TVOntario

TVOntario, officially the Ontario Educational Communications Authority, is an educational public television broadcaster in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is owned directly by the provincial government of Ontario. Instead of following the model of the federally-owned CBC, which shows commercials, TVOntario is instead, like PBS in the United States, funded largely by donations from the public, particularly from viewer contributions made during on-air pledge drives.

Related Topics:
Public television - Canadian - Ontario - CBC - PBS - United States

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TVOntario's English service, currently branded TVO, is Canada's oldest educational TV service, and the country's second oldest UHF TV channel. It has larger over-the-air coverage in Ontario than the CBC, reaching 98.5% of Ontario with 216 transmitters.

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All TVO rebroadcast transmitters have the call letters CICA, CICO or CICE, followed by a number to denote their status as rebroadcasters.

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TVOntario also operates TFO, a separate network for Franco-Ontarian audiences. Before the launch of TFO, TVO aired French-language programming on Sundays. Even after TFO's launch, TVO and TFO swapped programming on Sundays well into the 1990s.

Related Topics:
TFO - Franco-Ontarian - French-language - 1990s

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