Viewers Choice, the Glossary
Viewers Choice was a Canadian English language pay-per-view (PPV) and near video on demand service.[1]
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59 relations: Apostrophe, Astral Media, Atlantic Canada, Barker channel, Bell Media, Bell Satellite TV, Boxing, Cable television, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, Canal Indigo, CanLII, Cogeco, Combat sport, Crave (TV network), Eastern Canada, Eastern Time Zone, English language, ESPN Inc., Extreme Championship Wrestling, French language, Groupe TVA, High-definition television, In Demand, Internet Protocol television, Legal monopoly, Mixed martial arts, Movie Central, Multichannel News, Ontario, Pay television, Pay-per-view, Professional wrestling, Quebec, Rogers Sports & Media, Shaw Broadcast Services, Shaw Communications, Shaw Direct, Shaw PPV, Sportsnet PPV, Standard-definition television, Television in Canada, The Grand Seduction, The Other Woman (2014 film), The Quiet Ones (2014 film), Toronto, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, UFC 178, Ultimate Fighting Championship, Video on demand, Vu!, ... Expand index (9 more) »
- 1991 establishments in Canada
- 2014 disestablishments in Canada
- Former Bell Media networks
- Pay-per-view television networks in Canada
Apostrophe
The apostrophe is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritical mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet and some other alphabets.
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Astral Media Inc. was a Canadian media conglomerate.
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Atlantic Canada
Atlantic Canada, also called the Atlantic provinces (provinces de l'Atlantique), is the region of Eastern Canada comprising the provinces located on the Atlantic coast, excluding Quebec.
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Barker channel
A barker channel is a form of digital signage, operating in the form of a television channel that is entirely composed of sales promotion and advertising, usually marketing various features of the service carrying the channel.
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Bell Media Inc. (French: Bell Média inc.) is a Canadian media conglomerate that is the mass media subsidiary of BCE Inc. (also known as Bell Canada Enterprises, the owner of telecommunications company Bell Canada).
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Bell Satellite TV
Bell Satellite TV (Bell Télé; formerly known as Bell ExpressVu, Dish Network Canada and ExpressVu Dish Network and not to be confused with Bell's IPTV Fibe TV service) is the division of BCE Inc. that provides satellite television service across Canada.
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Boxing
Boxing is a combat sport and martial art.
Cable television
Cable television is a system of delivering television programming to consumers via radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted through coaxial cables, or in more recent systems, light pulses through fibre-optic cables.
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Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC; Conseil de la radiodiffusion et des télécommunications canadiennes) is a public organization in Canada with mandate as a regulatory agency for broadcasting and telecommunications.
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Canal Indigo
Canal Indigo is a Canadian English and French language pay-per-view and Near Video on Demand provider owned by Vidéotron. Viewers Choice and Canal Indigo are pay-per-view television networks in Canada.
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CanLII
The Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII; Institut canadien d'information juridique) is a non-profit organization created and funded by the Federation of Law Societies of Canada in 2001 on behalf of its 14 member societies.
Cogeco
Cogeco Inc. is a Canadian telecommunications and media company.
Combat sport
A combat sport, or fighting sport, is a contact sport that usually involves one-on-one combat.
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Crave (TV network)
Crave (formerly The Movie Network or TMN) is a Canadian premium television network and streaming service owned by the Bell Media subsidiary of BCE Inc. Launched in 1983 as the national service First Choice, early difficulties and a subsequent industry restructuring led to its operations being restricted to Eastern Canada from 1984 to 2016; it then held a regional legal monopoly on movie-based premium TV services in its territory until the launch of the present-day Super Channel in 2007. Viewers Choice and Crave (TV network) are English-language television stations in Canada.
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Eastern Canada
Eastern Canada (Est du Canada, also the Eastern provinces, Canadian East or the East) is generally considered to be the region of Canada south of Hudson Bay/Hudson Strait and east of Manitoba, consisting of the following provinces (from east to west): Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario.
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Eastern Time Zone
The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, and the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.
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ESPN Inc.
ESPN Inc. is an American multinational sports media conglomerate majority-owned by the Walt Disney Company, with Hearst Communications as an equity stakeholder.
