AMC/Sundance Channel Signs Carriage Deals With Liberty in Belgium, Hungary, Romania

2:44 AM PST 3/5/2012 by Scott Roxborough

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The channel, which carries AMC's "Mad Men" and "The Walking Dead" expands its reach by 1.4 million homes in Europe.

COLOGNE, Germany - AMC/Sundance Channel Global inked a series of deals with subsidies of John Malone's cable giant Liberty Global that will add a further 1.4 million homes to Sundance's European footprint.

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The carriage agreements include new deals with Hungary's UPC, Focus Sat in Romania and an expanded deal with Belgian broadband group Telenet.

AMC/Sundance, which carries such hit AMC series as Mad Men and The Walking Dead as well as independent films and documentaries, recently signed a similar deal with Liberty subsidiary Film1 in the Netherlands.

Monday's announcement comes ahead of industry confab, the European cable congress, which runs from March 7-9 in Brussels.