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Filmy (Canada)

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Launched
  
April 29, 2009

Country
  
Canada

Headquarters
  
Mississauga, Ontario

Picture format
  
480i (SDTV)

Broadcast area
  
National

Filmy (Canada)

Owned by
  
SoundView Entertainment

Filmy is a Canadian Category B Hindi language specialty channel that is owned by SoundView Entertainment Inc.

Filmy broadcasts Bollywood films, music programs, and other Bollywood film based programming.

History

In October 2007, SoundView Entertainment Inc. was granted approval by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to launch a television channel called Sahara Filmy, described as "a national, third-language ethnic Category 2 specialty service devoted to the Hindi-speaking community. The programming schedule shall only consist of feature films, made-for-TV movies, actor interviews, documentaries and similar movie-related programming."

The channel launched as Filmy on April 29, 2009 initially on Rogers Cable.

References

Filmy (Canada) Wikipedia