TS News - Primestar Adds Showtime

• From: Martyn Williams <martyn@twics.com>
• Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 10:43:04 +0900
• From owner-ts-news@tele-satellit.com Mon Dec 2 21: 36:24 1996

TELE-satellit News, 3 December 1996

Primestar Adds Showtime
  NEW YORK, New York, 96/12/03 (TS) -- The Primestar digital satellite
package has announced it is adding Showtime, Showtime 2 and the Sundance
Channel after it reached an agreement with parent company of the channels
Showtime Networks, a unit of Viacom Inc.

  The movie channels will complement the current line-up of Viacom services
that include MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and Nick at Nite's TV Land.
VH1 will be added next year.

  The announcement is the latest in a series from Primestar which has
around 50 extra channels to fill with the upcoming launch of the GE-2
satellite.

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