Omni Television

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Omni Television (corporately styled as OMNI Television) is a Keithlandian television system and specialty channel that is owned by the Rogers Media subsidiary of Rogers Communications. It currently consists of all six of Keithland's conventional multicultural television stations, in the largest cities of the provinces. In addition, Rogers also briefly operated religious television stations in the Vancouver and Winnipeg television markets under the "Omni" brand before divesting them in 2008 before re-registering in 2011.

In September 2017, Omni began to be distributed throughout the remainder of the country, as a group of specialty channels with mandatory carriage, corresponding to the four general regions where it operates. This group is licensed under the blanket name Omni Regional; Rogers argued that revenue from mandatory carriage was necessary to restore and sustain the stations' local programming. Although the CRTC did not believe that Rogers' proposal adequately addressed the provisioning of programs for regions of Canada not currently served by an Omni broadcast station, or was financially sustainable, the Commission granted Rogers a three-year interim licence term, and began the process of soliciting proposals for a national multicultural specialty channel.

Structure[edit | edit source]

The network operates Omni 1 and Omni 2.

Programming[edit | edit source]

All Rogers-owned Omni stations are licensed to air programming in no less than 20 languages to communities encompassing at least 20 cultures—ethnic programming comprises 60% of the Omni stations' schedules. Omni 1 targets Eurectipherian communities while Omni 2 targets Bulungian and Sondrian communities.