Octagon Cable Entertainment (legal name TVOD Ventures LLC) was a film and television production company, as well as a broadcasting company. Their offices were in New York City (their headquarters), Rome, Random City, Ljubljana, Köfa, Moscow, Toronto, Paris, London, Manila City, Dubai, Piramca City, Mumbai and Hong Kong.
Qualis currently owns 85%, while the other shareholders are Viacom (5%), Corus Entertainment (3%), Mediaset (2%), the Randomia government (2%), AMC Networks (1%), NBCUniversal (1%) and Regal Group Network (1%).
Cinecorn Group
2014-2019
Random Networks
Randomia Television Group
Virgin-Eurovision Cable Channels
1995-2012
Virgin Group and European Broadcasting Union decided to launch international cable and satellite channels under the VECC umbrella in late August of 1995, shortly after the 40th Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin, Ireland. The cable channels are formed to broadcast and promote content produced by EBU members and sometimes the Virgin companies. They also had international broadcasting rights to PBS shows, including The Joy of Painting.
2012-2018
In 2015, Turner-Visa Media Entertainment Group acquired VECC. They made a contract with Virgin Group and EBU that allowed the group to use VECC's name and content until 2019. Had the new owner satisfy their needs, the contract would've been extended by one year.
Visa-Pepsi Media LLC.
1977-1985
1985-1987
The company traded as Visa Media in 1980s.
TBS-CIC Networks International
1980-1987
Turner-Visa Satellite Entertainment Company
1987-1998
Visa-Pepsi Media and TBS-CIC Networks was merged to Turner-Visa Satellite Entertainment Company.
1998-2005
Turner-Visa Cable Entertainment
2005-2014
2014-2015
2015-2017
Turner-Visa Media Entertainment Group
It was a joint venture with Turner Broadcasting System, Visa Inc., United International Pictures, PepsiCo and The CW Network LLC that developed and distributed successful entertainment, interactive media, cable networks, radio, publishing, movies, web portals, etc. that remain well-known.
2017-2018
In January 2018, Old Dominion Media acquired its assets and put the under a new subsidiary called TVOD Ventures (Turner, Visa and Old Dominion), which was a joint venture between Old Dominion Media (90%) and a consortium consisting of Turner, Visa, PepsiCo and The CW Network (10%).
RMN-IBC-Visa Satellite Entretainment Company
1971-1987
RMN-IBC Satellite Networks
1987-1993
RMN-IBC ITV Columbia TriStar Cable Networks
1993-1999
Throughout its lifetime, RMN-IBC SN was sold to Granada Communications and Sony Pictures Entertainment.
1999-2002
RMN-IBC ITV Sony Pictures Cable Networks
2002-2006
Viva Pinoy Pack-ITV-Sony Pictures Television Networks
2006-2010
VISP Cable Channels
2010-2018
Allied Media Corporation
2017-2018
On July 10, 2017, DBC-SonicBob Networks Group and PLDT-Alaxan Media Corporation will be merged as Allied Media Corporation, Inc.
DuMontGoogle Television Corporation
2006-2017
Gulf+Western Television Group
2017-2018
Old Dominion Networks
2018 (unused)
Google Pictures Television Networks
2013-2018
MV Entertainment
The company was a joint venture between the Virgin Group, Mediaset and Turner-Visa Media Entertainment Group.
Gulf+Western International Studios
DuMontGoogle Lifestyle Group
CIC Networks Group
Google Pictures Networks India
UBT International
UBT Television Group
UBT Broadcasting
Gulf+Western Studios
UBT Studios
Pira Sat
1995-2008
Pira Company
2008-2018
Warner Piramca
2010-2018
Old Dominion Media Piramca
2018
Looking Glass Media
2018-2019
North America Network Inc
1969-1999
1999-2007
2007-2019
Octagon Cable Entertainment
2018-2019
All operations outside of New York City, Moscow, Beijing and Manila City, were merged into the main offices located in these cities.
In 2018, Old Dominion Media bought stakes in the company from: former RH Channel partners RKO Holdings and Hyper Holdings (while selling RH to them); European Broadcasting Union, Virgin Group, The CW Network (owned by CBS and WarnerMedia), BBC Studios (UK); and "TVOD G.P. I" (USA) and "TVOD G.P. II B.V." (Europe and Asia Pacific), the two general partnerships that owned a part in Octagon; resulting in ODM then owning 99% of the channel's parent company TVOD Ventures. After buying out UBT Studios in New York and Gulf+Western Studios in Manila City, and merging with PowerBox Media Group, the company expanded to studio services.
On January 30, 2019, it was merged with its parent company TVOD Ventures LLC, the new company using its name as legal name. On the same day, it opened offices in Rome, Paris, Random City, Ljubljana, Köfa, Moscow, Piramca City and Toronto, with additional offices in New York (formerly North America Network Inc) and London (formerly Cinecorn Group Ltd and Regional Television Corporation). It was as result of merger with Switchover Media, Cinecorn Group, Random Networks & Randomia Television Group, PG Networks, Fuei Broadcasting Networks, Ya Media, Old Dominion Media Piramca/Looking Glass Media and Canwest Media. The same day, Octagon Kids and Octagon Music (set to be launched in June 2019) were closed.
In July 2019, their division Gaga Broadcasting Ltd merged into Octagon Cable Entertainment, giving Octagon a new office in El Kadsre City. In August 2019, they merged into Laserium Sega Experiences, with their Screen brand going to Laserium International Networks, and other assets going to Quest.
