AMC Networks Inc. (AMC Networks) operates as a global entertainment company.
The company distributes its content to audiences globally on an array of distribution platforms, including linear networks, subscription streaming services and other ad-supported streaming platforms, as well as through licensing arrangements. It has an extensive library of television and film properties, including several storied franchises, such as The Walking Dead Universe, the Anne Rice catalog, and the Agatha Chris...
AMC Networks Inc. (AMC Networks) operates as a global entertainment company.
The company distributes its content to audiences globally on an array of distribution platforms, including linear networks, subscription streaming services and other ad-supported streaming platforms, as well as through licensing arrangements. It has an extensive library of television and film properties, including several storied franchises, such as The Walking Dead Universe, the Anne Rice catalog, and the Agatha Christie library that are well-known to global audiences.
The company operates in the entertainment industry and has created targeted and focused video entertainment products that it owns and operates and that are powered by distinguished brands, including AMC, AMC+, BBC AMERICA (BBCA), IFC, SundanceTV, We TV, Acorn TV, Shudder, Sundance Now, ALLBLK, HIDIVE, and IFC Films.
Through the company’s AMC Studios in-house studio, production and distribution operation, it owns and controls a significant portion of the original scripted series that it delivers to viewers on its linear and streaming platforms. The company’s ability to produce and own high quality content has provided it with the opportunity to license its owned content to leading third-party platforms. Its owned content, as well as the content that it licenses is distributed domestically and internationally across linear networks, digital streaming services, home video and syndication.
Internationally, the company delivers programming that reaches subscribers in more than 100 countries and territories around the world. The international division of the company, AMC Networks International (AMCNI), consists of its premier AMC global brand, as well as a portfolio of popular, locally recognized brands delivering programming in a wide range of genres.
AMC Networks also operates a film distribution business that distributes independent narrative and documentary films under three distinct film brands: IFC Films, RLJ Entertainment Films (RLJE Films), and Shudder. The film distribution business also operates IFC Films Unlimited, a subscription streaming service consisted of a broad range of theatrically-released and award winning titles from its distribution labels.
Strategy
The company’s strategy is to create, showcase and curate high-quality, brand-defining content that appeals to distinct audiences as it aims to maximize the distribution, advertising, and content licensing revenue of each of its branded services.
The company’s strategic areas of focus include continued development of high-quality original content, including owned and controlled content and valuable IP; multi-platform distribution approach to content monetization and distribution while growing streaming offerings and targeted brands; and growth and innovation in advertising and advertising technologies.
Segments
The company manages its business through the following two operating segments:
Domestic Operations: Consists of the company’s live programming networks, its streaming services, its AMC Studios operation and its film distribution business. The company’s programming networks are AMC, We TV, BBC AMERICA, IFC, and SundanceTV. Its streaming services consist of AMC+ and its targeted subscription streaming services (Acorn TV, Shudder, Sundance Now, ALLBLK, and HIDIVE). The company’s AMC Studios operation produces original programming for its programming services and third parties and licenses programming worldwide. The company’s film distribution business includes IFC Films, RLJ Entertainment Films and Shudder. The operating segment also includes AMC Networks Broadcasting & Technology, its technical services business, which primarily services the programming networks.
International: Consists of AMC Networks International (AMCNI), its international programming businesses consisting of a portfolio of channels distributed around the world.
In January 2024, the company updated the name of its previously titled "International and Other" operating segment to "International" due to the divestiture of the 25/7 Media production services business on December 29, 2023, which was the sole component of the operating segment that comprised “Other”.
Domestic Operations
The company’s flagship AMC brand consists of the AMC programming network, AMC+ streaming service and AMC Studios.
AMC Programming Network
AMC is the home of some of the most popular and acclaimed dramas on television. As of December 31, 2024, AMC reached approximately 60 million subscribers and had distribution agreements with all major United States (U.S.) and Canada distributors.
In 2024, AMC continued to expand The Walking Dead Universe franchise with the premiere of The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, featuring the iconic characters Rick and Michonne from the original series. The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live was a fan-favorite sensation that quickly became the most watched series on AMC+ so far. Also in 2024, AMC brought viewers the second season in another popular spin-off in The Walking Dead Universe, The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, titled The Book of Carol. Both The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon and another spin-off in The Walking Dead Universe, The Walking Dead: Dead City, will return for new seasons in 2025.
In 2024, AMC brought viewers the popular and critically acclaimed second season of Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire, the first series in a burgeoning Anne Rice Immortal Universe, and announced a new series set to premiere in late 2025 called Anne Rice’s Talamasca: The Secret Order after kicking 2025 off with a second season of Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches.
