18-404: Starz Inc. is an American entertainment company and a subsidiary of Lionsgate . It is headquartered at Meridian, Colorado , and uses nearby Englewood as its location in corporate filings and press releases. The company owns and operates pay television channels , including its namesake service , sibling networks Starz Encore and MoviePlex . Encore Movie Group was founded in 1991 as
36-697: A wholly owned television programming subsidiary and a joint venture of Liberty Media and Tele-Communications Inc. , two companies that were controlled by John C. Malone . The premium channel Encore was launched in 1991 on cable systems operated by Tele-Communications Inc., followed by the launch of Starz in 1994, and Encore Plex (now MoviePlex ) in 1997. In 1994, Encore Movie Group was renamed Encore Media Corporation. On June 2, 1997, TCI announced it would transfer part of its ownership stake in Encore Media Corporation to sister company Liberty Media, due in part to substantial losses incurred by
54-458: A film and documentary production division, Starz Encore Entertainment. As part of a corporate restructuring in 2003, Starz Encore Group eliminated 100 jobs in its nine regional offices, four of which have been closed. On March 25, 2005, Starz Encore Group was renamed Starz Entertainment Group (also known as Starz Entertainment, LLC ), and on March 28, the Starz! network was renamed Starz (dropping
72-452: A five-year distribution deal under which starting in April 2011, Liberty Starz's Anchor Bay Entertainment would release new TWC films on DVD and Starz Digital Media would handle online downloads and streaming. On August 8, 2012, Liberty Media announced that it would spin-off Liberty Starz into a separate public company; the transaction includes about $ 1.5 billion of debt. The spin-off of
90-740: A new company called Kraft Foods Group , Inc. The remainder of Kraft Foods Inc. was renamed Mondelēz International, Inc. , and was refocused as an international snack and confection company. Burt P. Flickinger III of Strategic Resource Group said the strategy "worked for Mondelez, but not for Kraft." On November 19, 2013, an arbitration ruling ordered Starbucks to pay Kraft Foods Inc. $ 2.7 billion because of an early contract termination. The money would go to Mondelēz International, Inc. In October 2013, Kraft announced that it would remove artificial dyes from three macaroni and cheese varieties made in kid-friendly shapes, but not its plain elbow-shaped Kraft Macaroni and Cheese product with "original flavor". This
108-657: A possible merger with Lionsgate. On November 10, 2015, Malone's two other companies, Liberty Global and Discovery Communications , made a joint investment of $ 195–400 million in Lionsgate and acquired a 3.4% stake in the company. On June 30, 2016, Lionsgate agreed to acquire Starz Inc. for $ 4.4 billion in cash and stock. As part of the acquisition by Lionsgate, Starz Inc.'s home entertainment business have been subsumed into Lionsgate's Worldwide Home Entertainment division, as well as Starz Inc.'s Worldwide TV distribution group being similarly combined. On December 8, 2016,
126-474: A separate tracking stock, known as Liberty Starz . On January 1, 2010, Chris Albrecht became the president and CEO of Liberty Starz, overseeing the company's entities including Starz Entertainment, Overture Films , Anchor Bay Entertainment and Film Roman . On January 4, 2011, The Weinstein Company (TWC) acquired 25% of Starz Media , one of the operating units of Liberty Starz. The arrangement included
144-588: The Starz network. TCI retained a minority 20% ownership interest in Encore Media Corporation, renamed Encore Media Group in 1998, until Liberty Media acquired TCI's stake following its 1999 merger with AT&T Corporation and assumed full ownership of the Encore Media Group. In 1999, Encore Media Group was renamed the Starz Encore Media Group ; "Media" was dropped off in 2001, becoming Starz Encore Group . The company also launched
162-530: The announcement of the deal, which will bring Heinz back to the public market following its takeover over two years prior. The companies completed the merger on July 2, 2015. Kraft is an official partner and sponsor of both Major League Soccer and the National Hockey League . Since 2006, Kraft Foods has sponsored Kraft Hockeyville , a reality television series produced by CBC/SRC Sports, in which communities demonstrate their commitment to
