Alex Signature Channel

Alex Signature Channel, or ASC (until 2006 known as National TV) is an American English-language commercial terrestrial television network that is a flagship property of ASC Entertainment. The network is headquartered at 1312 North McAfee Ave, Joytown, Twin Cities.

ASC has thirteen owned-and-operated stations and nearly 200 affiliates throughout the United States and its territories, some of which are also available in Canada via pay-television providers or in border areas over-the-air; ASC also maintains brand licensing agreements for international channels in South Korea, Germany, China, Italy, Spain, and France.

History
The network traces its roots to 1979 when the network was first launched under the name National TV (or NTV for short) under the ownership of NTV Holdings plc (now ASC Entertainment), which was at the time formed in 1979 from the remains of Television Channel Industries, Inc., which previously owned Daddy TV (now Daddy Video Deleter), a channel that aired shows that contain mature content until 1982, when it switched to reruns of shows on NTV or WTV that contained mature content.

Mommy TV (now Mommy Video Protector) was launched in 1980 under the same company as a channel that reruns non-mature programs that used to air on NTV. Worldwide TV (now Charles Tyler) was launched in 1985 as a spin-off from the ASC channel for international shows.

The channel got a simplified logo in 2000 upon its logo's shortening to NTV, but the National TV name was kept as the legal name of the network until 2006, when the channel was renamed as Alex Signature Channel (or ASC for short). Two years earlier, WTV relaunched as The World Network, which would relaunch as Chris Video Direction in 2012 and shifted its focus to directing videos on ASC, Mommy TV, or Daddy TV. In 2014, ASC launched a new logo across all its channels, renaming Mommy TV to Mommy Video Protector and Daddy TV to Daddy Video Deleter.