The History of Canadian BroadcastingIn 2003, the CRTC awarded a licence to Ethnic Channels Group to operate a specialty channel known as Ukrainian TV One. In 2004, the channel became known as Inter+. It was rebranded as Channel 5 in September of 2005, 1+1 International in 2006 and then Tonis, in 2008. Because of low subscriptions, the channel was […]
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While licensed as a digital channel in 2000, Teletoon Retro remained an element in the parent Teletoon Channel until 2007, when it was launched on October 1st as a separate entity. The channel offered classic cartoons at least ten years old, including such favourites as Fat Albert, Superfriends, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Bugs Bunny, the Flintstones, Scooby-Doo and […]
Current Station Group: Bell Media Inc. Previous Station Group(s): Astral Media Inc, Bell Media Inc, Corus Entertainment Inc. Teletoon, a channel established to present animated film and tape productions, was originally licensed in 1996 to a group consisting of Astral Communications, WIC, YTV, Cinar and Nelvana. A subsequent ownership realignment gave 40% ownership to Corus Entertainment, 40% to […]
While Telelatino is primarily a digital channel, it is available on analogue in parts of Ontario and Quebec. The channel, known as TLN, was launched in 1984 and is licensed to provide a national program service in Italian, Spanish, English and French. 100% of the programming is required to serve an ethnocultural audience, with a minimum […]
In November 2000, Network Television International was licensed to operate a new cable specialty channel to be known as NTI Tamil Service, and the channel was launched in 2001. In April 2002, Network Television International became a wholly-owned subsidiary of MediaNet Canada Ltd., a company owned 51% by Peethambaran Koneswaran and 49% by Philip Koneswaran. It […]
Tamil Vision Inc was licensed in 2001 to operate a digital national ethnic service speciality channel, directed toward a Tamil-speaking audience. The new service was to be known as the Tamil Channel, a name earlier held by South Asian Television but later relinquished by them and utilized by Tamil Vision. www.tamilvision.com Ownership: Tamil Vision Inc Start Year: 2001
Having begun some years earlier as a local B.C. speciality channel, Talentvision was eventually licensed in 2001 to operate as a national service in the Mandarin language, under the ownership of Fairchild Media Group. Programming imported from both mainland China and Taiwan was augmented with locally-produced news and information programming. www.talentvision.com Ownership: Fairchild Media Group Start Year: 1998
In December 2000, Ravinder Singh Pannu, on behalf of a company to be incorporated, was granted a cable specialty channel licence for a service to be known as SSTV (Sur Sagar TV) , which would provide a national ethnic serviceto be “dedicated to programming that focuses on Punjabi religious teachings and religion: music dance and […]