Continental Cablevision and Encore Media Corp. ink 10-year affiliation pact.ENGLEWOOD, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 14, 1995--Continental Cablevision Inc. (CCI CCI Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie (France) CCI CAM (Complementary and Alternative Medicine) Citation Index CCI Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Western Australia) ) and Encore Media Corp. (EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. ) have signed a 10-year MSO-wide affiliation agreement for the carriage of STARZ!-encore 8 ("STARZ"), ENCORE and Thematic Multiplex channels on CCI's cable systems, it was announced by Robert Stengel, senior vice president of programming & advertising and John J. Sie, chairman & CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Encore Media Corp. Central to the wide-ranging agreement is the roll out of STARZ! and ENCORE services to most of the MSO's basic subscribers over the next four years. CCI intends to use both STARZ! and ENCORE as part of the core components of its multi-premium pay packaging strategy. The agreement also covers STARZ! Multiplexes, Encore's Thematic Multiplex channels and ENCORE+, a version of ENCORE scheduled theme by day for a total of 14 different screens. "The rapidly changing competitive landscape requires us to focus on providing quality and value in premium services to the broadest reach of our subscriber base," said Stengel. He adds, "Encore's long term exclusive output contracts with major Hollywood studios and its programming philosophy geared to serve the broadest audience were the key reasons for CCI to enter this long term agreement with Encore." "We are delighted to have been selected to be part of CCI's core premium package. CCI's strategic vision for a competitive future has stimulated and guided us in STARZ!'s programming and Multiplex development," said Sie. "In addition to enabling CCI to offer a very attractive mutli-premium package to its pay television subscribers, a reasonably priced STARZ!/ENCORE package will help CCI bring a large number of former pay subscribers back into the pay category," Sie adds. Encore Media Corp. (EMC) is a joint venture of Liberty Media Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Tele-Communications Inc. (TCI (Trustworthy Computing Initiative) An umbrella term from Microsoft for its efforts to improve security in Windows. TCI was announced in 2002 after viruses such as Code Red and Nimda had succeeded in attacking numerous Windows computers. ) and JJS JJS Journal of Japanese Studies Communications Inc. EMC is the largest provider of national cable and satellite channels (15 channels total) in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and includes ENCORE: a widely popular service, featuring hit movies of the `60s, `70s, `80s (6.2 million subscribers); six Thematic Multiplex services -- Love Stories-encore 2, Westerns-encore 3, Mystery-encore 4, Action-encore 5, True Stories & Drama-encore 6, and WAM WAM - Intermediate language for compiled Prolog, used by the Warren Abstract Machine. "An Abstract Prolog Instruction Set", D.H.D. Warren, TR 309, SRI 1983. ! America's Youth Netwok-encore 7; ENCORE+ theme by day (3.5 million subscribers); STARZ!-encore 8 and first-run premium multiplex movie service (2.2 million subscribers); and the International Channel, offering multi-lingual basic cable programming in 22 different Asian, European and Middle eastern languages to 7 million subscribers in the United States and Latin America. Planned for the future is STARZ!2 featuring prime time any time. CONTACT: Encore Media Corp., Englewood Warren Zeller, 303/267-4003 |
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