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Private company

NTN Buzztime

Logo: buzztime.com3

Entertainment company

NTN Buzztime is a company that produces interactive entertainment across many different platforms. Its most well-known product, simply called Buzztime, and formerly known as the NTN Network, since 1985, broadcasts trivia and other games via broadband over a national network to over 3,800 bars and restaurants in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1983Founded1

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Photo: Brian Rawson-Ketchum, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons4

NTN Buzztime is a company that produces interactive entertainment across many different platforms. Its most well-known product, simply called Buzztime, and formerly known as the NTN Network, since 1985, broadcasts trivia and other games via broadband over a national network to over 3,800 bars and restaurants in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean.2

Timeline

  1. 1983Founded Founded1

Funding

Where the company's money came from, by calendar year: private offerings filed with the SEC, federal grants, loans, contracts and other assistance from USAspending.gov, and PPP loans from the SBA. Each bar links to the records below.

Money received by year$1.6M 2020–2020
Money received by yearMoney received by year, 2020–2020: $1.6M in all. PPP loans $1.6M.$0$500K$1M$1.5M$2M2020 · PPP loans: $1.6M2020
Figures by year
YearPPP loansTotal
2020$1.6M$1.6M

PPP loans

Paycheck Protection Program loans of $150,000 and up, approved April 2020 to July 2021, from the SBA5. Matched to this company by name and state.

  1. Apr 12, 2020$1.6M PPP loan (first draw) from First Merchants Bank5To NTN BUZZTIME, INC., Carlsbad CA; $1.1M forgiven Nov 10, 2020

Sources

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