Hallmark Movie Channel HD Gets Cox 'Hunting License'

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

The HD version of Hallmark Movie Channel, which launched in April, added Cox Communications to the list of multichannel-video providers that gave their systems the green light to carry the channel if they so choose.

According to Hallmark, it signed a multiyear deal with Cox, which already carries the standard-definition version of the movie channel, as well as Hallmark Channel.

In addition to Cox, Hallmark already has similar so-called hunting-license agreements with Comcast, Time Warner, Brighthouse, Cablevision,  DIRECTV.


It has carriage deals in place with Time Warner in New York and San Antonio, and on Echostar/Dish, which puts it in about 10 million homes to date.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.