Thus A&E's shareholders were Hearst and ABC (from ARTS) and Radio City Music Hall (Rockefeller Group) and RCA, then the parent of NBC (from Entertainment Channel).

In 1985, the partners spun off A&E into its own 24 hour channel, and Nickelodeon later created Nick at Nite to fill in the time slot that A&E formerly held.

As expected, the History Channel led A&E's overseas expansion in Brazil with TVA (April 1996), the Nordic and Baltic regions with Modern Times Group (1997), and in Canada (1997).

[5] Formerly only direct sales, A&E Home Video initiated a six-month trial in which Barnes & Noble would sell the "Biography" line in stores, which became permanent in 1996.

[13] With an early June 2013 promotion to A&E Networks CEO, Nancy Dubuc launched a new in-house production unit, A&E Studios, and hired veteran BBC executive Jana Bennett to serve as the president of Biography Channel and LMN.

[19] A&E Networks took an equity stake at the March 2015 formation of an independent TV production company, Propagate Content, run and owned by CEO Howard T. Owens and chief creative officer David McKillop, former A&E channel general manager.

[23] The company formed an in-house advertising agency, 45th & Dean, under executive vice president and general manager of FYI Network Paul Greenberg in May 2016.

[32] The franchise's TV programming will be recurring multi-formatted and tie into important anniversaries, newly found information about notables and current news.

[40] A&E Networks sold several programs into the Latin American (DirecTV and Colombian broadcaster Plural TV) and US Hispanic (NBC Universo) markets in January 2019.

[41] A+E Networks agreed to a first-look development and production deal with Ozy Media in January 2020 for potential maker for A&E, History and Lifetime flagship cable channels.

[46] In June 2021, the company announced that they have bought a 35% stake in the Canadian-based production outfit, Reel One Entertainment, one of the many providers of TV movies for the Lifetime networks.

[47] Before, Reel One was majority owned by the TF1 Group-owned Newen Group, with founder and CEO Tom Berry holding a minority stake.

[56] Buccieri formed the A&E Originals unit for unscripted series placing Steve Ascher, Former History executive, in day-to-day charge as vice president in 2007.

[37] In April 2018, A&E Originals signed a first-look deal with former Fox News Channel anchor Gretchen Carlson to host three documentaries.

[7] Thompson, senior vice president of feature films[61] for A+E Networks at this time, left in January 2019 for Apple's streaming service in a similar position.

Vien oversaw Europe, the Middle East and Africa operations and programming acquisitions, sales and strategy for all non-US channels.

Sabin was promoted from managing director of the Americas and head of commercial operations, while Vien left a post at Pulse Film.

[78] The plan was approved on January 28, 2019, 9 days after the globally announced closure of the transaction with Hearst assuming full ownership of all entities.

[80] In October 2019, Twentieth Television executive Steve MacDonald was hired as president of its global content licensing and international division over Vien.

With Element 8, A&E produced Miss Scarlet and the Duke, which was sold in December 2019 to Masterpiece (US), Alibi channel(UK), CBC (Canada), Seven Network (Australia) and RTL (Germany).

[83] A+E Networks International agreed in November 2019 to globally distribute its first Spanish-language series, Hernán, by Spain's Onza Entertainment and Dopamine, units of Grupo Salinas.

[98] In February 2020, the company commissioned Lost Relics of the Knights Templar five part series from Fired Up Films of Belfast and Krempelwood of London and distributed by Entertainment One to aired in April 2020 on History in the U.K., Ireland, Sweden, the Netherlands and Belgium.

[78] The plan was approved on January 28, 2019, 9 days after the globally announced closure of the transaction with Hearst assuming full ownership of AETN UK.

[101] A joint venture with NBCUniversal International from 2005 to 2017, the US parent company decided in June 2017 to take complete control of its German spin-off, based in Munich.

[78] The plan was approved on January 28, 2019, 9 days after the globally announced closure of the transaction with Hearst assuming full ownership of The History Channel (Germany) GmbH &Co KG.

The first of this group was Emanuela Orlandi/Vanished Special picked up by Sky in Italy, Germany's ZDF and Belgian public television RTBF and produced by B&B Film.

[78] The plan was approved on January 28, 2019, 9 days after the globally announced closure of the transaction with Hearst assuming full ownership of A&E Television Networks Italy Srl.

[78] The plan was approved on January 28, 2019, 9 days after the globally announced closure of the transaction with Hearst assuming full ownership of The History Channel, Iberia SL (Spain).

[109] In 2009, AETN Asia Networks struck a US$800,000 co-production deal with the National Film Development Corporation of Malaysia to co-produce programs to be featured across its channels.

It also distributes content it has acquired the rights to including hit American television series, British comedies, cult TV and sports programming.