Video Italia (Canadian TV channel)

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Video Italia
Ownership
Video Italia logo
Country	Canada
Broadcast area	National
Headquarters	Toronto, Ontario
Owner	Telelatino Network Inc. (80%) Gruppo Radio Italia (20%)
History
Launched	June 15, 2005
Closed	September 18, 2007

Video Italia was a Canadian category 2 Italian language digital cable television channel owned by Telelatino Network Inc. (80%) and Gruppo Radio Italia (20%). The channel broadcast primarily music programming such as concerts and music videos. It was a Canadian version of the Italian channel, Video Italia.

History

In December 2000, Telelatino Network was granted approval by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to launch Video Italia, described as "a national ethnic Category 2 specialty television service consisting of music and entertainment programming directed to Italian/Italian-speaking audiences."^[1]

The channel launched in June 2005 initially on Vidéotron in a package marketed as Super Trio Italiano with 2 other newly launched Telelatino channels, SKY TG24 and Leonardo World.^[2]^[3] All three channels were wholly owned by Telelatino Network with the exception of Video Italia, which was 80% owned by Telelatino Network Inc. and 20% owned by Radio Italia.

On September 11, 2007, Vidéotron discontinued carriage of Video Italia and on September 18, 2007 the remaining carriers, Rogers Cable and Mountain Cablevision discontinued carriage of Video Italia also. In Telelatino's message posted on its website, they noted that they were "disappointed" with the decisions of the distributors to drop the channel, along with some of the others in the Super Trio Italiano package, suggesting it was not Telelatino's decision to discontinue the service, rather it was a lack of interest from distributors.^[4]

Original logo of Video Italia

References

^ Decision CRTC 2000-724, CRTC, 12-14-00
^ TLN's 3 New Italian Channels Now Available In Quebec, TLN press release, 06-15-05
^ CORUS ENTERTAINMENT WINS BIG IN DIGITAL SPECIALTY TELEVISION LICENSING, Corus Entertainment press release, 11-27-00
^ A message to our Super Trio subscribers, TLN release, archived, retrieved 11-30-17

External links

Telelatino website
Video Italia (Italy) (in Italian)

v t e Music television channels in Canada
Music videos	Stingray Stingray Country Stingray Hits! Stingray Juicebox Stingray Loud Stingray Retro Stingray Now 4K Stingray Vibe XITE 4K
Multilingual/third-language	ATN B4U Music ATN BritAsia ATN PM One ATN Sony Mix ATN Zoom Greek Music Channel PalmarèsADISQ par Stingray Rotana Clip Rotana Mousica SchlagerTV Stingray Music (audio only)
Foreign	Afrotainment Music ARY Musik Channel V Ritmoson Latino Stingray Classica Stingray Djazz Stingray Festival 4K Teleritmo
Others	Stingray Naturescape
Former/defunct/changed formats	A.Side TV bpm:tv CoolTV CMT Edge TV Max Trax Melody Hits MTV MTV2 MuchMusic MuchMoreMusic MusiquePlus MusiMax Video Italia Vintage TV

v t e TLN Media Group
Specialty channels	EuroWorld Sport Mediaset Italia Mediaset TGCOM 24 Telebimbi TeleNiños TLN Univision Canada
Foreign channels distributed by TLN	CineLatino
Defunct channels	Leonardo World Video Italia

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