Programming
.2 Network had licensing agreements with Sony Pictures Entertainment, NBC Universal, Disney, Hallmark Channel and Screen Media.2 Network's proposed programming included Gidget, The Flying Nun, and hundreds of blockbuster movies. The .2 network was also to be a source for multiple broadcast premieres, with the prime-time line-up following a movie channel like format. Other programs were to include lifestyle-related, special-interest, and how-to shows, including Animal Rescue and Missing, and FCC-mandated "E/I" children's programming for its affiliated stations.
Since the announcement of .2 Network's plans, similar subchannel networks have launched, using the same programming libraries -- Antenna TV, a digital network from Tribune Broadcasting, has been receiving some of its programming from Sony Pictures since that channel launched on New Year's Day 2011. NBC Universal would also later sell rights of its programming to another similar network, Retro Television Network (RTV), but under their new Comcast ownership, removed their programming from RTV in June 2011, then signed a new agreement with Me-TV after that to provide them most of the same programming, and will launch their own network with library content, Cozi TV, in January 2013. The status of .2 Network's contracts with its programming providers, including Sony Pictures and NBC Universal, are currently unknown.
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