LOS ANGELES, April 4 (UPI) -- The Independent Film Channel has secured TV rights to the Independent Spirit Awards through 2009, Daily Variety reported Monday.
The paper said IFC parent company Rainbow Media Holdings, Inc. -- a subsidiary of the Cablevision Systems Corp. -- has also acquired rights for the AMC cable channel to air tape-delayed broadcasts of the annual independent movie awards through 2009. AMC currently airs awards shows for American Cinematheque and Premiere's Women in Hollywood.
The Independent Spirit Awards had been telecast on Bravo since 1990, then went to a new system in 1997, under which they were televised live over IFC and then rebroadcast in edited form on Bravo.
Bravo retained rights to the delayed telecast after NBC acquired it. Its contract expired last year.
