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Showtime Standalone App To Shut Down In April After Merging With Paramount+

The standalone Showtime app will be shut down on April 30 after the forty-year-old service was merged with Paramount+ earlier this year.

Showtime ‘s linear network, which launched more than four decades ago during the early days of cable, was officially rebranded and relaunched in a package with Paramount+ in January, merging the two streaming apps into a single service. Parent Paramount Global called the move “the first of its kind multiplatform brand that integrates streaming and linear content.” Like HBO, Showtime had struggled with the cost of continuing sports programming at the same time its parent company was making significant investments in streaming.

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