. G4TV itself was going to be replaced by the Esquire Network in fall 2013, before additional last-second  changes lead to the Style Network getting replaced instead. This left G4 as a "zombie network" of nothing but reruns, syndicated shows, and ads until its death at the end of 2014, with the syndicated shows not even airing in the last few months. In a surprising turn of events however, G4 came back from the dead, first as an Internet-only presence and later returning to cable in 2021; however, it unfortunately died again due to lay-offs.

• El Rey Network was shut down on December 31, 2020, a month after Univision sold its minority stake in the network, and in the wake of its losing distribution throughout the past year, having been dropped by AT&T and Spectrum, among other cable companies.

• PRIME, a Canadian multichannel network which premiered in the late '90s, aimed at Baby Boomers and older audiences (though it stubbornly referred to itself on-air as a general interest channel). Most of the show's programming, particularly during the primetime hours, consisted of reruns of beloved sitcoms of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s (particularly M*A*S*H, which aired in two separate hour-long blocks per day, at 4 PM and again at 10 PM). However, Canwest, which owned PRIME, launched a premium channel called DejaView and gradually the older shows on their schedule migrated over there, as shows from the later 1980s and even the 1990s began to migrate onto the lineup. Eventually PRIME was replaced entirely by a new channel called TVTropolis, which focused entirely on TV of the '90s and 2000s (including introducing Reality shows into the lineup for the first time), though (presumably to their chagrin) they were forced to bring back The Golden Girls (which became by far the oldest show on their lineup) despite several attempts to ditch it (probably because it always plays well with younger audiences). In 2013, the channel was re-branded again, this time as DTour, a lifestyle/travel channel with no scripted content whatsoever.
• The UK had Nicktoonsters, a sister channel to Nicktoons that was made to air the older Nicktoons that the main channel didn't have anymore. It barely lasted a year before it was replaced with a Timeshift Channel called Nicktoons Replay, which was later also shut down so that Comedy Central Extra (a timeshift of Comedy Central that shared a slot with Nicktoonsters) could become a 24-hour channel again.
• Noggin launched in 1999 as a joint venture between Nickelodeon and Sesame Workshop. At first, the channel was mainly aimed at pre-teens, and its purpose was to provide educational shows for older kids. In early 2002, the channel split its schedule into a daytime block for preschoolers and a nighttime block for tweens/teens called "The N" (standing for Noggin). Sesame Workshop sold its stake in Noggin/The N in late 2002, giving Nickelodeon sole ownership...and slowly turning the channel into less of its own thing and more of a Nick rerun farm. The Noggin channel closed in 2009, replaced by the 24-hour Nick Jr. channel. In 2015, the Noggin brand was revived as a streaming app, temporarily bringing back its old logo and hosts.

That Is All Of Some TV Channels That Don’t Exist Anymore!