AMC is a cable television network that primarily airs movies. The letters originally stood for American Movie Classics. However, since 2003, the full name has been deemphasized (as is the case for TLC, and formerly TNN) as a result of a major shift in programming. Some have surmised that the channel's acronym could now stand for American Movie Channel or All Movie Channel. AMC is owned by Rainbow Media Holdings, LLC, a subsidiary of Cablevision Systems Corporation, and signed on October 1, 1984. Image File history File links Amc-tv. ... is the 274th day of the year (275th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar). ... Rainbow Media, a subsidiary of Cablevision, is an entertainment company in the United States that owns the cable channels aMC, WE, fuse, Independent Film Channel, and several others. ... IFC logo The Independent Film Channel (IFC), launched in September, 1994, is a premium digital cable channel dedicated to presenting independent films, unedited and commercial-free. ... A standard DirecTV satellite dish with 1 LNB on a roof DirecTV (trademarked as DIRECTV) is a direct broadcast satellite (DBS) service based in El Segundo, California, USA, that transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States, the Caribbean and Latin America except for Mexico. ... DISH Network is a direct broadcast satellite (DBS) service that provides satellite television and audio programming to households and businesses in the United States, owned by parent company EchoStar Communications Corporation. ... StarChoice is Canadas second direct broadcast satellite television distributor (the other being Bell ExpressVu), and is majority-owned by cable TV operator Shaw Communications Inc. ... Capitol Building Baton Rouge is the capital of Louisiana, a state of the United States of America. ... Days Inn is a hotel chain headquartered in the United States. ... FiOS is a fiber to the premises (FTTP) telecommunications service offered in the United States by Verizon. ... Comcast Corporation, (NASDAQ: CMCSA) based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the largest cable company and the second largest Internet service provider in the United States. ... Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) is an American national cable television company that operates in 27 states and has 31 operating divisions. ... Charter Communications NASDAQ: CHTR is an American company providing cable television, HDTV, cable telephone, DVR, and broadband services over 6. ... Cox Enterprises is the successor to the publishing company founded at Dayton, Ohio, by James Middleton Cox, who began with the Dayton Daily News. ... For other uses, see Cablevision (disambiguation). ... The Bright House Networks logo. ... Shaw Communications Inc. ... Rogers Communications Inc. ... Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ... TLC is a cable TV network in the US and Canada, that carries a variety of informational and reality-based programming. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Backronym and Apronym (Discuss) Acronyms and initialisms are abbreviations, such as NATO, laser, and ABC, written as the initial letter or letters of words, and pronounced on the basis of this abbreviated written form. ... Rainbow Media, a subsidiary of Cablevision, is an entertainment company in the United States that owns the cable channels aMC, WE, fuse, Independent Film Channel, and several others. ... For other uses, see Cablevision (disambiguation). ... is the 274th day of the year (275th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar). ...

AMC was originally a premium cable channel that aired classic movies during the afternoons and early evenings, largely pre-1950s, in a commercial-free, generally unedited format. It was not uncommon for the channel to host a Marx Brothers marathon, or show such classics as the original Phantom of the Opera. In the early 1990's, the channel shifted to a 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week format. Premium television (sometimes pay television in North America) generally refers to a class of commercial-free television services which are available for subscription through cable and satellite television for fees much higher than traditional, packaged cable networks or specialty services. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... Groucho, Gummo, Minnie (mother), Zeppo, Frenchy (father), Chico and Harpo. ... The title character as depicted by Lon Chaney, Sr. ...

The network has since dramatically changed its programming, shifting from premium to basic cable, emphasizing more recent movies, adding a new logo, with a lowercase a (seen above at right) and using a new slogan: "TV For Movie People." With competitors such as Turner Classic Movies and Fox Movie Channel, AMC changed its format from a classic movie network to a broader movie network, airing movies from the 1970's onwards. Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is a cable television channel featuring commercial-free classic movies, mostly from the Turner Entertainment and Warner Bros. ... The Fox Movie Channel, formerly fxM, is a cable television channel that concentrates on showing movies uncut and commercial-free. ...

The commercial-free format has also been abandoned. AMC airs fewer classic movies than they did years ago. Currently, AMC claims to air fewer commercials per hour than any other basic cable channel. [1] As it is now an advertiser supported network, movies are edited for content. Whenever possible, the network television version of a movie is aired. ^[1]

From 1996 to 2003, before the format change, AMC aired its first original series, Remember WENN, a half-hour show about a radio station during the peak of radio's influence in the 1930s. The show was generally a success, and was originally renewed for a fifth season, but the change in management led to its abrupt cancellation in favor of a new show, The Lot. "The Lot" only lasted two seasons, at 16 episodes (a 4-episode run in 1999, and a 13-episode run in 2001), and was considered a failure, both in ratings and by critics. Remember WENN was a television series that aired from 1996 to 1998 on American Movie Classics. ... The Lot was a 30 minute drama series that aired for 2 seasons and 16 episodes on the American Movie Classics channel from 1999 to 2001. ...

