In Demand
- For the song by Texas see In Demand (Texas song).
In Demand (capitalized as a trademark as iN DEMAND) is a provider of pay-per-view and subscription video-on-demand services, jointly owned by Comcast, Cox Communications, Time Warner Cable, and Bright House Networks.[1] It is the world's leading supplier of PPV and VOD programming.
History
iN Demand was launched in 1985 as Viewer's Choice (unrelated to Canada's Viewers Choice). Viewer's Choice continued to expand in the 1990s when it acquired many defunct PPV assets.
On January 1, 2000, the service changed the name and on-air look to iN Demand.[2] In 2004, most of the cable providers discontinued iN Demand's analog services.
Programs shown on iN Demand include Movies, latest events from TNA Wrestling, UFC, WWE, HBO Boxing, Dragon Gate, MMA, Miss Earth, King of the Cage, Golf, Viva La Lucha. Sports from MLB Extra Innings, NBA League Pass, MLS Direct Kick, NHL Center Ice, and other events like Howard TV and also Too Much For TV.
Since this network's first inception, the first main Viewer's Choice/iN Demand channel (usually labeled as 'IN1' or 'PPV1' since 2000), signs off weekday mornings from 8AM to 11AM (Eastern Time) to feed promotions of upcoming movies and events of the next month to its headend affiliates.
In 2010, iN Demand began providing a free movie on demand service, Vutopia on Demand. Currently, it is offered on Cox Communications systems. The service offers uncut older movies in SDTV as well as HDTV.[3]
See also
References
- ^ "About iN DEMAND - Ownership". http://www.indemand.com/business/business-overview/about/ownership.php. Retrieved 2011-08-06. Note that "Time Warner Entertainment-Advance/Newhouse Partnership" is a joint venture of Time Warner Cable and Advance/Newhouse (parent of Bright House) as per Time Warner Cable's 2011 10-K filing, and no longer has any connection to the Time Warner media company.
- ^ Viewer's Choice changes to In Demand
- ^ Vutopia on Demand website
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1 Indicates the channel is still in existence, but currently operates as a basic cable channel.
2 Star Channel was part of Warner Communications' QUBE interactive cable service, and was the precursor to present-day The Movie Channel.
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