Variant: Starting in 2007, this logo was improved. Music/Sounds: Sail weaving gentle waves sounds. The picture turns into the Anchor Bay logo which resembles an "A" in white/dark blue and 3D-folded, and a lens flare runs over its side. The premium film services Encore and MoviePlex, which are also owned by Starz, Inc., operate as separate services; as such, subscribers to one of the services do not have to subscribe to any of the others. After the 2011 logo rebrand, the bright white version of the 2008 logo for Starz channels stayed on screen for the second time until mid-2013 that it will reverted to two-minute version, along with Encore channels. FX/SFX: Same as the Starz Originals logo. The first changes made following the original rollout of the multiplex occurred in 2001, with the rebranding of BET Movies: Starz! [92][93][94], At the time of its launch, Starz had secured exclusive first-run movie rights with Universal Studios, Touchstone Pictures, Hollywood Pictures, Miramax, New Line Cinema, Walt Disney Pictures, and Carolco Pictures. A year after Starz launched a home entertainment division (in-name only) in 2016, they later folde… [65] Starz offered its own separate online movie service, Vongo, to its subscribers from 2006[66] until it discontinued the service on September 30, 2008. [13][14] The network gained carriage deals with many other major U.S. cable and satellite providers by the early 2000s, particularly with the adoption of digital cable, allowing for providers to add channels that they (even with capacity expansions of up to 60 channels) previously had limited room to carry. 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(1998-2006) (2003-2007) The 2007 version adds chimes at the end. Once again, it is enclosed in a box. That year, Starz began branding its feature film content with an opaque logo bug appearing on the lower-right corner of the screen for two minutes each half-hour, though the 2005 logo bug for Starz channels appears for the rest of the movie's run in Summer 2007, along with Encore and Movieplex channels until Starz reverted them back to 2 minutes for their logo bug during the April 2008 rebrand, except for Encore, Movieplex, and Starz Cinema; the addition of the on-screen logos was cited by former Starz president Tom Southwick due to a large number of subscribers not knowing which of the channels they were watching when they tuned in, particularly if started viewing one of the channels after the start of a film. A navy blue sailboat in the water moves toward us. Its main channel was rebranded Starz Encore and carries reruns of Starz Originals in addition to films. Nicknames: "The Blue Sailboat", "The Sailboat II". Video captures courtesy of thememorylandchannel, Eric S., retro vhs trailers, EnormousRat, laughingduck1000, KSE LLC, and Logo Archive Premiere. Variant: A still version on a black background exists. This competition continued for many years. Logo: Same as the current Starz Originals logo, only "STARZ ORIGINALS" is replaced by the previous Anchor Bay Entertainment logo in white, and the Starz byline appears below. Can be seen on The Grand, Lower Education, Jimmy and Judy, and The Lather Effect. Music/Sounds: None usually, but on early VHS releases likeZombie, The Velveteen Rabbit, Paula Abdul Cardio Workout,the Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends VHS release of "Thomas and His Friends Get Along" and the DVD release of Scars of Dracula use a coastal theme consisting of seagulls and waves crashing ashore, combined with some dreamy, "underwater" new-age synth notes. It was owned by IDT Entertainment until 2006 when IDT was purchased by Starz Media. The remaining Starz multiplex channels, Starz Cinema and Starz In Black, launched their HD simulcast feeds on June 23, 2010, with DirecTV becoming the first provider to offer all six channels (including both coastal feeds of the primary Starz channel) in HD. Liberty Media assumed the former company's stake in the subsidiary in 1999, following TCI's merger with AT&T Corporation. This can be seen on many Anchor Bay DVDs, such as Thomas and Friends DVDs from 2003 to 2007. Scary Logos Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. As of September 2018[update], Starz was available to approximately 28.517 million U.S. households that had a subscription to a multichannel television provider (27.675 million of which receive Starz's primary channel at minimum). Availability: Appears on Anchor Bay releases, which include a few video nasties (most of which were originally released on Betamax and VHS by Wizard Video), re-releases of ABC Pictures International/ABC Motion Pictures films, and some pre-1991 Media Home Entertainment titles. Pictures. Starz operates a video-on-demand (VOD) television service called Starz On Demand, which is available at no additional charge to new and existing Starz subscribers. The block provides programming from DHX Media (Mainly programs from the DIC Entertainment and Cookie Jar Group catalogs) and The Jim Henson Company. [77], In the winter of 2015, Amazon Video began offering Starz and rival premium network Showtime as add-on subscriptions for their customers; the cost is $8.99 per month, after a seven-day free trial. Nicknames: "Blandchor Bay", "Starz changed this logo too?! These two companies competed with each other for years, starting in the late 1980s. Complete selection of DVDs from Starz / Anchor Bay. In 2016, Starz redesigned its logo again; the current logo is the word "STARZ" in bold white capital letters against a black background. Music/Sounds: Same as the Starz Originals logo. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Music/Sounds: None or the music of the program. Family replacing Fox owned-and-operated stations in six markets. Availability: Common. The Weinstein Company, a film studio run by former Miramax heads Bob and Harvey Weinstein, purchased a 25% stake in Starz Media (but not the Starz parent company) on January 4, 2011, with Anchor Bay entering into a multi-year domestic distribution agreement of theatrical feature films released by The Weinstein Company and its Dimension Films subsidiary. Despite being a premium service, cable providers have occasionally used Starz Kids & Family (and its predecessor, Starz Family) to temporarily replace television stations dropped due to carriage disputes such as during Journal Broadcast Group's 2013 dispute with Time Warner Cable. [10] Early trademark filings indicated that TCI/Liberty originally proposed names including "Applause" and "Stars" for the service (the "s" in the latter was ultimately changed to a "z" in the final naming). They renamed IDT Entertainment to Starz Media, and Anchor Bay became Starz Home Entertainment. The still variant can be seen on Wow! Above the frame are the navy blue word: appear above the picture, and "ENTERTAINMENT" appears at the bottom, all in a serif font. It remained a part of Handleman until 2003, when it was sold to IDT Entertainment. Starz broadcasts its primary and multiplex channels on Eastern and Pacific Time Zone schedules. Wow! When we see the boat at a comfortable distance, the screen fades white with a framed picture of the sailboat on the water in the center of the screen. [75], On April 5, 2016, Starz launched a new app and over-the-top subscription service to compete with HBO Now and Showtime's OTT subscription service. [84], Starz also shows sub-runs (runs of films that have already received broadcast or syndicated television airings) of theatrical films from Walt Disney Pictures (including subsidiaries Touchstone Pictures, 20th Century Studios, and Hollywood Pictures - all for films released before 2016), Warner Bros. Entertainment (including content from subsidiaries New Line Cinema, Turner Entertainment – both for films released prior to 2005 – and Castle Rock Entertainment), Universal Studios (including content from subsidiaries Universal Animation Studios, Focus Features, and Dreamworks Animation all for films released prior to 2003), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (including content from subsidiaries United Artists, Orion Pictures, and The Samuel Goldwyn Company), Paramount Pictures (including content from DreamWorks SKG (pre-2011), Republic Pictures, Miramax, Paramount Vantage and TV rights to the Cannon Films and Carolco Pictures libraries), Revolution Studios,[85] Overture Films,[86] Yari Film Group,[87] and the network's sister company Lions Gate Entertainment (since 2012).