OTTAWA – Rogers wants a French language sports channel, while Stingray Digital Group hopes to add to its musical collection with a new channel called Concert TV, according to 36 new broadcasting applications made public by the CRTC on Wednesday.
Sports d’intérêt général de Rogers, will be, as the name suggests, a national, general-interest French-language Category 2 channel, according to the application. Stingray’s Concert TV would be devoted to contemporary and classical music concerts from a wide variety of music genres offered in SD, HD and 3-D, once readily available.
Other applications of interest include one from FreeHD Canada for a national video-on-demand service that would air “top blockbuster movies, film festival nominations and winning documentaries”, plus a number of applications by Bhupinder Bola, on behalf of a corporation to be incorporated, for new ethnic channels.
The non-appearing hearing to consider these applications will be held on May 17 and interventions are due by April 15, 2011.
