OTTAWA-GATINEAU – The stroller and drool set may soon have a high definition home of their own.
The CRTC Thursday granted a category two digital specialty service license for a channel called BabyHD to High Fidelity HDTV.
HiFi HDTV owns and operates all HD channels Rush HD, Equator HD, Treasure HD and Oasis HD.
The commercial-free service will feature educational and entertainment programming targeted to infants and toddlers younger than three years of age. Programs would also provide expert advice or information regarding infants and toddlers, targeted to parents and caregivers of infants and toddlers, says the decision.
As chronicled here by Cartt.ca in August, HiFi HDTV is in a bit of a race with Rogers for permission to offer a special high-def channel to babies. While the Commission today approved the new Canadian license, it did not mention the Rogers application to bring a foreign all-baby channel, Baby TV, to the eligible satellite list.
