TORONTO - Subscribers to The Movie Network can now watch Hollywood movies and HBO Canada shows on their smartphones and tablets, Astral Media Inc. announced Wednesday.

That's changing today, since Astral Media is bringing its The Movie Network Go app for iOS and PCs out of beta (an Android version is "in the works and launching shortly") with access to movies ...

Astral Media finally launched its much-anticipated The Movie Network GO this week, giving subscribers access to about 1,500 hours of content on mobile devices and computers.

Astral declined to provide specific subscriber targets. Last November, one month ahead of schedule, The Movie Network and Super Écran reached a combined subscriber base of one million. Moviepix ...

Its other pay TV channels include the Movie Network, animation web Teletoon (co-owned jointly with rival broadcaster Corus), Super Ecran, Canal Vie and MusiquePlus.

Astral Media operates 10 specialty TV channels and six pay channels, including the Movie Network and Teletoon.

Originally Bell had wanted to buy all 25 Astral cable channels but in the new deal, it only picks up 12, including the Movie Network, HBO Canada, Canal D and Canal Vie. It will sell the Astral ...

Bell tried to shake up the Canadian media landscape last year by acquiring Astral Media, but it ran into a CRTC-sized roadblock -- regulators didn't want 25 TV stations moving to one provider ...