In 2025, AMC is set to present the third season of Dark Winds, perhaps the most ambitious Native-led TV show ever made, according to The Hollywood Reporter, starring Zahn McClarnon and executive produced by Robert Redford and George R.R. Martin. The series has achieved 100% Fresh ratings on Rotten Tomatoes for each of its first two seasons.
AMC's film library consists of films that are licensed under long-term contracts with major studios, such as Warner Bros., Sony, MGM, NBC Universal, Paramount, Lionsgate, and Buena Vista. AMC generally structures its contracts for the exclusive cable television rights to air the films during identified window periods.
AMC+ Streaming Service
Launched in 2020, AMC+ is the company’s premium streaming bundle featuring an extensive lineup of popular and critically acclaimed programming from AMC, BBC AMERICA, IFC and SundanceTV along with full access to targeted streaming services Shudder, Sundance Now and the IFC Films library. Its content library includes fan favorites Mad Men, Interview with the Vampire, Killing Eve, The Killing, A Discovery of Witches, Halt & Catch Fire, Hell on Wheels, Turn: Washington’s Spies, The Terror, Into the Badlands, Preacher, Orphan Black, Rectify, Portlandia, Gangs of London and series from The Walking Dead Universe, among many others.
In 2024, AMC+ continued to grow the popular The Walking Dead Universe franchise with two new installments, including the record-setting The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, as well as the second season of the acclaimed The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon titled The Book of Carol, and expanded its identity as a destination for fans with the celebrated second season of Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire, and the long-awaited final season of Snowpiercer. AMC+ also continued its legacy of producing new critically-acclaimed dramas with Monsieur Spade starring Clive Owen, the propulsive crime drama Parish starring Breaking Bad’s Giancarlo Esposito, as well as featuring a slate of premium films in partnership with IFC Films, including Palme d’Or nominee The Taste of Things and the National Board of Review winner Ghostlight.
AMC+ is available to subscribers through either ad-supported or commercial free plans through its direct-to consumer (DTC) applications, as well as through multi-channel video programming distributors (MVPDs) and virtual MVPDs, and digital streaming platforms, such as Amazon Prime Video Channels, Apple TV Channels, and The Roku Channel.
AMC+ is available in several international markets, including Canada, Spain, Australia, and New Zealand.
AMC Studios
AMC Studios is AMC Networks’ in-house production and distribution operation which launched in 2010 with The Walking Dead, the highest-rated show on cable television so far.
Since then, AMC Studios has produced several critically acclaimed, award-winning and culturally distinctive originals for AMC Networks’ suite of channels and services, including Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches, Dark Winds, The Walking Dead: Dead City, The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, Fear the Walking Dead, Halt, and Catch Fire, The Terror anthology, Preacher, and the Peabody Award-winning Rectify, as well as unscripted series Ride with Norman Reedus and James Cameron’s Story of Science Fiction.
Upcoming AMC Studios series include Anne Rice’s Talamasca: The Secret Order, and The Terror: Devil in Silver for AMC and AMC+. AMC Studios also produced Sanctuary: A Witch's Tale for Sundance Now, which premiered in January 2024.
In addition to producing series for AMC Networks suite of channels, AMC Studios is an executive producer of the hit series SILO for Apple TV+.
Other Programming Networks
WE TV
As of December 31, 2024, We TV reached approximately 59 million subscribers and had distribution agreements with all major U.S. distributors.
Driven by unscripted originals, We TV continues to be the #1 U.S. cable network for women, in particular black women, on Friday nights and home to a popular slate of series and franchises, including Love After Lockup, Life After Lockup, Mama June: Family Crisis, Toya & Reginae, and the celebrated return of the We TV’s pioneers of family reality TV, the Braxton family, with 2024’s new docuseries The Braxtons.
In 2024, We TV also premiered several new unscripted series, including The Barnes Bunch, following NBA legend Matt Barnes and his family; Deb’s House, a new competition reality series featuring Hip Hop pioneer and mogul Debra Antney, who also serves as executive producer; and the new reality series Tia Mowry: My Next Act.
We TV's programming also includes popular series S.W.A.T., 9-1-1, Bones, NCIS, and Law & Order, as well as feature films, with certain exclusive license rights from studios, such as Paramount, MGM, Sony, Lionsgate, NBC Universal, and Warner Bros.
BBC AMERICA
As of December 31, 2024, BBCA reached approximately 56 million subscribers and had distribution agreements with all major U.S. distributors.
