Videotron combines TV, Internet into new service; Astral, Stingray jump on board

MONTREAL – Videotron has married its television and Internet services to produce a new streaming service called illico web.The web broadband service is available free of charge to all Videotron digital television subscribers with a Videotron Internet connection. Offering access to 32 television channels and hundreds of hours of programming in French and English, the company said that it will make regular programming additions in order to expand the service into a mirror of its illico digital TV package.Available at illicoweb.tv, the service offers similar functionality to subscription video-on-demand enabling subscribers to rewind, play, pause and review title descriptions. Subscribers will...