Fearnet is a cable channel, website and Video on Demand

Video on demand

Video on Demand or Audio and Video On Demand are systems which allow users to select and watch/listen to video or audio content on demand...

 television service owned by Horror Entertainment LLC, a joint venture

Joint venture

A joint venture is a business agreement in which parties agree to develop, for a finite time, a new entity and new assets by contributing equity. They exercise control over the enterprise and consequently share revenues, expenses and assets...

 between Comcast

Comcast

Comcast Corporation is the largest cable operator, home Internet service provider, and fourth largest home telephone service provider in the United States, providing cable television, broadband Internet, and telephone service to both residential and commercial customers in 39 states and the...

, Lions Gate Entertainment

Lions Gate Entertainment

Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation is a North American entertainment company. The company was formed in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1997, and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California...

, and Sony Pictures Entertainment

Sony Pictures Entertainment

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. It launched on October 31, 2006.

Despite Comcast's acquisition of NBCUniversal in January 2011, Fearnet remains a separate entity of Comcast and its two other owners.

Fearnet.com

The site features horror, thriller, and suspense films and videos, trailers, and shorts. There are also message boards and chats. The website currently has over 170,000 registered users who participate in games, chats and community online. Streamed content is updated weekly.

Fearnet On Demand

It is currently available On Demand

Video on demand

Video on Demand or Audio and Video On Demand are systems which allow users to select and watch/listen to video or audio content on demand...

 on Comcast

Comcast

Comcast Corporation is the largest cable operator, home Internet service provider, and fourth largest home telephone service provider in the United States, providing cable television, broadband Internet, and telephone service to both residential and commercial customers in 39 states and the...

, Cox Communications

Cox Communications

Cox Communications is a privately owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises providing digital cable television, telecommunications and wireless services in the United States...

, Verizon FiOS

Verizon FiOS

Verizon FiOS is a bundled Internet access, telephone, and television service which operates over a fiber-optic communications network. It is offered in some areas of the United States by Verizon Communications. Verizon was one of the first major U.S...

, AT&T U-verse, Insight Communications

Insight Communications

Insight Communications is the 13th largest multiple system operator in the United States with approximately 692,000 customers in the three contiguous states of Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio...

, Bresnan Communications

Bresnan Communications

Optimum West is a division of Cablevision that operates in the Rocky Mountain area, servicing Montana, Wyoming, Utah and Colorado. It offers digital cable, high speed internet, and digital voice services to over 300,000 subscribers....

, Guadalupe Valley Systems, Buckeye CableSystem

Buckeye CableSystem

Buckeye CableSystem, formerly known as The CableSystem until the 1990s, is a cable company located in Toledo, Ohio and serves Northwest Ohio and parts of Southeast Michigan...

, and Time Warner Cable

Time Warner Cable

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.

Fearnet HD

Fearnet launched a high definition linear television channel known as Fearnet HD on October 31, 2010. Fearnet originally planned on launching on October 1, but the date was moved back due to their failure to reach any carriage agreements. Verizon FiOS was one the first carriers to add the linear Fearnet in December 2010, but still does not carry it in HD. Comcast added the channel to select markets in April 2011. Time Warner Cable launched it on May 11, 2011.

Sponsorships

Fearnet supported the US Tour of the British Extreme metal

Extreme metal

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 band Cradle of Filth

Cradle of Filth

Cradle of Filth are an English extreme metal band, formed in Suffolk in 1991. The band's musical style evolved from black metal to a cleaner and more "produced" amalgam of gothic metal, symphonic black metal, and other extreme metal styles, while their lyrical themes and imagery are heavily...

, which started his Tour 2011 under the title "Fearnet and Decibel Presents: Creatures From The Black Abyss Tour" with Nachtmystium

Nachtmystium

Nachtmystium is an American psychedelic black metal band formed by Blake Judd, formerly known as Azentrius, and Pat McCormick. The band's name is derived from the German word Nacht meaning "night", and the made-up term mystium which resembles the Latin adjective mysticum...

, Turisas

Turisas

Turisas is a Finnish folk metal band from Hämeenlinna. It was founded in 1997 by Mathias Nygård and Jussi Wickström and named after an ancient Finnish God of war....

 and Daniel Lioneye.

Original programs

Fearnet will launch its first original series Holliston, in the spring of 2012. The show stars Adam Green

Adam Green (filmmaker)

- Background :Adam Green was raised in Holliston, Massachusetts and after finishing high school he graduated from Hofstra University in New York.Green’s very first job out of college was producing and directing local commercials for cable in the Boston area....

 and Joe Lynch

Joe Lynch (director)

Joe Lynch is an American film director and music video director, cinematographer, and film actor.-Life and career:His directorial debut in feature film was 2007's Wrong Turn 2: Dead End, which starred Henry Rollins, Erica Leerhsen, and Texas Battle....

 as two college graduates chasing the dream of becoming successful horror movie filmmakers while struggling to make ends meet in their jobs at a Boston

Boston

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cable access station.