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This article lists television content currently and/or formerly broadcast by Starz, an American pay television network owned and operated by Starz Inc., a subsidiary of Lionsgate. Primarily a film-based service, it began to introduce original programming in 2005 to compete with rival pay TV services HBO and Showtime.
Launched as The Movie Channel 2 Starz: Lionsgate : 1994 - Starz Cinema: 1999 - Starz Comedy: 2005 - Starz Edge: 1996 - Formerly known as Starz 2 and Starz Theater Starz in Black: 1997 - Formerly known as BET Movies: Starz and Black Starz Starz Kids & Family: 1999 - Formed from the merger of Starz Kids and Starz Family Starz Encore: 1991 -
It is the sister channel of Starz and MoviePlex. As of September 2018, Starz Encore's programming was available to approximately 34.026 million U.S. households that had a subscription to a multichannel television provider (30.918 million of which receive Starz Encore's primary channel at minimum). [3]
Starz (stylized in all caps since 2016; pronounced "stars") is an American pay television network owned by Starz Entertainment, and is the flagship property of parent subsidiary Starz Inc. Launched in 1994 as a multiplex service of Starz Encore, programming on Starz consists of theatrically released motion pictures and first-run original television series.
In January 2009, Lionsgate purchased TV Guide Network and TVGuide.com from Rovi for $255 million cash. [28] In May 2009, Lionsgate sold a 49% stake in TV Guide Network and website to One Equity Partners under pressure from shareholder Carl Icahn. [29] Lionsgate cut back its slate of films per year by four in February 2009.
The headquarters of IndiePlex and its sister channels MoviePlex and RetroPlex are located on the Meridian International Business Center complex in Meridian, Colorado. [ 1 ] On April 5, 2016, Starz was rebranded and added all the Encore channels to its moniker, therefore increasing the Starz channel lineup to 14 Starz movie channels.
MoviePlex originally launched on January 1, 1997 as Plex: Encore 1; [2] it replaced both INTRO Television (originally called TV! Network until September 1995), a cable channel that was launched in June 1994 by Liberty Media (initial owner of MoviePlex through a joint venture with parent company Tele-Communications, Inc.), which aired "sampler" blocks of programming from other cable channels ...
As a result of the spin-off, Liberty Starz changed its name to Starz Inc., began trading on NASDAQ under the ticker symbols STRZA and STRZB, and replaced Liberty Media in the NASDAQ-100 index. [16] Starz Inc.'s businesses and assets at the time consisted of Starz Networks , Starz Distribution , and its minority stake in Arc Productions .