| Bravo | |
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| Launched | January 1, 1995 |
| Owned by | Bell Media |
| Picture format | 1080i (HDTV) (2011-present) 480i (SDTV) (1995-present) |
| Country | Canada |
| Broadcast area | National |
| Headquarters | Toronto, Ontario |
| Website | Bravo |
| Availability | |
| Satellite | |
| Bell TV | Channel 620 (SD) Channel 1734 (HD) |
| Shaw Direct | Channel 523 (SD) |
| Cable | |
| Available on most Canadian cable systems | Check local listings, channels may vary |
| IPTV | |
| Bell Aliant TV | Channel 203 (SD) |
| Bell Fibe TV | Channel 620 (SD) Channel 1620 (HD) |
| MTS | Channel 123 (SD) |
| Optik TV | Channel 171 (SD) |
| SaskTel | Channel 73 (SD) |
Bravo (formerly styled as Bravo!) is a Canadian English language Category A specialty channel owned by Bell Media. Bravo is an entertainment channel with a particular focus on television dramas and films, as well as art-related programming.
The channel was originally founded as a Canadian version of the U.S. channel Bravo (which is now owned by NBCUniversal). However, both channels have since diverged from their original formats; Bravo in the U.S. shifted to airing programming related to fashion and pop culture in 2003, while Bravo in Canada began to add more dramatic series to its lineup. Nonetheless, it still airs the few remaining arts-related programs its American counterpart airs, such as Inside the Actors Studio and Work of Art.
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History [link]
In the 1980s, a precursor to Bravo! existed called C Channel. It was a national commercial-free pay television channel that focused on arts programming. C Channel launched on February 1, 1983 before it when bankrupt and ceased operations on June 30, 1983 due to its inability to attract a sufficient number of subscribers at a price of $16 per month.
Over 10 years later, another attempt at an arts-based channel was proposed when CHUM Limited applied to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) for Bravo!. In June 1994, CHUM's application for Bravo! was approved, citing its nature of service as focusing on "performance and drama programming, as well as documentary and discussion."[1]
Bravo! launched on January 1, 1995 with the tagline, "NewStyleArtsChannel". It focused on arts programming, including music, ballet, literature, television and film drama, visual arts, modern dance, opera and architecture. As a condition of licence, Bravo! was to contribute a predetermined amount or percentage of its revenues to ArtsFACT (now called Bravo!FACT), a fund established to provide grants for the production of Canadian short films covering a wide range of arts-related disciplines. Films funded by Bravo!FACT have regularly aired on the channel.
In July 2006, Bell Globemedia (later called CTVglobemedia) announced that it would purchase CHUM for an estimated $1.7 billion CAD, included in the sale was Bravo![2] The sale was subject to CRTC approval and was approved in June 2007,[3] with the transaction completed on June 22, 2007.
After CTVglobemedia's purchase of Bravo!, the channel increasingly shifted its focus toward more television and film dramas such as Mad Men and Criminal Minds, and lessening its focus on arts programming.
On September 10, 2010, BCE (a minority shareholder in CTVglobemedia) announced that it planned to acquire 100% interest in CTVglobemedia for a total debt and equity transaction cost of $3.2 billion CAD.[4] The deal which required CRTC approval, was approved on March 7, 2011[5] and closed on April 1 of that year, on which CTVglobemedia was rebranded Bell Media.[6]
While under Bell Media ownership, the shift toward television and film dramas and general entertainment was extended and is the point at which the channel exists today. This was further emphasized with a new logo introduced on May 14, 2012, rendering the channel's name as simply Bravo, dropping the previous "square" logo that it had used since its original launch, and no longer resembling any logo that its American counterpart had used.
Logos [link]
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| Regular Bravo logo, 1995–2012 | Bravo HD logo, 2011–2012 | Current Bravo logo, 2012–present |
Original programs [link]
Between programs, Bravo often airs short films by Canadian artists, funded by its foundation Bravo!FACT, which may range from comedy to drama to opera to jazz to animation. Many of these also air on Bravo's weekly series Bravo!Fact Presents.
- Arts & Minds
- At the Concert Hall
- Bravo!Fact Presents
- Bravo!NEWS
- Bravo! Videos
- Live at the Rehearsal Hall
- The O'Regan Files
Bravo has also produced a number of notable specials, including a telecast of Canadian rock band Spirit of the West's Open Heart Symphony concert with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.
Bravo HD [link]
On October 6, 2011, a high definition simulcast of Bravo's standard definition feed was launched. It is currently available on Bell TV, Bell Fibe TV, Shaw Cable and Videotron.
