Ovation is an independent television and digital media company dedicated to celebrating and supporting all forms of arts and culture. Ovation selectively curates and airs arts-related series, specials, documentaries and films. The television network also offers viewers a lineup of original productions.
Ovation is available to nearly 50M subscribers via cable, satellite and telco systems, including Comcast Cable/Xfinity, DIRECTV, Time Warner Cable, Verizon FiOS, AT&T U-verse, Charter Communications, Bright House Networks, and many other smaller providers and is offered in both standard and high definition, as well as on video on demand.
Stand For The Arts, Ovation's signature arts advocacy campaign, is a national initiative to raise awareness, protect access and encourage action on behalf of the arts.
Ovation is dedicated to protecting and preserving access to the arts. Ovation advocates for the creative community in two ways:
Stand For The Arts Coalition: A partnership of arts organizations across the country who stand in solidarity to protect access to the arts. This coalition gives a platform to important creative stories and empowers our audience to contact their legislators, urge support of the arts, and make their voices heard.
Stand For The Arts Award: A partnership of Ovation and Spectrum, the Stand For The Arts Award highlights exceptional arts organizations across the country that are engaged in innovative and dynamic work while preserving access to the arts for all communities.
Ovation has also provided more than $15M in contributions and in-kind support to arts institutions and arts education locally and nationally through the Ovation Foundation. The Ovation Foundation launched in 2014 to provide a focus for Ovation's philanthropic, advocacy, and educational initiatives. Since its founding, the foundation has supported nonprofit arts organizations across the country in the areas of artistic placemaking, STEAM education, and the Creative Economy.
Ovation is a privately held, independent cable network. Ovation's investors include Hubbard Media Group, Corporate Partners II, Arcadia Investment Partners, Perry Capital, and The Weinstein Company.
As of February 2015, approximately 54 million households (46.4% of those with television) receive Ovation.
Video Ovation (U.S. TV channel)
History
The channel was launched in 1997 and relaunched in June 2007, coinciding with its addition by DirecTV, which gave the channel full national coverage. In 2008, Ovation also became available on Dish Network. With the relaunch, Ovation TV claimed an "energetic" new look and a new primetime schedule revolving around "genre nights" dedicated to performance, people, art, music and film. On March 1, 2010, the channel dropped the "TV" from its name in a rebranding effort.
Carriage
On December 18, 2012, Time Warner Cable announced plans to remove Ovation from its own systems as well as those operated by Bright House Networks (for which TWC negotiates carriage agreements). Time Warner Cable and Bright House dropped Ovation at midnight Eastern Time on December 31, 2012. The two providers later reached an agreement to resume carriage of Ovation on October 16, 2013, reinstating the channel on TWC and Bright House systems on January 1, 2014.
On April 6, 2015, Dish Network removed it from the lineup.
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Ovation NOW
Ovation NOW is its TV-everywhere app and features live TV as well as a full video-on-demand experience. Ovation NOW is available on Roku, Apple devices running iOS or tvOS 10.0 or later, and Android devices running Android 4.4 or later.
Programming
Ovation programming is a mix of original and selectively curated television series, films, documentaries and specials, targeting a multi-generational audience.
In 2013, Ovation gained national attention when it announced the exclusive US premiere of a A Young Doctor's Notebook, a four-part scripted series starring Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe, and launched the exclusive US premiere of The Artful Detective, (known in Canada and elsewhere as Murdoch Mysteries), now in its seventh season, with season 8 premiering in February 2015. In 2013, the network also premiered The Art Of which returns with season 4 in 2015.
Ovation has expanded its line-up with the docu-series, Big Ballet, featuring former Royal Ballet dancer Wayne Sleep as he assembles a troupe of plus-size dancers to perform Swan Lake.
Original series premiering in 2014 included The Fashion Fund, starring Anna Wintour and Diane Von Furstenberg, Capture, wherein celebrity photographer Mark Seliger and other legendary shooters sit with A-list celebrities to share the stories behind their indelible images, Young Marvels, highlighting the artistic achievements made by young people in dance, music, Trending Trailers, with celebrity interviews and previews of upcoming films and "Touching the Art," a comedic web series panel show focused on contemporary art hosted by Casey Jane Ellison.
Returning series in 2014 included The Fashion Fund (season 2), A Young Doctor's Notebook (season 2) and the Song by Song franchise, highlighting the stories behind the most popular hits by Sheryl Crow, Blondie, and Lindsey Stirling.
In 2015, Ovation premiered the new reality show Art Breakers. Art Breakers steps inside the high-stakes world of art collecting. Powerhouse dealers Miller Gaffney and Carol Lee Brosseau deploy their vast knowledge to curate the most enviable collections for demanding patrons. On November 9, Ovation will be the exclusive home to NOW: In the Wings on a World Stage, Kevin Spacey and Sam Mendes' documentary following Spacey's theater company as they take their production of "Richard III" around the world, with Spacey in the lead role. Weekday mornings on Ovation are anchored by Morning Canvas, a daily offering of artistic inspiration with host Nikki Boyer.
Ovation debuted the U.S. premiere of international drama series Versailles on October 1, 2016.
Current programming:
- Versailles
- X Company
- Murdoch Mysteries (The Artful Detective)
- The Halcyon
- The Art of
- Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
- The Tudors
- Boston Legal
- Andre Rieu: Welcome to My World
- Boston Legal
- Antiques Roadshow
Former programming:
- Firefly
- Robin Hood
- Smash (TV series)
Executive team
- Chairman: Ken Solomon
- CEO: Charles Segars
- CFO: Phil Gilligan
- General Counsel: Robert Rader
- EVP, Network Strategy: Liz Janneman
- EVP, Content Distribution: John Malkin
- EVP, Programming & Production: Scott Woodward
- Senior VP, Marketing and On Air Promotions: David Widerøe
- VP, Business Development: William Marks
References
External links
- Official website
- Facebook,
- Twitter,
- Instagram,
- YouTube,
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