Quebec’s largest French TV network, TVA, is set to launch Canada’s first French-language lifestyle channel.

Although French TV network TVA won’t confirm when the digital channel Télé-Services will be available, a spokesman said it would be in the coming months. While content details have yet to be confirmed, TVA’s application to the CRTC proposed offering a digital service devoted to construction, renovation, gardening, interior design and decorating.

When the CRTC issued the licence in August 2005, Astral Broadcasting – which holds a licence for a similar, yet-to-be-launched channel, Chez moi – expressed concern that Télé-Services would compete with existing services.

From Playback Daily