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Dec 3, 2012 · In 1982 the CRTC inaugurated a discretionary, pay-per-channel pay-television industry in the private sector. At one stroke 6 services were licensed - a national general-interest service (in English and French), 3 regional general-interest channels, a performing arts service, and a regional multilingual service.
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Global Television Network launches. 1975 English FM stereo network opens. Airing the Juno awards the first time on TV; 1976 CRTC becomes Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. The CBC is host broadcaster for the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. 1977 CRTC hearings on pay TV.
May 9, 2014 · Viewer's Choice Pay-Per-View launched in September of 1991. In Eastern Canada it was owned by Astral (same owners of Family Channel and First Choice). In Western Canada it was owned by Allarcom Pay-TV (Owners of Superchannel). They both used the same branding and shared Satellite transponder space.
Feb 1, 2023 · On February 1, 1983, Canada's first Pay TV channels arrived on the airwaves to great fanfare: Competing movie services First Choice and Superchannel offered subscribers blockbuster movies "uncut and commercial free" while the more refined C Channel offered more highbrow fare: world cinema, opera, theatre and concerts.
In 1958, the National Community Antenna Television Association of Canada (NCATAC) was launched. Around the same time, the movie company subsidiary Famous Players Canadian Corp. decided to experiment with the first pay TV system in Canada, planned for London, Ontario.
Pay television, also known as subscription television, premium television or, when referring to an individual service, a premium channel, [1] [2] [3] [4] refers to subscription-based television services, usually provided by multichannel television providers, but also increasingly via digital terrestrial and streaming television. In the United ...
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With the March 1991 acquisition of Allarcom Limited in Alberta, WIC picks up CITV Edmonton, CKRD Red Deer, Allarcom Superchannel Pay Television, and a stake in the Family Channel and becomes the largest private broadcaster in Canada with both radio and television holdings.
