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Ethnic Channels Group: How investing in the risks of being a small broadcaster is paying off with global growth

Nextologies is changing the economics of signal transportSLAVA LEVIN WANTS to show me something.We walk through his new building in Markham, past his master control which now offers 107 TV channels to Canadian distributors (making ECG the largest broadcaster in Canada, by number of channels), past one of his studios where a Canadian Filipino-language talk show is being shot, and through a tech-cluttered storage area to a set of tight, narrow stairs and then a ladder.We’re now on the roof among 27 satellite dishes pointed out to the present and future of far lower-cost signal transport than the TV world...