TVO programming to be offered free and on-demand on Joost

TORONTO – TVO, Ontario’s public educational broadcaster, announced Wednesday it would be distributing its TV programming free and on-demand through Internet TV service Joost. “Partnering with Joost offers TVO new potential to expand our audience and increase the impact of our unique content in the borderless digital space,” said TVO Chief Executive Officer Lisa de Wilde. “Now more and more people in Canada will be able to discover, on demand, just how true we are to our vision of empowering citizens through educational media, and to our promise that TVO ‘makes you think’.” TVO will launch its Joost video channel...