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Broadcasting & Cable, May, 2004
HDNet founder Mark Cuban has a new business tactic: flight. Cuban and Lions Gate Films are exploring a horror-themed cable network to be fed by Lions Gate's library. Internet billionaire Cuban owns a chunk of Lions Gate and invests in Warner Bros. to funnel content to his high-def cable properties, HD Net and HDNet Movies.
The scary reality: A wannabe horror channel is in the works, appropriately named Scream Channel. A plus for Cuban: It can't claim any distribution.
As for Cuban's new channel, the usually chatty owner of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks would say only, "We are having discussions." What most people find even scarier is that one man can amass so much dough. But who's going to do a show about that?
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