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It adopted its final title following Gannett's purchase of the magazine in 1985.<ref name="Family">{{cite news | title=Gannett Gets Family Weekly | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/02/22/business/gannett-gets-family-weekly.html | work=The New York Times | date=February 22, 1985 | url-access=subscription}}</ref> The magazine was distributed to approximately 800 newspapers nationwide at its peak with most Gannett-owned local newspapers carrying it by default within their Sunday editions. It focused on social issues, entertainment, health, food and travel.<ref name="Family"/><ref name=portada>{{cite news | title=Gannett folds USA Weekend Magazine | url=https://www.portada-online.com/hispanic-media/hispanic-newspapers/gannett-folds-usa-weekend-magazine/ | website=Portada | date=December 7, 2014}}</ref> On December 5, 2014, Gannett announced the end of ''USA Weekend'' after the December 26β28, 2014 edition, citing increasing operational costs and reduced advertising revenue. Most of its participating newspapers replaced it with the competing Sunday magazine ''[[Parade (magazine)|Parade]]''.<ref name=nytimes>{{cite news | title=Consolidation Coming in Sunday Magazines | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/12/business/consolidation-coming-in-sunday-magazines.html | first=Stuart | last=Elliott | work=The New York Times |date=December 11, 2014 | url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name=parade>{{cite news|title=Star Tribune plans to dump USA Weekend, pick up Parade| url=https://www.minnpost.com/braublog/2009/08/star-tribune-plans-dump-usa-weekend-pick-parade/ | first=David | last=Brauer | work=[[MinnPost]]|date=August 19, 2009}}</ref><ref name=wrap>{{cite news| title=USA Today Shuttering USA Weekend Magazine |url=https://www.thewrap.com/usa-today-shuttering-usa-weekend-magazine/ | first=Jordan | last=Chariton | work=[[The Wrap]] | date=December 5, 2014}}</ref><ref name=adweek>{{cite news | title=USA Today Shutters Weekend Magazine β USA Weekend was the country's second-largest news mag | url=https://www.adweek.com/digital/usa-today-shutters-weekend-magazine-161806/ | first=Emma | last=Bazilian | work=[[Adweek]] | date=December 5, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/12/05/usa-weekend-shuts-down/19966253/ | title=USA Today to end publication of USA Weekend| first=Roger | last=Yu | work=USA Today | date=December 5, 2014}}</ref> ===''USA Today Sports Weekly''=== {{Main|USA Today Sports Weekly}} '''''USA Today Sports Weekly''''' is a weekly magazine that covers news and statistics from [[Major League Baseball]], [[Minor League Baseball]] and [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]] baseball, the [[National Football League]] (NFL) and [[NASCAR]]. It debuted on April 5, 1991, as ''USA Today Baseball Weekly'', a [[tabloid (paper size)|tabloid]]-sized publication published weekly on Wednesdays during the baseball season and bi-weekly during the off-season. The magazine expanded its sports coverage on September 4, 2002, adopting a general title after adding stories about the NFL. ''Sports Weekly'' added coverage of NASCAR on February 15, 2006, which lasted only through that year's race season. It added coverage of NCAA college football on August 8, 2007. The editorial operations of ''Sports Weekly'' operated independently from ''USA Today'' until being integrated into the newspaper's sports department in late 2005.<ref name=timeline/><ref>{{cite news | first=Mark | last=Potts | title=Another Pitch for Baseball Fans; USA Today Plans Weekly Publication to Start on April 5 | url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1046769.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160225045124/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1046769.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=February 25, 2016 | newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] | date=January 29, 1991}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/29/business/usa-today-plans-a-weekly-newspaper-about-baseball.html|title=USA Today Plans a Weekly Newspaper About Baseball|newspaper=The New York Times|date=January 29, 1991|access-date=March 6, 2024}}</ref> ===The Big Lead=== {{Main|The Big Lead}} '''The Big Lead''' is a sports [[blog]] operated by ''USA Today'' that was launched in February 2006 by Fantasy Sports Ventures, co-founded by Jason McIntyre and David Lessa. In April 2008 the blog established a strategic content and marketing partnership with Gannett. The Big Lead was purchased by Gannett in January 2012.