OTTAWA – The CRTC has given the green light to four new broadcasting licences for category two specialty television services.
The Family Channel received approval for ‘Family Extreme’, a national, English-language service that will offer programming from around the world devoted to entertainment, humour, travel, games, science and technology and targeted toward children aged 6 to 17 years and their families.
Fairchild Television was granted licences for ‘Fairchild Television II’ and ‘Talentvision II’, two national, third-language general interest ethnic services which promise to offer information and entertainment in the Cantonese and Mandarin language, respectively.
‘Music India 2 Television’ also received Commission approval. The national, third-language niche ethnic service that will broadcast predominantly in the Hindi language will be devoted to music videos and music-related content. The licence was granted to Surjit S. Gill, on behalf of a corporation to be incorporated.
