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OUTtv is a Canadian category 1 digital cable specialty channel with lifestyle and general entertainment programming for LGBT audiences. Image File history File links OUTtv. ...
Digital cable is a term for a type of cable digital television that delivers more channels than possible with analog cable by using digital video compression. ...
A specialty channel or specialty service is a television channel, generally not available through conventional broadcast television, which consists of programming focused on a single type or targeted at a specific demographic. ...
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Shavick Entertainment is a Canadian film and television production company. ...
Pink Triangle Press is a Canadian non-profit organization which publishes the gay magazines Xtra!, Xtra! West and Capital Xtra!. It also operates an online guide to cruising, or sex in semi-public locations, for men seeking sex with men, and is a minority shareholder in Canadas HARDtv and...
Peace Point Entertainment Group is a privately held Canadian production and entertainment company based in Toronto, Ontario. ...
Score Media Inc. ...
April 12 is the 102nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (103rd in leap years). ...
2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Category 1 channels are Canadian television channels defined by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission that must be carried by all digital cable and direct broadcast satellite providers that have the capability to do so. ...
Digital cable is a term for a type of cable digital television that delivers more channels than possible with analog cable by using digital video compression. ...
A specialty channel or specialty service is a television channel, generally not available through conventional broadcast television, which consists of programming focused on a single type or targeted at a specific demographic. ...
LGBT (or GLBT) is an initialism used as a collective term to refer to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender people. ...
OUTtv's licensee is 6166954 Canada Inc. which is 52% owned by Shavick Entertainment, 23% owned by Pink Triangle Press, 15% owned by Peace Point Entertainment Group and 10% owned by Score Media Inc. Shavick Entertainment is a Canadian film and television production company. ...
Pink Triangle Press is a Canadian non-profit organization which publishes the gay magazines Xtra!, Xtra! West and Capital Xtra!. It also operates an online guide to cruising, or sex in semi-public locations, for men seeking sex with men, and is a minority shareholder in Canadas HARDtv and...
Peace Point Entertainment Group is a privately held Canadian production and entertainment company based in Toronto, Ontario. ...
Score Media Inc. ...
History OUTtv was licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission on March 4, 2005 as a result of the current majority owner at the time, William Craig, wanting to split PrideVision off into 2 separate channels after acquiring PrideVision from Headline Media Group Inc. The new service, OUTtv, will take over the day-to-day programming of PrideVision including programming such as feature films, documentaries, talk shows, dramas, and more as well as its category 1 status, while PrideVision will become a 24/7 LGBT adult entertainment subscription based station and a category 2 channel with a new name HARD on PrideVision. This split was done in order to secure better cable distribution for the general interest programming because cable distributors were often offering PrideVision as a standalone channel at a price much higher then other category 1 status channels because of PrideVision's adult content. The expected launch date was set to April 7, 2005, but the new channel went on the air on April 12 due to difficulties with digital cable and satellite providers. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC, in French Conseil de la radiodiffusion et des télécommunications canadiennes) was established in 1968 by the Canadian Parliament to replace the Board of Broadcast Governors. ...
March 4 is the 63rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (64th in leap years). ...
2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
William (Bill) Craig is a Canadian broadcaster. ...
PrideVision or HARD on PrideVision is a Canadian category 2 subscription based television channel available through satellite and digital cable. ...
For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as...
Documentary film is a broad category of cinematic expression united by the intent to remain factual or non-fictional. ...
A talk show (U.S.) or chat show (Brit. ...
This article refers to the art form. ...
Category 1 channels are Canadian television channels defined by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission that must be carried by all digital cable and direct broadcast satellite providers that have the capability to do so. ...
LGBT (or GLBT) is an initialism used as a collective term to refer to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender people. ...
Adult entertainment is entertainment restricted from people under a specified age in by a community, religious group, or government. ...
Category 2 channels are Canadian television channels defined by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission which may be carried, optionally, by all digital cable television and direct broadcast satellite providers. ...
April 7 is the 97th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (98th in leap years). ...
2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
April 12 is the 102nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (103rd in leap years). ...
Distribution As a category 1 television service, it is mandatory for all digital cable and direct broadcast satellite providers in Canada to carry the channel that have the capicaty to do so. Category 1 channels are Canadian television channels defined by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission that must be carried by all digital cable and direct broadcast satellite providers that have the capability to do so. ...
Digital cable is a term for a type of cable digital television that delivers more channels than possible with analog cable by using digital video compression. ...
Direct broadcast satellite (DBS) is a term used to refer to satellite television broadcasts intended for home reception, also referred to as direct-to-home signals. ...
