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: 城市2高清台,

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. It was owned by the Vancouver-based Fairchild Media Group (a subsidiary of the Fairchild Group) and

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. The station broadcast exclusively in high definition. On February 4, 2013, Fairchild Media Group received permission from the CRTC to launch

Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC; ) is a public organization in Canada tasked with the mandate as a regulatory agency tribunal for various electronic communications, covering broadcasting and telecommunic ...

(CRTC) to launch Talentvision 2 HD.
CRTC 2013-02-22 Talentvision 2 HD sources its programming from

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and 80% of the content will be different from the standard definition service

Talentvision Talentvision (marketed as 城市電視) is a Canadian Mandarin Chinese specialty channel. It is owned by the Vancouver-based Fairchild Media Group (a subsidiary of the Fairchild Group) and TVB. Talentvision's studios are located at Aberdeen C ...

. The channel launched on May 23, 2013, on

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. It was launched on

Rogers Cable Rogers Cable is Canada's largest cable television service provider with about 2.25 million television customers, and over 930,000 Internet subscribers, primarily in Southern and Eastern Ontario, New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador. Roger ...

on July 4, 2013, and on

Optik TV TELUS Optik TV is a product of TELUS Communications, a subsidiary of TELUS Corporation, that provides IPTV service in the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, and Quebec. The service offers over 630 digital channels, including more ...

on October 8, 2013. In June 2016, the channel was removed from

. In July 2016, the channel was dropped by the remaining providers who carried it,

and

and subsequently shut down.

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Talentvision 2 HD repeats the 7:30 PM newscast from Talentvision at 8:30 PM and 3:30 AM (PST).

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