Showtime Networks
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| Revenue | $1 billion (2021) | |
| Owner | Parent Paramount Media Networks | |
| Website | www | |
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Showtime Networks Inc. is an American entertainment company that oversees the company's premium cable television channels, including its flagship service Paramount+ with Showtime. It is a subsidiary of media conglomerate Paramount Global under its networks division.
Overview
The company was established in 1983 as Showtime/The Movie Channel, Inc. after
On March 1, 1994, a partnership between Showtime Networks and Home Box Office, Inc. (parent of HBO and Cinemax) implemented a cooperative content advisory system that was initially unveiled across Showtime, The Movie Channel and the HBO properties that would provide specific content information for pay-cable subscribers to determine the suitability of a program for children. The development of the system—inspired by the advisory ratings featured in Showtime and The Movie Channel's respective program guides and those distributed by other participating premium cable services—was in response to concerns from parents and advocacy groups about violent content on television, allowing the Showtime Networks and other services to assign individual ratings corresponding to the objectionable content depicted in specific programs (and categorized based on violence, profanity, sexuality or miscellaneous mature material). Labels are assigned to each program at the discretion of the participating service.[3] A revised system—centered around ten content codes of two to three letters in length—was implemented across the Showtime Networks and Home Box Office services on June 10, 1994.[4]
SNI, along with
Cable networks currently owned by SNI
Year in parentheses denotes when each network and channel was brought into the SNI fold.
- Paramount+ with Showtime (1983)+
- SHO2 (formerly SHOTOO) (1994)
- Showcase (formerly Showtime 3) (1996)
- Showtime Extreme (1998)
- SHO×BET (2020)*
- Showtime Next (2001)
- Showtime Family Zone (2001)
- Showtime Women (2001)
- The Movie Channel (1983)+
- The Movie Channel Xtra (1999)
- Flix (1992)
+Channel launched under Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment prior to 1983.
*Channel originally named Showtime Beyond from 1998 to 2020.[5]
SNI won a
References
- ^ InsideView Company Profile: Showtime Networks, Inc.
- ^ Variety June 7, 2001 25 memorable moments in Showtime's 25-year history
- ^ Ellen Edwards (January 11, 1994). "Cable Leaders to Develop Violence Ratings". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on June 11, 2014. Retrieved March 11, 2013.
- ^ Steve Weinstein (June 8, 1994). "Premium Cable Channels Adopt Content Labels". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ "Showtime, BET Launch Co-Branded SHOxBET, Replacing SHO Beyond - Variety". 15 July 2020.
- ^ 62nd Annual Peabody Awards, May 2003.
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