Liberty Starz
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Liberty Starz is a wholly owned television
Television
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 programming subsidiary of Liberty Media Corp
Liberty Media
Liberty Media Corporation is an American media conglomerate and the control is exercised by company Chairman John C. Malone, who owns a majority of the voting shares....

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The company is headquartered at Meridian, Colorado
Meridian, Colorado
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, though the postal designation of nearby Englewood
Englewood, Colorado
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 is commonly listed as the company's location in corporate filings and news accounts. It consists of 16 American
United States
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 cable
Cable television
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 and satellite
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 TV channels or services.

Liberty Media split Starz Entertainment into a separate tracking stock named Liberty Starz on November 19, 2009. This tracking stock structure should not be confused as being a separate company. Starz Entertainment is wholly owned by Liberty Media.

List of Starz-owned channels

  • Encore
    • Encore Action
    • Encore Drama
    • Encore Español
    • Encore Family
    • Encore Love
    • Encore Suspense
    • Encore Westerns
  • MoviePlex
    MOVIEplex
    MoviePlex is an American premium television network which features recent and older motion pictures. It is a spinoff of the Encore movie channel and is owned by Liberty Starz...

    • INDIEplex
    • RETROplex
  • Starz
    • Starz Cinema
    • Starz Comedy
    • Starz Edge
    • Starz InBlack
    • Starz Kids & Family


Starz also owns speciality services such as Starz HD, Starz On Demand, and Vongo
Vongo
Vongo was a video on demand service, owned by Liberty Media's Starz Entertainment, parent company of the Starz network, that allowed users to download and view movies for a fixed price per month...

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