EAPL Inc.

EAPL Inc. is a sports company that was founded in 1974 and owned by ATBW Label Networks since 1994. 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. Baard got angered over ATBW owning the whole company as they tried to. ATBW owns 90% of EAPL, while Baard only owns 10% of it. Despite the deal being a joint venture, Baard does not get a long well when it comes to plans by ATBW. ATBW almost attempted to buy it fully, but after a long argument, they still allowed Baard to keep the remaining 10% of it. This is largely due to ATBW's no-sell policy, which does not allow its subsidiaries to become independent for 70 years after being bought out plus 25 years of half ownership, thus EAPL will not be given back to Baard fully until 95 years after the deal, which is in 2089.

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. EAPL largely competes with other sports media works, including ESPN (owned by Walt Disney), NBC Sports (owned by Comcast), FOX Sports (owned by Fox Corporation), Sky Sports, and CBS Sports (owned by ViacomCBS).

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.