Halogen TV
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Halogen TV is a television network
Television network
A television network is a telecommunications network for distribution of television program content, whereby a central operation provides programming to many television stations or pay TV providers. Until the mid-1980s, television programming in most countries of the world was dominated by a small...

 that airs feature-length films, documentaries
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

, short films, and original reality programs that center on making positive social changes and making the world a better place.

History

Halogen TV is an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 cable network
Cable network
A cable channel is a television channel available via cable television. Such channels are usually also available via satellite television, including direct broadcast satellite providers such as DirecTV, Dish Network and BSkyB...

 that launched at midnight on October 24, 2009, replacing i-Lifetv. The channel has over 14 million households nationwide with a mixture of original and exclusively licensed content including comedies, dramas, documentaries and magazine shows.

Halogen is available in both standard-definition and high-definition
High-definition television
High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...

. The channel launched in HD on June 21, 2010. AT&T Uverse added the channel in HD on August 2, 2010.

Halogen has also launched a 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...

 platform in over 7 million homes on January 1, 2010.

Current programming

  • Angry Planet
    Angry Planet
    Angry Planet is a 39 part television series broadcast around the world featuring the adventures of storm chaser George Kourounis, Angry Planet is produced by Peter Rowe of Pinewood Films...

  • Art Race
  • Behind the Label
  • Boardfree
  • Departures
  • Extreme Dreams
    Extreme Dreams With Ben Fogle
    Extreme Dreams is a reality TV progamme made by the independent British production company Ricochet and hosted by Ben Fogle...

  • Fink
  • Food Jammers
    Food Jammers
    Food Jammers is a cooking show featuring Micah Donovan, Chris Martin, and Nobu Adilman; three backyard mechanics who make homebrew cooking equipment using junkyard parts, found objects, and locally sourced ingredients...

  • Invisible Children
    Invisible Children
    Invisible Children: Rough Cut is a 2003 American documentary film. Its subject is the abduction and forced enlistment of children by the sectarian Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda.-Synopsis:...

  • Jump Shipp (Original)
  • Noble Exchange (Original)
  • Penny Revolution
  • ReGenesis
    ReGenesis
    ReGenesis is a Canadian television program produced by The Movie Network and Movie Central in conjunction with Shaftesbury Films. The series, which ran for four seasons, revolves around the scientists of NorBAC , a fictional organization with a lab based in Toronto...

  • Serve the City
  • Tainted Love (Original)
  • The Un-Road Trip
    The Un-Road Trip
    The Un-Road Trip is an American reality television series featuring Boaz Frankel, a Portland, Oregon resident, as he travels 12,000 miles across North America using 101 non-gas powered modes of transportation. Most of the show was filmed over a 10-week period beginning in April 2009...


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