Time Warner NYC to launch stand-alone PPV channels. (pay-per-view television; includes plans to drop Viewer's Choice II and Request Television)

Multichannel News, August, 1990 by Umsted, R. Thomas

Time Warner NYC To Launch Stand-Alone PPV Channels New York - Time Warner Inc.'s Brooklyn/Queens Division will launch three stand-alone PPV channels in January, dropping Viewer's Choice II and Request Television, Multichannel News has learned. The division, which includes Brooklyn-Queens Cable, Queens Inner Unity Cable Systems and American Cablevision of Queens, has a combined universe of 300,000 addressable homes, said Hugh Panero, vice president, customer operations and PPV, for the Time Warner New York City Cable Group B/Q Division.

The three systems currently offer Viewer's Choice I and II, as well as Request. Only VC I will be retained when the new channels debut in 1991, Panero said. On one of its three PVV channels, the division will...

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