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TELUS’ Optik TV Galaxie music is getting more interactive and user-friendly. The service, standard with all Optik TV subscriptions, already offers 45 channels of music across dozens of genres. Now, customers can browse the music channels by launching the application from their main menu – they can check out what’s playing, look at playlists, and view album art from within the application.
This Galaxie Mediaroom service has been created by Stingray Digital, a Montreal-based provider of music services to multi-channel operators. This product enhancement will give Optik TV customers an improved, interactive music experience with their service.

“Our engineering and product development departments are continuously working on improvements to the popular Galaxie music service,” said Eric Boyko, President and CEO of Stingray Digital. “The Galaxie Mediaroom Application that TELUS customers can now enjoy is a significant improvement for browsing and listening to their favourite channels.”

TELUS Optik TV customers will be able to launch the Galaxie Application from the main menu. This advanced application allows users to browse all 45 channels and see what’s playing without changing the current channel and provides a pleasing look and feel to the Galaxie service. Customers can enjoy album art for not only the song currently playing, but also the one up next, and previously played songs on each channel. Optik TV customers will also be able to review the playlist of the last 24 hours of songs played on each channel, which has been the most requested feature on Galaxie users’ wish lists.

“At TELUS, we are dedicated to offering our Optik TV customers a better and differentiated TV service that is always evolving,” said Chris Langdon, vice-president of Consumer Products and Services at TELUS. “By offering entertainment services that do more, like the Galaxie advanced TV application, we make TELUS Optik TV an even richer entertainment experience and thus increase the value of the service for our fast growing customer base.”

The Galaxie music service on TELUS Optik TV includes 45 professionally programmed music channels in all popular genres including Rock, Pop, Jazz, Classical, Country and many more, and is included at no additional charge for all customers.