Cathay International Television was a Canadian television broadcasting company.

It was launched as a specialty Chinese language

Chinese language

The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages...

 broadcaster in Vancouver, British Columbia in the 1980s. The company grew to become a regional broadcaster, and was purchased in 1987 by Chinavision Canada

Chinavision Canada

Chinavision was a Canadian television broadcasting company.It was launched in 1984 by Francis Cheng of Toronto to provide a pay-TV station for Chinese language viewers in Toronto and Vancouver. The station's content was roughly 90% Cantonese and 10% Mandarin....

to become a national cable channel for Chinese language communities in Canada.