The CRTC has a choice to make about who will be entrusted with the mandate to provide Canadians with national, regional and local Canadian based news and information and entertainment that reflects and celebrates Canada’s multiculturalism and multilingualism.
The CRTC is choosing a new TV channel for Canada
The CRTC has a choice to make about who will be entrusted with the mandate to provide Canadians with national, regional and local Canadian based news and information and entertainment that reflects and celebrates Canada’s multiculturalism and multilingualism.
See What Canadians From These Great Cities Have To Say
Toronto
Vancouver
Montreal
INNOVATIVE
CanadaWorld TV includes an extensive free companion VOD (video on demand) service that lets viewers watch even more shows on demand in even more ways and even more languages. Viewers will receive sports, entertainment and lifestyle programming on the VOD service.
PUBLIC SERVICE
CanadaWorld TV is not focused on profit margins over public service. The cost of CanadaWorld is only a fraction of the price others want to charge the system under their proposals.
CREATIVE
All 20 top immigrant language communities in Canada will receive news and information programming multiple times a week. And with equal access to the prime times of the TV schedule, not just the wee hours of the late nights and early mornings.
VISION
CanadaWorld will be a major unifying force for Canada. We love Canada and we love Canadians, wherever they come from and whatever languages they speak. We are a nation of immigrants and many arrive with limited or no knowledge of English or French. For these Canadians, receiving news, information, public affairs and entertainment programs in their language of comfort can help them to thrive in Canada’s multicultural society.
LEADERSHIP
Being majority owned by immigrants and run by our most dedicated ethnic TV operators, CanadaWorldTV can be a powerful new voice. This important service will not get lost in the balance sheet of a multibillion dollar telecommunications company. It will not be controlled by the same giant companies that already dominate the media and telecom industry in Canada.
TRACK RECORD
CanadaWorld TV will be in the hands of Canada’s two most experienced ethnic specialty TV broadcasters. TLN offers 11 TV channels in 3 languages. And ATN serves Canada’s diverse communities with 54 specialty television channels. Plus ATN and TLN are involved in radio, live events, production and international distribution. CanadaWorld TV’s schedule includes news, public affairs and documentary programming in collaboration with CBC/Radio-Canada, Canada’s trusted news source.
Questions and Answers
- CanadaWorld TV is a new TV channel for everyone regardless of ethnic origin and language. It will broadcast in a minimum of 20 languages and include a free VOD (video on demand) service that will have programs in 40 languages.
- CanadaWorld TV is created, controlled and will be run by the most dedicated ethnic minority media executives in Canada who have served millions of ethnic Canadians for decades.
- CanadaWorld TV will NOT be controlled by the same giant companies that already dominate the media and telecom industry in Canada.
- CanadaWorld will be a major unifying force for Canada. We are sensitive to the needs of immigrant Canadians because we are immigrants ourselves.
- Last year, the CRTC found that Rogers OMNI TV does not fully meet Canadians’ expectations for a national flagship multilingual TV channel.
- The CRTC invited applications for a new multi-ethnic TV service focused on national, regional and local news and information shows with a Canadian point of view.
- The CanadaWorldTV proposal is a finalist in the selection process.
- If approved by the CRTC, CanadaWorld TV will launch September 2020.
- It is essential to keep all Canadians well informed and plugged into Canadian society
with Canadian news and information in their native languages. - CanadaWorld will be a major unifying force for Canada. We love Canada and we love Canadians, wherever they come from and whatever languages they speak.
- CanadaWorld TV will also extend its reach globally to showcase to the world what we all love about living in Canada. Because Canada is a model for the world, admired globally for having a society that is the world’s best example of multiculturalism that works.
- CanadaWorldTV is created and controlled by immigrant Canadians, multicultural media leaders with long and distinguished track records in ethnic TV who have demonstrated their ongoing support for Canadian multicultural communities.
- Dr. Shan Chandrasekar founder, President and CEO, Asian Television Network (ATN) and Aldo DiFelice, President of TLN Media Group.
- Together, ATN and TLN already serve ethnic populations of over 4 million Canadians.
- CBC/Radio-Canada, Canada’s trusted news source, will collaborate with CanadaWorld TV to include news, public affairs and documentary programming in immigrant languages.
