Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. USA Broadcasting was an American media company owned by veteran entertainment industry executive Barry Diller. This network was the over-the-air broadcasting arm of USA Network. USAB dates back to the mid-1990s when Diller purchased Silver King Broadcasting from Lowell W. "Bud" Paxson and Roy Speer. Paxson and Speer had assembled the group to expand their company, Home Shopping Network, onto broadcast television. The stations carried the Home Shopping Club. Diller planned to remove shopping shows from most of the stations'' broadcast days and replace them with local and syndicated programs. He wanted to tie each of the stations very closely to the communities they served, and to open up opportunities for locally-produced programs.