Octagon Cable Entertainment

Octagon Cable Entertainment (legal name TVOD Ventures LLC) is a film and television production company, as well as a broadcasting company. Their offices are currently 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

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.

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 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

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)

The logo designers forgot to write the "S" of "Networks".

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.

Octagon Cable Entertainment

2018-present

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; and "TVOD G.P. I" (United States) 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.

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