Talentvision

Talentvision (Chinese: 城市電視) is a Canadian specialty TV channel primarily broadcasting in Mandarin Chinese. It is owned by the Vancouver-based Fairchild Media Group (a subsidiary of the Fairchild Group) and TVB. Talentvision's studios are located at Aberdeen Centre in the Golden Village district, along with Fairchild TV and Fairchild Radio, in Richmond, British Columbia. Talentvision features programming from China as well as Taiwan. It also has Korean- and Vietnamese-language blocks of programming.

Talentvision traces its origins to the regional pay TV service World View, which launched 1 February 1983. Though it had a multilingual remit, by far its strongest support was in the Chinese-speaking community, as was most of its programming. World View went into receivership 18 months after it debuted, following a decision by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to award a national pay TV licence for a Chinese-language channel to Chinavision. Shareholders in World View, organized as Cathay International Television, bought the channel out of receivership in 1985 and relaunched it as Cathay TV with programming from Hong Kong's TVB as well as locally produced news and programs for Indo-Canadian viewers. As a premium channel, it was unable to sell advertising, causing a financial strain; this condition was removed in 1992.

In 1993, the Fairchild Group acquired Chinavision and Cathay International Television. It reorganized the channels as Fairchild TV and Talentvision, respectively. TVB programming moved to Fairchild TV; in 1998, Talentvision began broadcasting primarily in Mandarin Chinese to complement the primarily Cantonese programs on Fairchild TV. Talentvision became a national service in 2001. It broadcasts a daily Canadian newscast and a suite of locally produced programs, as well as entertainment programs from mainland China and Taiwan.