Sundance Channel

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Sundance Channel is a cable television network devoted to airing independent feature films, world cinema, documentaries, short films, and original programs, such as news about the latest developments from each year's Sundance Film Festival. All are shown uncut and without commercials.

Launched in 1996 to show independent films on TV, Sundance Channel was a joint venture of Showtime Networks (part of CBS Corporation), Universal Studios (part of NBC Universal) and Robert Redford who also acted as the creative director of the network. It is an extension of Redford's non-profit Sundance Institute, a center in which independent filmmakers can harbor and extend their craft though it operates independently of both the Sundance Institute and the Sundance Film Festival.

In addition to broadcasting films, the channel airs and produces original content. One such show, "Anatomy of a Scene", takes a scene from a movie and breaks it apart from the perspective of the production design, costume design, the writing, the acting, and the directing.

On May 7, 2008, Rainbow Media (a subsidiary of Cablevision) announced that it has purchased Sundance Channel for $496 million. [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/08/business/media/08sundance.html] . Rainbow Media also owns the cable channels AMC, IFC, WE tv, Voom HD Networks, News 12, and several others.

On Wednesday, June 18, 2008, The New York Times reported that the acquisition of sundance channel by Rainbow Media was completed. [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/18/arts/18arts-CABLEVISIONB_BRF.html?ref=arts]

Original programming

* "The Al Franken Show" (A same-day replay of Franken's Air America Radio program, condensed into one hour)
* "I Am Not an Animal"
* "Anatomy of a Scene"
* "Iconoclasts"
* "Ladette to Lady"
* "Slings & Arrows"
* "TransGeneration"
* "One Punk Under God"
* "Big Ideas for a Small Planet"
* "Live From Abbey Road"
* "The Green"

ee also

* List of DirecTV channels
* List of Dish Network channels
* Rainbow Media
* Cablevision

External links

* [http://www.sundancechannel.com/ Official Site]
* [http://www.sundancechannel.com/video/ Sundance Channel Video Player]