When you run out of talk minutes, you have to top off, change plans or stop using the cell phone. Turns out the same kind of system is at work with Starz, which literally has hit the limits on its ability to serve up movies from *Sony* Pictures on Netflix…

Like many entertainment companies, Disney (NYSE: DIS) has pretty specific ideas about when and how it wants to release its content, and uses a system called “windowing” to try to get the most profit out of each stage of distribution. In a lawsuit filed last month, Disney said that a…

Dish Networks is celebrating its 30th anniversary, but a few of their biggest media partners aren’t interested in throwing the satellite TV company any parties. After Dish “celebrated” this milestone by offering millions of subscribers free access to Starz channels for an entire year, it got a different kind of…

There’s plenty of time before Starz’s controversial streaming deal with Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) runs out, but that hasn’t stopped analysts from endlessly speculating as to how such a pact could be structured. Today it was Collins Stewart analyst Tom Eagan’s turn, but his idea just isn’t realistic.

Television manufacturers, take note: All those new sets you’ve crammed with apps and other internet-derived content experiences aren’t impressing some pretty key constituents in the entertainment industry.

Liberty Media’s quest to kick Starz up a notch as an original programmer gets a boost with the hiring of former HBO wiz Chris Albrecht to succeed retiring Bob Clasen. As president and CEO, Albrecht’s portfolio includes Starz Entertainment, Overture Films, Anchor Bay Entertainment and Film Roman. Albrecht spent more…

Robert B. Clasen is retiring as chairman and CEO of Starz, LLC,  after six years at Starz and 40 years in the industry. But he’s not going anywhere yet—Clasen will stay on while Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) searches for his successor. The estimated time is around the end of the…

Add HBO and Cinemax to the list of networks taking part in the Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) Online On Demand national trial slated to start later this month. The Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) premium networks will start by providing up to 750 hours of programming a month to trial participants who…

The 5,000 Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) subscribers taking part in the company’s planned online VOD trial this summer will have access to 300 movies and some original programming from Starz Entertainment—if they already subscribe to the premium network. The Comcast On Demand Online trial is the first toe in the water…

Starz Entertainment, owned by Liberty Entertainment, which recently closed down its consumer online movie service Vongo, is now adding its bunch of movies to Netflix’s (NSDQ: NFLX) growing online movie service. This will add about 2,500 movies, TV shows and music concerts to Netflix’s library of about 12,000 videos available…

Starz Entertainment, owned by Liberty Entertainment, has closed down its anemic online movie service Vongo, according to a post on its site, picked up by Variety. Existing users can use the service until Sept 30th. The move is not a surprise, considering it did a deal with Verizon in May,…

Ed. Note: The following post has been corrected to more accurately reflect the report structure.  We regret the error. Starz, the cable TV network owned by Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA), has quietly reorg-ed its management operations, reports THR. Live-action television production, development and sales operations that had been reporting to…

Eventually multi-platform movie and TV deals will be routine, not something to fuss over. We aren’t there yet, which is why Starz Entertainment’s announcement today about movie agreements with five major studios is worth mentioning here. Starz has extended first-run output deals with Sony (NYSE: SNE) Pictures Television and Disney-ABC…