The channel was dealing with problems with digital cable provider Shaw Communications, since they wanted OUTtv to be a standalone channel with a price of $7 to $9 a month, twelve times higher than any other Category 1 channel. There was also a setback with satellite provider Bell ExpressVu (owned by Bell Canada) as they try to constrain the distribution of OUTtv compared to other category 1 channels. Both providers control up to 70% of Canada's digital subscribers. Digital cable is a term for a type of cable digital television that delivers more channels than possible with analog cable by using digital video compression. ...
Shaw Communications Inc. ...
Bell Canada Enterprises (TSX: BCE, NYSE: BCE), legally BCE Inc. ...
Category 1 channels are Canadian television channels defined by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission that must be carried by all digital cable and direct broadcast satellite providers that have the capability to do so. ...
As of August 2005, OUTtv ended their disagreement with Shaw Communications and Bell Canada now has a packaging agreement with Bell Expressvu, StarChoice and Shaw Cable. This new agreement allows subscribers on these systems to add OUTtv as standalone channel or it can be added with existing channels by subscribing to a new package. Shaw Communications Inc. ...
StarChoice is Canadas second direct broadcast satellite television distributor (the other being Bell ExpressVu), and is majority-owned by cable TV operator Shaw Communications Inc. ...
Shaw is Canadas second largest cable television operator, after Rogers Communications. ...
Stand-alone is a confusing and misleading term, used to refer to various categories of computer programs, but rarely in a consistent fashion. ...
OUTtv is also broadcasted internationally, in late 2005 OUTtv became available in Australia via SelecTV. // Australia SelecTV is an Australian satellite based subscription TV broadcasting service headed by CEO Jim Blomfield (previously CEO of FOXTEL). ...
Shavick Entertainment's Acquisition On July 19, 2006, it was announced that Shavick Entertainment, a producer of gay-themed programming such as Dante's Cove, will acquire a 52 per cent majority interest in OUTtv and HARD on PrideVision from William Craig (former 80.2% owner), while Pink Triangle Press' share will increase to 23 per cent and Peace Point Group will own 15 per cent. It was also announced that Shavick will also rename and rebrand OUTtv, upgrade the technology infrastructure, and fill the channel's content with a wider variety of programming. Shavick's Hollywood-based partner Regent Studios and the American LGBT channel here! will also become content providers to the channel. It is yet to be known how this will affect HARD on PrideVision. Shavick Entertainment is a Canadian film and television production company. ...
Dantes Cove is the first LGBT horror television show produced. ...
William (Bill) Craig is a Canadian broadcaster. ...
here! is an American television network, which produces and airs programming for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender audiences. ...
This ownership transaction has yet to be approved by the CRTC.
In an interview with Xtra!, the company's CEO James Shavick noted that audience surveys have found that while many LGBT viewers in Canada subscribe to the network out of a desire to financially support a gay television channel, comparatively few believe that the channel currently offers a compelling program schedule. His business partner Joy MacPhail also expressed the desire to expand the channel's reach, noting that here!'s audience surveys have found that up to 30 per cent of that network's subscriber base consists of heterosexual women. Xtra!, Xtra! West and Capital Xtra! are gay magazines, on newsprint in tabloid format, published by Pink Triangle Press in Canada. ...
Joy MacPhail is a Canadian politician in British Columbia. ...
Heterosexuality is a sexual orientation characterized by esthetic attraction, romantic love or sexual desire exclusively for members of the opposite sex or gender, contrasted with homosexuality and distinguished from bisexuality and asexuality. ...
Noted Programs Chris & John to the Rescue! is a reality television series originally broadcast on OUTtv in 2006 and in Australia on SelecTV. The series follows best friends and self-proclaimed culture aficionados, Chris and John, as they come to the rescue of people in need of their unique services. ...
Chris & Johns Road Trip! is a reality television series originally broadcast on OUTtv in 2005 and in Australia on SelecTV in 2006. ...
Created by Canadian filmmaker Mark Kenneth Woods and co-produced by Michael Venus, the first season of the LGBT themed sketch comedy TV show started airing on OUTtv in July 2005. ...
Queer as Folk was an American television series produced by Showtime, which was based on the British series of the same name created by Russell T. Davies. ...
Sugar Rush is a TV show developed by Shine Limited and broadcast by Channel 4, based on the Julie Burchill novel of the same name revolving around the life of a 15 year old lesbian Kim Daniels who at the beginning of series one moves from London to Brighton on...
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QueerTV is a syndicated Australian television series produced by Panda Media, created and directed by Chris Reynolds. ...
Bump! is a gay and lesbian travel and lifestyle television series. ...
COVERguy is a six part television series hosted by Mattieu Chantelois originally broadcast on OUTtv in 2005. ...
See also HARDtv is a Canadian category 2 subscription based television channel available through satellite and digital cable. ...
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