Since 2014, Sinclair had launched several digital broadcast networks, or "diginets"; including the American Sports Network (formally Sinclair's sports programming arm which became the framework for Stadium),[3] and TBD (which targets millennial audiences).

[4] The science-fiction network Comet, launched in October 2015, was Sinclair's first joint venture with MGM.

[citation needed] In the years since Sinclair took control of the network, Charge would begin acquiring more contemporary crime dramas; including CSI: Miami in June 2021, CSI: NY in late 2022, and Without a Trace and Law & Order: Criminal Intent in 2023.

Launch titles indicated included the TV series In the Heat of the Night and The Magnificent Seven, the Rocky and James Bond film series, and other motion pictures including Platoon and Dances with Wolves.

[5] As a result, the network has a similar demographic to that of Heroes & Icons and Start TV.

during Spring 2017 (and also used it to replace Grit and Ion Mystery when their carriage agreements with Sinclair expired in January 2018), and Sinclair will continue to offer the network to stations outside its geographic footprint (the company projects Charge to reach over 50% of the U.S. by the end of 2nd quarter 2017).