SHAW Expands Cable Line-up With the Addition of New Digital Cable Services.CALGARY, Alberta--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 13, 1999--(TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). :SJR SJR Senate Joint Resolution SJR Superjoint Ritual (band) SJR St John Rigby (Catholic Sixth Form College) SJR Signal-To-Jammer Ratio SJR Saint Joseph Regional High School (USA) .B.) (Alberta Stock Exchange Alberta Stock Exchange See Canadian Venture Exchange (CDNX). :SJR.B.) (Alberta Stock Exchange:SJR.A.) (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :SJR) SHAW Cablesystems G.P., the leader in the deployment of Digital Cable services in Canada, is pleased to announce that it will be expanding its Digital Cable line-up with the addition of several new programming services. These new services will include: Canadian Learning Television (CLT CLT total lung-thorax compliance. ), Star - The Entertainment Information Station, Talk TV, additional CTV CTV Canadian Television (Network Limited) Sportsnet regional feeds, Asian Television Network, Odyssey, Deutsche Welle and TV Japan. These services will be added to SHAW's Digital Cable line-up as soon as they become available. SHAW will offer Digital Cable customers three additional regional feeds of CTV Sportsnet from across Canada. This will greatly increase the number and variety of sporting events available to SHAW Digital Cable customers. SHAW has also reached agreements with Superchannel, and TMN (Telecommunications Management Network) A set of international standards for network management from the ITU. It is used by large carriers such as Sprint, Verizon and AT&T. (The Movie Network) Canada's 24 hour a day, premier movie services, to offer Superchannel and TMN customers two additional time-shifted movie feeds. This feature will allow customers the flexibility to watch their favourite movie at three separate times throughout the day. In order to address the cultural diversity within SHAW's communities, SHAW will offer the following ethnic channels: Asian Television Network: Providing general information and entertainment programming services produced in various typical Southeast Asian languages Southeast Asian languages, family of languages, sometimes also called Austroasiatic, spoken in SE Asia by about 80 million people. According to one school of thought, it has three subfamilies: the Mon-Khmer languages, the Munda languages, and the Annamese-Muong . Odyssey: The Greek language television network featuring news and entertainment programming Deutsche Welle: Providing news and information from Germany and Europe. TV Japan: The Japanese language news and entertainment network. SHAW has also increased its Digital Audio offering with the addition of Apna Sanjeet offering South Asian (Punjabi) radio services, Hellenic Radio offering Greek radio services, and Rhim Jim a South Asian (Hindi, Gujardi, Urdu) radio service. These audio services are in addition to DMX, Canada's first digital music service, offering 30 channels of commercial free digital music for a wide range of musical tastes. "SHAW is committed to expanding the entertainment and information choices we offer our customers, and Digital Cable helps to reach that goal" said Peter Bissonnette, Senior Vice President of Operations for SHAW. SHAW Communications Inc. is a diversified Canadian communications company whose core business is providing cable television services to approximately 1.5 million customers. It also has significant interests in radio broadcasting, television networks and direct to home satellite television service, as well as providing telecommunications and paging services to individual and business customers. |
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