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Showtime Arabia
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| Type | Joint Venture |
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| Founded | 1996 |
| Headquarters | Dubai Media City, Dubai, United Arab Emirates |
| Industry | Telecommunication |
| Products | Pay television network Direct broadcast satellite |
| Owner | KIPCO (79% stake) and CBS Corporation (21% stake) |
| Slogan | Maximum TV |
| Website | www.ShowtimeArabia.com |
Showtime or Showtime Arabia (Gulf DTH F.Z. L.L.C., the operating company behind digital pay TV broadcaster Showtime) as it's called to distinguish itself from its U.S. counterpart, is the dominant subscription television service in the Middle East, North Africa, and the Levant territories. It is a joint venture between KIPCO (79% stake) and CBS Corporation (21% stake), CBS Corp being a minor partner. The company is incorporated in the Cayman Islands and has its headquarters at Dubai Media City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Showtime Arabia offers Hollywood movies, sitcoms, children’s programming, fashion shows and sports coverage. Showtime currently offers various Irdeto Access encrypted programming packages offering more than 50 premium Western entertainment channels. It also offers premium channels that includes movie channels, sports channels, news channels, music channels, kids channels and general family entertainment channels. It also includes pay-per-view Home Cinema Channels and Music Choice audio channels. The Disney Channel (Middle East), which is an a-la-carte channel, is also offered in this package.
Showtime Arabia uses Irdeto Access Conditional Access technology, to encrypt its DTH channels over satellite and the OpenTV interactive platform that runs on primarily UEC Set-top boxes.
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Showtime Arabia has won the rights to the English Premier League, there will be sweeping changes in the look of the station and its channels are to be renamed, as of 1 April [1], [2].
The new channels will be branded Showcinema, Showmovies, Showsports and Showseries.
The three new Showsports channels replace the previous Sportsnet channels and should provide Showtime with a leap in subscribers just before the next football season starts in August.
Showtime Arabia has been promoting it's new look, through teaser promos for the past couple of weeks. as the network continues to gain marketshare in spite of the free-to-air challenge of MBC Group channels which follow a similar formula in Western entertainment programming.
ART, losers of the Premier League rights, are yet to announce any major shift in strategy to cope with the potential fall-out next season.
THE MAIN CHANNELS:
SHOWMOVIES 1 & 2
SHOWMOVIES ACTION
SHOWMOVIES FAMILY
SHOWMOVIES COMEDY
SHOWCINEMA
SHOWSPORTS 1
SHOWSPORTS 2
SHOWSPORTS 3
SHOWSERIES 1
SHOWSERIES 1 EXTRA
SHOWSERIES 2
SHOWSHASHA
SHOWCOMEDY
SHOWKIDS
SELECTION OF INTERNATIONAL CHANNELS:
Al Jazeera Sport Channel +1
Al Jazeera Sport Channel +2
Eurosport News
Extreme Sports Channel
Disney Channel Middle East
Cartoon Network Middle East
TCM Middle East
VH1 Europe B
CNN International Europe
Boomerang
Bloomberg TV UK
Travel Channel
Hallmark Channel