TORONTO – Ethnic Channels Group announced this week it has launched Schlager TV with Telus Optik TV.The channel focuses entirely on German-language pop and folk music, current artist news, greatest hits programs, as well as special events and concert performances. Schlager, which means ‘hits’, has been one of the most popular forms of German language music for decades and 90% of Schlager TV’s programming is popular folk music from Austria and Germany, says the press release.“The North American market offers great opportunities for a German-language music channel like Schlager TV. More than three million Canadians and fifty million Americans are...
