Television news: Uvagut TV launches across Canada

Meanwhile, Prime Monday Night hockey fills out its roster of analysts .

Today, Uvagut TV, one of the world’s only solely-Indigenous language television channels, will start available across Canada in basic cable packages.

“After the landmark CRTC decision approving NITV’s application under Section 9(1)(h) of the Broadcasting Act in October, NITV began to work to ensure that our broadcast service will be available for basic cable packages across Canada to over 10 million subscribers,” the company said in a statement. “We anticipate that our service should be fully operational nationwide in the coming few weeks.”

Now, Nunavut Independent Television will have to make content to fill all that airtime. According to its statement, Uvagut TV is looking for productions to finance, from documentaries to children’s programming.

Launched in 2021, Uvagut TV (meaning “our” TV) is Canada’s first 24/7 Inuktitut language television station. Broadcasting to 600,000 subscribers on Shaw, Arctic Co-op and local satellite channels across Canada, Uvagut TV is owned and operated by Nunavut Independent Television (NITV), an Inuit-owned non-profit founded in 1991.

Prime is bringing the talent to Monday Night Hockey

Prime Video in Canada has tapped Olympic gold medalist and one of the stars of the PWHL’s Toronto Sceptres, Sarah Nurse, and Leafs’ legends Doug Gilmour and Wendel Clark to host Prime Monday Night Hockey‘s intermission panels.

Nurse will offer her expertise alongside NHL Player Inclusion Coalition member Blake Bolden and Canadian broadcaster and host Adnan Virk. Gilmour and Clark will also offer their expertise when they visit the Prime Monday Night Hockey broadcast table, which is live on-location at each home team’s arena on Monday nights.

Prime Monday Night Hockey will include the Home Ice Access segment and pre-game, halftime and post-game analysis. Home Ice Access will feature behind-the-scenes at the arena before the games. Prime Video will also be offering the interactive Rapid Recap feature, which helps those joining the game in progress catch up on the action they missed by using machine learning to compile big plays and exciting moments into a short two-minute highlight package.

Prime Video in Canada is the home of Prime Monday Night Hockey, which airs all NHL national regular season games on Monday nights in English during the 2024-25 season, and NHL Coast to Coast, the weekly Thursday night show. Prime also offers exclusive coverage of all 16 PWHL games on Tuesday nights for the 2024-25 season.