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Extreme Championship Wrestling
Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) was an American professional wrestling promotion that was based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and operated by its parent company HHG Corporation.
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French language
French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.
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Groupe TVA
Groupe TVA Inc. is a Canadian communications company with operations in broadcasting, publishing and production.
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High-definition television
High-definition television (HDTV) describes a television or video system which provides a substantially higher image resolution than the previous generation of technologies.
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In Demand
In Demand (stylized as iN DEMAND) is an American cable television service which provides video on demand services, including pay-per-view.
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Internet Protocol television
Internet Protocol television (IPTV), also called TV over broadband, is the service delivery of television over Internet Protocol (IP) networks.
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Legal monopoly
A legal monopoly, statutory monopoly, or de jure monopoly is a monopoly that is protected by law from competition.
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Mixed martial arts
Mixed martial arts (MMA) is a full-contact combat sport based on striking, grappling and ground fighting, incorporating techniques from various combat sports from around the world.
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Movie Central
Movie Central (occasionally abbreviated as "MC", mostly in program guides) was a Canadian English language Category A premium cable and satellite television channel that was owned by Corus Entertainment. Viewers Choice and Movie Central are Defunct cable television channels in Canada and English-language television stations in Canada.
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Multichannel News
Multichannel News is a magazine and website published by Future US that covers multichannel television and communications providers, such as cable operators, satellite television firms and telephone companies, as well as emerging Internet video and communication services.
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Ontario
Ontario is the southernmost province of Canada.
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Pay television
The pay television (pay TV), also known as subscription television, premium television or, when referring to an individual service, a premium channel, refers to subscription-based television services, usually provided by multichannel television providers, but also increasingly via digital terrestrial and streaming television.
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Pay-per-view
Pay-per-view (PPV) is a type of pay television or webcast service that enables a viewer to pay to watch individual events via private telecast.
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Professional wrestling
Professional wrestling (often referred to as pro wrestling, or simply, wrestling) is a form of athletic theater that combines mock combat with drama, under the premise (known colloquially as kayfabe), that the performers are competitive wrestlers.
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Quebec
QuebecAccording to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.
Rogers Media Inc., operating as Rogers Sports & Media, is a Canadian subsidiary of Rogers Communications that owns the company's mass media and sports properties. Viewers Choice and Rogers Sports & Media are Rogers Communications.
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Shaw Broadcast Services
Shaw Broadcast Services (French: Services de Radiodiffusion Shaw) is the division of Canadian telecommunications company Shaw Communications that is responsible for providing and managing the distribution of television channels to cable companies via satellite.
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Shaw Communications
Shaw Communications Inc. (often abbreviated to Shaw) was a Canadian telecommunications company which provided telephone, Internet, television, and mobile services. Viewers Choice and Shaw Communications are Rogers Communications.
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Shaw Direct
Shaw Direct is a direct broadcast satellite television distributor in Canada and a subsidiary of the telecommunications company Rogers Communications.
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Shaw PPV
Shaw PPV was a Canadian English and French language pay-per-view service owned by Shaw Pay-Per-View Limited, a division of Shaw Communications. Viewers Choice and Shaw PPV are pay-per-view television networks in Canada.
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Sportsnet PPV
Sportsnet PPV is a Canadian pay-per-view (PPV) service owned by Rogers Communications. Viewers Choice and Sportsnet PPV are English-language television stations in Canada, pay-per-view television networks in Canada and Rogers Communications.
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Standard-definition television
Standard-definition television (SDTV; also standard definition or SD) is a television system that uses a resolution that is not considered to be either high or enhanced definition.
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Television in Canada
Television in Canada officially began with the sign-on of the nation's first television stations in Montreal and Toronto in 1952.
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The Grand Seduction
The Grand Seduction is a 2013 Canadian comedy film directed by Don McKellar and written by Ken Scott and Michael Dowse.
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The Other Woman (2014 film)
The Other Woman is a 2014 American romantic comedy film directed by Nick Cassavetes, written by Melissa K. Stack, and starring Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann, Kate Upton, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Nicki Minaj, Taylor Kinney, and Don Johnson.
