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Rainbow Media to Maintain 21 HD Channels of Defunct VOOM Service

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on April 29, 2005 - 5:28am.
Jericho, N.Y. -- Rainbow Media Holdings, a unit of Cablevision and NBC that operates cable channels like IFC, Fuse and AMC, announced on Friday that it will operate all 21 of the HD channels offered by VOOM, the now-defunct high-definition satellite TV service recently shuttered by Cablevision. Rainbow said it signed an agreement with DISH Network operator EchoStar to carry the channels by 2006; EchoStar plans to launch 10 of the channels for its subscribers on May 1. Cablevision planned to shut down the money-losing VOOM service for its 21,000 subscribers on April 30, despite the best efforts and offers of personal financing from Cablevision chairman Charles Dolan to keep the service alive.
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