Rewind (TV channel)
[1] In November 2000, Channel Zero (through its subsidiary known at the time as Late Night Vidiots) was granted approval by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to launch a channel called Movieola, described as "a national English-language Category 2 specialty television service dedicated to the broadcast of short films ranging in length from 30 seconds to 40 minutes."[2] The channel was launched on September 7, 2001 as Movieola, specializing in short film content in various genres such as animation, comedy, and drama.Due to Stornoway's reluctance to rehire the employees, the deal was severed in April and the four founding members decided to run Movieola alone.In June 2007, Movieola signed a deal with Joost, agreeing to provide short film content to the online TV service.In an interview with C21 Media in November 2011, Cal Millar, Channel Zero's President and COO, revealed the company's intentions of possibly shifting the channel's focus away from exclusively airing short film content, citing "short film hasn’t translated as well as we’d have liked it to on TV.”[8] On September 25, 2012 at the annual Canadian Cable Systems Alliance Conference in Huntsville, Ontario, Millar announced that Channel Zero would be shuttering Movieola on December 1, 2012 and move it to an exclusively online brand through Hulu in the United States and an app in Canada.