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LAPTV
Latin American media company From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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LAPTV (Latin American Pay Television Service) was a Latin American pay television company founded by many cable providers of the region (MVS Comunicaciones, Grupo Cisneros) and many cinema producers/distributors (such as United International Pictures, distributor of Paramount Pictures and Universal Studios). It runs several film and television series channels, such as Cinecanal and Film Zone, and previously Moviecity.
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History
LAPTV was formed as a partnership between Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount Pictures, and Fox in Latin America[2] in 1993[1] with Universal Studios joining later.[3] On May 22, 2012, Fox International Channels acquired MGM's stake in LAP TV.[4] In March 2013, Fox purchased Paramount's position in the company, thus becoming the sole owner of LAP TV, and sign a content agreement with LAP TV.[2] Starting on November 3, 2014, all the Premium channels of the pack were rebranded as "Fox+", dropping the "Movie City" brand definitely, and consolidating the Fox brand in LAPTV with the operations in Fox International Channels.[5] Operations of Cinecanal and Film Zone were unaffected.
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Channels
Basic-tier channels
- Cinecanal (1993–present): Mix of new releases and slightly older films, also shows films previously shown on Moviecity/Fox+ and before any other basic-tier pay-TV channel. Before 2010 it was part of the premium-labelled networks of the company.
Defunct Brands
- Film Zone (1999-2017): Offered 3 independent films from the Sundance Channel[1][6] and films previously shown on Moviecity/Fox+ and Cinecanal.
- Moviecity (1997 - November 3, 2014): New releases only
- Cinecanal 2 (1997 - 2007): Mix of new releases and slightly older films
- Cinecanal Classics (2004 - 2009): Classic movies
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