<ref>{{cite news | title=Gannett Buys Big Lead Sports Owner Fantasy Sports Ventures | url=http://allthingsd.com/20120124/gannett-buys-big-lead-sports-owner-fantasy-sports-ventures/ | first=Peter | last=Kafka | work=[[AllThingsD]] | date=January 24, 2012}}</ref> The site is usually updated 10 to 15 times per day between 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time. It mainly covers sports, but also provides news and commentary on other news topics, ranging from politics to [[pop culture]]. ===''USA Today: The Television Show''=== In 1987, Gannett and producer/former [[NBC]] CEO [[Grant Tinker]] began developing a [[news magazine]] series for [[broadcast syndication]] that attempted to bring the breezy style of ''USA Today'' to television.<ref>{{cite news | title=And Now, Folks... Here's Tomorrow's News New Show, New Concept β A Newspaper on TV | url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8040929.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130117083101/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8040929.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=January 17, 2013 | newspaper=[[The Boston Globe]] | date=December 15, 1987}}</ref> The result was ''USA Today: The Television Show'' (later ''USA Today on TV'',<ref>{{YouTube | id=YUo3Feeno2Q | title=USA Today On TV 1989 Intro And Outro}}</ref> then shortened to simply ''USA Today''), which premiered on September 12, 1988.<ref>{{cite news | title=Now, Here's the Good News...;USA Today's TV Spinoff, Focusing on 'the Journalism of Hope' | url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1278475.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130117083108/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1278475.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=January 17, 2013 | newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] | date=September 12, 1988}}</ref> Correspondents on the program included Edie Magnus, [[Robin Young]], [[Boyd Matson]], Kenneth Walker, Dale Harimoto, Ann Abernathy, [[Bill Macatee]] and Beth Ruyak. As with the newspaper, the show was divided into four "sections" corresponding to the respective parts of the paper: News (the major headlines), Money (financial news and consumer reports), Sports (sports news and scores) and Life (entertainment and lifestyle stories). The series was syndicated by GTG Marketing, a subsidiary of GTG Entertainment, which promoted it as a prime access magazine show, hoping that stations would air it in a prime time slot.<ref>{{Cite news |date=October 28, 1987 |title=GTG Signs 'Three' To Clear 'Today'; Checkerboard Out? |page=44 |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]}}</ref> The series was plagued by low ratings and negative reviews throughout its run. The program also suffered from being scheduled in poor timeslots in certain markets like [[New York City]], the country's largest [[media market]], where CBS [[owned-and-operated station|O&O station]] [[WCBS-TV]] (channel 2) aired the program in a pre-dawn slot, before the program was picked up by NBC O&O [[WNBC]] five months into its run. After airing in the equally weak 5:30 a.m. slot, the series was moved to the more clear-eyed 9:30 a.m., but fared no better <ref>{{cite news | title='USA Today on TV' Remains a Secret in NYC | url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-156070337.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130117083115/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-156070337.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=January 17, 2013 | newspaper=[[Albany Times Union]] | date=August 21, 1988}}</ref> (in contrast, [[CITY-DT]] in [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], [[Canada]] [which became the [[flagship (broadcasting)|flagship]] of the [[Citytv]] television network], ran it at 5:00 p.m.).<ref>{{cite news | title=TV's USA Today served to viewers as a 'side dish' to network news | first=Christopher | last=Michaud | agency=[[Reuters]] | newspaper=[[Toronto Star]] | page=C6 | date=September 12, 1988}}</ref> The series was renewed for a second season, but the setbacks led to the mid-season cancellation of the TV version of ''USA Today'' in November 1989, after one-and-a-half seasons. The final edition aired on January 7, 1990.<ref>{{cite news | title='USA Today on TV' Axed; Low Ratings Lead Gannett, Tinker to Cancel | url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1224653.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130117083054/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1224653.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=January 17, 2013 | newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] | date=November 23, 1989}}</ref> Gannett announced plans to develop a ''USA Today''-branded weekly half-hour television program titled ''Sports Page'', as part of a renewed initiative to extend the brand into television but this program, planned for fall 2004, never launched.