Vidéotron: New Channels

[InMontreal]

Do you know how much Vanessa will cost monthly

14.99$. Mentionned in almost every press release so far...

[Randi]

14.99$. Mentionned in almost every press release so far...

Too lazy to check for the PRs... ;)

[musimax]

Vidéotron's website actually says it costs $15.21 a month.

It also doesn't mention anything about it being available in HD. So anyone know what's the deal with this channel, did it launch in HD or not and is it available on any other BDU?

[InMontreal]

Vidéotron's website actually says it costs $15.21 a month.

It also doesn't mention anything about it being available in HD. So anyone know what's the deal with this channel, did it launch in HD or not and is it available on any other BDU?

It's $14.99 + 1.5% for the LPIF.

Videotron opted to pass on the HD channel for now. No reason provided. See: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r248...peu-sur-Illico. (french)

[InMontreal]

Videotron added a 3D channel.

Channel 800: Written informations
Channel 801: Full 3D channel
Channe; 802: anaglyph 3D channel

Press release: http://corpo.videotron.com/site/pres...ss-release/454

Confirmed events:
- Discovery's Last Day of the Dinosaurs in 3D on November 21
- CBC's Hockey Night in Canada on December 11
- 2 Disney films in 3D: A Christmas Carol 3D and Step Up 3 3D, via Video-On-Demand.

[Randi]

Astral Brings Content from The Movie Network, HBO Canada, Family Channel and Playhouse Disney to illico on Demand Starting December 15

[InMontreal]

Videotron added yesterday Quebec City's independant channel CHMG-TV (Tele-Mag) in High Definition to the lineup, channel 610. Available only in the Quebec City area.

[InMontreal]

"Cinépop est heureuse d’annoncer que ses abonnés pourront bénéficier, dès le 28 janvier prochain, de l’ajout d’une chaîne de films diffusés en haute définition au canal 705 de Vidéotron. Vous pourrez maintenant voir ou revoir les plus grands classiques avec une qualité d’image supérieure !"
Source: http://www.facebook.com/cinepop

[InMontreal]

CinéPop HD was added this morning, everywhere except Gatineau area.

Also, YTV & CMT Canada will be removed from the analog lineup in all areas on February 8, 2011.

[InMontreal]

Cosmopolitan TV Canada was added to Videotron's lineup, channel 87.

[musimax]

Playhouse Disney Télé added. Which is somewhat surprising since Quebecor owns Yoopa, which is the same type of channel targeting preschoolers.

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/a.../25/c6099.html

[InMontreal]

Additions and changes on March 1st, 2011:

Playhouse Disney Télé - channel 46
Baby TV - channel 170
CNN HD - channel 662
Viva, channel 150, will become OWN
OWN HD will launch channel 655

[CDN Viewer]

Playhouse Disney Télé added. Which is somewhat surprising since Quebecor owns Yoopa, which is the same type of channel targeting preschoolers.

While they are both aimed at preschoolers, the programming is quite different on each channel. Playhouse Disney airs mainstream programming from Disney while Yoopa has other children's programming, including some programming from Europe.

Videotron appears to be following Shaw's methodology in adding new channels to their lineup, namely being very selective in what they add and very slow to add new channels?!

[musimax]

While they are both aimed at preschoolers, the programming is quite different on each channel. Playhouse Disney airs mainstream programming from Disney while Yoopa has other children's programming, including some programming from Europe.

Videotron appears to be following Shaw's methodology in adding new channels to their lineup, namely being very selective in what they add and very slow to add new channels?!

Sure, the programming itself may be different, but they are still the same type of channel targeting the same audience. Which could adversely affect Yoopa depending on the packaging since neither channel airs commercials.

I'm glad they added the channel, but am just surprised that they did. Maybe the demand was high, who knows.

[InMontreal]

WPCH-TV (Peachtree) Atlanta and TCM (Turner Classic Movies) were added this morning at respective position 218 and 219 in SD only.

[InMontreal]

- CKXT-TV (79) was renamed to Sun News Network and the HD feed (679), which was previously only available in Outaouais area, was added to the lineup for everyone else, on April 18 2011.

- Mlle, a new cat 2 specialty from Quebecor, was added to the lineup on April 27 2011 on channel 91 (SD) and 691 (HD). The promotional tape is running in loop, the channel officially launches May 2nd early morning.

[Randi]

Oasis HD launches on Videotron It is on channel 726.

Free preview until August 18th, 2011.

[InMontreal]

Videotron added these services on basic this morning:

- CBC News Nework HD (618)
- The Shopping Channel (23)
- Galaxie FrancoFolies (546) until August 2nd.

[mtlguy]

The Shopping Channel, really? Was there a big demand for it? I am sure is it an arrngement with Rogers (who owns it). Why not add AMC for example. I would love all those additional HD net (Showcase, AMC, Superchannel, ect) But if I could at least watch those AMC shows in SD it would be better than nothing.

[InMontreal]

The Shopping Channel, really? Was there a big demand for it? I am sure is it an arrngement with Rogers (who owns it).

TSc was only available in Montreal-West on analog cable as a place-holder for interference channel 6. After the OTA analog shutdown on August 31, channel 6 will become interference-free so Vidéotron could in theory move a more interesting channel there. It was just a matter of time before TSc had to be added to the digital lineup.

I would also love to see more english HD channels to the lineup, but everything depends on 1) Fiber-to-the-neighbourhood, which will increase the network capacity to 860Mhz, 2) SDV deployment, which is in progress, 3) removal of analog Telemax, progressively.