TubeTV Movies

TubeTV Movies is an American multiplex premium movie-based channel launched on May 5, 2020. It features content from its parent company The CoolDude201672 Company, The Walt Disney Studios, and Universal Pictures. It is a spin-off of the TubeTV network.
The channel was originally launched as Piggy Studios Television, and featured cartoon content from its parent company and various networks. Viewership would decline once CDX was formed. In late 2019, CDX announced that PST would be rebranded into a movie channel by mid-2020. The network signed-off on May 4, 2020 at 11:59 p.m.
== History ==
=== As Piggy Studios Television ===
PST launched on June 14, 2015 to serve as a "companion" network to TubeTV, when they still broadcasted cartoons. The same day, PST aired it's first, and only true, original program, Brick-Ball. in it's later years, they acquired broadcast rights to former Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network shows.
==== Decline ====
Unfortunately, the channel suffered from low ratings. Plus, in 2016, CDX was launched, and in 2019, TubeTV split into two entities, with their cartoon lineup spinning off to form their own network, CDX Toons, with TubeTV relying on comedy and drama programming.
=== As TubeTV Movies ===
==== Formation ====
On October 17, 2019, CDX announced that PST would be rebranded into a CDX-based movie channel in mid-2020. Proposed names included CDX Cinema, FilmStrike, and CDX SparkStar Access, the latter of which would be used for their streaming service. Ultimately, they chose the name TubeTV Movies, due to TubeTV lacking any sister networks at the time.
==== Launch ====
PST sign-off for the last time on May 4, 2020, with their last program being the SpongeBob episode, Help Wanted. Tube TV Movies sign-on on May 5, 2020, with their first movie being Chicken Run. The same day, several multiplex channels were also launched, each with their own type of genre.
== Channels ==
Like with other movie channels, TubeTV Movies has six other multiplex channels that launched on the same day TubeTV Movies signed-on.
==== List of channels ====
* TubeTV Movies - The main flagship channel: TubeTV Movies features blockbuster movies, first-run feature films, comedy specials, and as of October 14, 2020, delayed broadcasts of NASCAR racing events.
* TubeTV Genre - This channel features action, sci-fi, comedy, and horror films, as well as offering additional films not shown on the main network.
* TubeTV Rotten - This channel airs movies that have been negatively received from critics and audiences. It is the only multiplex network that airs NC-17 content.
* TubeTV Classics - Like RetroPlex, TubeTV Classics features films produced from the 1910's to the 1990's, as well as airing independent and exploitation films.
* TubeTV Stars - This channel airs movies that have been universally praised. The channel only airs films with four on five stars.
* TubeTV Family - This channel airs family-friendly content from the network's movie providers. It never airs R or NC-17 rated content.
* TubeTV Latino - This channel airs all of the networks' content in Spanish, although it does not air NC-17 content.
== Programming ==
As PST, the channel aired cartoons and some live-action content. Brick Ball was their only show they ever produced.
As TubeTV Movies, the channel holds first-run contracts to air films from sister company CoolDude201672 Studios Ltd. (including content from subsidiaries SuperDestroyer3D Entertainment, Puffy Studios, Oh No Pictures, Dreamcast Films, Arrow Releasing, VideoNow Media, Pencil Shavings Industries, Object Studios, CDX Films, CDX Studios, RedMasters Studios, Low Budget Pictures, LED Films, and Squawk Pictures, but does not air content from The Serena Company and CDX Extreme), Walt Disney Pictures (including content from Pixar, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Disneynature, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, 20th Century Studios, Touchstone Pictures, Searchlight Pictures, and Hollywood Pictures), and Universal Pictures (as well as DreamWorks Animation, Focus Features, Illumination, Working Title Films, and Universal Animation Studios).
TubeTV Movies also maintains sub-run agreements—covering television and streaming licensing of films that have previously received broadcast or syndicated television airings—for theatrical films distributed by other sister company Warner Bros. Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Lionsgate, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and Spyglass Media Group.
As of October 14, the channel also holds the rights to broadcast NASCAR events.
Category:Movie Channels