Dish to add Epix to list of channels

Associated Press

NEW YORK

Dish Network subscribers will have available to them some of the latest movies from three major Hollywood studios when Epix becomes one of their channel choices this month.

Epix, the pay-TV channel owned by Viacom Inc.’s Paramount Pictures, Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. and Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., said today it has signed a distribution deal with Dish, which will make its movies and other content available to the satellite service’s 14 million customers.

Details of the deal with Dish were not disclosed.

Dish will begin offering the channel, Epix Premium HD, this month to all subscribers who add Dish’s platinum high-definition service to their current package for $10 a month.

Epix offerings include new movies and the catalog of 15,000 films from the studios, original programming and special comedy and concert events offered in high-definition and standard formats. Among the offerings Dish subscribers may access once the channel goes live are “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ By Sapphire,” and “The Cove,” both Oscar winners; “Star Trek,” “GI Joe,” “Paranormal Activity,” and Tyler Perry movies.

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