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Viewers Choice was a Canadian English language pay-per-view and near video on demand service. It was owned by Viewers Choice Canada Inc., which at the time of its closure was majority owned and managed by Bell Media, with minority partners Rogers Media and ESPN Inc., and had been carried by various cable and IPTV service providers, primarily in eastern Canada. Viewers Choice was the first pay-per-view service permitted to operate in eastern Canada (the brand name was also used for several years by a counterpart in western Canada), having launched in September 1991, and was the sole English-language PPV provider in that region until 1999. However, it shut down on September 30, 2014, as the service's two main owners at the time of closure, Bell and Rogers, had each gained full ownership of a competing general-interest PPV service, Vu! and Sportsnet PPV respectively. Viewers Choice said it would be working with its remaining partner service providers to transition to other pay-per-view services.〔 ==Channels and content== The Viewers Choice pay-per-view service consisted of 45 standard definition channels and two high-definition television channels. Programming on Viewers Choice included movies, concerts, and live sports events such as boxing, mixed martial arts (UFC), and professional wrestling (WWE, WCW and TNA). Pornographic content was also available through the ''Adam'' and ''Eden'' services. ''Adam'' features content for gay men while ''Eden'' features content of interest to straight men. Although Viewers Choice (and pay-per-view services in general) continued to be a main provider of big-ticket live events, much of their movie content had been duplicated by video on demand (VOD) services operated by cable and IPTV companies (and as noted below, Viewers Choice was not available on any Canadian satellite provider, from late 2007 to service end in 2014). As a result, many cable systems had been slowly reducing the number of pay-per-view channels carried. In an effort to compete with VOD, Viewers Choice launched "All Day Ticket", which allowed the customer to purchase a movie rental for up to a 24-hour time period until 6am (local time) the next day. They were allowed to view it as often as they wished until the time period expired. 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「Viewers Choice」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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