Launched November 1, 1998 Picture format 480i (SDTV) Broadcast area National | Closed August 1, 2012 Country Canada | |
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Owned by Groupe TVA
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Shopping TVA, also known as TVA Télé-Achats, was a Canadian French language cable television home shopping and infomercial channel. Shopping TVA was owned and operated by Groupe TVA, a division of Quebecor Media Inc. The channel launched on November 1, 1998 as Canal Infopub, then rebranded as STV and finally to Shopping TVA. The channel closed on August 1, 2012.
Shopping TVA consisted of television channel hosts along with product representatives selling products to viewers by demonstrating the products, answering questions from viewers, and providing other various product information. Shopping TVA sold a variety of products including beauty and personal care, entertainment, health and fitness, and home improvement items. Viewers could purchase items either by telephone or Internet. In addition, Shopping TVA showed infomercials, many of them originally shot in English and dubbed into French.
As a shopping television service, Shopping TVA was exempted from Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) licensing.
For a number of years before its closure, Shopping TVA was also the name of a television series on Shopping TVA's terrestrial sister network, TVA, which it shared and derived its branding from. With the closure of Shopping TVA, the television series continues to exist, as well as an associated website that viewers can continue to purchase products from.