America's Talking was an American cable television channel focused mainly on talk-based programming, created by NBC, and spun off from economic channel CNBC. It was launched on July 4, 1994, and was carried in ten million American households upon launch. The headquarters were two floors below the original studios for CNBC in an office building on Fletcher Avenue in Fort Lee, New Jersey. The channel was shuttered on July 15, 1996, and its transponder space was replaced by MSNBC.

Programming

The programming was mainly focused on low-budget talk shows and included the following lineup:

Closure

While America's Talking had something of a following, it was not successful in the ratings and was picked up by few cable providers. In January 1996, NBC announced plans to partner with Microsoft to launch MSNBC on cable and online with the satellite transponder that America's Talking occupied, effectively ending the life of the network. After network president Roger Ailes left NBC to join Rupert Murdoch in launching the Fox News Channel for News Corporation, America's Talking officially signed off on July 15, 1996 and was replaced at 9 a.m. by MSNBC Live, hosted by Jodi Applegate.