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Max Trax
Max Trax was a Canadian pay television audio service that broadcast continuous streaming music on multiple channel feeds. The service was owned by Stingray Digital.
Originally known as Digital Music Express in 1997, the channel later closed in 2009 as Max Trax once assets related to the service were sold to Stingray Digital, owners of a similar service, then known as Galaxie and eventually as Stingray Music.
At the time of its closing, Max Trax offered 22 commercial-free music based audio channels, each devoted to a particular musical genre or theme, distributed through digital television platforms. Each channel consisted of a continuous stream of music or audio, using no live, on-air disc jockeys. The majority of channels broadcast English music, however, French and instrumental channels were also available.
In December 1995, DMX Canada (1995) Ltd., a joint venture between Shaw Cablesystems (80%) and International Cablecasting Technologies Inc. (ICT) (20%), an American company associated with the similar American service, DMX, was granted a broadcasting licence from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). At the time of this decision, it was proposed that the service would consist of a mixture of Canadian-produced channels, along with channels directly from the American service.
The service launched in the summer of 1997 as Digital Music Express, often referred to as simply DMX, with 30 channels.
In early 1999, Digital Music Express launched a new logo, officially referring itself as DMX in all consumer media.
In September 1999, Shaw's broadcasting assets were spun-off into a separately traded company to comply with CRTC regulations, creating Corus Entertainment, DMX's new owners.
In February 2002, Corus announced that it would be purchasing all remaining shares of the DMX television service from DMX MUSIC, Inc. (formerly ICT), while also selling all remaining shares of the DMX business unit, a provider of licensed music for commercial use in stores, restaurants, and other commercial setting, to DMX MUSIC, Inc. The service would be rebranded Max Trax just 3 months later on May 1, 2002.
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Max Trax
Max Trax was a Canadian pay television audio service that broadcast continuous streaming music on multiple channel feeds. The service was owned by Stingray Digital.
Originally known as Digital Music Express in 1997, the channel later closed in 2009 as Max Trax once assets related to the service were sold to Stingray Digital, owners of a similar service, then known as Galaxie and eventually as Stingray Music.
At the time of its closing, Max Trax offered 22 commercial-free music based audio channels, each devoted to a particular musical genre or theme, distributed through digital television platforms. Each channel consisted of a continuous stream of music or audio, using no live, on-air disc jockeys. The majority of channels broadcast English music, however, French and instrumental channels were also available.
In December 1995, DMX Canada (1995) Ltd., a joint venture between Shaw Cablesystems (80%) and International Cablecasting Technologies Inc. (ICT) (20%), an American company associated with the similar American service, DMX, was granted a broadcasting licence from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). At the time of this decision, it was proposed that the service would consist of a mixture of Canadian-produced channels, along with channels directly from the American service.
The service launched in the summer of 1997 as Digital Music Express, often referred to as simply DMX, with 30 channels.
In early 1999, Digital Music Express launched a new logo, officially referring itself as DMX in all consumer media.
In September 1999, Shaw's broadcasting assets were spun-off into a separately traded company to comply with CRTC regulations, creating Corus Entertainment, DMX's new owners.
In February 2002, Corus announced that it would be purchasing all remaining shares of the DMX television service from DMX MUSIC, Inc. (formerly ICT), while also selling all remaining shares of the DMX business unit, a provider of licensed music for commercial use in stores, restaurants, and other commercial setting, to DMX MUSIC, Inc. The service would be rebranded Max Trax just 3 months later on May 1, 2002.