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CTV Go app now supports Google Chromecast

TORONTO — CTV announced today its CTV Go service now works with Google Chromecast, making it the first TV Everywhere product from a Canadian broadcaster to support Chromecast functionality.Chromecast is a thumb-sized media streaming device that plugs into the HDMI port on TVs. Using the Chromecast device, viewers can “cast” the CTV Go app and CTV programming onto a television from Android and iOS phones and tablets, Windows or Mac laptops using Chrome browsers, or Chromebooks.In a Bell Media news release, Suveer Kothari, Google’s director of Chromecast partnerships, is quoted as saying, “We’re excited to have CTV as the first...