CBS directly purchased TNN's parent company, Gaylord Broadcasting, GeorgeSlv (prior to their merger with Viacom), then folded the network and turned it into into Spike. I don't know what the network's name is now.
From what I heard, CBS locked away all the TNN tapes - including The Statler Brothers Show - in their vaults. Bluegrass artist David Holt, who had his own show on TNN called Fire on the Mountain during the mid-to-late '80's, recently expressed his displeasure regarding how ViacomCBS assumed ownership of his series.
moax429, did TNN fold first, or did Viacom just buy them out? CBS was biased against Country and screwed it up. But now the country folks started a new network called RFD.
GeorgeSlv:
You can thank (sarcastically speaking) ViacomCBS for that. When TNN folded, their assets were purchased by CBS in the late 90's, and then locked away.
Shame. I liked The Statler Brothers Show, too; it seemed reminiscent of of those old C&W shows my folks used to watch in the 60's (including those on CBC like Tommy Hunter; at that time, I was only a kid - I was born in April 1962 - and my family and I lived in the Detroit suburb of Warren, Michigan, from 1964 to 1971. We could receive CKLW (now CBET), Channel 9, a CBC affiliate from Windsor, Ontario).
No complete episodes are available now, or even an episode list. If anyone has their own recordings now is the time to try to provide them. The Brothers are providing videos that only include their own performances, due to licencing.