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typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Showtime_Networks.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Showtime_Networks.svg/220px-Showtime_Networks.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="101" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Showtime_Networks.svg/330px-Showtime_Networks.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Showtime_Networks.svg/440px-Showtime_Networks.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="222" data-file-height="102" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Formerly</th><td class="infobox-data nickname">Showtime/The Movie Channel, Inc. (1983–1988)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Company type</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Subsidiary" title="Subsidiary">Subsidiary</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Industry</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Entertainment" title="Entertainment">Entertainment</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Predecessor</th><td class="infobox-data">Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">September 6, 1983<span class="noprint">; 41 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1983-09-06</span>)</span> <span style="font-size:85%;">(as Showtime/The Movie Channel, Inc.)</span><br />1988<span class="noprint">; 36 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1988</span>)</span> <span style="font-size:85%;">(as Showtime Networks)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founder</th><td class="infobox-data agent"><a href="/wiki/Viacom_(1952%E2%80%932006)" class="mw-redirect" title="Viacom (1952–2006)">Viacom</a><br />Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data adr"><div class="ib-company-locality locality"><a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_York_State" class="mw-redirect" title="New York State">New York</a></div>, <div class="ib-company-country country-name">United States</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Key people</div></th><td class="infobox-data agent"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li>Chris McCarthy (<a href="/wiki/Chairman" class="mw-redirect" title="Chairman">chairman</a>/<a href="/wiki/Chief_executive_officer" title="Chief executive officer">CEO</a>)</li> <li>Michael Crotty (<a href="/wiki/Vice_president" title="Vice president">EVP</a>/<a href="/wiki/Chief_financial_officer" title="Chief financial officer">CFO</a>)</li> <li>Tom Christie (<a href="/wiki/Chief_operating_officer" title="Chief operating officer">COO</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Products</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pay_television" title="Pay television">Pay television</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Television_production" class="mw-redirect" title="Television production">Television production</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Brands</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Showtime_(TV_network)" title="Showtime (TV network)">Paramount+ with Showtime</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flix_(TV_network)" title="Flix (TV network)">Flix</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Movie_Channel" title="The Movie Channel">The Movie Channel</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Revenue</th><td class="infobox-data">$1 billion (2021)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Number of employees</div></th><td class="infobox-data">1,000</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Parent_company" class="mw-redirect" title="Parent company">Parent</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Viacom_(1952%E2%80%932005)" title="Viacom (1952–2005)">Viacom</a> (1983–2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/CBS_Corporation" title="CBS Corporation">CBS Corporation</a> (2005–2019)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paramount_Media_Networks" title="Paramount Media Networks">Paramount Media Networks</a> (2019–present)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sho.com">www<wbr />.sho<wbr />.com</a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below"><b>Footnotes / references</b><br /><sup id="cite_ref-SHO_Profile_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SHO_Profile-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Showtime Networks, Inc.</b> is a subsidiary of American media conglomerate <a href="/wiki/Paramount_Global" title="Paramount Global">Paramount Global</a> under <a href="/wiki/Paramount_Media_Networks" title="Paramount Media Networks">its networks division</a> that oversees the company's <a href="/wiki/Pay_television" title="Pay television">premium</a> <a href="/wiki/Cable_television" title="Cable television">cable television</a> <a href="/wiki/Television_channel" title="Television channel">channels</a>, including its <a href="/wiki/Showtime_(TV_network)" title="Showtime (TV network)">flagship namesake service</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Overview">Overview</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Showtime_Networks&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Overview"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The company was established in 1983 as <b>Showtime/The Movie Channel, Inc.