As from 6 April, viewers in Ontario are able to watch GERMAN TV as Cogeco Cable has added GERMAN TV to its bouquet of digital Pay TV channels. GERMAN TV is now available in Burlington, Oakville, Lindsay, Milton, Georgetown, Ancaster, Dundas, Greensville, Hamilton-Stoney Creek and Flamborough on channel 106 (www.cogeco.com).
Oliver Mojen, GERMAN TVs Head of Programmes sees this as an important step towards the goal of covering Canada entirely. On 8 April, German TV celebrated its third anniversary. It is a joint venture of Germanys broadcasters ARD, ZDF and Deutsche Welle. Its mission is to provide German-speaking viewers abroad with the best of German public service television. Currently the channel has 18.500 subscribers, an increase of 85% since autumn 2004. In the US, GERMAN TV is partnering with one of the leading satellite networks, DISH Network/EchoStar. In Canada GERMAN TV entered the market successfully in partnership with Rogers Cable. The channel has also launched on Time Warner Cable in New York, thus covering the largest regional German-speaking market in North America. GERMAN TV is currently available in the US, Canada, Mexiko, the Dominican Republic and Chile. Plans are underway to extend coverage to Brasil via satellite.