Versant Expands Suite of FAST Channels With 4 New Selections From CNBC, E!, Oxygen

By Brian Steinberg

Brian Steinberg

Senior TV Editor

Latest

• Versant Expands Suite of FAST Channels With 4 New Selections From CNBC, E!, Oxygen 13 minutes ago
• Politico Plans Live Video Coverage of Midterm Elections 15 hours ago
• ‘60 Minutes’ Audience Sinks to Surprising Low Without Football 17 hours ago

• Comments

Versant may best be known for the cable channels that provide the bulk of its revenue, but the company continues to build out new-media extensions.

The owner of MS NOW, CNBC and USA is launching four new free ad-supported streaming networks based on programming franchises from CNBC, Oxygen and E!. When these new options debut, Versant will have a portfolio of 13 FAST outlets.

The new quarter consists of Snapped, a program that chronicles the life of a women charged with murder and which began airing on Oxygen in 2004; Botched, a selection from E! that examines the highs and lows of plastic surgery; Oxygen Murders of America, a true-crime documentary series; and CNBC Ambition, which offers stories of entrepreneurship, innovation, wealth creation, and success and relies on a bevy of primetime series that previously aired on the business-news cable outlet.

Related Stories

Guillermo del Toro Tears Up as He Says ‘We’re Handing Down a World in Ruins’: ‘It Pains Me Deeply to See Three Generations Fail the Next’