Saturday, February 21, 2009

Indie TV Canada is Coming

There has been a link for them up on the site for awhile now, but I don't remember if I've ever actually written anything about them, so you should know indieTV.ca is online and indieTV should be coming to your cable dial soon.
"The CRTC has granted the company a licence to broadcast a National Digital Television Channel playing 100% Canadian music by acts and artists who are not funded by, signed to or physically distributed by the four major multinational music labels (EMI, SONY/BMG, Warner, Universal) or their subsidiaries.

The station will be one part of the Ultimate Indie Meshwork which will include the TV channel, internet website and mobile platform."
For more info on the coming TV channel and a sample programing grid visit the about section of their website. Since MTV and Much music have pretty much abandoned music - except for the occasional commercial schlock a network that just played indie music video all the time would dramatically improve the odds of there being something on television.

The website already contains hundreds of videos and a social media like platform that allows you to 'friend' the bands you like. Go and have a look about and sign up while the good user names are still available!

5 comments:

Cyndi in BC said...

when I click on any of the "indie" links in this post, my virus scanner shuts it down saying that it contains a trojan horse virus??

Justin Beach said...

Hi Cyndi, I think that your filter is being over sensitive. I've been on the site 3-4 times today and there's nothing wrong with it.

Cyndi in BC said...

ok, I'll try again.

Cyndi in BC said...

JS:Redirector-D [Trj] Apparently it is a javascript virus that inserts itself into a database. Maybe you could pass that info along to the right people? Thanks!

Justin Beach said...

Yeah, it's a redirector. A redirector is not a virus. Try this http://www.indiepipe.ca/home.php. Your virus software is just wrong/overly sensitive.