Altice USA has launched a new Internet package for its Optimum Stream platform. Called Entertainment TV, the virtual MVPD service offers premium entertainment content for $30 per month. The move comes as Altice says Optimum is further expanding its Optimum Stream product offering to homes in the U.S., including in Arkansas, Arizona, Louisiana, North Carolina and Texas. Optimum Stream was previously available only to Optimum Internet customers in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. Optimum Stream debuted in 2021, targeting consumers without linear TV who would be interested in subscribing to a broadband service for $5 per month.

Light Reading describes Optimum Stream as Altice USA’s “relatively new Android TV-based platform that supports the company’s own pay-TV app along with access to a wide range of third-party streaming applications (via the Google Play store).”

Cord Cutters News says it lets subscribers “stream content from popular platforms like Netflix, Disney+,” among others and says Altice is marketing its content services to “customers looking for a comprehensive TV package without the need for sports channels.”

The Entertainment TV channel lineup includes A&E, AMC, Comedy Central, Discovery Channel, Food Network, Game Show Network, Great American Family, Hallmark, HGTV, Lifetime, Nickelodeon, Paramount Network, TLC and We TV, available both live and on demand.

“Entertainment TV customers will also have access to award-winning local news content from Optimum’s News 12 service, the preeminent hyperlocal news source across the New York tri-state area,” Altice explained in a news release.

Altice USA serves nearly 5 million customers across 21 states with Internet, TV, phone and mobile services, including through its own fiber Internet network with speeds of up to 8GB per second. The company also offers advertising solutions via Optimum Media and news content from i24NEWS in addition to News 12.

The Entertainment TV service “is not available to Altice USA home broadband subs on plans delivering speeds of 50 Mbit/s or less,” Light Reading reports.

The service joins the “more than 50 free FAST channels” available through Optimum Stream, notes NextTV, referring to Free Ad-Supported Streaming TV.