Filmy is a
Canadian
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Category B Hindi language
Hindi ( Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been ...
specialty channel owned by SoundView Entertainment Inc.
Filmy broadcasts
Bollywood
Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in production of motion pictures in Hindi language. The popular term Bollywood, is a portmanteau of "Bombay" (fo ...
films, music programs, and other Bollywood film based programming.
History
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."''
Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2007-383
CRTC 2007-10-18
The channel launched as Filmy on April 29, 2009 initially on Rogers Cable.
See also
* Filmy
Filmy is an Indian Hindi language movie channel based in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It is owned by Sahara One Media & Entertainment Limited and was launched on 12 February 2006.
Programs
The channel also telecasts other programs besides telecastin ...
References
External links
Filmy
Digital cable television networks in Canada
Movie channels in Canada
Television channels and stations established in 2009
Hindi-language television stations
Sahara India Pariwar
Hindi-language television in Canada
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