AIM Pay-Tv Corp.

AIM Pay-Tv also AIM Satellite Broadcasting, licensed as World View is a now defunct Canadian regional premium television service based in British Columbia.

AIM was launched on February 1, 1983 like the rest of the Canadian pay-tv channels. [cite news | last = | first = | title = Here Comes Pay-tv| pages = | publisher = TV Guide | date = January 15, 1983 ]

By 1984 financial difficulties lead to an amalgamation with Superchannel who by that time had a monopoly on pay-television in western Canada.

Ownership

* 90% owned by company controlled by Frank Zimmer and George Spracklin. [cite news
last = Westell
first = Dan
title = Pay-TV: Visions of riches lure big bidders
pages =
publisher = Globe and Mail
date = September 26, 1981 ]

They held $15.8 million in equity at the time of licence.

They promised to spend $46.3 million on Canadian content over 5 years (1983-88), and would make a $6.4 million profit by 1988.

Management

* Justine Bizzocchi, Programming Director

Programming

Besides movies, programming on AIM/World View included Italian soccer, sumo wrestling, and the Asian Games in New Delhi.

It broadcast a total of 90 hours per week in several languages: English, French, German, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Icelandic, Japanese, Chinese, Italian, Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu.

Pricing

The wholesale price would be $7/month.

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