Starzplay, the international streaming offering from Lionsgate-owned US pay TV outfit Starz, has launched on Roku streaming players and Roku TVs in the UK and Mexico. Would-be subscribers can sign up for a seven-day free trial before committing to a £4.99 monthly subscription in the UK. The service is priced at US$3.99 in Mexico. The […]
Lionsgate-backed cable channel Starz is rolling out a direct-to-consumer app in five countries, including the UK and France. The Starzplay app is also launching in Brazil, Germany and Mexico, and plans are in place to launch in 20 additional countries next year. To date, Starzplay has found distribution via platforms such as Apple TV and […]
Lionsgate is mulling spinning off premium cable offering Starz into a separate company as it looks to reduce its debt load. According to The Wall Street Journal, a spin-off is among a number of options the studio is considering for the Outlander and American Gods channel, which it purchased for US$4.4 billion in 2016. Others include putting Starz up for […]
Lionsgate has promoted Jeffrey Hirsch to the president and CEO of Starz, its premium cable and satellite television network and OTT. Starz currently has 24.7 million pay TV subscribers, and more than 4.4 million domestic OTT subscribers. As CEO, Hirsch will shape the overall business and programming strategy for Starz and oversee the continued evolution […]
Lionsgate-owned streaming service Starz is ramping up its international expansion effort with a launch in Canada, while Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer has promised closer integration between the studio and Starz to fuel the latter’s international growth, and an eventual breaking out of international subscriber information as a separate line in the company’s financials. Starz has […]
The Roku Channel is set to offer premium subscriptions from Showtime, Starz and Epix by late January. Premium subscriptions will give potential customers the ability to browse all available content across the services before signing up, as well as free trials for all subscriptions and the ability to pay for all premium content in a […]
Lionsgate-owned Starz has partnered with Virgin Media to make its Starzplay streaming service available on the Virgin TV platform. Starzplay will be available to Virgin customers for £4.99 per month and is due to launch via the operator on November 29. The subscription video-on-demand offering will feature Starz series like Vida, Sweetbitter and The White […]
Hulu viewers can now add Starz to their subscription plan to gain access to the network’s live Starz and Starz Encore channels along with their full on-demand catalogues. The Starz premium add-on is available on all of Hulu’s subscription plans and has gone live ahead of the upcoming season four premiere of Starz Original series Outlander on […]
Starz, a Lionsgate company, has added Netflix’s Darren Nielson and Lionsgate’s Jeff Cooke to its International Digital Networks team. Nielson will join as senior VP of distribution and business development. Based in the company’s Santa Monica office, he will lead this element of the business for the Starz-branded digital and linear services and channels. Working […]
Lionsgate-owned subscription video-on-demand service Starzplay has struck agreements to launch branded channels in France, Italy and Spain following its earlier launches in the UK and Germany. Starzplay launched on Amazon Channels in the UK and Germany in May, bringing shows such as Vida and Sweetbitter and popular series such as Boss, Party Down, Survivor’s Remorse and Swedish Dicks to subscribers in those countries. “We’re […]
ICYMI: UK seeks final say on @virginmedia-O2 merger from EU digitaltveurope.com/2020/07/03/uk-… https://t.co/da83mHGtee
03 July 2020 @ 20:00:00 UTC
ICYMI: Telefónica’s Movistar+ secures #ChampionsLeague rights digitaltveurope.com/2020/07/03/tel… https://t.co/qxi79LsfeR
03 July 2020 @ 19:00:00 UTC
ICYMI: @banijaygroup completes @endemolshine acquisition, Sophie Turner Laing to leave digitaltveurope.com/2020/07/03/ban… https://t.co/GHNfTg8qGM
03 July 2020 @ 18:00:00 UTC
TVOD purchases see US spike in April digitaltveurope.com/2020/07/03/tvo… https://t.co/Bcsznrx0sI
03 July 2020 @ 17:45:00 UTC
Broadcast Networks Europe names new chief digitaltveurope.com/2020/07/03/bro… https://t.co/KYPoahjeWy
03 July 2020 @ 17:25:00 UTC
