{"id":6557,"date":"2015-09-14T21:36:55","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T01:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/?p=6557"},"modified":"2015-09-15T09:34:24","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T13:34:24","slug":"preview-the-dove-channel-is-a-faith-and-family-friendly-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/2015\/09\/preview-the-dove-channel-is-a-faith-and-family-friendly-netflix.html","title":{"rendered":"Preview: Dove Channel is a family and faith-friendly Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s today\u2019s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Dove Channel | Family Faith Dove Foundation Approved Streaming\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bllt6YtD9p4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Positively different.<\/strong> Debuting tomorrow (Tuesday, 9\/15), the joint venture between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dove.org\/\">The Dove Foundation<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinedigm.com\/\">Cinedigm<\/a> is a direct-to-consumer over-the-top (OTT) digital network for families and kids seeking quality family-friendly content.<\/p>\n<p>Dove Channel will feature newly acquired and original programming, as well as offerings from Cinedigm&#8217;s vast library of family and faith-friendly content.<\/p>\n<p>Talking about the service&#8217;s slate of streamed programming, Dove Channel CEO Dick Rolfe says &#8220;We know families everywhere are hungry for Dove-approved content and we are thrilled to be offering such a robust curated selection on this channel&#8230;and, in keeping with our promise to deliver a wide array of faith and family-friendly entertainment choices, our initial list is expansive in its scope and diverse in its subject matter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cinedigm Entertainment Group President\u00a0Bill Sondheim notes that &#8220;The Cinedigm team has a long and successful track record acquiring quality family and faith content that has inspired and influenced tens of millions of consumers. He adds &#8220;We have entered an exciting new era where audiences have easy access to numerous programming options and we are confident that our platform and robust content offering with Dove&#8217;s rigorous rating system will be extremely beneficial to this deserving audience<i>.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>In addition to a vast library of movies, the channel will carry several family-oriented TV series (i.e. <em>Highway to Heaven, Swiss Family Robinson <\/em>and<em> The Adventures of Black Beauty<\/em>) and kids shows (i.e. <em>Veggie Tales<\/em>, <em>Fraggle Rock<\/em> and <em>Davey &amp; Goliath<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>The Dove Foundation is known for its ratings system, which has the participation of all major studios and hundreds of independent distributors and producers. Dove&#8217;s research has shown that its endorsed films are three times more profitable than non-endorsed films. All content released on the channel will meet the stringent guidelines of the Dove Seal in order to be programmed on the Dove Channel.<\/p>\n<p>Cinedigm is a leader in the quickly evolving digital entertainment ecosystem as it leverages its infrastructure, technology, content and distribution expertise in launching a series of branded digital channels. Cinedigm&#8217;s first channel, DOCURAMA, launched in May 2014, and currently offers over 800 documentaries in an AVOD format. Cinedigm launched CONtv, a Comic Con-branded channel in partnership with WIZARD WORLD, on March 3, 2015. Adding to Cinedigm&#8217;s diversified portfolio of digital networks, in early 2015 the Company announced an OTT partnership with TV4 Entertainment and the planned launch of the BRIGHT edu-tainment OTT channel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> Tomorrow I&#8217;ll be posting an interview with Dove Foundation President and Co-Founder Dick Rolfe.<\/p>\n<p><em>Encourage one another and build each other up \u2013 <\/em><strong>1 Thessalonians 5:11<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s today\u2019s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Positively different. Debuting tomorrow (Tuesday, 9\/15), the joint venture between The Dove Foundation and Cinedigm is a direct-to-consumer over-the-top (OTT) digital network for families and kids seeking quality family-friendly content. Dove Channel will feature newly acquired and original programming, as well as offerings from&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13,24,30,31,1],"tags":[35,8698,6516,8707,8701,8702,8697,8708,8704,2034,4607,8706,8705,8709,1491,8699,8703,8700],"class_list":["post-6557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-family-matters","category-movies","category-technology","category-television","category-uncategorized","tag-1-thessalonians-511","tag-bright-edu-tainment-ott-channel","tag-cinedigm","tag-cinedigm-entertainment-group-president-bill-sondheim","tag-contv","tag-davey-goliath","tag-docurama","tag-dove-channel-ceo-dick-rolfe","tag-fraggle-rock","tag-highway-to-heaven","tag-netflix","tag-swiss-family-robinson","tag-the-adventures-of-black-beauty","tag-the-dove-channel","tag-the-dove-foundation","tag-tv4-entertainment","tag-veggie-tales","tag-wizard-world-comic-con"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Preview: Dove Channel is a family and faith-friendly Netflix<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/2015\/09\/preview-the-dove-channel-is-a-faith-and-family-friendly-netflix.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Preview: Dove Channel is a family and faith-friendly Netflix\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here\u2019s today\u2019s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. 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