TV Ontario
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| Provincewide Ontario Canada |
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| City | Toronto, Ontario |
| Branding | TVO |
| Slogan | Never Stop Learning |
| Channels | Digital: see below |
| Owner | Ontario Educational Communications Authority (Government of Ontario) |
| First air date | September 27, 1970 |
| Call letters' meaning |
CICA: CI Communications Authority CICO: CI Communications Ontario |
| Sister station(s) | TFO |
| Transmitter power | see below |
| Height | see below |
| Transmitter coordinates | see below |
| Licensing authority | CRTC |
| Website | tvo.org |
TVOntario (often shortened to TVO and stylized on-air as tvo) is a Canadian publicly funded English language educational television station and media organization serving the Canadian province of Ontario. It is operated by the Ontario Educational Communications Authority, a Crown corporation owned by the Government of Ontario. It operates two television stations: CICA (virtual and UHF digital channel 19) in Toronto and CICO-24 (virtual and UHF digital channel 24) in Ottawa, these two stations relay their programming across portions of Ontario through seven rebroadcast stations. It is available on pay television (cable, satellite, IPTV) providers throughout Ontario, all providers in the province are required to carry it on their basic tier, and programming can be streamed online.
TVO is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors, and supported by a network of Regional Councillors from across the province. TVO also reports to the Ontario legislature through the Minister of Education, in accordance with the Ontario Educational Communications Authority Act.
Instead of following the model of the federally owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's television services, which shows commercial advertisements, TVO instead chose a commercial-free model similar to the Public Broadcasting Service in the United States. This model was emulated by later provincial educational broadcasters Télé-Québec in Quebec and Knowledge Network in British Columbia. The majority of TVO's funding is provided by the Government of Ontario through the Ministry of Education, which provides $30 million annually, with additional funding provided by charitable donations.
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