Editing Pay-per-view (section)

===Canada===
In Canada, most specialty television providers provide pay-per-view programming through one or more services. In all cases, prices typically range from around [[Canadian dollar|C$]]4.99 (for movies) up to $50 or more for special events.

Initially, there were three major PPV providers in Canada; [[Viewers Choice]] operated in Eastern Canada as a joint venture of [[Astral Media]], [[Rogers Communications]], and [[The Sports Network|TSN]]. [[Western International Communications]] operated a separate service in the west initially known as Home Theatre; it was later rebranded as Viewers Choice under license.

Viewers Choice Canada was a partner in a French-language PPV service known as [[Canal Indigo]], which is now entirely owned by [[Videotron]]. [[Bell Canada]] launched a PPV service for its [[Bell Satellite TV|ExpressVu]] television provider known as [[Vu!]] in 1999.

Home Theatre was later acquired by [[Shaw Communications]]; after gaining permission to operate nationally, it re-branded as a [[White-label product|white-label]] PPV known internally as [[Shaw PPV]] in December 2007. In 2014, due to [[Bell Media]]'s majority ownership of Viewers Choice because of its acquisition of Astral, and because both Bell and Rogers now ran their own in-house PPV operations (Vu! and [[Sportsnet PPV]]), Viewers Choice was shut down.<ref name="multinews-vcc-shutdown">{{cite web|url=http://www.multichannel.com/news/networks/viewers-choice-canada-winding-down/382680|first=Kent|last=Gibbons|title=Viewers Choice Canada Winding Down: Bell, Rogers-Owned Pay-Per-View Provider Closing Sept. 30|work=[[Multichannel News]]|date=2014-07-22|access-date=2014-07-23}}</ref>