24/7 Horror Channel!
Source: The Horror Channel by: Jim Law
Have you ever had one of those lonely Saturday nights? Your dog just ran away, the girlfriend left you for that dude with the huge arms and the sweater vest, none of your friends have called in weeks and your family is too busy for a group hug. You curl up on the sofa with the latest issue of 'Lonely Guy Weekly' and a Pop-Tart as the television whispers things about you in the distance. Nothing seems to matter this night. Especially not you. That's when you find it. Or does it find you? Camp counselors are getting torn to pieces, babysitters are dropping like flies, zombies are eating women in tube-tops, vampires, werewolves, ghosts! The HORROR MOVIE! There's nothing like a little death and carnage to brighten up your sad pathetic life.
Well, starting in October 2004 you can have the warm fuzzy feeling of evil twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week thanks to The Horror Channel. Founder and CEO Nicholas Psalto heads an impressive Creative Advisory board to bring you the essential horror cable/satellite television station. When I say impressive, I mean it. Take a look at their team.
John Carpenter (Halloween)
Roger Corman (The Raven)
Wes Craven (Scream)
Tobe Hooper (Texas Chainsaw Massacre)
Lloyd Kaufman (The Toxic Avenger)
Lucky McKee (May)
George Romero (Dawn of the Dead)
Eli Roth (Cabin Fever)
Tom Savini (Night of the Living Dead, 1990)
Rob Zombie (House of 1000 Corpses)
Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy)
The channel promises unedited and uncut versions of all your favorites along with original programming that caters to the hard-core fan such as mini series', documentaries, news, and music videos. The web site offers tons of information and a survey to help them please you. Click the logo below to have a visit.
http://www.horrorchannel.com/hc1/
OH MY GOD!!!!! I'll never turn off my TV again.
I just took the survey. I dunno if I'd visit that site regularly if they end up with what they are proposing. But I did get a chance to say my least favorite site was Ain't It Cool News.
the best aprt is that it is unedited comercial free so it would really just kick every other channels ass
My butt's getting sore just thinking about it..
Acutally, we have that in Canada since last year. 3/4 of the content is like "paranormal" stuff though, so maybe it's not gonna be the same thing.
Their team is kick ass that's for sure !
Another reason I'd need digital cable.
The reason now: endless movie channels and Gameshow network.
I just fucked a dog.
my dad found this about a month ago and showed me that site. we were freaking out in anticipation. best channel ever...
yeah but it starts on October 2004... one year to go
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STOP BEING SUCH A PARTY POOPER! Your such a stinker AndyK....and you guys all know how much i hate using the "s" word.
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STOP BEING SUCH A PARTY POOPER! Your such a stinker AndyK....and you guys all know how much i hate using the "s" word.
GDIDM everyone knows you are inlove with me so cut the bullshit and accept the fact that Im not gay and I dont like you!
Comcast, Sony to Debut New Horror Channel
PHILADELPHIA - Comcast Corp. and Sony Pictures Entertainment will unveil a new horror and thriller network this Halloween through video-on-demand, the first collaboration between the two companies under a deal to create new cable channels.
The as-yet-unnamed channel, to be announced Monday at National Cable & Television Association's annual The National Show conference in Atlanta, will feature over 1,000 horror and thriller movies and TV shows from the Sony/MGM libraries including "Silence of the Lambs," "I Know What You Did Last Summer," and "Panic Room."
The channel, to be offered free to digital subscribers, will feature at least 20 films and some TV series, comprising 40 to 70-plus hours of programming. A quarter of the content will be changed every two weeks.
The channel will be supported by advertising targeting the highly desirable youth-to-young-professional market. Ad revenue will be shared by Comcast and Sony Pictures of Culver City, Calif.
"It really appeals very strongly to a fan base of 18- to 34-year-olds," said Diane Robina, president of emerging networks at Philadelphia-based Comcast. "When you're looking at a platform like this, you want to appeal to a passionate and loyal audience."
The two companies said the cable channel will be the first dedicated to the horror and thriller genre. Comcast, the nation's largest cable operator with more than 21 million customers, said 20 percent of feature films released by major studios in 2005 were part of the genre. A third of those movies topped the box office on their debut.
Comcast made a decision to offer the channel through video-on-demand to keep subscribers from switching to satellite TV, which cannot duplicate the service. With the on-demand service, digital subscribers can watch a library of films, TV shows and other content whenever they want.
While Comcast has developed other channels exclusively for the on-demand service, such as ExerciseTV, subscribers prefer to watch movies and TV shows of premium channels such as HBO and Cinemax. Officials say that's how cable can keep customers from jumping ship. Other programs, they say, are helpful, but not dealmakers.
"The real glue is premium on-demand," said Bruce Leichtman, president of the Leichtman Research Group in Durham, N.H. "Nearly half of all viewing is movies and series."
However, cable companies still face the challenge of getting Hollywood content more quickly after it is released. Comcast and Sony said the new channel will not shorten the window for delivery.
The new network will be supported by online content including exclusive outtakes, music downloads and behind-the-scenes footage. Comcast later plans to add a wireless dimension, offering horror ring-tones, sound effects and other mobile features.
The new channel is one of several expected under a 2004 Comcast-Sony agreement, which called for the creation of new cable channels using Sony and MGM content and cemented a distribution deal. The Sony and MGM libraries comprise 7,500 movies and 150,000 TV episodes.
