MovieTime
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MovieTime is a Canadian
English language
Category B specialty channel
owned by Shaw Media
. MovieTime is a commercial service that primarily broadcasts films.
Note: series list is current as of November 2011.
The channel launched under the name Lonestar on September 7, 2001, focusing exclusively on Western and rural-themed programming such as films, television dramas, and lifestyle series.
After a few years, Lonestar began to air more general action and adventure programming unrelated to the Western theme of its early years and a considerable amount of that being movies, eventually to the point where the general action and adventure and movie programming made up the majority of the schedule.
On August 21, 2008, Canwest announced that Lonestar would be rebranded as MovieTime, focusing on contemporary films. The name change took effect on October 6, 2008.
On October 27, 2010, Shaw Communications
gained control of MovieTime as a result of its acquisition of Canwest, which was renamed Shaw Media
.
simulcast
feed of MovieTime.
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
English language
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
Category B specialty channel
Specialty channel
A specialty channel can be a commercial broadcasting or non-commercial television channel which consists of television programming focused on a single genre, subject or targeted television market at a specific demographic....
owned by Shaw Media
Shaw Media
Shaw Media is the television broadcasting division of Shaw Communications. Shaw Media owns the Global Television Network, which broadcasts via 11 television stations, as well as various specialty channels including HGTV Canada, Showcase, Food Network Canada, and History Television.Despite also...
. MovieTime is a commercial service that primarily broadcasts films.
Series list
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- Infomercials
- TV with TV's Jonathan TorrensTV with TV's Jonathan TorrensTV with TV's Jonathan Torrens is a Canadian comedic newsmagazine-styled television program that debuted on the TVtropolis network on October 9, 2009. The show features Jonathan Torrens of Trailer Park Boys and Street Cents fame "break down the complicated scope of television by dissecting the...
- Whatever Happened to ...?
Note: series list is current as of November 2011.
History
In November 2000, Canwest, through its subsidiary Global Television Network Inc., was granted approval from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to launch a television channel called Adventure, described as "a national English-language Category 2 specialty television service devoted to action and adventure programming. Its program schedule will run the gamut from contemporary "popcorn" action and adventure films and series, to classical westerns, rodeo and western horse shows."The channel launched under the name Lonestar on September 7, 2001, focusing exclusively on Western and rural-themed programming such as films, television dramas, and lifestyle series.
After a few years, Lonestar began to air more general action and adventure programming unrelated to the Western theme of its early years and a considerable amount of that being movies, eventually to the point where the general action and adventure and movie programming made up the majority of the schedule.
On August 21, 2008, Canwest announced that Lonestar would be rebranded as MovieTime, focusing on contemporary films. The name change took effect on October 6, 2008.
On October 27, 2010, Shaw Communications
Shaw Communications
Shaw Communications is Canada's largest telecommunications company that provides telephone, Canada's fastest Internet and television services as well as broadcasting and soon Wifi. Shaw is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta...
gained control of MovieTime as a result of its acquisition of Canwest, which was renamed Shaw Media
Shaw Media
Shaw Media is the television broadcasting division of Shaw Communications. Shaw Media owns the Global Television Network, which broadcasts via 11 television stations, as well as various specialty channels including HGTV Canada, Showcase, Food Network Canada, and History Television.Despite also...
.
MovieTime HD
On March 12, 2010, Canwest launched MovieTime HD, a high definitionHigh-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...
simulcast
Simulcast
Simulcast, shorthand for "simultaneous broadcast", refers to programs or events broadcast across more than one medium, or more than one service on the same medium, at the same time. For example, Absolute Radio is simulcast on both AM and on satellite radio, and the BBC's Prom concerts are often...
feed of MovieTime.
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