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Videotron launches mobile TV channel Lib tv

MONTREAL – Videotron has launched what it says is the country’s first exclusively mobile TV channel.Called Lib tv, the French-language channel targets a “zany, edgy audience” for its “wacky, irreverent, informative and innovative programming” that includes of eight different shows including Nouvelles-Minute, a newscast that airs Monday through Friday.Lib tv is available now on free preview through June 26 to Videotron customers on illico mobile, illico web and illico TV (channel 900), and on all Android and iPhone handsets here. Videotron president and CEO Robert Dépatie teased the arrival of the new channel at the Canadian Telecom Summit last week...