MTN

MTN (short for Murphy Television Network) is an American basic cable television network owned by the MTN Networks division of the RKO Networks Group, a division of RKO Media. It carries a variety of programming, focusing mainly on comedy and reality television, along with some sports events, including, the , the US Premier League and the NAAL Championship Game.

MTN was originally established on May 1, 1978 as WorldStation WMTN, the superstation feed of television station WMTN-TV (now WBOB-TV, a locally-originated independent station and the sister station to RKO Network owned-and-operated station WCLE-TV). Vern Murphy, the owner of WMTN-TV, launched the superstation feed to compete with. The station later changed its name to WorldStation MTN in 1985 and again to simply MTN in 1993. MTN's broadcasts of Cleveland Barons hockey and Cleveland Indians (now ) baseball helped it gain popularity. WMTN-TV maintained a nearly-identical schedule to the superstation feed, albeit with some local public affairs and E/I programming that wasn't seen on the national feed. On September 2, 2005, RKO Media relaunched MTN as a separate basic cable network, it which point it began to be carried in the Cleveland market on area cable providers in addition to its existing local carriage on satellite providers, and ArrowStar. The former mother station WMTN-TV was relaunched as locally-originated independent station WBOB-TV (branded as Bob TV), with a completely different schedule catered to the Cleveland market.