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Tonis 
Tonis logo Launched September 2005 Closed February 23, 2009 Owned by Ethnic Channels Group Picture format 4:3 (480i, SDTV) Country Canada Broadcast area National Headquarters Toronto, Ontario Formerly called Channel 5 (2005 - 2007)
1+1 International (2007 - 2008)Tonis, was a Canadian category 2 Ukrainian language digital cable specialty channel owned by Ethnic Channels Group. The channel broadcast TV programming from Ukraine and local Canadian content.
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History
Inter+
On June 16, 2004, the Ethnic Channels Group (ECG) launched an ethnic Category 2 Specialty television service under the licence Ukrainian TV One issued by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). Initially, ECG brought to Canada Inter+, a bilingual (Ukrainian/Russian) satellite TV service from Ukraine. The channel, which targets Ukrainian Diasporas around the world, is an international version of Ukrainian national terrestrial/cable TV network, Inter.
Channel 5
In September 2005, ECG re-branded Inter+ with Channel 5 (in Cyrillic: “5 канал”), a national news network from Ukraine. The channel uses the BBC format with news coverage every hour and it brands itself as “A Truthful News Channel”.
1+1 International
On June 2006, in its effort to boost subscription to the channel, ECG re-branded Channel 5 with 1+1 International, a Ukrainian-language TV channel from Ukraine. It is an international version of Studio 1+1 for the Ukrainian communities abroad. The main concept of 1+1 International is up-to-date TV Service of News and documentary projects combined with popular TV-series.
Tonis
In the fall of 2008, 1+1 International became unavailable in North America. By that time, Rogers, a Canadian major cable provider, had dropped the channel from its line-up due to law subscription. ECG, yet again, rebranded the channel with Tonis (in Cyrillic: “Тоніс”) an informational & educational channel from Ukraine.
In February 2009, both Aurora Cable and Telus TV, the only carriers of the channel, dropped the channel from their line-ups, rendering the channel no longer available.
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