Encore Avenue is a Canadian

Canada

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 English language

English language

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 Category A premium television service. Encore Avenue is designated to operate west of the Ontario

Ontario

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-Manitoba

Manitoba

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 border, including the territories. Encore Avenue is owned by Corus Entertainment

Corus Entertainment

Corus Entertainment Inc. is a publicly traded Canadian media and entertainment conglomerate.Corus is a leading Canadian specialty television and radio producer, with additional assets in pay television, advertising services, television broadcasting, children's book publishing and children's...

. Encore Avenue offers a variety of classic films from the 1970s to the 1990s on two 24-hour pay-television channels, Encore Avenue and Encore Avenue 2.

Encore Avenue is carried by various Canadian cable

Cable television

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, IPTV

IPTV

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, and satellite television

Satellite television

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 providers in Western Canada

Western Canada

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 including Bell TV, Shaw Direct, Shaw

Shaw Communications

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, Access Communications

Access Communications

Access Communications Co-operative Ltd. is a Canadian cable television provider, operating in Regina, Saskatchewan and several other communities in Saskatchewan...

, TELUS TV

Telus TV

Telus TV is a product of Telus that provides IPTV and Satellite service across the Canadian provinces of British Columbia and Alberta. Telus launched its IPTV based service in November 2005 to Telus customers in select communities of Alberta but is now available in several communities throughout...

 and more. It is the equivalent of Mpix

Mpix

Mpix is a Canadian English language Category A premium television service. Mpix is designated to operate east of the Ontario-Manitoba border, excluding the territories. Mpix is owned by Astral Media...

, which is available in the rest of Canada.

Channels and content

Encore Avenue operates three multiplex

Multiplexing

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 channels, two standard definition channels and one high definition channel. Encore Avenue operates as a separate service with a separate license with is sister network Movie Central

Movie Central

Movie Central is a Canadian English language Category A premium television service. Movie Central is designated to operate west of the Ontario-Manitoba border, including the territories...

, although EA is sold together in a package with Movie Central.

• Encore Avenue - PG-rated films from the 70s, 80s, 90s and early 2000s.
• Encore Avenue 2 - Films from the 70s, 80s, 90s and early 2000s. Formally called "Comic Strip".
• Encore Avenue HD - A high-definition
  High-definition television
  High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...
  
  feed alternating between simulcasts of Encore Avenue 1 & 2. Launched on April 24, 2008.

External links

• Encore Avenue