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"The Entertainment Channel" redirects here. There was also a short-lived United States cable network known as "The Entertainment Channel" that merged with Alpha Repertory Television Service in 1984 to become A&E.

This article is about the American entertainment television channel and some of its international variants. For the defunct Canadian equivalent, see E! (Canada).
E!
E! Logo.svg
Launched July 31, 1987 as Movietime,
June 1, 1990 as E! (U.S.)
December 2, 2002 (Germany)
Owned by Comcast
(under Comcast Entertainment Group)
Headquarters Los Angeles, California, United States
Formerly called Movie Time (1987-1990)
Sister channel(s) Style Network, Versus, G4
Website http://www.eonline.com
Availability
Satellite
DirecTV
(US)		 Channel 236
Channel 1236 (VOD)
Comcast
(US)		 Channel 56
Channel 56 (VOD)
Dish Network
(US)		 Channel 114
Sky Digital
(UK & Ireland)		 Channel 151
SKY Italia
(Italy)		 Channel 124
Foxtel Digital
(Australia)		 Channel 121
Austar Digital
(Australia)		 Channel 121
SelecTV
(Australia)		 Channel 45
SKY Network Television
(New Zealand)		 Channel 011
DStv
(Southern Africa)		 Channel 124
CanalSat
(France)		 Channel 29
TrueVisions
(Thailand)		 Channel 36
Astro Nusantara
(Indonesia)		 Channel 46
Astro
(Malaysia)		 Channel 713
Cyfrowy Polsat
(Poland)		 Channel 32
NOVA
(Greece)		 Channel 37
Digiturk
(Turkey)		 Channel 9
TotalTV
(Serbia, Montenegro, Slovenia)		 Channel 17 (Serbia)
dialogtv
(Sri Lanka & Canada)		 Channel 19
SKY Brasil
(Brasil)		 Channel 58
TVCabo
(Portugal)		 Channel 75
Net Digital
(Brasil)		 Channel 84
Tring Digital
(Albania)		 Channel 30
Yes
(Israel)		 Channel 26
Orbit Showtime
(Arab World)
Indovision
(Indonesia)		 Channel 242
Dream Satellite TV
(Philippines)		 TBA
Cignal Digital TV
(Philippines)		 TBA
Cable
First Media
(Indonesia)		 Channel 70
Available on most cable systems Check local listings
UPC Ireland
(Ireland)		 Channel 501
Virgin Media
(United Kingdom)		 Channel 156
StarHub TV
(Singapore)		 Channel 80
Hot
(Israel)		 Channel 31
TelstraClear InHomeTV
(New Zealand)		 Channel 11
Global Destiny Cable
(Philippines)		 TBA
SkyCable
(Philippines)		 TBA
IPTV
AT&T U-Verse
(US)		 Channel 134 (SD)
Channel 1134 (HD)
now TV
(Hong Kong)		 Channel 531

E!: Entertainment Television (or simply E!) is an American cable television and direct broadcast satellite network. From November 2006 onwards, it became wholly owned by Comcast. E! is known for it focus on Hollywood celebrities from the A-list on E! News (Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Miley Cyrus) to its own stars which have their own shows (Kim Kardashian, Dina Lohan, Denise Richards and Kimora Lee Simmons).

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[edit] History

E! Entertainment Television was launched by Larry Namer, Brian Owens, Rick Portin, Mark Hale, and others on July 31, 1987 as Movietime, a service that aired movie trailers, entertainment news, event coverage, and interviews [1]. Early Movietime hosts included Greg Kinnear, Paula Abdul, Katie Wagner, Julie Moran, Suzanne Kay, Mark DeCarlo, Sam Ruben and Richard Blade. Three years later, in June 1990, Movietime was renamed E! Entertainment Television[2] to emphasize its widening coverage of the celebrity-industrial complex, contemporary film, television and music, entertainment awards shows, daily Hollywood news and gossip, and fashion.

Controlling ownership was originally held by Time Warner, with five cable companies owing the rest of the shares. In 1997, Comcast, one of the five, teamed up with The Walt Disney Company to buy the channel. In November 2006, Comcast acquired Disney's 39.5% share of E! for $1.23 billion to gain full ownership of the network as part of a broader programming carriage agreement between Disney/ABC and Comcast [3].

E! has an audience reach of 88 million cable and satellite viewers in the U.S. and 600 million homes internationally. E!'s sister networks are the Style Network and G4, along with Comcast's sports networks Versus and Golf Channel. In the case of Versus, E! staff produce that network's Sports Soup, while the Orlando-based Golf Channel features no crossovers with E! at all due to incompatible audiences and operations.

[edit] Personalities

[4]

  • Giuliana Rancic and Ryan Seacrest host award shows and E! News.
  • Ken Baker is E!'s executive news editor.
  • Ted Casablanca interviews various celebrities and has The Awful Truth column online.
  • Jason Kennedy is a correspondent and fill-in host for E! News and the Daily 10.
  • Ashlan Gorse is a correspondent and fill-in host for E! News and the Daily 10.
  • Chelsea Handler hosts Chelsea Lately.
  • Ben Lyons is E!'s film critic.
  • Sal Masekela co-hosts the Daily 10.
  • Catt Sadler co-hosts the Daily 10.
  • Kristina Guerrero is a correspondent for E! News and a fill-in host for the Daily 10.
  • Kristin Dos Santos (née Veitch) hosts all season premieres and events for television programming along with her online column Watch With Kristin.
  • Marc Malkin provides breaking news and commentary on E! News and various other programs on the network along with his online column "Planet Gossip" and online videoblog of the same name.
  • Joel McHale hosts The Soup.
  • Amy Paffrath hosts E! News Now.
  • Michael Yo is a celebrity correspondent of the Daily 10.
  • Anna Nicole Smith Star of The Anna Nicole Show.

[edit] E! HD

The network launched their HD simulcast on December 8, 2008, like the rest of E!'s sister lifestyle and sports networks, in 1080i format. Currently only some filmed content and limited series are carried in high definition.

[edit] E! Online

E! Online is the online arm of the E! network, which features live updates on Hollywood gossip and TV news. Kristin Dos Santos runs the 'Watch with Kristin' blog, which features spoliers, scoops and exclusives on TV shows. While other columnists include Ted Casablanca, who is in charge of breaking the latest celebrity news and Marc Malkin.

In 2008, E! launched E! News Now, which is video streams of the latest Hollywood news 24/7. This is only seen on the internet.

[edit] Programming

Main article: List of programs broadcast by E!

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE4DD173CF930A35755C0A966958260&sec=&spon=
  2. ^ Box Office Magazine, July 1990
  3. ^ http://www.comcast.com/About/PressRelease/PressReleaseDetail.ashx?PRID=24
  4. ^ E! Television Personalities

[edit] External links

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