Show (Great Scorria)

Show is a direct-broadcast satellite provider in Great Scorria. It offers popular entertainment content such as movies, sporting events and various TV shows from major networks and studios such as Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount Global, IBS Corporation, HBO, Fox, Disney, Sony, Zee Network, MGM, NBCUniversal, ESPN and DreamWorks. The company was legally set up by Viacom in 1994 as Showtime. Following its merger with Foxtel in 2009, the provider adopted its current name.
==History==
Viacom set up a television operator in 1992, when commercial media was legalized, so was the ownership of foreign entities. Broadcasts started in March 1994. When Showtime launched, it broadcast The Movie Channel, MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, TV Land, Paramount, Discovery and the three terrestrial channels: TV One, TV2 and TV3. Cable services were made available in Kimberly, shortly afterwards it started complementary satellite transmissions nationwide. As the years went on, more channels were added to the offer, including Cartoon Network, Style, Hallmark, NBS World and many others.
At launch time, Showtime was initially intended to compete with the soon-to-be-defunct Foxtel, whose launch was delayed due to issues in Northulia, whose launch was in 1995. Showtime took the advantage of being a large operator, accounting to nearly 80% of the pay-TV subscriptions in the country. By the time Foxtel Great Scorria launched, Showtime still had a large advantage in the carriage of selected events and content.
Showtime's satellite service upgraded to digital in 1997. The base offer grew from twenty channels to about forty, taking the growing advantage of the television market. The analog satellite service was switched off in 1999, but the cable service wouldn't upgrade to digital until 2001.
In late 2005, the split of Viacom's corporate structure affected Showtime. As a consequence, Viacom sold all its shares on the operator and the company itself was now fully-independent, with Viacom still operating television channels domestically. A takeover bid by News Corporation was quickly rejected due to the company's past experience with Foxtel. Despite antitrust regulations, the government approved a sale of FOXTEL to local investors in hope that it would eventually merge with Showtime. The Showtime-FOXTEL merger was announced in June 2008 and was completed in February of the following year. The company decided to adopt a new name, Show and emphasized on its HD offer. The merger implied that Show would now control roughly 80% of Great Scorria's pay-TV subscribers.
Show bought the local rights to the Northulian OTT platform Stan in 2015, the rights were relinquished in 2019, in favor of Disney+, launched in September 2020.
==Products and services==
See List of channels on Show (Great Scorria)
Show assigns a virtual channel on both its cable and satellite networks. For more information on the channels available, see the link above.
Currently Show offers two decoders, a standard HD one and a 4K one. Both are enabled with digital video recording facilities and internet access as long as the Show network detects Wi-Fi signals.
2019 year-end reports claim that Show has at least 2.2 million subscribers. This corresponds to close to half of Great Scorria's population and about 60% of the pay-TV market.