180-547: The deal was finalized thus making Starz a subsidiary of Lionsgate. In August 2023, Lionsgate announced it would be exiting Latin America before spinning off Starz into its own company. In November 2023, Lionsgate announced the spinoff of its film and television assets into its own separate publicly-traded company. The new company, Lionsgate Studios , would be founded on May 14, 2024. As a result, Lionsgate announced that Starz would be laying off 10% of its work force, and exiting
198-778: The exclamation point) and adopted a new logo featuring a hand-drawn star and a wordmark set in Helvetica Neue Black. On August 31, 2006, Liberty Media acquired the US division of IDT Entertainment for $ 186 million, followed by the Canadian and Australian divisions on September 29, 2006. IDT Entertainment was then merged under Starz Entertainment Group and renamed Starz Media . The company soon expanded into film production by launching Overture Films in 2006, followed by arthouse label Anchor Bay Films in 2008. On November 19, 2009, Liberty Media spun off Starz Entertainment Group into
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#1732780937023216-578: The sport of ice hockey in a contest revolving around the theme of community spirit. The winning community gets a cash prize dedicated to upgrading their hometown arena, as well as the opportunity to host an NHL preseason game. In 2007, it was then relegated to segments aired during Hockey Night in Canada . In 2015, Kraft Hockeyville was expanded to the United States with a separate competition for communities there. From 2002 to 2014, Kraft sponsored
234-585: The subsidiary was expected to be completed by the end of 2012, but was actually completed on January 11, 2013. As a result of the spin-off, Liberty Starz changed its name to Starz Inc. , began trading on NASDAQ under the ticker symbols STRZA and STRZB, and replaced Liberty Media in the NASDAQ-100 index. Starz Inc.'s businesses and assets at the time consisted of Starz Networks , Starz Distribution , and its minority stake in Arc Productions . Starz
252-720: The television markets in both the UK and Australia by the end of 2023. The Starz Networks division currently consists of 3 premium cable networks and their various multiplex channels; 17 channels collectively. Entertainment company Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.236 via cp1112 cp1112, Varnish XID 944542043 Upstream caches: cp1112 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 08:02:17 GMT Kraft Foods Kraft Foods Group, Inc.
270-491: The world. In August 2011, Kraft Foods Inc. announced plans to split into two publicly traded companies — a snack food company and a grocery company. On April 2, 2012, Kraft Foods Inc. announced that it had filed a Form 10 Registration Statement to the SEC to split the company into two companies to serve the "North American grocery business". On October 1, 2012, Kraft Foods Inc. spun off its North American grocery business to
288-470: Was an American food manufacturing and processing conglomerate , split from Kraft Foods Inc. on October 1, 2012, and was headquartered in Chicago, Illinois . It became part of Kraft Heinz on July 2, 2015. A merger with Heinz, arranged by Heinz owners Berkshire Hathaway and 3G Capital , was completed on July 2, 2015, forming The Kraft Heinz Company , the fifth-largest food and beverage company in
306-481: Was in response to a petition by activist Vani Hari and blogger Lisa Leake who delivered a petition to the company to remove controversial synthetic dyes Yellow 5 (labeled as Tartrazine ) and Yellow 6 from its signature macaroni and cheese products. On March 25, 2015, Kraft Foods Group Inc. announced that it would merge with the H.J. Heinz Company, owned by 3G Capital and Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Kraft's shares rose about 17 percent in premarket trading after
324-563: Was later replaced in the NASDAQ-100 index by Kraft Foods on March 18, 2013. On February 11, 2015, John C. Malone , the majority shareholder in both Starz and its former parent company Liberty Media, swapped a 4.5% stake with 14.5% of the voting power in Starz Inc. for 3.4% of shares in film and television entertainment company Lionsgate while joining the company's board of directors. Fourteen days later, Starz CEO Chris Albrecht hinted
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