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The Quiet Ones (2014 film)
The Quiet Ones is a 2014 British supernatural horror film directed by John Pogue, loosely based on the Philip experiment, a 1972 parapsychology experiment conducted in Toronto.
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Toronto
Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario.
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Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA Wrestling or simply TNA) is an American professional wrestling promotion based in Nashville, Tennessee.
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UFC 178
UFC 178: Johnson vs.
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Ultimate Fighting Championship
The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is an American mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion company based in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Video on demand
Video on demand (VOD) is a media distribution system that allows users to access videos, television shows and films digitally on request.
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Vu!
Vu!, also operating as Bell TV On Demand, is a Canadian English and French language pay-per-view and Video on Demand provider that launched in October 1999 and is owned by Bell Media. Viewers Choice and Vu! are pay-per-view television networks in Canada.
Wayback Machine
The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web founded by the Internet Archive, an American nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, California.
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Western Canada
Western Canada, also referred to as the Western provinces, Canadian West or the Western provinces of Canada, and commonly known within Canada as the West, is a Canadian region that includes the four western provinces just north of the Canada–United States border namely (from west to east) British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
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Western International Communications
WIC Western International Communications Ltd. (or WIC) was a Canadian media company that operated from 1982 to 2000, with operations including broadcast and specialty television, radio, and satellite distribution via a majority interest in Canadian Satellite Communications (or Cancom).
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Winter's Tale (film)
Winter's Tale (released in the United Kingdom and Ireland as A New York Winter's Tale) is a 2014 American romantic fantasy film based on the 1983 novel Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin.
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World Championship Wrestling
World Championship Wrestling (WCW) was an American professional wrestling promotion founded by Ted Turner in 1988, after Turner Broadcasting System, through a subsidiary named Universal Wrestling Corporation, purchased the assets of National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) territory Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP) (which had aired its programming on TBS).
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WWE
World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) is an American professional wrestling promotion.
1080i
1080i (also known as BT.709) is a combination of frame resolution and scan type.
300: Rise of an Empire
300: Rise of an Empire is a 2014 American epic historical action film directed by Noam Murro from a screenplay by Zack Snyder and Kurt Johnstad, based on the then-unpublished comic book limited series Xerxes by Frank Miller.
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480i
480i is the video mode used for standard-definition digital video in the Caribbean, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Philippines, Myanmar, Western Sahara, and most of the Americas (with the exception of Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay).
See also
1991 establishments in Canada
- Alliance des radios communautaires du Canada
- Ann Connor Brimer Award
- Better Environmentally Sound Transportation
- Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary Program
- Canadian Airports Council
- Canadian Coast Guard Exemplary Service Medal
- Canadian Intellectual Property Office
- Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame
- Canadian Volunteer Service Medal for Korea
- Commuter Challenge
- Digitcom
- Huber Trophy
- ICE Advertisements
- International Gymnix
- Land Force Western Area
- NFL Europe
- National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women
- Pacific Birds Habitat Joint Venture
- Queen's Medal for Champion Shot
- Royal Aviation
- Strathbutler Award
- The Bargain! Shop
- Tristar Gym
- UHL Best Goaltender
- United Hockey League
- Viewers Choice
2014 disestablishments in Canada
- Aboriginal Healing Foundation
- Canadian Forces Radio and Television
- Canadian Islamic Congress
- Structures (band)
- Viewers Choice
- Western Block Party
Former Bell Media networks
- BookTelevision
- Comedy Gold (TV channel)
- ESPN Classic (Canadian TV channel)
- Fashion Television (TV channel)
- M3 (Canadian TV channel)
- MTV2 (Canadian TV channel)
- NHL Network (Canadian TV channel)
- Viewers Choice
- Vrak
- Western Electric (tube manufacturer)
Pay-per-view television networks in Canada
- Breakaway PPV
- Canal Indigo
- Shaw PPV
- Sportsnet PPV
- Telemeter (pay television)
- Viewers Choice
- Vu!
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viewers_Choice
Also known as Viewer's Choice Canada, Viewers Choice (Canada), Viewers Choice (Pay Per View), Viewers Choice Canada.
, Wayback Machine, Western Canada, Western International Communications, Winter's Tale (film), World Championship Wrestling, WWE, 1080i, 300: Rise of an Empire, 480i.