Tonis was a Canadian
Ukrainian-language pay television
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channel owned by Ethnic Channels Group (ECG) with its name licensed from the owners of the Ukrainian television channel,
Tonis.
The channel broadcast a variety of programming primarily from Tonis including news, sports, cultural programs, and talk shows.
History
Inter+
In September 2003, Ethnic Channels Group was granted approval from the
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 a television channel called ''Ukrainian TV One'', described as ''"a national ethnic Category 2 specialty television service providing programming primarily in the Ukrainian language."''
On June 23, 2004, ECG launched Inter+ using the Ukrainian TV One licence.
[ Mediacaster Magazine 2005-06-01] Inter+ broadcast programming from
Inter+, an international channel broadcasting programming from
Inter.
Channel 5
In September 2005, ECG re-branded Inter+ as Channel 5 (in Cyrillic: “5 канал”), broadcasting programming from
Channel 5, a national news network from
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the nor ...
.
1+1 International
In June 2006, in its effort to boost subscription to the channel, ECG re-branded Channel 5 as 1+1 International which broadcast programming from
1+1 International, a Ukrainian-language TV channel from Ukraine. 1+1 International, itself, was an international channel broadcasting programming from
Studio 1+1 for Ukrainian communities outside Ukraine. The channel broadcast a variety of programming including news, documentaries, talk shows, and more.
Tonis
In the fall of 2008, the Ukrainian channel, 1+1 International, became unavailable in North America. By that time,
Roger Communications, the largest Canadian television service provider at the time, had dropped the Canadian channel from its line-up due to low subscriptions. As a result of both of these situations, ECG, yet again, rebranded the channel as Tonis (in Cyrillic: “Тоніс”). The channel broadcast programming from Tonis, an information and educational channel from Ukraine.
In February 2009, both
Aurora Cable and
Telus TV
TELUS Optik TV is a product of Telus Communications, 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 chan ...
, the only other carriers of the channel at the time, dropped the channel from their line-ups, rendering the channel no longer available.
Logos
References
External links
Ethnic Channels Group
Defunct specialty television channels in Canada
Multicultural and ethnic television in Canada
Television channels and stations established in 2004
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2009
Ukrainian-Canadian culture in Ontario
2004 establishments in Canada
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