Penthouse TV (Canada)
Encyclopedia
Penthouse TV is a Canadian English language
Category B specialty channel
. It is a premium adult entertainment television channel consisting of explicit adult material, primarily pornographic films. The channels name is licensed from the American
men's magazine Penthouse
. The channel is owned by Fifth Dimension Properties Inc, a company wholly owned by Stuart Duncan.
Penthouse TV launched in July 2008 on Shaw Cable
and is currently available only in certain markets. It launched on Shaw Direct on September 30, 2009 and on Rogers Cable
on October 15, 2009.
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
Category B specialty channel
Specialty channel
A specialty channel can be a commercial broadcasting or non-commercial television channel which consists of television programming focused on a single genre, subject or targeted television market at a specific demographic....
. It is a premium adult entertainment television channel consisting of explicit adult material, primarily pornographic films. The channels name is licensed from the American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
men's magazine Penthouse
Penthouse (magazine)
Penthouse, a men's magazine founded by Bob Guccione, combines urban lifestyle articles and softcore pornographic pictorials that, in the 1990s, evolved into hardcore. Penthouse is owned by FriendFinder Network. formerly known as General Media, Inc. whose parent company was Penthouse International...
. The channel is owned by Fifth Dimension Properties Inc, a company wholly owned by Stuart Duncan.
Penthouse TV launched in July 2008 on Shaw Cable
Shaw Communications
Shaw Communications is Canada's largest telecommunications company that provides telephone, Canada's fastest Internet and television services as well as broadcasting and soon Wifi. Shaw is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta...
and is currently available only in certain markets. It launched on Shaw Direct on September 30, 2009 and on Rogers Cable
Rogers Cable
Rogers Cable Inc., a subsidiary of Rogers Communications Inc., is Canada's largest cable television service provider with about 2.25 million television customers, and over 930,000 Internet subscribers, in Manitoba, Southern & Eastern Ontario, New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador.The...
on October 15, 2009.