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====United Artists Media Group and United Artists Digital Studios==== On September 22, 2014, MGM acquired a 55% interest in One Three Media and Lightworkers Media, both operated by Mark Burnett and Roma Downey and partly owned by [[Hearst Corporation|Hearst Entertainment]]. The two companies were consolidated into a new television company, United Artists Media Group (UAMG), a revival of the UA brand. Burnett became UAMG's CEO and Downey became president of Lightworkers Media, the UAMG family and faith division. UAMG became the distributing studio for Mark Burnett Productions programming such as ''[[Survivor (American TV series)|Survivor]]''. UAMG was to form an [[over-the-top content|over-the-top]] faith-based channel.<ref name="Fleming"/><ref>{{cite magazine| last=Highfill| first=Samantha| title=MGM is launching the United Artists Media Group (again)| date=17 January 2015| magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]| url=https://www.ew.com/article/2014/09/22/mgm-united-artists-media-group| access-date=May 11, 2015| archive-date=May 18, 2015| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518081806/http://www.ew.com/article/2014/09/22/mgm-united-artists-media-group| url-status=live}}</ref> On December 14, 2015, MGM announced that it had acquired the remaining 45% stake of UAMG it did not already own and folded UAMG into its own television division. Hearst, Downey and Burnett received stakes in MGM collectively valued at $233 million. Additionally, Burnett was promoted to president for MGM Television, replacing the outgoing [[Roma Khanna]]. The planned over-the-top faith service (later to be branded as a combined OTT/[[digital subchannel]] service known as Light TV, now the [[TheGrio]]) became a separate entity owned by MGM, Burnett, Downey and Hearst.<ref name="MGMTV" /> On August 14, 2018, [[The Hollywood Reporter]] reported that MGM revived the brand as United Artists Digital Studios for the ''[[Stargate Origins]]'' web series as part of an attempted relaunch of [[Stargate (franchise)|its ''Stargate'' franchise]] which also included a dedicated [[streaming media]] platform known as ''Stargate Command'', thus following in the footsteps of [[Paramount Global]]'s ''CBS All Access'' platform (now [[Paramount+]]).<ref>{{cite web|last=Bond|first=Paul|date=August 14, 2018|title=MGM's Revenue on the Rise, But Net Income Struggles |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mgms-revenue-rise-but-net-income-struggles-1134873|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180913185221/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mgms-revenue-rise-but-net-income-struggles-1134873|archive-date=September 13, 2018|website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|access-date=September 13, 2018|quote=MGM recently formed United Artists Digital Studios...}}</ref>
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