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After Starting Streaming Race, Starz Now Lags Behind HBO And Showtime

Jan 11, 2012 7:15 PM

The evolution of premium cable TV beyond the living room took another step this week, with Showtime introducing a streaming app to rival HBO Go. Missing, however, was a similar view-on-any-device announcement from Starz, the network that kick-started pay-cable’s entry into the streaming realm when it launched its Vongo movies-on-demand…

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Posted In: Entertainment, Movies, Gadgets, Tablets, Media & Publishing, TV, Social Media, Video, Companies, Apple, iPad, iTunes, AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Liberty Media, Netflix, Time Warner, hbo go, max go, showtime anytime, vongo, xfinity

Starz Closes Online Movie Service Vongo; Focus on Partners; Clickstar’s Dead Star

Aug 11, 2008 11:59 PM

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,…

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