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In 1996, Encore abandoned the numbering system for most of its channels, using the tagline " an encore network " instead until the early 2000s ; the notable exception was Starz !, which continued to use " Encore 8 " branding in its main idents and movie openers until 2002, even as Starz!

was long-since separated entirely from the Encore brand and by that time, given its own family of channels.

On March 28, 2005, the entire Multiplex was revamped to bring the individual channels back in line with the overall Encore brand, due to focus tests that revealed that viewers did not know the themed channels were part of the Encore channel.

Three Encore channels changed their names as well: True Stories became Encore Drama, Love Stories became Encore Love, and WAM!

: America's Kidz Network became simply Encore Wam.

Additional changes to the Encore multiplex came on August 1, 2011 with launch of Encore Español, a Spanish-language simulcast of the main Encore channel, and the rebrand and refocus of Encore Mystery and the teen-targeted Encore Wam into Encore Suspense and Encore Family, leaving Encore Westerns and Encore Action as the only Encore multiplex channels to contain the titles in use since the original 1994 launch of the Encore themed multiplex ( though as mentioned, the " Encore " name was not included in the multiplexes ' titles until 2005 ).