The agreement came in the same month that Sony Corp (NYSE:SNE - news). led a group to acquire Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. for nearly $5 billion, including debt. Comcast was part of the group, investing $300 million.
Panic Room? Horror? :ponder:
Quote from: Find Your Magali on April 11, 2006, 08:57:31 PM
Panic Room? Horror? :ponder:
Hey, if they can show
Point of No Return on American Movie Classics, they can show
Panic Room on the Horror Channel.
Quote from: Find Your Magali on April 11, 2006, 08:57:31 PM
Panic Room? Horror? :ponder:
Quote from: MacGuffin on April 10, 2006, 12:44:12 AMComcast Corp. and Sony Pictures Entertainment will unveil a new horror and thriller network this Halloween
Comcast scares up horror broadband site
The horror genre is hot, as indicated by current box office champ "Saw III," and Comcast Corp. plans to capitalize on that popularity with Tuesday's appropriately timed launch of its broadband and video-on-demand channel FEARnet.com.
Operating as a multiplatform network, FEARnet will offer movie and video content acquired from Sony and Lionsgate through VOD, Internet and mobile platforms. As its moniker suggests, FEARnet will be all spine-tingling suspense and gore, all the time, in an effort to reach the youthful horror-fan audience that has flocked to such movie franchises as Lionsgate's "Saw" trilogy and Sony Pictures' "Grudge" pair.
Comcast is advertising the channel across cable networks while also taking the viral marketing approach by infiltrating various horror blogs with news of the Halloween-timed launch.
FEARnet's on-demand platform will serve 200 horror titles a year, with about 70 hours of programming a month, including a number of Japanese- and Spanish-language productions and blood and guts in high-definition. Such titles as "Bram Stoker's Dracula," "Night of the Living Dead" and "The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre" will be offered free to Comcast's 11 million digital cable subscribers.
The online component, FEARnet.com, includes nine free feature-length films and 200 shorts for free streaming along with 50 downloadable movies to buy or rent a month. It includes news and reviews and an interactive database dubbed "Horror A-Z" allowing users to explore the genre while providing links to actors, directors and producer facts. Its community aspect has FEARnet users becoming a "victim" as they create their own profile and chat with other horror fans, while featuring an integrated video player allowing users to communicate, stream video and read about a film's cast and crew simultaneously without leaving the film during viewing.
Mobile offerings for those who want to take horror on the go are available at Mobile.FEARnet.com or Wap.FEARnet.com, a site specially designed for mobile access that has news, reviews, real-time polling and will soon feature ringtones, sound effects and other content tricks and treats.
Plans also are in the works to offer original programming from established Hollywood directors in the form of webisodes and mobile content.
The FEARnet launch plan was purposely designed to cater to the adults 18-34 demographic, who increasingly are watching and consuming media on demand while multitasking like never before.
"This generation wants content when they want it, how they want it and where they want it," said Diane Robina, president of emerging networks for Comcast Programming Group. "To me, besides usage and revenue numbers, these channels in general will be successful if fans embrace them and like what we've created for them."
Quote from: MacGuffin on October 30, 2006, 02:07:02 AM
FEARnet's on-demand platform will serve 200 horror titles a year, with about 70 hours of programming a month, including a number of Japanese- and Spanish-language productions and blood and guts in high-definition. Such titles as "Bram Stoker's Dracula," "Night of the Living Dead" and "The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre" will be offered free to Comcast's 11 million digital cable subscribers.
If they couldn't come up with a better third title to flaunt than that, I'm very worried about this channel. Not that I'll be able to get it anyway, I have Time Warner cable.
NBC Universal Announces New Horror Channel
Source: NBC
NBC Universal Cable Entertainment today announced the launch of Chiller, a 24-hour entertainment cable channel dedicated to the horror genre. DIRECTV will be the first affiliate to carry the new network.
The announcement was made by Jeff Gaspin, President, NBC Universal Cable Entertainment, Digital Content and Cross Network Strategy.
"We continually look at our options for launching new networks," said Gaspin. "Horror is one of the most reliably successful genres in entertainment today and Chiller seems like a well-timed addition to our portfolio."
The new multi-platform channel will be offered as a triple pack service, which features a standard definition channel (SD), hi-definition simulcast channel (HD), and a video-on-demand (VOD) channel as well as broadband on demand offerings. Dan Harrison, Senior Vice President Emerging Networks, NBC Universal Cable Entertainment, will oversee day-to-day operations of Chiller. He also runs Sleuth and Universal HD under the Emerging Networks banner.
"DIRECTV is a valued partner of ours, has supported all of our services, and we are thrilled that they are the first affiliate to launch Chiller," said Bridget Baker, president, NBC Universal Television Networks Distribution. "We believe that Chiller and the horror genre is one that all of our affiliates will embrace."
Chiller will feature classic horror films and television shows around the clock. At launch, the programming slate will include the television series "Friday the 13th," "Twin Peaks," "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" and "Tales from the Crypt." Feature films in rotation will include The Shining, Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and The Birds, Sphere, The Stephen King mini-series "The Langoliers," Blade Runner, Believe, The Crew and The Unholy. The specific programming schedule for Chiller will be announced at a later date.
Bump.
Me too.