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- Adult channels mate.
- Playboy's $100 million purchase of Spice creates compatible bedfellows Starting today, adult entertainment channels Playboy and Spice will finally be one. Playboy Entertainment Group executives are preparing to quickly change the face o ...
- Research articles 1999-03-15
- Scrambled picture for Playboy, Spice; Playboy will continue battling expanded scrambling requirements. (Playboy Cable Network, Spice Entertainment Companies Inc.)
- Playboy will continue battling expanded scrambling requirements Playboy plans to continue its battle against new cable scrambling rules after a Supreme Court ruling cleared the way for the rules to take effect. Justices last week upheld a lowe Playboy...
- Research articles 1997-03-31
- Playboy Defends Adding Spicier Shows.(Brief Article)
- A desire to offer operators a full complement of adult pay-per-view services -- and not competition -- prompted Playboy Enterprises Inc.'s move next year into less-edited adult pay-per-view programming, said Playboy Television Group president Jim E A desire to offer operators a full complement...
- Research articles 2000-12-11
- Playboy adds live PPV net.(Spice Live)(Brief Article)
- Playboy TV will attempt to take interactive adult programming to a new level with the launch of a 24 hour Spice Live channel in December. The new premium adult channel will offer live, interactive programming blocks that for the first time wil...
- Research articles 2003-11-10
- Operators get more daring with adult films.
- Cable operators, long used to treading lightly when it comes to pushing adult movies on pay-per-view, are now getting a bit more daring in their marketing approach to blue films. But community mores and the feeling that promotional dollars should Cable operators,...
- Research articles 1993-07-19
- Scrambling rules on hold: court issues restraining order, allowing Playboy and Spice to challenge provisions.(Brief Article)
- Court issues restraining order, allowing Playboy and Spice to challenge provisions Court issues restraining order, allowing Playboy and Spice to challenge provisions
- Research articles 1996-03-11
- TEN Moves Up Launch Date to Aug. 15th
- Buoyed by interest from several cable operators, The Erotic Network TEN has moved up its launch date to Aug. 15 from Sept. 1. The pay-per-view adult service will launch with about 80,000 addressable subscribers -- mostly from small systems in th Buoyed by...
- Research articles 1998-08-10
- Hotter Adult Product Makes Inroads.
- In the early 1990s, Playboy TV set the standard for the newly created adult pay-per-view genre, offering more erotic programming fare to consumers than what could be seen on basic and premium television. But heading into the new millennium, Pl ...
- Research articles 1999-12-13
- Adult rules send ops scrambling. (cable TV operators)
- Operators last week began the tedious task of determining how best to .meet the Federal Communications Commission's May 18 deadline for compliance with adult scrambling laws. Most operators will roll back programming time for adult services Playb Operators last week began the...
- Research articles 1997-04-28
- Playboy to Launch on Viewer's Choice Pods.
- Operators will soon have several additional adult-programming options, as both Playboy Entertainment Group Inc. and Califa Entertainment Group announced a number of initiatives last week. Playboy will distribute its Playboy TV, Spice and Spice Operators will soon have several...
- Research articles 1999-06-14
- Playboy to acquire Spice Entertainment for 2.7 times revenue
- The Deal: Playboy Enterprises has agreed to acquire the Spice Entertainment Company, a key rival in the adult television market, in a stock deal worth $95 million. Each Spice shareholder will receive $3.60/share in cash and 0.1524 shares of Playboy Class B stock, subject to a collar designed to provide...
- Research articles 1998-02-16
- New adult service will take on Playboy. (The Erotic Network)
- Just when Playboy Entertainment Group Inc. thought that it had cornered the adult pay-per-view market with its acquisition of Spice Entertainment Cos., another upstart service promising "alternative" adult programming will launch this summe Just when Playboy Entertainment Group Inc. thought that it had cornered the...
- Research articles 1998-04-27
- Playboy Debuts Digital PPV Amid Op Angst.(pay-per-view operators lukewarm to Spice Platinum services)(Brief Article)
- Playboy TV is looking to capitalize on advanced cable technology with several digital and video-on-demand offerings, but it's unclear whether operators will bite. The network will launch its already delayed, mostly unedited Spice Platinum adu Playboy TV is...
- Research articles 2001-04-23
- Three MSOs look anew at adult PPV movies. (multiple-systems operators; pay-per-view TV)
- In an attempt to find new sources of revenue in a newly regulated environment, a number of MSOs are rethinking their opposition to adult pay-per-view services. Cox Cable Communications, Continental Cablevision and Times Mirror Cable are in variou In an attempt to...
- Research articles 1993-06-21
- Playboy, Spice coupling.(Brief Article)
- Playboy Enterprises and Spice Entertainment have reached a definitive agreement for Playboy to acquire all outstanding shares of Spice for cash and Playboy stock in a merger valued at $100 million. Spice stockholders will retain ownership of Spice's Playboy Enterprises and Spice Entertainment have reached...
- Research articles 1998-06-08
- Playboy Enterprises Agrees to Acquire Spice Entertainment Companies, Inc
- CHICAGO--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 4, 1998-- Playboy Enterprises, Inc. PEI and Spice Entertainment Companies, Inc. Spice today announced that they entered into an agreement whereby PEI will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Spice (SPZE- NASDAQ) for cash and Playboy stock. The total transaction value, including the assumption of...
- Research articles 1998-02-04
- Playboy Finally Closing Spice Deal.(Brief Article)
- Operators who may have feared that Playboy Enterprises Inc.'s $100 million purchase of the Spice adult pay-per-view service would cut into their lucrative revenue split agreements will have little to worry about once the deal is completed March 15, Operators who may have feared...
- Research articles 1999-03-15
- Ops start to bring adult PPV out of the closet. (multiple-systems operators; pay-per-view TV)
- Once shy about marketing adult pay-per-view programming, operators are beginning to step up promotional efforts to pump up revenue opportunities from the genre. Operators say they've enjoyed higher buy-rates and revenues from their recent aggress Once shy about marketing adult pay-per-view programming,...
- Research articles 1995-04-24
- Playboy has new HD plan for cable.
- Cable operators can't get Playboy TV in HDTV, but they can add a dash of Spice HD to customers' lives. Spice Digital Networks will offer a late-night block of explicit adult-oriented programming to operators beginning in December, general man ...
- Research articles 2003-12-01
- Graff PPV expands into additional video areas. (Graff Pay-Per-View Inc.)
- NEW YORK -- Graff Pay-Per-View Inc. is a video juggling act, with the fast-growing company using its healthy adult programming operation to support investment in a variety of other video segments. But while Graff's Spice PPV business has been robu NEW YORK --...
- Research articles 1994-05-23
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