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Sundance TV

Sundance TV (formerly known as Sundance Channel) is an American pay television channel owned by AMC Networks that launched on February 1, 1996. The channel is named after Robert Redford's character in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and, while it is an extension of Redford's non-profit Sundance Institute, the channel operates independently of both the Institute and the Sundance Film Festival.

Country

United States

New York City

English

1080i HDTV
(downscaled to letterboxed 480i for the SDTV feed)

AMC Networks

AMC
BBC America
IFC
We TV

February 1, 1996 (1996-02-01)

Sundance Channel (1996–2014)

www.sundancetv.com

Philo, Sling TV, YouTube TV

www.amazon.com
(requires subscription to access content)

Originally, Sundance was devoted to airing documentaries, independent feature films, short films, world cinema, and coverage on the latest developments from each year's Sundance Film Festival. The channel has since incorporated both original and acquired programming and became fully ad-supported in 2013, with programming being edited for content soon thereafter.[1]


As of July 2015, the channel was available to approximately 60.668 million households with television (52.1% of all subscribers) in the United States.[2]

Latin America – Sundance Channel was launched in September 2013. It was renamed Sundance TV in January 2016. The channel was closed on April 30, 2020.

Brazil – In the second half of 2014 a Brazilian version will be released of a channel fully dubbed in Portuguese. The channel was closed on April 30, 2020.

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Canada – On March 1, 2010, a Canadian version of was launched by Toronto-based media company Corus Entertainment. AMC Networks did not own any stake in the Canadian service, but maintained a brand licensing agreement with Corus Entertainment to allow the use of the Sundance Channel brand as well as access to programming from the U.S. service.[16] The channel was closed on March 1, 2018.

Sundance Channel

Official website