Vision TV
| VisionTV | |
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| Launched | September 1, 1988 |
| Owned by | ZoomerMedia |
| Picture format | 480i (SDTV) |
| Slogan | Zoomer TV |
| Country | Canada |
| Broadcast area | National |
| Headquarters | Toronto, Ontario |
| Website | VisionTV |
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Availability
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| Satellite | |
| Bell TV | Channel 261 |
| Shaw Direct | Channel 394 |
| Cable | |
| Available on most Canadian cable systems | Check local listings, channels may vary |
| IPTV | |
| Bell Aliant Fibe TV | Channel 996 |
| Bell Fibe TV | Channel 261 |
| MTS | Channel 26 |
| Optik TV | Channel 871 |
| SaskTel | Channel 23 |
| VMedia | Channel 60 |
| Zazeen | Channel 131 |
VisionTV is a Canadian English language Category A specialty channel that broadcasts multi-faith, multicultural, and general entertainment programming aimed at the 45 and over demographic.
VisionTV is currently owned by ZoomerMedia, a company controlled by Moses Znaimer. VisionTV's funding comes from cable subscription fees, viewer donations, advertising revenues and the sale of airtime to faith groups.
Licensed in December 1987 by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), the channel was launched in 1988 under the ownership of a nonprofit organization that eventually evolved into S-VOX. It was initially one of Canada's more popular cable channels. However, with the proliferation of new cable channels, it has been moved up the dial by carriers and become less available to audiences, causing a drop in its viewership. VisionTV lacked clout with cable carriers as it was then a one-channel operation owned by a not-for-profit organization rather than a large commercial entity operating many channels.
Notably, Rogers Cable was criticized in 1997 for moving Vision to Channel 59 on its Toronto system, rendering it inaccessible to many apartment residents because 59 is the channel most commonly overridden by the lobby camera service in apartment buildings. After Vision protested, Rogers offered to put Vision on channel 78 as well, but Vision turned that down because many of its viewers' sets can't reach that far.
Network vice-president Rita Deverell, who hosted interstitial segments between programs, was the network's most prominent on-air personality from its launch until she left in 2002 to work for APTN.
Some evangelical Christian denominations view the station as liberal in orientation, and thus prefer more evangelically oriented operations such as the Crossroads Television System (CTS).
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