Real Estate Channel is a Canadian 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...

 cable television

Cable television

Cable television is a system of providing television programs to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through coaxial cables or digital light pulses through fixed optical fibers located on the subscriber's property, much like the over-the-air method used in traditional...

 channel. It is currently owned by Pacific Real Estate Media Ltd.

Programming

Real Estate Channel broadcasts residential and commercial real estate listings in various markets across the country where it is available via a television provider. The listings feature pictures of the properties along with background music

Background music

Although background music was by the end of the 20th century generally identified with Muzak or elevator music, there are several stages in the development of this concept.-Antecedents:...

 and voice-over

Voice-over

Voice-over is a production technique where a voice which is not part of the narrative is used in a radio, television production, filmmaking, theatre, or other presentations...

s. Each listing range in length, although, are less than 1 minute.

In addition to broadcasting on television, Real Estate Channel broadcasts and syndicates listings on the Internet.

History

Real Estate Channel was first launched on Novus Cable Ch 68 on December 1st, 2006 to showcase properties for sale in British Columbia to the Downtown television audience.

On May 15th, 2008 - Real Estate Channel was launched on MTS TV

MTS

- Organizations :* Machine and Tractor Station, a state enterprise of agricultural machinery in the Soviet Union* Manitoba Teachers' Society, 1919-present, a Manitoba, Canada teacher union...

 Ch 31 in Manitoba.

On April 30th, 2009 - The channel launched on SaskTel

SaskTel

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 995 in Saskatchewan.

Real Estate Channel acquired it's fourth and largest carrier signing with Rogers Cable Communications Inc.

Rogers Cable

Rogers Cable Inc., a subsidiary of Rogers Communications Inc., is Canada's largest cable television service provider with about 2.25 million television customers, and over 930,000 Internet subscribers, in Manitoba, Southern & Eastern Ontario, New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador.The...

 to broadcast its channel to Ontario. Rogers Cable Ch 260. The channel was launched on May 19th, 2011.

Licensing

Real Estate Channel is classified as a teleshopping service by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) and, thus, is exempted from requiring a CRTC-issued licence to operate and most other CRTC requirements that pay TV and specialty channels are subject to.