New adult service will take on Playboy. (The Erotic Network)
Multichannel News, April, 1998 by Umstead, R. Thomas
Just when Playboy Entertainment Group Inc. thought that it had cornered the adult pay-per-view market with its acquisition of Spice Entertainment Cos., another upstart service promising "alternative" adult programming will launch this summer. Boulder, Colo.-based computer-software company New Frontier Media is pitching The Erotic Network to operators as a network with programming more similar in nature to Spice Hot, which goes beyond the standards set for traditional adult-PPV services.
Nevertheless, TEN will make a run at Playboy's now-dominant adult-PPV market share, and it hopes to lure a growing segment of operators that may want to offer lucrative, more explicit adult programming, but that are unsure whether Playboy will provide it. "There seems to...
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