Anthem Media plans to launch new channel, EdgeSport

TORONTO - Leonard Asper’s Anthem Media Group Inc. plans to launch EdgeSport, a sports channel featuring the best in extreme action programming.Anthem listed no timeline for the launch, which it mentioned in its submission to the CRTC’s TV Policy Review. EdgeSport will broadcast AMA Super Cross, World Snowboard Tour, and ASP Surfing, as well as the most important tournaments and leading events in these fields. The service will provide documentaries, films, athlete profiles and biographies – and will also be available in a multiplatform distribution.EdgeSport would be the third programming service for AMGI, a Canadian company that also owns Category...