AIM Pay-Tv Corp.
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AIM Pay-Tv also AIM Satellite Broadcasting, licensed as World View is a now defunct Canadian regional premium television service based in British Columbia.
AIM was launched on February 1, 1983 like the rest of the Canadian pay-tv channels.[1]
By 1984 financial difficulties lead to an amalgamation with Superchannel who by that time had a monopoly on pay-television in western Canada.
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[edit] Ownership
- 90% owned by company controlled by Frank Zimmer and George Spracklin.[2]
They held $15.8 million in equity at the time of license.
They promised to spend $46.3 million on Canadian content over 5 years (1983-88), and would make a $6.4 million profit by 1988.
[edit] Management
- Justine Bizzocchi, Programming Director
[edit] Programming
Besides movies, programming on AIM/World View included Italian soccer, sumo wrestling, and the Asian Games in New Dehli.
It broadcast a total of 90 hours per week in several languages: English, French, German, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Icelandic, Japanese, Chinese, Italian, Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu.
[edit] Pricing
The wholesale price would be $7/month.
[edit] References
- ^ "Here Comes Pay-tv", TV Guide, January 15, 1983.
- ^ Westell, Dan. "Pay-TV: Visions of riches lure big bidders", Globe and Mail, September 26, 1981.
