USA Network

USA Network
Country	United States
Broadcast area	United States
Headquarters	229 West 43rd Street, New York City
Programming
Languages	English; Spanish
Picture format	1080i HDTV; 4K (upscaled from 1080i, special occasions); (downscaled to letterboxed 480i for the SDTV feed)
Ownership
Parent	UA-Columbia Cablevision (1977–1981); Madison Square Garden Corp. (1977–81); Time Inc. (1981–87); Paramount Pictures (1981–97); MCA Inc. (1981–96); Seagram (1996–97); USA Networks Inc. (1997–2002); Vivendi Universal (2002–04); NBCUniversal (2004–26); Versant (2026–present);
Sister channels	Golf Channel; CNBC; E!; MS NOW; Oxygen; Syfy;
History
Launched	September 22, 1977 (as MSG); April 9, 1980 (re-launch as USA Network);
Founder	Kay Koplovitz
Former names	Madison Square Garden Sports Network (1977–1980)
Links
Website	usanetwork.com
Availability
Streaming media
Affiliated streaming service	Fandango
Livestream services	DirecTV Stream, FuboTV, Hulu + Live TV, Sling TV, YouTube TV

USA Network (stylized in all lowercase as usa) is an American basic cable television channel owned by Versant. It was launched on September 22, 1977 as Madison Square Garden Sports Network, one of the first national sports cable television channels.

It was relaunched under its current name on April 9, 1980, and in the years since then, USA steadily gained popularity through its original programming, a long-established partnership with WWF/WWE and, for many years, limited sports programming. For more than 20 years, from 2004 to 2026, the network was owned by Comcast as part of NBCUniversal. USA increased its sports coverage significantly in 2022, after the initial shutdown of NBCSN, and served as the main cable component of NBC Sports until NBCSN was relaunched in 2025.

As of November 2023, USA Network is available to approximately 70 million pay television households in the United States, down from its 2011 peak of 100 million households.