{"id":20288,"date":"2023-10-16T05:34:04","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T09:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/blue-ant-media-expands-partnership-samsung-tv-plus\/"},"modified":"2023-10-16T12:05:37","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T16:05:37","slug":"blue-ant-media-expands-partnership-with-samsung-tv-plus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/blue-ant-media-expands-partnership-with-samsung-tv-plus\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Ant Media Expands Partnership with Samsung TV Plus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Ant Media has expanded its partnership with Samsung TV Plus, with deals for three of its channels to become available in additional territories.<\/p>\n<p>Its renovation and design-focused channel, Homeful, is now available to Samsung TV Plus users in the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand, after launching in Mexico and Brazil last week. The channel lineup includes over 200 hours of Mike Holmes\u2019 library of original series.<\/p>\n<p>Additional Homeful programming includes<em> Sarah Off the Grid<\/em>, <em>Coolest Places to Stay<\/em>, <em>Brojects<\/em> and <em>Moving the McGillivrays<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The paranormal-themed channel HauntTV has launched in the U.S. after becoming available to viewers in Canada, the U.K., Australia and New Zealand last year. The programming lineup includes <em>Haunted Gold Rush<\/em>, <em>Hotel Paranormal<\/em>, <em>Ghost Chasers<\/em>, <em>Ghostly Encounters<\/em>, <em>World\u2019s Scariest Hauntings<\/em> and <em>Paranormal Survivor<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Ant Media\u2019s pet-focused channel, Love Pets, has launched in the U.K., the Netherlands and Nordic countries, including Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Love Pets features <em>Bondi Vet<\/em>, <em>Vet on the Hill<\/em>, <em>ER Vets<\/em>, <em>The Bizarre Pet Vets<\/em> and <em>Hope For Wildlife<\/em>, among others.<\/p>\n<p>These channels further Blue Ant Media\u2019s distribution with Samsung TV Plus, which already carries Love Nature in the U.S. and Primetime in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlue Ant Media is thrilled to expand our partnership with Samsung TV Plus,\u201d said Jamie Schouela, president of global channels and media at Blue Ant Media. \u201cWe\u2019re excited to add to our existing lineup of channels on one of the leading FAST platforms and now bring HauntTV\u2019s stories of the unexplained, Homeful\u2019s renovation and real estate series and Love Pets\u2019 animal programming to their audiences in multiple countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis deal combines carriage of Blue Ant Media\u2019s channels with a multiyear content output from our distribution business and is a perfect example of the types of creative solutions and broad partnerships that we can offer,\u201d said Mark Bishop, co-president at Blue Ant Studios. \u201cWe\u2019re committed to being a trusted source of content with must-see programming that taps into our company\u2019s original productions as well as our premium, acquired content.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Ant Media has expanded its partnership with Samsung TV Plus, with deals for three of its channels to become available in additional territories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":20289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[345,5274,6414,6853,7133,8519,4518],"class_list":["post-20288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-blue-ant-media","tag-haunttv","tag-homeful","tag-jamie-schouela","tag-love-pets","tag-mark-bishop","tag-samsung-tv-plus","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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