MONTREAL – Videotron is hoping to launch a new English-language community television channel, known as MYtv, that it is billing as the voice of the Greater Montreal Anglophone community.
The company confirmed Thursday that it has filed an official application for the channel with the CRTC. Similar to its French counterpart MAtv, the channel will be available to all Videotron customers in Greater Montreal, and offer 21 hours of original programming on “social and community affairs, public and municipal affairs, arts and culture, comedy and in-depth interviews with those who have dedicated their lives to the service of society”.
"We committed ourselves to engaging in a dialogue with Anglophone Montrealers following the review of the policy on community television”, said MAtv president Isabelle Dessureault, in the announcement. “We are very excited about this project and we hope that Montreal's English-language viewers will quickly make MYtv their own.”
Approximately 1.5 million Anglophones reside in the Greater Montreal Area.
