1998 Lifeworks Protest

The 1998 Lifeworks Protest was a protest that lasted from June 20, 1998 to September 27, 1998 for ATBW Label Networks to get Cops back on Lifeworks Network after not airing again after June 17, 1998. Cops has aired on the network since its debut in 1989, but Cops is a Langley Production, not ATBW, which made it reasonable to remove it from the network 9 years later. Lifeworks Inc. was acquired in 1994 with Escade Corporation and kept Cops in its network for 4 years.

ATBW's parent company Langile Corporation also got impacted as it owned them as a division at the time in 1998. It only got worse since but started waning in August. after the company continued ignoring and refusing the demand to air the program on the network, as this was a process of dismantling the company to become an ATBW network.

Even worse, the subsidiary Lifeworks almost went bankrupt as a result of the protest that occurred in that year, and almost folded itself afterwards, but managed to survive it. The subsidiary eventually started recovering (slowly) from the protest, and eventually remained in good standing until the 2004 Lifeworks Protest after ATBW permanently became exclusively a movie network with the original Lifeworks Network got closed by them and being replaced with Lifeworks Reality and adding movie channels of different genres.