BBCA is a hub of innovative, culturally contagious programming with Britishness at its core. The network has attracted wide critical acclaim for its award-winning natural history programming from the BBC. In 2024, BBCA brought viewers a new landmark series narrated by Sir David Attenborough Planet Earth: Mammals from the award-winning BBC Natural History Unit, with the next landmark, Planet Earth: Asia, planned for 2025.
BBCA is also the home of The Graham Norton Show, a popular United Kingdom (U.K.) late night talk show with a lineup of celebrity guests.
IFC
As of December 31, 2024, IFC reached approximately 52 million subscribers and had distribution agreements with all major U.S. distributors.
IFC is the home of offbeat, unexpected comedies. Originals include the Emmy-nominated Cooper’s Bar starring Rhea Seahorn, In the Kitchen with Harry Hamlin, and SisterS starring Sarah Goldberg.
IFC's slate includes a mix of fan favorite movies and popular television comedies ranging from Two and a Half Men and Everybody Loves Raymond to classic TV favorites, such as Gilligan’s Island and Sanford and Son.
SundanceTV
As of December 31, 2024, SundanceTV reached approximately 49 million subscribers and had distribution agreements with all major U.S. distributors.
SundanceTV launched in 1996 and is committed to the mission of celebrating creativity, distinctive storytelling, and iconic films.
SundanceTV attracts viewer and critical acclaim for its original unscripted programming, including Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter featuring the entertainment industry’s leading talents, the True Crime Story franchise featuring Smugshot and It Couldn’t Happen Here from Hilarie Burton Morgan, and new limited series, such as 2024’s The Tailor of Sin City.
Other Streaming Services
The company’s streaming portfolio of branded subscription services serve a targeted, passionate fanbase with content depth, curation and community. The content on these platforms is a mix of licensed and owned original programming. Its various services are distributed in several key markets internationally, including Canada, the U.K., parts of Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.
The company’s streaming services, including AMC+ and the following targeted services, ended 2024 with approximately 12.4 million aggregate paid streaming subscribers.
Acorn TV
Acorn TV is North America’s largest streaming service specializing in premium British and international mysteries and dramas from around the world.
Acorn TV’s 2024 programming slate featured new seasons of exclusive original series, including the long-running detective drama The Brokenwood Mysteries, Dalgliesh based on the bestselling novels by PD James, British crime drama Whitstable Pearl, the Italian set Signora Volpe starring Emilia Fox, Harry Wild starring and executive produced by Emmy and Golden Globe winner Jane Seymour, the New Zealand set My Life Is Murder starring Lucy Lawless, and new breakout series Inspector Ellis starring Olivier Award winner Sharon D Clarke, among others.
In 2024, Acorn TV also went into production on two new series filming in Ireland: Irish Blood, starring and executive produced by Alicia Silverstone; and Art Detectives starring True Blood’s Stephen Moyer. The new series Murder Before Evensong was also greenlit, which is based on the first novel in the Sunday Times best-selling series by British author the Reverend Richard Coles and starring Matthew Lewis of the Harry Potter franchise.
Long-running fan favorite hit series returning in 2025 include Midsomer Murders, The Chelsea Detective, Murdoch Mysteries, and The Madame Blanc Mysteries, along with international favorites, such as Darby and Joan set in the Australian outback and the South African production Recipes for Love & Murder.
Acorn TV is available in key international markets, including Canada, the U.K., Australia, New Zealand, and parts of Europe.
Shudder
Called one of the best streaming services in the world by RogerEbert.com, Shudder offers a premium selection in genre entertainment covering horror, thrillers and the supernatural, bringing subscribers Hollywood favorites, cult classics, original series, and a critically acclaimed slate of new and exclusive genre films.
2024 programming highlights included such critic, and audience hits as In A Violent Nature, Late Night with the Devil, Oddity, Baghead, Infested, Stopmotion, You’ll Never Find Me, Azrael, V/H/S/Beyond and the Nicolas Cage feature Arcadian, among many others.
Shudder’s annual programming events included Halfway to Halloween, a month-long event featuring new movies, series and specials, including a new season of The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs and Shudder’s #1 movie premiere so far Late Night with the Devil. Shudder also featured a super-sized new Season of Screams stunt, a three-month programming event surrounding Halloween featuring live events, watch parties and new releases every week, including the return of the fan-favorite found footage franchise V/H/S with its most watched installment yet V/H/S/Beyond, a new season of the popular reality competition series The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula, and the series premiere of Mark Duplass’s latest iteration of his cult Creep franchise with the six-part anthology series The Creep Tapes.
Shudder is available in several international markets, including Canada, the U.K., Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.
