In Demand

In Demand
iN DEMAND
iN DEMAND logo
Launched 1985
Owned by iN DEMAND Networks
(Comcast/Cox/Time Warner Cable/Bright House)
Formerly called Viewer's Choice (1985-2000)
Sister channel(s) Hot Choice
Website indemand.com
vutopia.com
Availability
Cable
Available on most cable systems Consult your cable provider
For the song by Texas see In Demand (Texas song).

In Demand (capitalized as a trademark as iN DEMAND) is a provider of pay-per-view and subscription video-on-demand services, jointly owned by Comcast, Cox Communications, Time Warner Cable, and Bright House Networks.[1] It is the world's leading supplier of PPV and VOD programming.

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History

Logo of US's Viewer's Choice which iN Demand originally was.

iN Demand was launched in 1985 as Viewer's Choice (unrelated to Canada's Viewers Choice). Viewer's Choice continued to expand in the 1990s when it acquired many defunct PPV assets.

On January 1, 2000, the service changed the name and on-air look to iN Demand.[2] In 2004, most of the cable providers discontinued iN Demand's analog services.

Programs shown on iN Demand include Movies, latest events from TNA Wrestling, UFC, WWE, HBO Boxing, Dragon Gate, MMA, King of the Cage, Golf, Viva La Lucha. Sports from MLB Extra Innings, NBA League Pass, MLS Direct Kick, NHL Center Ice, and other events like Howard TV and also Too Much For TV.

Since this network's first inception, the first main Viewer's Choice/iN Demand channel (usually labeled as 'IN1' or 'PPV1' since 2000), signs off weekday mornings from 8AM to 11AM (Eastern Time) to feed promotions of upcoming movies and events of the next month to its headend affiliates.

In 2010, iN Demand began providing a free movie on demand service, Vutopia on Demand. Currently, it is offered on Cox Communications systems. The service offers uncut older movies in SDTV as well as HDTV.[3]

iN Demand PPV logo used from 2000 to 2010.

See also

References

  1. ^ "About iN DEMAND - Ownership". http://www.indemand.com/business/business-overview/about/ownership.php. Retrieved 2011-08-06.  Note that "Time Warner Entertainment-Advance/Newhouse Partnership" is a joint venture of Time Warner Cable and Advance/Newhouse (parent of Bright House) as per Time Warner Cable's 2011 10-K filing, and no longer has any connection to the Time Warner media company.
  2. ^ Viewer's Choice changes to In Demand
  3. ^ Vutopia on Demand website

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