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Ethnic Channels Group is the leading provider of non-English language digital TV channels to Canada’s multicultural population. The company holds 53 Category 2 CRTC licenses for digital channels.
By selecting the best channels from around the world and delivering them directly to viewer’s homes via a licensed North American satellite and/or cable provider, such as Rogers, Shaw Cable, Bell TV, Telus TV and Dish Network, Ethnic Channels Group provides essential entertainment and information services to non-English speakers throughout North America. From its state-of-the-art broadcast facility in Toronto, Ethnic Channels Group delivers the very best programming available from the countries of origin, spiced with locally produced foreign language shows. This combination creates a service that meets the diverse needs of today’s émigré population, which is underserved by mainstream media sources.
Not only do we broadcast channels directly from our facility in Toronto, we also provide facility services to numerous third language channels being broadcast in Canada and the United States.
As a company, we can offer:
- PRODUCTION FACILITIES
In addition to digital transmission and broadcast facilities, ECG offers creative and post-channel production services for television and radio broadcast clients globally. Services include on-site dubbing (both existing and new creative for use on multiple channels), overseas resources (talent) and commerical production.
Ethnic Channels Group specializes in providing North American émigrés with the top-rated and most respected TV channels from their native homeland, broadcasting news, current affairs, sports, drama series, movies and general entertainment in their native languages. Ethnic Channels Group provides these services at the most affordable price so the majority of people can enjoy this link to their homeland and cultural heritage.
- TRANSMISSON
Ethnic Channels Group owns and operates a satellite earth station (uplink) facilities located in Toronto, Canada. The Toronto Network Control Centre – NCC is a fully equipped transmission facility with multiple operating C Band and Ku Band domestic and international satellite earth station.
- INTERNATIONAL FIBRE CONNECTIVITY
Ethnic Channels Group operates Multiple and Single carrier fibre platforms on the Telia Carrier Backbone capacity. The capacity provides for transmission link from Europe to North America. Ethnic Channels Group maintains full-time capacity from Haninge/Stockholm, Sweden (Telia Carriers POP), with occasional capacity from London, England and Torino, Italy. Direct connectivity is available from Europe to North Americawith direct access to Bell fibre and broadcast swtich centres.
Ethnic Channels Group provides the distribution of multiple international language services on Canadian Cable and Satellite Providers.
- PROGRAMMING DISTRIBUTION AND PLAYBACK CENTRE
The Ethnic Channels Group Network Control Centre – NCC is equipped with complete analogue and MPEG II digital receiving equipment, the latest television digital delay and storage facilities, electronic news gathering systems, editing and program insertion suites, and post-production digital editing facillities.
- DISTRIBUTION
Ethnic Channels Group is the first company to operate specialized international language programming, targeting ethnic expatriates living in Canada and providing premium full-time television programming in their native languages. Access to live news, sports entertainment and information supports these recent Canadians in maintaining their native culture, while integrating them into Canadian society.
Our company believes that access to these growing segments of the population offers attractive market demographics and enormous purchasing potential. Ethnic Channels Group has created a distribution and information superhighway to these market opportunities.
- CALL CENTRE
In order to provide complete and successful marketing and distribution of our many international language services, we have created a unique “in-language” telephone Call Centre. Our International Call Centre permits Ethnic Channels Group to provide the necessary information to support customers by providing “in-language customer service, program information, technical assistance and installation.
Like the émigrés population itself, Ethnic Channels Group is expanding the number of its offerings at an exponential rate.
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