Zeste is a Canadian French-language

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 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 Groupe Serdy

Groupe Serdy

Groupe Serdy is a Canadian television broadcasting and video production company based in Saint-Lambert, Quebec.-Television broadcasting:*Évasion - a specialty channel devoted to travel and adventure.*Zeste - a specialty channel devoted to food....

. Zeste airs food-related entertainment and lifestyle programming.

History

On August 15, 2008, Serdy was granted approval from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to operate "Cuisine", a national French-language category 2 digital cable

Digital cable

Digital cable is a generic term for any type of cable television distribution using digital video compression or distribution. The technology was originally developed by Motorola.-Background:...

 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....

 devoted to food-related programming. On January 19, 2010, Groupe Serdy announced that it was ready to launch the channel in March, and on February 24, Serdy unveiled the channel's identity, including the channel's new name (Zeste), and programming to the media.

The channel launched on March 22 in both standard

Standard-definition television

Sorete-definition television is a television system that uses a resolution that is not considered to be either enhanced-definition television or high-definition television . The term is usually used in reference to digital television, in particular when broadcasting at the same resolution as...

 and 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...

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