Sundance Now
Sundance Now offers a rich selection of engrossing dramas, imaginative fantasy, gripping mysteries and true crime, riveting documentaries and intelligent thrillers from gifted storytellers around the world.
In 2024, the service debuted a strong slate of both original and acquired series, including The Long Shadow featuring David Morrissey and Toby Jones, Black Snow starring Travis Fimmel, Fifteen-Love featuring Aidan Turner, White Lies starring Natalie Dormer, The Newsreader with Sam Reid and Anna Torv, and a trio of fan favorite supernatural dramas Sanctuary: A Witch’s Tale, Domino Day: Lone Witch and Midwich Cuckoos: Village of the Damned.
Sundance Now also houses a critically-acclaimed and award-winning library, including popular supernatural drama A Discovery of Witches, multi-Emmy winner State of the Union, glamorous international thriller Riviera, celebrated Norwegian Noir Wisting starring Carrie-Anne Moss, and Palme d’Or nominee The Taste of Things, among many other independent films and series.
ALLBLK
ALLBLK is focused on content from the Black perspective utilizing but not limited to Black creators, storytellers, cast and crew. An invitation to a world of streaming entertainment that is inclusively, but unapologetically – Black.
Featuring a diverse lineup of content that spans genres and generations, ALLBLK premiered several new series, films and specials in 2024, including the final season of long running hit series Double Cross, new seasons of fan favorite series Kold & Windy and Wicked City; popular original films Lunar Lockdown, The Influencer and The Match; and hit comedy special Gary G Thang Johnson: Sitcho Ass Down.
ALLBLK is also the streaming home for We TV’s engaging slate of unscripted originals, including celebrity docuseries, such as Toya & Reginae, The Braxtons and Tia Mowry: My Next Act, breakout reality competition series Deb’s House featuring Hip Hop pioneer and mogul Debra Antney, and the wildly popular Love After Lockup franchise.
ALLBLK greenlit and completed production on hitman series Wild Rose, created by and starring R&B sensation Omarion, and the highly anticipated original film Operation: Aunties directed by Wendy Raquel Robinson and starring Martin’s Tisha Campbell.
HIDIVE
HIDIVE LLC (HIDIVE) operates an anime-focused streaming service offering a robust library of entertainment that includes television series, movies, and original video animations in both subtitled and dubbed audio formats. In addition to its deep and diverse catalog, HIDIVE offers first-run simulcasts of the best new anime at or near the same time as their Japanese broadcast, which in 2024 included the global hit series (OSHI NO KO) Season 2, I Parry Everything!, Chained Soldier, and Loner Life in Another World, among others.
HIDIVE is available in the U.S. and Canada, as well as key overseas markets, including the U.K., Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.
AMC Networks’ subsidiary Sentai Holdings, LLC (Sentai) is a leading global acquirer, producer and supplier of anime content that it distributes through its affiliates, including HIDIVE, The Anime Network and Sentai Filmworks, as well as select commercial partners.
Film Distribution
AMC Networks also operates a film business that distributes movies under three very distinct brands: IFC Films, RLJ Entertainment Films and Shudder. The IFC Films brand is known for being a home to independent and auteur focused films, attracting high-profile talent and filmmakers. RLJ Entertainment Films is a market leader in acquiring tentpole and cast-driven genre content with an eye towards broad commercial appeal. Shudder operates the highest profile, horror-focused streaming service in the United States, and has become the prime destination for audiences to discover trend-setting filmmakers in the horror landscape. The film distribution business also operates IFC Films Unlimited, a subscription streaming service comprising a broad range of theatrically-released and award-winning titles from its distribution brands. Each brand has a distinct approach while complementing one another - each synonymous with quality and commercial content, consistently debuting the next generation of distinguished filmmakers.
IFC Films
IFC Films is a leading distributor of high-quality, talent-driven independent films, which included 17 new releases in 2024.
IFC Films is a leader in progressive windowing strategies and pioneered the day and date model to maximize revenue and marketing effectiveness.
IFC Films is known for its fostering approach to filmmakers, distributing the early films of directors, such as Christopher Nolan, Greta Gerwig, Barry Jenkins, Alfonso Cuaron and Richard Linklater.
Notable 2024 releases include the Oscar shortlisted international films The Taste of Things and Memoir of a Snail; Shudder’s Late Night with the Devil and Oddity; and RLJE Films’ Arcadian and Little Bites, among others.
AMC Networks Broadcasting & Technology
AMC Networks Broadcasting & Technology is a full-service network programming feed origination and distribution company located in Bethpage, New York, which primarily services most of the national programming networks of it.
