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Stan is an Australian streaming company which offers subscription to unlimited viewing of selected movies and TV shows. Originally due to launch in February 2015, it instead launched on Australia Day (26 January) 2015. Stan is owned by StreamCo, which is a joint venture of Nine Entertainment Co. and Fairfax Media. Both these companies injected AU$50 million each into StreamCo in August 2014. The service could be bundled with subscriptions to Fairfax Media's newspapers ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' and ''The Age''. It competes against Australian streaming companies Quickflix and Foxtel/Seven West Media joint venture Presto, and American based Netflix. == Content == At launch, the first major programming announcement was the exclusive rights to the premiere season of ''Better Call Saul'' as well as the rights to ''Breaking Bad'', which previously aired on Foxtel. Australia recorded the highest rates of piracy of ''Breaking Bad'' in the world. Stan will also hold rights to ''Transparent'' and ''Mozart in the Jungle''. The company has a content partnership deal with Sony Pictures,〔 ABC, SBS and its World Movies subsidiary, Viacom, MGM, BBC Worldwide, Showtime, CBS,〔 Village Roadshow, and Warner Bros. International Television Distribution. On 15 December 2014, Stan signed a non-exclusive agreement with ABC Commercial, which will include hundreds of hours from the mostly Australian ABC Television back catalogue including popular series ''Summer Heights High'', ''Ja'mie: Private School Girl'', ''Upper Middle Bogan'', ''It’s a Date'', ''The Moodys'', ''Angelina Ballerina'', ''Bob the Builder'', ''Thomas and Friends'', ''The Wiggles'', ''Redfern Now'', ''Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries'', ''Jack Irish'' and ''Janet King''.〔 On 17 December 2014, Stan signed another non-exclusive agreement with Viacom Global Networks, giving it streaming rights to MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon television shows such as ''SpongeBob SquarePants, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, iCarly, VICTORiOUS, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Legend of Korra, Teen Mom, My Super Sweet Sixteen, Geordie Shore, South Park, Tosh.0 and Reno 911.''〔 In August 2015, Stan signed a multi-year deal with Warner Bros. International Television Distribution, bringing several new U.S. series to the platform, including Australian premiere series ''A to Z'' and ''Selfie'', as well as the third season of ''The Following'' (the first two seasons aired on the Nine Network).〔 Stan is also commissioning its joint owner, the Nine Network, to produce original Australian drama series exclusive to the service and has approached ABC and SBS on the possibility of co-producing shows and films. On 16 February 2015, Stan announced it was developing two original series—a ''Wolf Creek'' spin-off and a political drama based on the life of High Court judge Lionel Murphy titled ''Enemies of the State'', with additional productions to be announced in the coming months. On 10 March 2015, it was announced Stan had acquired ''Plonk'', a comedic wine program which had formerly aired on Eleven, premiering season two on 18 June 2015. On 1 May 2015, Stan announced its first commissioned series—a comedy series titled ''No Activity''—which would premiere late in 2015. Since launch, Stan has held Australian premieres for multiple television series. In addition to ''Transparent'', ''Mozart in the Jungle'' and ''Better Call Saul'', Stan has also premiered seasons four, five part one, and five part two of ''Lost Girl'', episodes 2-7 of ''Gallipoli'', season six of ''Community'', ''Dig'', ''Unreal'',''Power'', ''Ash vs. Evil Dead'',〔 and ''Flesh and Bone''.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stan (company)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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