- CanadaWorld TV includes the participation and support of Corus Entertainment, and the
longtime ethnic minority community shareholders of Telelatino Network.
- CanadaWorld TV’s schedule features news, public affairs and documentary programming in collaboration with CBC/Radio-Canada, Canada’s trusted news source.
- A strong commitment to Canadian news and information for newcomers and minority language speakers. Local, Regional and National news from across Canada, every day.
- CanadaWorld TV includes specially produced and selected documentaries, major sports, world films, lifestyle, dramas and great music specials.
- CanadaWorldTV will cover virtually all languages and communities: Chinese, South Asian, Middle Eastern, Western and Eastern European and Latin American.
- Every community will have access to prime time of the TV schedule, no one will be pushed only into the corners of the TV schedule.
- CanadaWorld TV will be seen by 100% of TV subscribers at NO EXTRA CHARGE.
- CanadaWorld TV will include FREE VOD (video on demand), to catch up on shows and to see new shows in over 40 languages selected to interest and benefit Canadians.
- The cost of CanadaWorld TV will be paid by TV system providers, not consumers. And CanadaWorld TV is not focused on profit margins over public service. The cost of CanadaWorld TV is a fraction of the price others want to charge the system under their proposals.
Friends of Multiculturalism
Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada
TLN Media Group proudly welcomed Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau to our Montreal office on the occasion of ‘Semaine Italienne’. TLN host Camila Gonzalez conducted an exclusive interview with the PM to discuss diversity in media, Italian and Hispanic culture and the overall contributions of the country’s thriving ethnic groups to Canadian society. We salute and thank our Prime Minister for supporting multiculturalism in Canadian media, sport and society. We stand with you.
Minister of Canadian Heritage, the Honourable Pablo Rodriguez
TLN’s Camila Gonzalez interviews the Minister of Canadian Heritage, the Honourable Pablo Rodriquez, as they discuss Canadian culture in an ever-changing media landscape. Rodriquez explains his unique position as minister in creating opportunities for artists, writers and all creators in Canada while giving them a platform to connect to communities.
Mayor of Toronto, John Tory
The Magic of Toronto
City of Toronto Mayor John Tory expresses the ways TLN has evolved over the years, how ethnic programming unites audiences and the magic of an inclusive, multicultural city.
David Rocco
Media personality, Executive Producer and Founder, Rockhead Entertainment
It is extremely important to me that Canada’s national multicultural TV channel be created and controlled by immigrant Canadians rather than media and telecom mega companies for whom multicultural programming is not a first priority
“It is extremely important to me that Canada’s national multicultural TV channel be created and controlled by immigrant Canadians rather than media and telecom mega companies for whom multicultural programming is not a first priority. In particular, big mega companies that have cut back their multicultural service both in terms of quantity and quality, and refused to fulfill expectations or account for many decades of accumulated financial surpluses, should not be awarded a renewed mandate to run what in our opinion could be the most important TV channel the CRTC will ever license. “
Michael Bryant
35th Attorney General of Ontario, 2nd Ontario Minister of Indigenous Affairs
Executive Director of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association
We know that Canada itself lacks an international flagship TV channel, accessible to all Canadians
worldwide . . .
“I have known Aldo Di Felice President of TLN Media Group, for decades. I have long been impressed with his international network and knowledge. I am not surprised to learn of his key role in establishing the CanadaWorld TV proposal. I am especially pleased that he has included a vision for CanadaWorld that is innovative and necessary: to export itself internationally beyond the domestic market, to reach the diaspora of its citizens worldwide, so as to act as a media ambassador for the country. We know that Canada itself lacks an international flagship TV channel, accessible to all Canadians worldwide, to inform and educate citizens of the world about Canadian issues, opportunities and culture.”
Jeffrey W. Lem
Federation of Asian Canadian Lawyers Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient
I am unequivocally certain that CanadaWorldTV is the right choice for a multi-ethnic television service . . .
“I am also very familiar with Telelatino Network Inc. and its exemplary record of ethnic broadcasting for the Italian and Spanish communities. I am unequivocally certain that CanadaWorldTV is the right choice for a multi-ethnic television service which will also service the Chinese-Canadian community.”