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Television channel
Filmy
 Filmy Canada logo
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| Country
| Canada
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| Broadcast area
| National
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| Headquarters
| Mississauga
,
Ontario
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| Picture format
| 480i
(
SDTV
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| Owner
| SoundView Entertainment
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| Launched
| April 29, 2009
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Filmy
is a
Canadian
Category B
Hindi language
specialty channel
owned by SoundView Entertainment Inc.
Filmy broadcasts
Bollywood
films, music programs, and other Bollywood film based programming.
History
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In October 2007, SoundView Entertainment Inc. was granted approval by the
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
(CRTC) to launch a television channel called
Sahara Filmy
, described as
"a national, third-language ethnic Category 2 specialty service devoted to the Hindi-speaking community. The programming schedule shall only consist of feature films, made-for-TV movies, actor interviews, documentaries and similar movie-related programming."
[1]
The channel launched as
Filmy
on April 29, 2009 initially on
Rogers Cable
.
See also
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