AMC Networks Broadcasting & Technology consolidates origination and satellite communication functions in a 67,000 square-foot facility designed to keep AMC Networks at the forefront of network origination and distribution technology. AMC Networks Broadcasting & Technology has experience across its network services groups, including network origination, affiliate engineering, network transmission, and traffic and scheduling that provide day-to-day delivery of any programming network, in high definition or standard definition.
International
AMCNI, consisting of the company’s international programming businesses, operates a portfolio of channels centered around the flagship AMC channel and local channels supported by local production in the U.K., Latin America, and parts of Europe.
AMC Networks International
AMCNI, the international division of the company, delivers entertaining and acclaimed programming that reaches subscribers in more than 100 countries and territories around the world, through operational centers in London, Madrid, Budapest, Prague, Warsaw, Miami, Buenos Aires, and Mexico City.
AMCNI consists of the company’s global brand, AMC, as well as a portfolio of popular, locally recognized brands delivering programming in a wide range of genres, including sports, film, cooking, lifestyle, crime and investigation, science, documentary and kids.
The company’s local and regional channels are programmed for local audiences and language, and it develops and licenses local content that is tailored to individual market tastes.
AMCNI operates a number of joint venture partnerships and managed channel services, as well as DTC services.
A joint venture with Paramount International Networks delivers a portfolio of seven entertainment channels which is managed from London, including TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, LEGEND and LEGEND XTRA (U.K. only) CBS Justice, FILMCAFE, and CBS Reality (available outside of the U.K.).
Dreamia, a joint venture with NOS in Portugal, delivers channels, including Canal Hollywood, Canal Panda, Panda Kids, Biggs, Blast, Casa e Cozinha, and recently launched the over-the-top (OTT) application Panda+.
The U.K. portfolio of channels reaches viewers via the Sky, Virgin Media, Freesat and Freeview platforms and on demand via the WATCH FREE UK player available from Freesat, Freeview and YouView and downloadable via IOS, Android, and all major device/manufacturer stores. A significant part of AMCNI UK’s content library is also available via partnerships with major streaming platforms, such as ITVx, FreeVee, Pluto TV, Rakuten TV, and Samsung TV.
Highlights of the top AMCNI locally recognized channels are detailed below:
El Gourmet
El Gourmet is a go-to TV culinary destination for Latin American audiences that connects with its viewers by celebrating local traditions and featuring culinary experiences from all over the world. Its mission is to reunite family and friends around the table to make memorable life experiences.
El Gourmet offers 100% of its content in Spanish, with over 75% original productions and more than 200 episodes premiering each year, showcasing some of the greatest celebrity cooks of this region.
Jim Jam
Jim Jam is a pre-school kids channel focused on education, providing a stimulating, engaging and safe environment for 2-5 year olds and contributing to their social, intellectual, and emotional development by providing learning through fun.
Popular content includes Bing, Fireman Sam, Thomas and Friends and Caillou.
Jim Jam is available in over 60 EMEA countries.
Canal Hollywood
Canal Hollywood is one of the leading pay-TV film channels in Spain and Portugal, offering a wide selection of movies produced by major U.S. studios.
Genres include comedy, drama, thriller, western, musical, and science fiction and the industry’s biggest stars.
Sports 1
Sports 1 & Sports 2 are basic cable channels in its core Central European territories.
The channels broadcast European football, European Handball, NBA and ice hockey among other live sports events.
Regulation
The company’s businesses are subject to and affected by regulations of the U.S. federal, state and local government authorities; and the company’s international operations are subject to laws and regulations of regulators in the countries in which they operate, as well as international bodies, such as the European Union. The Federal Communications Commission (the "FCC") regulates the U.S. programming networks directly in some limited respects; other FCC regulations, although imposed on cable television operators, satellite operators or other MVPDs, affect programming networks indirectly.
The company’s networks are required to provide closed-captioning of programming for the hearing impaired, and comply with other regulations designed to make its content more accessible, and the company is required to provide closed captioning on certain video content that the company offers on the Internet or through other Internet Protocol distribution methods.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules require MVPDs to ensure that all commercials comply with specified volume standards, and the company’s distribution agreements generally require it to certify compliance with such standards.
Competition
In addition to other cable programming networks, such as Paramount Global and Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc., the company competes for programming with national broadcast television networks, local broadcast television stations, video on demand services and subscription streaming services, such as Netflix, Apple TV, and Amazon Prime.
History
AMC Networks Inc., a Delaware corporation, was founded in 1980. The company was incorporated in 2011.
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