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Key facts-Liberty Global

as of December 31, 2009
• Leading international cable operator
• Revenue: $11.1 billion for the 12 months ended December 31, 2009
• Employees: 23,000
• Active in Europe (UPC Broadband, Telenet, Chellomedia), The Americas (VTR, Liberty Puerto Rico) and Asia Pacific (J:COM, Austar)
• 34.8 million homes passed
• 16.6 million customers
• 27.1 million service subscribers (RGUs), including video, internet, and voice
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Chellomedia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chellomedia, the European content division of Liberty Global is a leading international media company & distributor of channels, content and video services. The division’s operating companies and business units, currently own and operate 30 branded TV channels and run a suite of digital, On Demand and broadband services in Europe. The aggregate subscriber base of the channels and its feeds reach 188 million homes.
Chellomedia runs its businesses through nine business units:
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History

The company was originally founded to distribute television programs in Eastern Europe, but now operates in 125 countries. They operate channels under 7 brands, albeit with some limited to specific countries, and provide 22 sound tracks across these.
Its English speaking-targeted channels show mainly US and Canadian imports as well as older BBC and ITV produced content; whereas its Central European stations show large quantities of recent British television. Original sound tracks are provided on most shows which are dubbed.

On 14 September 2009, it was revealed that the international arm of CBS, CBS Studios International, struck a joint venture deal with Chellomedia to launch six CBS-branded channels in the UK during 2009. The new channels would replace Zone Romantica, Zone Thriller, Zone Horror and Zone Reality, plus time shift services Zone Horror +1 and Zone Reality +1.[1][2] On 1 October 2009, it was announced that CBS Reality, CBS Reality +1, CBS Drama and CBS Action would launch on 16 November 2009 replacing Zone Reality, Zone Reality +1, Zone Romantica and Zone Thriller.[3]
On 5 April 2010, Zone Horror was re-branded as Horror Channel, following the re-brand of the portfolio’s other three channels in November 2009.[4] On-air the channel name appears as Horror. The rebrand was produced by Chello Zone’s in-house creative services team.