Long-term agreement signed over provision of movies for Shaw's new VOD service.

Publication: TV Meets the Web
Date: Thursday, September 12 2002

Alliance Atlantis Communications and Shaw Communications have announced a long-term agreement to provide movies for Shaw's new Video-on-Demand (VOD) service, set to launch this month in Calgary.

Alliance Atlantis will supply Shaw with a lineup of current releases as well as older titles from its catalogue of films. To inaugurate the service and to initiate the Alliance Atlantis/Shaw partnership, major titles will be available on Shaw VOD throughout the autumn of 2002, including John Q and Amelie, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and Blade II and 40 Days and 40 Nights. Titles will be made available for VOD in the traditional pay-per-view window.

Once launched, Shaw's VOD service will give customers the option to select from these and other programs through an online ordering system, and have the programming delivered to their television screens. ((Distributed via M2 Communications Ltd - http://www.m2.com))

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