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Older movies would be re-categorized as "Blockbuster Favorite" titles and placed in a different area of the store. [139] Most Blockbuster locations also accepted trade-ins of used movies, TV shows, and games. [140] Since Blockbuster's founding in 1985, the chain refused to stock adult films in order to portray the brand as family-friendly. [141]
DirecTV is also the national provider of MLS Season Pass, a new subscription service from Apple and Major League Soccer, to commercial establishments such as bars, lounges and restaurants. The offering is known as DirecTV for Business. [96] Yahoo expanded its partnership with DirecTV advertising to include set-top box data in October 2022. [97]
Viacom Entertainment Store was a proposed chain of merchandise stores offering product based on Viacom owned properties, including Star Trek, Nickelodeon, MTV, VH1 and other Paramount Pictures properties. The first (and only) Viacom Entertainment Store opened at 600 Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, on May 23, 1997. [1]
DirecTV Cinema (previously known as Direct Ticket, Blockbuster Ticket, Blockbuster Pay-Per-View Movies, and DirecTV Pay-Per-View) is DirecTV's video on demand and pay-per-view platform for film content. Films are released as is done on other pay-TV services, along with exclusive film premieres priced at premium rates before entering theatrical ...
Prior to October 1, 2014, Suddenlink carried cable channels from Viacom, including BET, CMT, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount Network, TV Land, VH1 and various smaller spin-off networks. The two companies were able to reach an agreement at the end of 2010 for continued carriage of Viacom's channels that was to end on September 30 ...
After that company was sold to Viacom in 1994, it absorbed the distribution functions of Viacom Enterprises the next year. Viacom had distributed the classic CBS library which included the pre-1960 Desilu library, alongside series from Viacom Productions and Carsey-Werner Productions library (Paramount lost the rights to the latter library in ...
Viacom described this as a "temporary slimdown" until a new carriage deal with DirecTV was reached. [34] Viacom and DirecTV reached an agreement on July 20 to return the interrupted programming. [35] In 2012 CEO Phillip Dauman began to report Viacom's intentions to bundle past programming and make it available on-demand via services like Hulu. [36]
In 2006, Viacom International was renamed to CBS Operations, Inc., and its copyrights related to Viacom's cable networks were transferred to a new Viacom International company. The new Viacom International remained an active company after Viacom and CBS merged to create ViacomCBS in 2019 and ViacomCBS rebranded as the current Paramount Global ...