A&E Television Networks, LLC is an American multinational corporation and broadcasting company. It is a 50–50 joint venture between Hearst Communications and The Walt Disney Company through its Entertainment division. The company owns several non-fiction and entertainment-based television brands, including its namesake A&E network, History Channel, Lifetime, FYI, and their associated sister channels. The company also holds stakes in, or licenses, their international branches.
Sundance TV 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.
AMC Networks Inc. is an American entertainment company headquartered in 11 Penn Plaza, New York.
AMC Networks International UK (EMEA), formerly Zone Vision, Zone Media, Chello Zone and AMC Networks International Zone (EMEA), is a British television media company founded in 1991 by Chris Wronski and owned by AMC Networks International as its EMEA hub that houses its asset interests in that region.
Crime & Investigation is a pan-European television channel based in the United Kingdom, owned by A&E Networks UK. The channel primarily broadcasts true crime programming, and is a European version of the U.S. network of the same name.
History is a European documentary television channel which broadcasts programs related to historical events and persons. There are also reality television, ufology and paranormal programs.
Odisea (Spanish) or Odisseia is a documentary cable channel available in Spain and Portugal, with feeds in Portuguese or Spanish. It split into versions, and the Portuguese channel Odisseia became also available in Angola, Mozambique and Cape Verde. It is the oldest and one of the most notable of the genre in Portugal and, for most of its history, it was a single Iberian channel for Portugal and Spain with feeds in Portuguese to Portugal in a list of notable channels owned by Multicanal, including some of the oldest and most popular cable channels such as Canal Hollywood and Canal Panda.
Canal Hollywood is a movie cable channel available in Spain and Portugal. Initially it was a single channel airing for all Iberia, with feeds in Portuguese or Spanish, it later split. In 2011, it became available in HD in Spain and Portugal. In 2015, the Spanish and Portuguese channels became independent.
Canal Panda is a Portuguese pay television channel, the first one dedicated to kids programming, mostly animated series for children aged 6–14. The channel was founded in 1996 as Panda Club in Spain and Portugal, but the name was changed to Canal Panda in 1997. In 2001, the channel was closed down in Spain, thus focusing on the Portuguese market. It was relaunched in Spain in 2011 and closed down again in 2022. Canal Panda is currently owned by Dreamia, a joint-venture between AMC Networks International Iberia and NOS, in addition of the linear channel, it operates the Panda+ SVOD service.
AMC Networks International is the division of AMC Networks that operates outside the United States. AMC Networks commissions and distributes TV channels, content and video services. The division's operating companies and business units currently own and operate in joint venture a total of 68 branded TV channels and run a suite of digital, on demand and broadband services in Europe. In aggregate, its channels and feeds reach 382 million homes. AMC Networks International also provide a set of advanced digital services, such as ad sales and broadcast solutions to international channel operators.
AMC Networks International Central and Northern Europe is a Budapest, Hungary-based television company, owned by AMC Networks International.
Viacom International Inc. is the international division of the Paramount Media Networks subsidiary of Paramount Global that oversees the production, broadcasting and promotion of its brands outside of the United States. These brands include Paramount Network, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon and BET, as well as CBS-branded channels co-owned with AMC Networks International. PIN also owned a 30% stake in the Rainbow S.p.A. animation studio in Italy from 2011 to 2023 and a stake in Viacom18, an Indian joint venture with domestic partner TV18, from 2007 to 2024.
CBS Justice, formerly CBS Action, is a television channel specializing in factual programming ranging from action films to drama and murder-mysteries. Currently available only in Africa since 21 November 2019 via DStv and Ireland, it was previously available free-to-air in the UK from 16 November 2009 to 30 June 2022.
Canal História, currently branded as História, is a Portuguese basic cable and satellite television channel that features history documentaries most of which are produced by History USA and Portuguese and Spanish historic productions, owned by the joint venture known as The History Channel Iberia, between A&E Networks and AMC Networks International Iberia. More recently, it started broadcast some reality television series. Initially it was a single Iberian channel founded by Multicanal with feeds in Portuguese and Spanish. It was created in March 1999 and it split into different channels on 21 March 2012.
Dreamia is a producer of thematic channels for the Portuguese and African markets. It is a joint-venture between NOS and AMC Networks International Iberia. It produces the channels distributed by AMC Networks International Iberia.
A&E was a Spanish and Portuguese television channel that carried reality television programming produced by A&E USA, owned by The History Channel Iberia in a joint venture between A&E Networks and AMC Networks International Iberia.
Canal Panda was a Spanish pay television channel, which was one of the first country's subscription network dedicated to children's programming, mostly animated series.
Blaze is a British English language free-to-air television channel owned by A&E Networks UK, a joint venture between A&E Networks and Sky Group. This channel allows UK A&E to use its programming for the complete "lifecycle".
