As of November 2023, Sundance is available to approximately 54,000,000 pay television households in the United States. The channel is named after Robert Redford's character in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. It originally operated mainly as a premium channel, commonly packaged with Showtime and its sister networks The Movie Channel and Flix. On May 7, 2008, Rainbow Media subsidiary of Cablevision, owners of rival network IFC, announced that it had purchased Sundance Channel for $496 million. On January 27, 2014, the channel would rebrand as Sundance TV on February 1, 2014.
last aired March 6th, 2013