Just after this announcement last month, https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r31198157-Content-NBCUniversal-to-Shut-Down-Esquire-Network-Cable-Channel , NBCUniversal has now shut down yet another channel:
NBCU Shuts Down Cloo Network
Second NBCU network eliminated in as many months
By R. Thomas Umstead, Multichannel News - February 1, 2017
http://www.multichannel.com/news/content/nbcu-shuts-down-cloo-network/410615quote:NBCUniversal has dropped yet another network from its portfolio, pulling the plug on its crime-themed channel Cloo.
The network, which launched in 2006 as Sleuth channel, aired mostly reruns of crime procedural dramas such as Law & Order, Monk and Psych.
NBCU pulled the plug on the channel Feb. 1 due to a lack of MVPD carriage, an NBC spokesperson said. Nielsen universe estimates put Cloo in about 23 million TV homes. The Cloo website now redirects to USA Network's home page.
The announcement came the same day NBCU announced that female-targeted Oxygen network would transition into a true-crime branded channel this summer: http://www.multichannel.com/news/content/oxygen-rebrand-true-crime-channel/410607
An NBCU spokesperson said the Oxygen and Cloo announcements were not related and no NBCU employees were affected by the closure. ...
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