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Article: Inside the E! world. (Company Profile)
- Article from:
- Video Age International
- Article date:
- March 1, 1994
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In education the letter "E" stands for excellence. In physics "E" indicates an electromotive force. When E! Entertainment Television was born in June 1990, it wanted to combine excellence with a forceful presence in entertainment television. Today, E! is being offered to 22 million subscribers on some 1,060 U.S. cable systems. Ownership of the network is held by HBO, other Time-Warner companies and several major U.S. cable operators. Overseas, E! is seen in 90 countries, including Portugal on TVI, Mexico's Multi-Vision, South Africa's M-NET, Scandinavia's Film Net and Germany's RTL.
The 24-hour a day Los Angeles-based cable network, which last year derived 10 ...