Landon Network

Landon Network is an American commercial broadcast television network owned by the Entertainment division of LandonToei.

History
The network started broadcast in 1976 by Marc and his college friend Robert. They wanted to start their own TV network after the success of the "Big 3" (NBC, ABC, & CBS). The programming was slim to none at the start which scared people away, but they improved on that by making acquisitions of programs the other networks didn't want. This made Landon Network stand out from the rest.

Landon Network's parent company made a merger offer with Toei which was finalized in 2013. This changed TV Asahi into becoming Landon Network's Japanese equivalent.

The network purchased TV Kiwi and Cat in 2019 from TVNZ for a price of $1.2 Billion ($900 million in US dollars). This purchase changed Landon Network's schedule as it closes down at 2AM instead of being 24/7, This deal didn't affect TVNZ as they kept the two characters in New Zealand. As such, they acquired the 2019 program "Goodnight Kiwi" for Landon Network on top of that.

The reason the channel ends at 2AM is actually 2 reasons. The first being that it was cheaper to run a 20 hour channel instead of a 24/7 one. The second was that they wanted to use the Kiwi signoff instead of not having it sitting there.

This lead to the launch of ¿Info?, which that block didn't go over so well with fans. So on February 1st, the Kiwi signoff was shown at midnight instead of 2AM as a "reminder to wind down and watch some shows while you sleep", this quote from the start of the signoff meant that the 20 hours a day concept didn't do so well and that Landon Network was back in the 24/7 timeframe.

Programming
List of programs aired on Landon Network