<ref name=timeline/> ===''VRtually There''=== ''VRtually There'' was a weekly [[virtual reality]] news program produced by the USA Today Network, which debuted on October 20, 2016. The program, which was carried on the ''USA Today'' mobile app and is still available on [[YouTube]], showcased three original segments outlining news stories through a first-person perspective, recorded and produced by journalists from ''USA Today'' and its co-owned local newspapers. The program incorporated "cubemercials", long-form advertisements created by Gannett's in-house creative studio GET Creative, which are designed to allow consumer engagement in fully immersive experiences through virtual reality.<ref>{{cite news | title=USA Today Network Releases Its First Branded VR News Show 'VRtually There' | url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/pr/2016/10/20/usa-today-network-releases-its-first-branded-vr-news-show-vrtually-there/92452296/ | newspaper=USA Today | publisher=[[Gannett]] | date=October 20, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/charliefink/2017/05/11/vrtually-there-season-two-makes-usa-today-the-leading-360-vr-news-producer/ | title='VRtually There' Season Two Makes USA Today The Leading 360 VR News Producer | first=Charlie | last=Fink | work=[[Forbes]] | date=May 11, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Guaglione|first=Sara|date=October 20, 2016|title=USA Today Network Debuts 'VRtually There'|work=MediaPost|url=https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/287289/usa-today-network-debuts-vrtually-there.html}}</ref> The last story was uploaded on August 1, 2017, less than a year after the series creation.<ref>{{cite web |title=Extreme wheelchair athlete shreds skate park in VR |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ek-q5bXuqg |website=Youtube |access-date=August 16, 2022 |language=en}}</ref> ===''For the Win''=== ''USA Today'' operates a sports website called ''For the Win''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ftw.usatoday.com |title=For The Win | What fans are talking about |website=For the Win |access-date=February 28, 2022}}</ref> It was launched in April 2013 and was the first sports property devoted to social news.<ref>{{cite press release|url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/usa-today-sports-launches-for-the-win----the-first-ever-sports-media-property-dedicated-exclusively-to-social-news-204069401.html|title=USA TODAY Sports Launches For the Win|publisher=USA Today Sports/Gannett|agency=[[PR Newswire]]|date=April 22, 2013|access-date=March 10, 2024}}</ref> The sports and sports leagues/organizations covered are the [[National Football League]] (NFL), the [[National Basketball Association]] (NBA), the [[Women's National Basketball Association]] (WNBA), [[National Hockey League]] (NHL), [[Major League Baseball]] (MLB), college [[american football|football]], college [[basketball]], [[motorsports]], [[Association football|soccer]], [[golf]], outdoor sports, and the [[African-American]] cable television network [[Black Entertainment Television|BET]]. A gateway to [[TicketSmarter]] to purchase sports and other event tickets is also hosted. ''For the Win'' has sections covering pop culture and video games. Some articles for the latter are contributed by Good Luck Have Fun (GLHF), which describes itself as a gaming content agency that provides publishers around the globe such as ''USA Today'' and ''[[Sports Illustrated]],''<ref>{{cite web | url=https://glhf.gg/publishers/ | title=Publishers | GLHF }}</ref> with text and video.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://ftw.usatoday.com/author/glhf | title=GLHF }}</ref> ===Over-the-top and FAST channels=== In 2018, Gannett launched ''USA Today''-branded [[over-the-top media service|over-the-top]] channels, ''USA Today News'' and ''USA Today SportsWire'' (later renamed as USA Today Sports), which would later relaunched in 2021 as [[free ad-supported streaming television]] (FAST) channels that are available on [[Tubi]], [[The Roku Channel]], [[Xumo|Xumo Play]], [[Plex, Inc.|Plex]], [[Amazon Freevee]], [[Local Now]] and [[Samsung TV Plus]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.mediaplaynews.com/gannett-relaunches-usa-today-streaming-video-platforms/|title=Gannett Relaunches USA Today Streaming Video Platforms|website=Media Play News|date=August 2, 2021|access-date=March 10, 2024}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. 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