Top 20 Country Countdown continued to air (it was cancelled in December 2018), and the network still offered country music specials including Backstory, Introducing and Origins. With the channel's rebranding, the daily music video show Daily Countdown was renamed Great American Playlist.
The network stated that it wanted to emphasize its expansion from a country music-oriented channel to one with a larger emphasis on "country" as referring to a "sense of place" and lifestyles (citing programming such as Celebrity Motor Homes and Farm Kings as examples). flag, dropping the "GAC" acronym in favor of using the Great American Country name in full. On October 1, 2013, the network unveiled a new logo inspired by the U.S. Scripps Company as Scripps Networks Interactive. In July 2008, Scripps Networks was spun off from the E. In December 2007, the network announced a partnership with ABC Radio Networks (now Cumulus Media Networks) to produce GAC Nights: Live from Nashville, a syndicated country music radio show broadcast from GAC's Music Row studios and hosted by GAC personalities Suzanne Alexander, Storme Warren, and Nan Kelley. In late 2005, television industry trade publication Broadcasting & Cable named GAC as one of TV's "Breakout Networks", saying of the channel: "The emerging GAC is a younger, hipper version that respects Nashville's country roads but widens the boulevards." On October 12, 2004, Scripps Networks acquired Great American Country from Jones Radio Network. The channel was originally owned by the Centennial, Colorado-based Jones Radio Network. The channel was launched on December 31, 1995, with the first music video to be broadcast on the channel, Garth Brooks' " The Thunder Rolls". The previous country lifestyle format was moved to Ride TV-a second channel acquired by GAC Media–which was concurrently relaunched as the sister network GAC Living.Īs of February 2015, GAC was available to approximately 59 million television households (51% of pay television customers) in the United States. On September 27, 2021, the network was relaunched as GAC Family, with a format mirroring Abbott's former employer Hallmark Channel. In June 2021, GAC was acquired by GAC Media-a new ownership group that includes former Crown Media CEO Bill Abbott and Hicks Equity Partners. Under Scripps, GAC's format was widened to include lifestyle programming pertaining to the American Heartland and the South, although the network continued to carry some country music programming.
GAC was later acquired by Scripps Networks and, in turn, Discovery Inc. It was originally established in 1995 by Jones Radio Network as Great American Country ( GAC), a country music channel.
Owned by Great American Media, it broadcasts family-oriented general entertainment programming, including television series and made-for-TV movies. Great American Family is an American cable television network.
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