Galaxie

Galaxie is a Canadian digital broadcasting or digital television radio service, which offers 45 commercial-free music channels, each devoted to a particular genre of music, using no live, on-air disc jockeys. It is distributed with digital cable or direct broadcast satellite services such as Rogers Digital Cable, Bell ExpressVu and Star Choice.

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Galaxie is owned and operated by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

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Because of service duplication, MaxTrax (another music provider) and Galaxie agreed in 2002 to provide a joint 40-channel audio distribution service to satellite and digital cable television providers. This service is known as the "Max Trax Galaxie Package".

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