{"id":7631,"date":"2017-01-18T11:51:14","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T16:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/sinclair-mgm-partner-to-launch-action-network-charge\/"},"modified":"2017-01-18T13:29:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T18:29:03","slug":"sinclair-mgm-partner-to-launch-action-network-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/sinclair-mgm-partner-to-launch-action-network-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinclair &#038; MGM Partner to Launch Action Network Charge!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BALTIMORE\/LOS ANGELES: Sinclair Broadcast Group and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) have aligned to launch Charge!, a new 24-hour action-based network.<\/p>\n<p>The network will feature more than 2,300 hours of TV series content and more than 2,000 movie titles. Charge! will build on and leverage the infrastructure of Sinclair and MGM\u2019s first network partnership, the science-fiction multi-channel network Comet. The plan is for the channel to debut in the first quarter of 2017. It is slated to reach more than 50 percent of the U.S. by the end of the second quarter by way of distribution deals outside of Sinclair\u2019s footprint.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Charge! will feature a broad variety of action and adventure content from MGM\u2019s library, including such TV series as <em>In the Heat of the Night<\/em>\u00a0and movies, including <em>Dances with Wolves<\/em>\u00a0and <em>Platoon<\/em>. In addition, the tent-pole\u00a0Rocky\u00a0and James Bond\u00a0franchises will appear on the network.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMGM owns one of the deepest libraries of premium action-themed content in the world,\u201d said\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">Chris Ripley, the president and CEO of Sinclair<\/span>. \u201cThis is another example of the synergies and audience value that can be created when you seamlessly combine content and distribution, and we are excited to broaden our relationship with MGM to another vertical.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAction is a genre that viewers never seems to tire of watching, and we intend on bringing our best titles to Charge!,\u201d said\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">John Bryan, the president of domestic television distribution at MGM.\u00a0<\/span>\u201cSinclair\u2019s been an ideal partner, and the distribution we expect to have at launch is phenomenal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BALTIMORE\/LOS ANGELES: Sinclair Broadcast Group and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) have aligned to launch Charge!, a new 24-hour action-based network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1136,1089,255,1137],"class_list":["post-7631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories","tag-charge","tag-metro-goldwyn-mayer","tag-mgm","tag-sinclair-broadcast-group"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sinclair &amp; MGM Partner to Launch Action Network Charge! 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