[3] It is headquartered in Meridian, Colorado,[4] but uses nearby Englewood as its location in corporate filings and press releases.

The company owns and operates pay television channels, including its namesake service, sibling networks Starz Encore and MoviePlex.

[5] Encore Movie Group was founded in 1991 as a wholly owned television programming subsidiary and a joint venture of Liberty Media and Tele-Communications Inc., two companies that were controlled by John C. Malone.

As part of a corporate restructuring in 2003, Starz Encore Group eliminated 100 jobs in its nine regional offices, four of which have been closed.

network was renamed Starz (dropping the exclamation point) and adopted a new logo featuring a hand-drawn star and a wordmark set in Helvetica Neue Black.

[29] In November 2023, Lionsgate announced the spinoff of its film and television assets into its own separate publicly-traded company.

As a result, Lionsgate announced that Starz would be laying off 10% of its work force, and exiting the television markets in both the UK and Australia by the end of 2023.