Broadcast: Sundance Channel set for UK
The global arm of AMC Networks is readying plans to launch the Sundance Channel in the UK.
Broadcast understands that AMC/Sundance Channel Global is in carriage negotiations with pay-TV platforms including Sky, with a view to launching in 2015.
The plans follow parent firm AMC Networks’ $1bn (£600m) acquisition of Chellomedia, which operates around 40 channels around the world, last year.
Its channels include AMC, which aired Breaking Bad in the US, female-skewing WEtv and comedy network IFC. It has been keen to establish a presence in the UK for some time and a number of sources have told Broadcast that it has now selected the Sundance Channel as its first launch.
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