</b> after <a href="/wiki/Viacom_(1952%E2%80%932006)" class="mw-redirect" title="Viacom (1952–2006)">Viacom</a> and Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment (now <a href="/wiki/Paramount_Media_Networks" title="Paramount Media Networks">Paramount Media Networks</a>) merged their premium channels, <a href="/wiki/Showtime_(TV_network)" title="Showtime (TV network)">Showtime</a> and <a href="/wiki/The_Movie_Channel" title="The Movie Channel">The Movie Channel</a> respectively, into one division. In 1984, <a href="/wiki/American_Express" title="American Express">American Express</a> sold their interest in Warner-Amex to Warner Communications (now <a href="/wiki/Warner_Bros._Discovery" title="Warner Bros. Discovery">Warner Bros. Discovery</a>) making Warner the new half-owner of Showtime/TMC. In 1985, Warner sold its half-interest to Viacom, making the company a wholly owned subsidiary of Viacom. The acquisition was completed on May 20, 1986, along with MTV Networks. It also saw the pay-per-view service <a href="/wiki/In_Demand" title="In Demand">Viewer's Choice</a> become part of the operation; it merged with rival PPV service Home Premiere Television in 1988, and Viacom ceded control to the cable companies that owned HPT (Viacom still held a stake until the 1990s). In 1988, the company was renamed <b>Showtime Networks, Inc.</b><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On March 1, 1994, a partnership between Showtime Networks and <a href="/wiki/Home_Box_Office,_Inc." title="Home Box Office, Inc.">Home Box Office, Inc.</a> (parent of HBO and Cinemax) implemented a cooperative <a href="/wiki/United_States_pay_television_content_advisory_system" title="United States pay television content advisory system">content advisory system</a> that was initially unveiled across Showtime, The Movie Channel and the HBO properties that would provide specific content information for pay-cable subscribers to determine the suitability of a program for children. The development of the system—inspired by the advisory ratings featured in Showtime and The Movie Channel's respective program guides and those distributed by other participating premium cable services—was in response to concerns from parents and advocacy groups about violent content on television, allowing the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.karookeen.com/watch-showtime-abroad/">Showtime Networks</a> and other services to assign individual ratings corresponding to the objectionable content depicted in specific programs (and categorized based on violence, profanity, sexuality or miscellaneous mature material). Labels are assigned to each program at the discretion of the participating service.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A revised system—centered around ten content codes of two to three letters in length—was implemented across the Showtime Networks and Home Box Office services on June 10, 1994.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>SNI became part of <a href="/wiki/CBS_Corporation" title="CBS Corporation">CBS Corporation</a> when it officially split from Viacom on December 31, 2005. SNI managed <a href="/wiki/Sundance_TV" title="Sundance TV">Sundance Channel</a> as part of a joint venture with <a href="/wiki/Robert_Redford" title="Robert Redford">Robert Redford</a> and <a href="/wiki/NBCUniversal" title="NBCUniversal">NBC Universal</a> until 2008, when it was sold to Rainbow Media (now <a href="/wiki/AMC_Networks" title="AMC Networks">AMC Networks</a>). CBS Corporation <a href="/wiki/2019_merger_of_CBS_and_Viacom" title="2019 merger of CBS and Viacom">re-merged</a> with <a href="/wiki/Viacom_(2005-2019)" class="mw-redirect" title="Viacom (2005-2019)">Viacom</a> to form ViacomCBS (now <a href="/wiki/Paramount_Global" title="Paramount Global">Paramount Global</a>) in early December 2019. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Cable_networks_currently_owned_by_SNI">Cable networks currently owned by SNI</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Showtime_Networks&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Cable networks currently owned by SNI"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Year in parentheses denotes when each network and channel was brought into the SNI fold. </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Showtime_(TV_network)" title="Showtime (TV network)">Paramount+ with Showtime</a> (1983)<sup>+</sup> <ul><li>SHO2 (formerly SHOTOO) (1994)</li> <li>Showcase (formerly Showtime 3) (1996)</li> <li>Showtime Extreme (1998)</li> <li>SHO×BET (2020)<sup>*</sup></li> <li>Showtime Next (2001)</li> <li>Showtime Family Zone (2001)</li> <li>Showtime Women (2001)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Movie_Channel" title="The Movie Channel">The Movie Channel</a> (1983)<sup>+</sup> <ul><li>The Movie Channel Xtra (1999)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flix_(TV_network)" title="Flix (TV network)">Flix</a> (1992)</li></ul> <p><sup>+</sup>Channel launched under Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment prior to 1983.<br /> <sup>*</sup>Channel originally named Showtime Beyond from 1998 to 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>SNI won a <a href="/wiki/Peabody_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Peabody Award">Peabody Award</a> in 2002 for <i><a href="/wiki/Bang_Bang_You%27re_Dead_(film)" title="Bang Bang You're Dead (film)">Bang Bang You're Dead</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2008, SNI was honored at the 59th Annual <a href="/wiki/Technology_%26_Engineering_Emmy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Technology & Engineering Emmy Award">Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards</a> for Outstanding Achievement in Advanced Media Technology for Best Use of Commercial Advertising on Personal Computer for the companion website to the series <i><a href="/wiki/The_L_Word" title="The L Word">The L Word</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Showtime_Networks&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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