Tamil Vision International (officially abbreviated as TVi or simply called Tamil Vision) is a Canadian

Canada

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 Category B Tamil language

Tamil language

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 specialty channel

Specialty channel

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, based in Toronto

Toronto

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, Ontario

Ontario

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. It is the largest Tamil media outlet in North America

North America

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History

TVi was originally owned by the Diversity Media Group who also owned and operated CMR Diversity FM 101.3

CJSA-FM

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, a media partner of TVi. Tamil Vision Inc. is no longer owned by the Diversity Media Group. Diversity Media Group has been decommissioned by the board of directors. TVi and CMR (CMR 101.3 FM) were from then on under a new management.

South Asian Festival

TVi and CMR also host the South Asian Festival (Kondattam in Tamil) which is an annual business trade show festival at the International Centre

International Centre

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 in Mississauga.

Shows

TVi offers a variety of programming from in-house Canadian productions to Tamil programming from around the world. Programming consists of news, films, soap operas, game shows, local community events, kid shows, comedy and much more.