Ex-Cable Exec Pitches Porn Net
By Multi Channel News Staff -- Multichannel News, 3/25/2002 7:09:00 AM
Daniel Beck, who spent his days in the mid-1980s screening local-access channels' content for Time Warner Cable, has cut a deal to distribute his own soft-core pornography channel on the MSO's flagship New York City system.
Pay-Per-View Adult Network (PAN) is looking to compete with Playboy Television, Spice and New Frontier Media's Pleasure by pitching four-hour blocks of movies and short adult segments for $6.95 apiece. The competition offers two-hour blocks for the same price.
Time Warner spokeswoman Harriet Novet said PAN's pricing and packaging structure -- plus Beck's prior relationship with the company -- helped to seal the deal.
Beck is pitching PAN to other MSOs, but he may have a hard time wooing Cablevision Systems Corp.
The MSO lost a carriage dispute to Beck in March after it refused to carry his T&A local-access channel because it contained 800-number and 900-number ads.
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