Jump to content

First Choice (pay-tv)

Add links
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Jimj wpg (talk | contribs) at 22:09, 2 July 2006. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.
First Choice pay-tv

First Choice (First Choice Canadian Communications Corp.) was one of Canada's fist pay-television networks.

Origins

In September, 1981 the CRTC held a hearing in Hull, Quebec to license Canada's first pay-television networks. There were more than 24 applicants.

It was licensed by the CRTC in 1982, and started broadcasting via Anik C-3 satellite on February 1, 1983. The first movie shown was Star Wars.

They were also licensed for and owned a French-language channel called Premier Choix, which eventaully merged with another (Quebec-based) pay-television network TVEC, to form Super Écran, which is still in operation today.

Programming

Before other Canadian specialty networks like TSN and MuchMusic were licensed, First Choice was the network for watching commercial-free professional sporting and concert events.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=First_Choice_(pay-tv)&oldid=61749612"