Lightbox fires up VIMN content

Fledgling New Zealand subscription VoD service Lightbox has acquired 400 hours of MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon content.

Lightbox customers can now stream Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN)-owned shows including kids and adult animated series South Park, SpongeBob SquarePants and Beavis and Butt-Head.

Other titles available on Lightbox include Netflix’s Orange is the New Black and House of Cards as well as Breaking Bad, Heroes, Misfits, Seinfeld, The Office, The Thick of It, The X-Files and Outlander.

These sit along other VIMN-owned series such as Workaholics, Awkward and iCarly, as well as preschool cartoons Dora The Explorer, Team Umizoomi and Bubble Guppies.

The service, which launched in New Zealand on August 28, claims to be offering viewers 5,000 hours of TV content and costs NZ$15 (US$12.5) per month to subscribe.

It is operated by the digital arm of New Zealand-based telecommunications company Spark, formerly Telecom NZ.