MGM HD was an all

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cable network owned by the MGM HD Productions subsidiary of

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(MGM), a division of

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's MGM Holdings, Inc. It featured movies from the

library of 1,200 movies mastered in a high-definition-compatible format. The films were usually presented uncut and in their original aspect ratio, although some films were edited for content for daytime viewing and commercial breaks were often added during peak viewing hours. MGM HD offered programming like the MGM Channel which is available in 110 countries.

Carriage

United States

At closing, the network was available available via

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, Mediacom, and Frontier FiOS and

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in the

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. MGM HD was removed from the

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channel lineup in February 2019. The network was removed from Verizon FiOS at the start of 2021, while Dish removed it on August 31, 2022. On October 25, it was confirmed that Amazon would shut down MGM HD on October 31; its assets will be merged onto sister service

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, which will re-brand as MGM+ in early 2023.

Europe

The N satellite service in

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carries MGM HD. It was launched on December 7, 2006, in Poland. In the United Kingdom, MGM HD launched on 14 December 2009 on the

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satellite service. The channel was run in partnership with Sky. On 27 April 2011, the channel was added to

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's lineup. On 16 January 2014, MGM HD ceased broadcasting in the UK and Ireland. MGM continued to be available on the UPC (rebranded to Virgin Media Ireland in 2015) service in Ireland on channel 326 until it was removed in January 2018. MGM Germany was closed at the end of 2016.

References

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