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     • Although undertaken experimentally in Etobicoke, Ontario, between 1960 and 1965, pay television as a major venture was licensed only in March 1982, after a decade of debate.
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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.

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   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.

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   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.

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   Pay television has become popular with cable and satellite television. Pay television services often, at least two to three times per year, provide free previews of their services, in order to court potential subscribers by allowing this wider audience to sample the service for a period of days or weeks; these are typically scheduled to ...

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   Dec 25, 2023 · Originally aired April 26, 1981 | Canada was a few years behind the U.S. in getting pay TV channels like HBO, and many weren’t sure how many people would sub...

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   When was the first pay TV system invented in Canada?

   • 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.

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   Does Canada have pay TV?

   • While Canada had its first satellite television several years prior and already had experience in pay TV in the long-running Etobicoke trial, the industry remained unable to secure approval for pay TV in Canada.

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   What is pay television?

   • Pay television, also known as subscription television, premium television or, when referring to an individual service, a premium channel, refers to subscription -based television services, usually provided by multichannel television providers, but also increasingly via digital terrestrial and streaming television.

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   When did pay television start?

   • Although undertaken experimentally in Etobicoke, Ontario, between 1960 and 1965, pay television as a major venture was licensed only in March 1982, after a decade of debate. Although undertaken experimentally in Etobicoke, Ontario, between 1960 and 1965, pay television as a major venture was licensed only in March 1982, after a decade of debate.

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   When did Canadian television start?

   • This helped spur development of a specifically Canadian television programming and transmission system during the late 1940s and early 1950s, but at the same time caused it to develop within American technical standards that had been previously mandated by the Federal Communications Commission between 1941 and 1946.

   Television in Canada - Wikipedia

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   How did American television become popular in Canada?

   • U.S. television programs and the networks that originated them thus became popular in those Canadian cities within range of their signals, and those cities represented a sizeable proportion of the total Canadian population.

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    Television in Canada officially began with the sign-on of the nation's first television stations in Montreal and Toronto in 1952.