Trio (TV network)

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Image:Trio-1-.gif Trio (or TRIO) was an American cable and satellite television channel owned by NBC Universal.

With the slogan, "pop, culture, TV," Trio programming focused on television as a cultural tool and artform. The network was originally owned and operated jointly by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and Power Broadcasting Inc. (a subsidiary of Power Corporation of Canada) as a venue for airing the CBC's arts, culture and entertainment programming in the U.S. It was sold to USA Networks in 2000, and was subsequently transferred to Vivendi Universal and later NBC Universal.

In January 2005, DirecTV dropped Trio, eliminating about two-thirds of the homes that can receive the network. On November 21, 2005, NBC Universal announced that the Trio brand would be transferred to a broadband initiative under the BravoTV.com banner on January 1, 2006. Cable and satellite providers still carrying Trio were offered a new NBC Universal cable channel instead, Sleuth.

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Notable Trio programs

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Original

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Reruns

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Brilliant But Cancelled

This was the umbrella title under which Trio aired repeats of series that had very short lives on mainstream broadcast television, yet were still considered to be programming that "broke the mold" of what was normally expected from the "Big Three" networks. Series that appeared under the Brilliant But Cancelled umbrella included:

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