One popular AMC program from 1998-2002 was American Pop!, which featured 50s and 60s movies aimed at baby boomers, such as Beach Blanket Bingo and Ski Party. Of particular interest to movie completists were the segments AMC played to fill out the time slot (Saturday nights from 10pm to midnight): classic movie trailers, drive-in movie ads and snipes (bits extolling viewers to visit the snack bar, etc.), plus music videos cribbed from musical movies from the period. A baby boom is defined as a period of increased birth rates relative to surrounding generations. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... Ski Party is a B-movie, directed by Alan Rafkin, and released in 1965 by American International Pictures (AIP). Almost all of Ski Party is set on the slopes, and not on the sand, and AIP mainstay Annette Funicello has a tiny role. ... Theatrical trailers are film advertisements for films that will be exhibited in the future at a cinema, on whose screen they are shown; they are commonly known as previews of coming attractions. ... Drive-in, a facility such as a bank, restaurant, theatre or even a church where one can literally drive in with an automobile for service. ... A Snipe in the motion picture exhibition business refers to two things: Any material during a show that is not a trailer for a film. ... A music video (also video clip, promo) is a short film or video meant to present a visual representation of a popular music song. ...

Another notable original series for AMC was AMC Backstory (2000-2002, 71 episodes, and 2004, 3 episodes), a half-hour series about the "backstory" (or behind the scenes look) at various movies, ranging from classic (All About Eve) to contemporary (There's Something About Mary). While glossy and somewhat more of a 22-minute trivia and anecdote session, it featured interviews with the cast and crew of the films, along with movie critics and film historians. Episodes dealing with films from 20th Century Fox can normally be found on the DVD release as well. For other uses, see All About Eve (disambiguation). ... Theres Something About Mary is an American film based on a real-life story released in 1998 by 20th Century Fox, directed by Bobby Farrelly and Peter Farrelly (the Farrelly brothers). ... Twentieth (20th) Century Fox Film Corporation (known from 1935 to 1985 as Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation) is one of the six major American film studios. ...

On Thursday, July 19, 2007, AMC's newest original series, Mad Men debuted at 10PM. The series airs Thursdays at 10PM. Mad Men is set in 1960 New York and is about the "Golden Age" of advertising. The series stars Angel co-star Vincent Kartheiser, Jon Hamm, John Slattery, Michael Gladis, Aaron Staton, Rich Sommer, Bryan Batt, Maggie Siff, Elisabeth Moss, Christina Hendricks, January Jones, and Rosemarie DeWitt. is the 200th day of the year (201st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is now the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... Mad Men is an upcoming TV series on AMC. Set in the 60s, it is about the advertising business. ... Vincent Paul Kartheiser (born May 5, 1979) is an American actor. ... Image: [1] Jonathan Edward Hamm (born October 8, 1981 in Rapid City,South Dakota) is a musician, producer and painter. ... John Slattery (born August 13, 1963, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American actor. ... Richard Olen Sommer II, (born February 2, 1978 in Toledo, Ohio), is an American actor, usually credited as Rich Sommer. ... Bryan Batt (born March 1, 1963 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American actor known mostly for his theater work, but he has had a number of starring roles in movies and television as well. ... American actress, Elisabeth Moss, in her role as Zoey Bartlet on The West Wing. ... Christina Hendricks as Saffron in Firefly Christina Hendricks (born May 3, 1978 in Knoxville, Tennessee) is an American actress. ... January Jones in a screenshot from film American Wedding January Jones (born January 5, 1978 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA) is an actress. ... Rosemarie DeWitt is an American actress. ...

In December 2006, The Hollywood Reporter reported that AMC was developing a series remake of the 1960s British TV series The Prisoner to run at least six to eight episodes, beginning in January 2008. AMC plans to re-air the original series at about the same time. [2] This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Prisoner is a 1967 UK allegorical science fiction television series, starring Patrick McGoohan. ...

In 1997, AMC started Monsterfest, a weeklong marathon of scary movies that airs in late October. The 10th edition started on October 22, 2006. AMC's website has started a Monsterfest blog [3], chronicling the latest horror news in movies and on television. In addition, late at night every Friday AMC presents Fear Friday, a horror movie double feature. is the 295th day of the year (296th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...

AMC officially became available in Canada for cable customers of Shaw Cable and satellite customers of StarChoice on September 1, 2006, marking the first time the network was made available outside of the United States. Rogers Cable followed suit on December 12, 2006. September 1 is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years). ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... is the 346th day of the year (347th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...

References

1. ^ AMC's FAQ

External links

• Official Site
• Official Site (Canada)