- Subscription based channel.
- Owned by AMC Networks
- Upon its inception in 1996, it was designed to air documentaries, independent films, world cinema, short films and developed some of its own programs. Some of these were based around Sundance film festival.
- Known as Sundance Channel from 1996 to 2014.
- Its sister channels are: AMC, BBC America, We TV and IFC.
- Af of 2015, it was available to 52% of all households in America.
- Originally operated by Showtime (which was then a division of Viacom) and Robert Redford (the creative director of the network) and was a premium channel.
- Before the early 2000s, when it bean producing original programmes, Sundance was movie channel.
- Named after Redford's character in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
- In May of 2008, Sundance was sold to a subsidiary of Cablevision called 'Rainbow Media'.