Blockbuster video stores will close its remaining locations, the company announced.
DISH Network purchased the chain in 2010 after Blockbuster went bankrupt and announced Wednesday that all remaining locations would be shuttered. CNN reports:
Blockbuster has struggled in recent years to compete with Redbox, a DVD rental and digital streaming service provided by Outerwall, formerly Coinstar, and Netflix, which offers movies and TV shows for digital streaming in addition to its mail order DVD rentals.
Blockbuster By Mail, a service launched to counter Netflix, will end in mid-December, but the streaming service Blockbuster On Demand will remain intact.
DISH said Blockbuster franchises and licensed stores in the United States and internationally will stay open.
Blockbuster closed its last Covington location on Madison Avenue three years ago. A location still operates in Newport but is not listed on the corporate website for Greater Cincinnati locations. There are three on the other side of the river in Glen Este, Kenwood, and West Chester.