12 Facts About Spike TV

Later that year, Spike TV premiered the reality television parody The Joe Schmo Show, and launched the Spike TV Video Game Awards.

Later in the month, Spike TV debuted the video game news show Game Head, hosted by Geoff Keighley.

Spike TV attracted advertisers with product placement opportunities, such as the "Men of Action" promos, which featured homages and parodies of "classic action moments".

In January 2011, Spike TV ordered two new reality television series, Bar Rescue and Repo Games.

Spike TV announced that they would drop their video game award show; Geoff Keighley would go on to create his own award show in the form of The Game Awards.

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In January 2015, following a similar deal made by NBC, Spike TV announced they would air monthly fight cards by the Haymon Boxing-created "Premier Boxing Champions".

Spike TV added that Paramount Network's offerings would be distinguished from its competitors by continuing to emphasize Middle America as a key viewer base.

In May 2019, the Spike brand was relaunched in the U S as two streaming channels on Pluto TV, which was acquired by Viacom in March 2019.

The relaunch consisted of a main Spike TV-branded channel and a second channel called "Spike TV Outdoors".

Bar Rescue, a reality series carried over from Spike TV, has continued to air new episodes on Paramount Network.

In January 2005, the CRTC dismissed the CAB's complaint, ruling that it provided insufficient evidence that Spike TV was directly competing with Canadian specialty channels.

The CRTC ruled that Spike TV did not unduly compete with Men TV, since it was licensed as a service that would carry men's lifestyle programming, and that the remaining allegations of overlap with domestic Canadian specialty channels represented only a minority of Spike TV's overall programming.