EAPL Inc.

EAPL Inc. is a sports company that was founded in 1974 and owned by ATBW Label Networks from 1994 to 2021. The name "EAPL" is an abbreviation to Entertainment & Athletics Professional League, which was originally founded by Baard Corporation, founded in 1883 as a news publisher. However, since the joint venture, Baard has gotten into confrontations with ATBW themselves regarding ownership. On September 27, 2021 after continuous issues and debates, EAPL was sold back to Baard Corporation and ATBW launched its own sports network CLP Sportsnet, which would be ATBW's future focus on sports. CNP7 would still remain under ATBW ownership.

History
EAPL was founded initially as a sports catalogue, but eventually got into television in the 1980's. In 1985, it was acquired by Centric Media, which sold 10% to Baard Corporation, in which they retained the rights to the newspaper publishing. In 1992, Centric announced it would be selling EAPL to ATBW Label Networks, the deal was completed in 1994. Eventually, they were also looking to acquire its former newspaper publishing company Baard acquired, but failed. It was sold back to Baard Corporation on September 27, 2021 as a result of prolonged arguments between the two companies, as well as issues with ESPN. CLP Sportsnet was launched and replaced the ATBW Viewer version of it

EAPL, with Lifeworks Inc. and CLP Network (also ATBW subsidiaries), launched CNP7 which aired CLP news, Lifeworks Movies, and EAPL sports. It was analog only until 2009 when the company switched to digital programming.