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Sportsnet PPV is a Canadian pay-per-view (PPV) service owned by Rogers Communications. It is the PPV service used by Rogers Cable, Cogeco Cable and Source Cable for offering out-of-market sports packages and occasionally other special events. Since October 1, 2014, Rogers and Source (potentially among others) have also used Sportsnet PPV as their main general-interest pay-per-view provider, replacing Viewers Choice which shut down the previous evening.〔 The "Sportsnet PPV" name was not originally used on-air, as individual packages and programs were marketed directly by participating service providers. Following its expansion to general-interest programming, the service launched a barker channel which promotes special events under the Sportsnet PPV brand, as well as adult programming under the Adult4U brand. Unlike Viewers Choice and most other pay-per-view services in Canada, the service does not carry mass-market movies, though its barker channel shows previews of movies which are promoted as being available through individual cable companies' video on demand services. ==History== The service was first licensed in December 1995 as a direct-broadcast satellite-only PPV service under the name "Sports/Specials Pay-Per-View", and launched shortly thereafter in January 1996.〔 At the time the service was 60% owned by CTV, 20% by Molson, and 20% by a subsidiary of Liberty Media (later transferred to Fox Sports Net). The partners were also three of the four partners in the regional sports service licensed a few months before which would become Sportsnet. At the time its planned programming was described as featuring "coverage of professional and amateur sports competitions" along with occasional coverage of non-sports special events, such as G7 summits or papal visits.〔 An accompanying digital terrestrial PPV licence was issued in September 1996. In February 2002, Molson transferred its ownership stake to CTV. One year later, CTV sold its 80% interest in the service to Rogers Media, which had previously acquired Sportsnet from CTV after the latter's acquisition of TSN. At that point the service became known as "Rogers Sportsnet PPV". By 2005, Rogers had bought out Fox's stake in the service, and responsibility was transferred from Rogers Media to Rogers Cable. In June 2014, the CRTC renewed the service's licence under the commission's new standard conditions of licence for pay-per-view services, which allow all such services to offer a full lineup of pay-per-view programs. Shortly after that announcement, Viewers Choice, the general-interest PPV provider at that point co-owned by Bell Media and Rogers which had served as Rogers' primary PPV service since its launch in 1991, announced plans to shut down on September 30, 2014, specifically citing Rogers' (and Bell's) ownership of their own wholly owned PPV services. On October 1, 2014, Sportsnet PPV expanded its service on Rogers, Source, and potentially other providers to include the types of special events and adult programming previously carried on Viewers Choice. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sportsnet PPV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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