Alliance Atlantis, best known in Canadian TV for their specialty programming channels, HGTV Canada, Life Network, Food Network, History Television, and Showcase. Have been granted an ammendment to their broadcasting licesnse to also broadcast in Hight Definition. Its great to see the CRTC finally making decisions again for the consumer. Who knows when they will start to broadcast in HD, but at least some news is good news at this point. You can read about the CRTC Decision here.
Hopefully it isn’t long before we get to enjoy showcase in HD! 
[via Digital Home Canada]
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Wow, I never thought that I would see the day. HD Net is comming to Canada. HD Net offers 24/7 high definition programming. Currently, we have only been able to see HD Net programming in Canada via pay per view on Bell Express Vu.
The reason this is such a huge suprise to me is that the CRTC actually made a decision that is going to benefit viewers like us. Almost all of the Canadian networks (CBC, Global, CTV, SportsNet, etc) were opposed to this. Likely due to the fact that they are finally going to be forced to produce content in HD.
The previous federal liberal government pressued the CRTC to postpone making a decision on HDNet for the past three years.
No idea as to when we will see HDNet in our programming guides, but it is refreshing to hear that they have been added to the “list”.
Good move CRTC, I applaud you.
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In case you havn’t heard, the FIFA World Cup starts in a couple of days. And for those of you, who like me subscribe to Bell Express Vu’s HD service, you will be able to catch all of the games in HD! Rogers Sports Net and TSN w/ CTV have teamed up to bring all of the games over to Canada. TSN and SportsNet will share the games and CTV will air the final.
If you are a Shaw customer you should be able to get The games and the finale, since Shaw does carry SportsNet HD, TSN HD, and CTV HD.
I’m hoping CTV does a better job with the World Cup final then they have been doing with their simsub’d HD shows. (CSI, American Idol, etc).
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