References [link]
- ^ CRTC Decision 1994-281
- ^ Bell Globemedia acquires CHUM; Fasken Martineau; 2006-07-12
- ^ Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2007-165; CRTC; 2007-06-08
- ^ Bell Canada (2010-09-10). "Bell to acquire 100% of Canada's No.1 media company CTV". CNW Group. https://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/September2010/10/c8677.html. Retrieved 2010-09-10.
- ^ CRTC approves BCE's purchase of CTVglobemedia
- ^ Bell completes acquisition of CTV, launches Bell Media business unit CNW 2011-04-01
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Bravo (U.S. TV network)
Bravo Media, LLC, more commonly known as Bravo, is an American basic cable and satellite television network and flagship channel, launched on December 1, 1980. It is owned by NBCUniversal and headquartered in the Comcast Building in New York City. The channel originally focused on programming related to fine arts and film; it currently broadcasts several reality television series targeted at females ages 25 through 54, acquired dramas, and mainstream theatrically-released feature films.
As of July 2015, approximately 90,891,000 American households (78.1% of households with television) receive Bravo.
History
Bravo originally launched as a commercial-free premium channel on December 1, 1980. It was originally co-owned by Cablevision's Rainbow Media division and Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment; the channel claimed to be "the first television service dedicated to film and the performing arts". The channel originally broadcast its programming two days a week and—like Bravo's former sister network Nickelodeon, which shared its channel space with Alpha Repertory Television Service—shared its channel space with the adult-oriented pay channel Escapade, which featured softcore pornographic films. In 1981, Bravo was available to 48,000 subscribers throughout the United States; this total increased four years later to around 350,000 subscribers. A 1985 profile of Bravo in The New York Times observed that most of its programming consisted of international, classic, and independent film. Celebrities such as E. G. Marshall and Roberta Peters provided opening and closing commentary to the films broadcast on the channel.
Bravo (Dr. Sin album)
Bravo is the seventh album by the hard rock band Dr. Sin. It was released in July 2007 by Century Media in Brazil.
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Special Guests
Gus Monsanto on the track Drowing in Sin.
Hudson Cadorini on the track Think it Over.
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Formal language
In mathematics, computer science, and linguistics, a formal language is a set of strings of symbols that may be constrained by rules that are specific to it.
The alphabet of a formal language is the set of symbols, letters, or tokens from which the strings of the language may be formed; frequently it is required to be finite. The strings formed from this alphabet are called words, and the words that belong to a particular formal language are sometimes called well-formed words or well-formed formulas. A formal language is often defined by means of a formal grammar such as a regular grammar or context-free grammar, also called its formation rule.
The field of formal language theory studies primarily the purely syntactical aspects of such languages—that is, their internal structural patterns. Formal language theory sprang out of linguistics, as a way of understanding the syntactic regularities of natural languages. In computer science, formal languages are used among others as the basis for defining the grammar of programming languages and formalized versions of subsets of natural languages in which the words of the language represent concepts that are associated with particular meanings or semantics. In computational complexity theory, decision problems are typically defined as formal languages, and complexity classes are defined as the sets of the formal languages that can be parsed by machines with limited computational power. In logic and the foundations of mathematics, formal languages are used to represent the syntax of axiomatic systems, and mathematical formalism is the philosophy that all of mathematics can be reduced to the syntactic manipulation of formal languages in this way.
Language (disambiguation)
Language is the human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication, and a language is any specific example of such a system.
Language may also refer to:
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Language (journal)
Language is a peer-reviewed quarterly academic journal published by the Linguistic Society of America since 1925. It covers all aspects of linguistics, focusing on the area of theoretical linguistics. Its current editor-in-chief is Gregory Carlson (University of Rochester).
Under the editorship of Yale linguist Bernard Bloch, Language was the vehicle for publication of many of the important articles of American structural linguistics during the second quarter of the 20th century, and was the journal in which many of the most important subsequent developments in linguistics played themselves out.
One of the most famous articles to appear in Language was the scathing 1959 review by the young Noam Chomsky of the book Verbal Behavior by the behaviorist cognitive psychologist B. F. Skinner. This article argued that Behaviorist psychology, then a dominant paradigm in linguistics (as in psychology at large), had no hope of explaining complex phenomena like language. It followed by two years another book review that is almost as famous—the glowingly positive assessment of Chomsky's own 1957 book Syntactic Structures by Robert B. Lees that put Chomsky and his generative grammar on the intellectual map as the successor to American structuralism.
