Cathay International Television


Cathay International Television was a Canadian television broadcasting company.
Formed in 1982 when a partnership as World View as a multi-ethnic regional pay television network in British Columbia, but forced to re-organize under bankruptcy in 1984 when it ran into financial problems and acquire interest in fulfilling 92 hours a week of ethnic broadcasting.
After the departure of Liu, the remaining partners formed Cathay International Television Incorporated and changed their format to provide 96% Chinese content on the new channel with the rest with other ethnic programming.
The channels main programming was from Hong Kong with only 21.5 hours from local programming.
The company grew from a Vancouver area broadcaster to become a regional broadcaster, but failed to provide access to non-Chinese programming as required by the CRTC. It was purchased in 1987 by Chinavision Canada to become a national cable channel for Chinese language communities in Canada. Today it is part of Fairchild TV broadcasting network.

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