Sundance Channel

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Sundance Channel

Launched	1996
Owned by	CBS/NBC Universal
Website	sundancechannel.com
Availability
Satellite
DirecTV	Channel 549
Dish Network	Channel 332
Cable
Verizon FiOS	Channel 384
iO Digital Cable (Cablevision)	Channel 192
Comcast	Channels Vary
Time Warner Cable	Channels Vary
Charter	Channels Vary
Cox Cable	Channels Vary
Bright House Networks	Channels Vary

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 is shown uncut and without commercials.

Launched in 1996 to show independent films on TV, the Sundance Channel is a joint venture of Showtime Networks (part of CBS Corporation), Universal Studios (part of NBC Universal) and Robert Redford who also acts 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.

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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
Kath & Kim (Picked up from Trio)
Ladette To Lady
Slings & Arrows
TransGeneration
One Punk Under God

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