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Showtime Digital, Inc. — Company Profile
Overview. Showtime Digital, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Showtime Networks Inc. (SNI), the premium-television division of CBS Corporation (CBS Corp. after the 2005 Viacom split; the parent later became ViacomCBS and then Paramount Global). It shares corporate headquarters with Showtime at 1515 Broadway / Paramount Plaza, New York City. The Showtime network itself dates to 1976 and Showtime Networks was incorporated in 1983; a separate founding year for the Showtime Digital entity is not verified in public sources. No standalone employee count or revenue is published for this entity — it is a subsidiary, not a separately reported public company, so treat any headcount or revenue figure as belonging to its parent rather than to Showtime Digital.
Operations. Per a 2016 SNI press release, "Showtime Digital Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of SNI, operates the stand-alone streaming service SHOWTIME®." Its function is the direct-to-consumer Showtime streaming offering, distributed via Apple, Roku, Amazon, Google, Hulu, PlayStation Vue and Prime Video, complementing SNI's cable/DBS/telco subscription business (Showtime, The Movie Channel, Flix, Showtime Anytime). This is an operating company, not a shell.
Litigation posture. The tracked data shows 0 cases as plaintiff and 1 as defendant: a pure defending party. In Helios Streaming, LLC et al. v. Showtime Digital, Inc. et al., 1:19-cv-01978 (D. Del., filed 2019-10-17, terminated 2021-08-04), plaintiffs Helios Streaming LLC and Ideahub, Inc. — described by Unified Patents as an NPE and Ideahub entity — asserted a portfolio of MPEG-DASH (ISO/IEC 23009-1) patents originating with Korea's ETRI. Venue was the District of Delaware, not the Eastern District of Texas.
Context. The suit was one of a coordinated Helios/Ideahub campaign against video-streaming services, alongside parallel actions against Vudu, Crackle, Starz, HBO, Warner Bros. and Fandango; the infringement theory rested on standard-compliance with MPEG-DASH. Defendants Showtime Digital and Showtime Networks raised non-infringement, invalidity and FRAND-related defenses. Unified Patents later reported that U.S. Patent 10,362,130 — asserted in this family — had all claims cancelled in a 2024 reexamination.
Patent infringement suit asserting U.S. Patent No. 8,645,562. The docket shows a motion to stay pending IPRs in 2021, and the case was terminated on August 4, 2021; final disposition was not confirmed as a judgment.