User blog:Mark Wilk/AMG TV desc

Since FMH is no longer active, I decided to make a blog post about AMG.

AMG TV (previously LSN until 2022 and Life&Style until 2021) is an American multigenre cable network owned and operated by the ABC Media Group, under its television division, ABC Television Group. It is headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, with additional offices in Northville, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. AMG TV airs programming from themed cable networks, as well as news under the AMG News brand. On Saturdays and Sundays, it airs kids programming under the name of Qubo on AMG. AMG TV also operates 3 sister cable networks: AMG2, AMG News (which airs news, weather, sports bulletins, and finance programming), and AMG Sports (which airs live sporting events).

2015 launch and start of original programming
USTV Networks was established in 2010 to launch a subchannel with lifestyle programming, initially called The Life and Style Channel, before being renamed Life&Style Network. On January 1, 2015, Life&Style was soft-launched on several Fox-owned stations, before fully commencing operations on March 1, 2015. Initially, programs were derived from Food Network, Cooking Channel, HGTV, FYI, and Discovery Life, which made up its programming schedule from 6am-10pm daily. On August 10, 2015, Life&Style made its first foray into original programming, with a live show broadcast from Life&Style’s “Kitchen” studio, called “Kitchen Live” and aired at 9am daily for 1 hour until March 25, 2018. On March 26, 2018, Life&Style began airing original programming dedicated to food, home, gardening, and medicine from the “Home”, “Hospital”, and “Garden” studio complex. In 2019, Life&Style announced an end to its medical-focused programs, which happened on December 31, 2019.

2021 rebrand, end of live shows and shift towards non-lifestyle programs
On October 26, 2021, Life&Style rebranded to LSN without warning, and ended its live shows 2 days later. The studio complex was closed as a result of the rebranding and was abandoned until May 23, 2022. On January 11, 2022, LSN began to engage in channel drift, adding more reality programming. The USTV Networks CEO stated that this was a move to further rebrand the channel later in the year. On May 23, 2022, in an attempt to unify branding, USTV was rebranded to ABC Media Group, and with it came a new logo. The LSN programs would later be discarded on August 30, 2022 in preparation for the rebrand.

Rebranding to AMG TV
On September 1, 2022, AMG announced that LSN would gain 3 sister channels, while LSN would be renamed to AMG TV on October 24, 2022, to unify the channels together. At 6:00am on October 24, LSN was renamed AMG TV. Today, the channel airs 10 original series, most of which are live broadcasts. On January 2, 2023, AMG TV premiered AMG Breakfast, a 3-hour weekday show that runs from 6am-9am daily. On March 1, 2023, the AMG+ app launched, providing 150 live channels to customers, as well as previous AMG TV programming.

Programming
See AMG TV/Programming The AMG TV program lineup consists of a multigenre lineup, including action, comedy, drama, game shows, gaming, tech, lifestyle, and more.

News
AMG TV presently broadcasts a breakfast news show at 6:00am each day, running for 3 hours. Bulletins, which last 15 minutes long, are broadcast at 2:45pm, 3:15pm, and 4:30pm. The main news broadcast, called AMGN Tonight, airs at 6pm.