Epix Movie Channel Signs Carriage Deal With Charter

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on February 4, 2010 - 11:30am.

New York - Epix, the pay-TV movie channel joint venture between Viacom (NYSE: VIA), its Paramount Pictures unit, MGM and Lionsgate, announced on Thursday that it has signed a carriage deal with Charter Communications, the nation's fourth-largest cable TV provider.

Charter, which said it will launch Epix on its service in May, joins Cox, Mediacom and Verizon's FiOS TV as carriers of Epix.

Epix said its channel will be available in nearly 16 million homes total when it launches with Charter in May.

The channel will offer some 15,000 titles from its backers' libraries.

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