BiteTV

"BITE" redirects here. For "Newcomer Bites" on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:BITE.

BiteTV

Launched	March 15, 2005
Owned by	Glassbox Television Inc
Country	Canada
Broadcast area	National
Headquarters	Mississauga, Ontario
Website	BiteTV
Availability
Satellite
Bell TV	Channel 530
Cable
Cogeco	Channel 123
EastLink	Channel 220
Rogers Cable	Channel 322
IPTV over ADSL
Aliant TV	Channel 213
MTS	Channel 322
SaskTel	Channel 162
TELUS TV	Channel 186

BiteTV (often referred to as simply Bite) is a Canadian English language category 2 digital cable specialty channel. BiteTV is a youth oriented channel that broadcasts short form programming including comedy shorts, videography and gaming, animation, music, professional and amateur productions and more. Bite is an interactive television channel that delivers on-air interaction, online participation, wireless downloading and PC or mobile chat-to-screen directly on the television.

Bite has a working relation with Stomp Records, Network Ireland and MavTV in the United States. As well, in 2007, Bite signed a deal with Joost, agreeing to provide content to the online TV service.

1 On-Screen features
- 1.1 PC Chat 2 Screen
2 Awards
3 Notable programming
4 History
- 4.1 Logos
5 External links

On-Screen features

BiteTV utilizes a slightly smaller viewing screen then most other television channels, with the remaining space used to display on-air promotions and upcoming shows, a BiteTV office webcam, a status bar to show the remaining time left in the show, and a feature called The Crawl that contains pointless facts, weird laws, updates on programming, and the PC Chat 2 Screen function.

PC Chat 2 Screen

PC Chat 2 Screen is a function created by Bite that lets the viewer interact with the channel and other viewers by letting them have their say on the channel within minutes of typing it. The viewer types in their message and it appears on the crawl.

Criticism of this features have been that viewers can spam the Crawl with various website URLs, leading to the Crawl and PC Chat 2 Screen being manually shut down for the remainder of the night. To advert this, BiteTV has set up features that include certain words automatically banned from entering the Crawl through the PC Chat 2 Screen function.

Awards

In May 2007, BITE Television won an International Emmy in the category of "Interactive Channel". In 2006, BITE Television won the Canadian New Media Award for excellence for the category of cross-platform.

Notable programming

The Conventioneers
De Laws of Nature
Uncle Joe's Cartoon Playhouse
Jim Dupree: Enthusiast
Bodog Music Videos
Stomp Records Videos
AUX TV
Closer
Rippin' It, Lippin' It

History

BITE TV was licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) in December 2001 as Short TV and was launched on March 15, 2005 as BITE TV on Rogers Digital Cable as the first provider to carry the channel.