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This attribute controls the content of the description and og:description elements. | A pay channel in the model of HBO, Showtime debuted on the market in 1976. Originally based in California, the network expanded to national markets two years later. Its original owner was the first incarnation of Viacom, which is now known as CBS Corporation, and has the Smithsonian Channel as a sister network as part of a unique deal with that institution for rights to programming involving Smithsonian exhibits and properties (blame this for why you see more programs like Ice Road Truckers on the History Channel). Showtime lags behind its rivals, HBO/Cinemax and Starz/Encore, primarily due to the other networks' stronger movie offerings; it lost the film libraries of its largest providers, Paramount Pictures (which was its corporate cousin from 1994 to 2005), Metro Goldwyn Mayer and Lionsgate, to their own Epix in 2009, but it hasn't been hurt by it at all (while Epix toils in My Network TV-esque obscurity, as several major providers refuse to carry it). However, Showtime does hold the rights to the Twilight film franchise, which they air plenty of times. |
