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| name = Shopping TVA
| name = Shopping TVA
| logofile = Shopping tVA.png
| logofile = Shopping tVA.png
| logocaption = Shopping TVA logo
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| launch = November 1, 1995
| launch = November 1, 1995
| closed date = August 1, 2012
| closed date = August 1, 2012

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Shopping TVA
CountryCanada
HeadquartersMontreal, Quebec
Ownership
OwnerGroupe TVA
(Quebecor Media)

Shopping TVA, also known as Télé-Achats, was a Canadian French language cable television home shopping and infomercial channel. Shopping TVA was owned and operated by Groupe TVA, a division of Quebecor Media Inc. The channel launched on November 1, 1995 as Canal Infopub, then rebranded as TVAchats, Shopping TV and finally to Shopping TVA.[1] The channel closed on August 1, 2012.

Shopping TVA consisted of television channel hosts along with product representatives selling products to viewers by demonstrating the products, answering questions from viewers, and providing other various product information. Shopping TVA sold a variety of products including beauty and personal care, entertainment, health and fitness, and home improvement items. Viewers could purchase items either by telephone or Internet. In addition, Shopping TVA showed infomercials, many of them originally shot in English and dubbed into French.

As a shopping television service, Shopping TVA was exempted from Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) licensing.[2]

For a number of years before its closure, Shopping TVA was also the name of a television series on Shopping TVA's terrestrial sister network, TVA, which it shared and derived its branding from. With the closure of Shopping TVA, the television series continued to exist until August 31, 2013, as well as an associated website that viewers could continue to purchase products from.

Shopping TV logo
File:Shoppingtva2009.png
Logo used on series website after closure of network

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