Talentvision
 Talentvision logo | |
| Country | Canada |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | National |
| Headquarters | Richmond, British Columbia |
| Programming | |
| Language(s) | Mandarin |
| Picture format | 480i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Fairchild Group (80%) TVB (20%) |
| Sister channels | Fairchild TV Fairchild TV 2 HD |
| History | |
| Launched | 1993[specify] |
| Links | |
| Website | Talentvision (Chinese) Talentvision (English) |
| Availability | |
| Cable | |
| Cogeco | Channel 1096 (Ontario only) |
| Novus Entertainment | Channel 332 |
| Rogers Cable | Channel 803 |
| Shaw Cable | Channel 520 |
| Satellite | |
| Bell Satellite TV | Channel 719 |
| IPTV | |
| Bell Fibe TV | Channel 719 |
| Bell MTS | Channel 520 |
| Optik TV | Channel 2831 |
| Vmedia | Channel 719 |
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| Simplified Chinese | 城市电视 | ||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 城市電視 | ||||||||||||
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Talentvision is a Canadian Mandarin Chinese specialty channel. It is owned by the Vancouver-based Fairchild Media Group (a subsidiary of the Fairchild Group) and TVB. Talentvision's studios are located inside Aberdeen Centre in the Golden Village district along with Fairchild TV and Fairchild Radio, in Richmond, British Columbia.
Talentvision features programming from China as well as Taiwan. It also has a Korean and Vietnamese block of programming. Originally it was a regional TV station only available in British Columbia but it is now available nationally across Canada.
Talentvision is the first Mandarin channel in Canada and it first went on the air in 1993 (together with Fairchild TV). It started out as a channel with mixed Cantonese and Mandarin content. Originally the broadcasting content was 60% Cantonese and 40% Mandarin. It started broadcasting entirely in Mandarin from June 1998 onwards. All of the Cantonese programs were transferred to Fairchild TV.
News[]
Talentvision TV produces two hours of local news on the weekdays and one hour of local news on the weekends. The newscasts airs at 7:30 pm and at 11:30 pm and are anchored out of their studios in Richmond.
Talentvision also airs foreign Mandarin newscasts from CCTV and TVBS.
Current anchors[]
- Susan Cheng (成松子)
- Todd Ye (葉一滔)
See also[]
- Fairchild TV (FTV)
External links[]
- Official website (in Chinese)
- Analog cable television networks in Canada
- Chinese-language mass media in Canada
- Chinese-language television
- Companies based in Richmond, British Columbia
- Multicultural and ethnic television in Canada
- Television channels and stations established in 1993