Cloo - Wikipedia. Cloo (stylized as cloo) was an American digital cabletelevision channel with programming originally dedicated to the crime and mysterygenres, though it often fell out of this format in its later years and was used as an example of channel drift and superfluous channel bundling, presenting series easily found through other venues. The network was owned and operated by NBCUniversal. As of February 2. American households (2.

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Cloo, though this declined with later removals by several cable services as carriage agreements expired.[1]Cloo launched on January 1, 2. Sleuth, replacing Trio. The channel ceased all operations on February 1, 2.

History[edit]Cloo focused on mystery entertainment, with the majority of the channel's programming sourced from fellow Comcast networks such as NBC and USA Network. As of the fall of 2. USA Network series, and marathons of acquired series from the Law and Order, NCIS and CSI franchises, along with the original Mac. Gyver and House. Films from the NBCUniversal library or acquired as part of USA Network's film rights purchases were also part of the schedule, meaning films such as Enchanted, The 4. Watch Kissing A Fool Megavideo more.

Year- Old Virgin and Bee Movie with nothing to do with crimes or mysteries aired on the network.[5]On August 1. Cloo was rebranded from its former name of Sleuth, in order for NBCU to be able to trademark and own the name, as the word "clue" itself is too common a name to be trademarkable and the commonness of both "sleuth" and "clue" would not work for search engine optimization.

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In addition, the different spelling averted any confusion with Hasbro's board game Clue.[6][7]Carriage decline and closure[edit]On August 1. Cloo was dropped by Dish Network, which cited that most of the network's rerun- centric programming was duplicative of that available on other NBCUniversal networks, streaming services, and the broadcast Ion Television network.[8] A year later on August 1. Verizon FIOS, also for the same reason.[9]Charter's Spectrum services (Charter, Bright House Networks and Time Warner Cable) effectively ended the network's life in February 2. Esquire Network (another Comcast/NBCU network moving to an Internet- only model on June 2. NBCUniversal, removing around 2/3rds of the network's homes (bringing it down to 8. NBCU already had been looking to remove extraneous networks without original programming since the summer of 2. Cloo and Esquire fell into.[1.

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In the end, however, industry media had little to no notice of the closure, and only cable providers learned of its demise in advance on January 3. ET from Comcast, due to the small amount of time which passed between Charter's settlement of their new NBCUniversal carriage agreement and the network's closure. Because the network was effectively automated with little to no promotions to maintain, no employees were affected by the network's closure. The same morning, its social media presences were removed (the network's Facebook had not been updated since September 2.

USA Network site without any notice. The network's last programming day consisted of a full- series marathon of Syfy's Continuum, a final sign of its later channel drift. Following the end credits, a slide was shown, with the Cloo logo and the words "GOOD NIGHT!" underneath, along with "Thank you for watching Cloo", the NBC Universal logo, and the name of the satellite that provided Cloo's broadcast (AMC 1. Transponder 7) in between 2 NBC logos, along with the common NBC off- air audio test using the network's trademark chimes.[5][1. The end of Cloo was coincidental with another Comcast announcement that the female- focused Oxygen would switch fully to a true crime focus the same day within the coming months. Programming[edit]On September 1. Cloo premiered two original series, which were not renewed after their first seasons.

Dateline on Cloo, featuring repurposed Dateline NBC episodes focused on true- crime stories. Killer Instinct, a 1. Mark Safarik. The channel originally featured crime and mystery programming from NBCUniversal's extensive library of feature films, classic television shows, reality series and documentaries. Programming initially included popular and cult television series like Simon & Simon, Miami Vice, The A- Team, Dragnet (1. Knight Rider, The Equalizer, Homicide: Life on the Street, JAG, Profiler, Magnum, P. I., The Rockford Files, The Burning Zone and more recent canceled series like EZ Streets, Karen Sisco, and Deadline, Conviction, and Medical Investigation.

Much of this older programming eventually migrated to sister digital subchannel network Cozi TV. As Sleuth, it also aired mystery and suspense films like Scarface, The Jackal, Casino, Sneakers and Mercury Rising. On February 2. 5, 2. Chiller On Sleuth" to promote the launch of Chiller, a sister horror and suspense programming that launched four days later on March 1. In January 2. 00.

NBCUniversal- produced, USA Network original shows, Monk and In Plain Sight to its lineup, running marathons of each program's episodes. NCIS was added to the channel's lineup, as well as two Canadian series, Da Vinci's Inquest and Cold Squad, which were barter syndication series which were mainly prevalent on low- tier local television stations and digital subchannel networks like RTN.

The Law & Order franchise also joined the channel. It also aired another Canadian series, The Eleventh Hour. However, it was renamed Bury the Lead, to differentiate it from the since- canceled CBS series of the same name. Besides the above mentioned series and franchises, various other series aired from the NBCUniversal library with rights through USA Network aired on Cloo, along with Walker, Texas Ranger before its 2. Grit and INSP. In September 2.

COPS previously held by now- defunct sister network G4 moved over to Cloo until new episode partner Spike took all control of the cable syndication rights of COPS at the start of 2. See also[edit]Cozi TV, where much of the network's older programming has migrated to. References[edit]^Seidman, Robert (February 2. List of how many homes each cable network is in as of February 2. TV by the Numbers.

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