The origins of Videon date back to October 1959, when original General Manager Claude Boucher applied to the Lakehead Public Utilities Board in Port Arthur, Ontario (now Thunder Bay) to provide cable television service to the town through the new company Lakehead Videon.

They expanded service to Pinawa, Manitoba before approaching the federal Department of Transport for a license to operate in Winnipeg.

Metro Videon had waited to apply for a cable-TV license because the Department had "frozen" new applications for community antenna (CATV) companies to serve towns and cities so they could draw up regulations for this type of service.

But yet at the same time, the company was so confident that everything would work out, that prior to the announcement of the service, they pre-purchased and installed large amounts of coaxial cable underground in parts of Tuxedo, Fort Garry, and Assiniboia.

Preliminary negotiations with MTS for use of telephone poles and underground right-of-way to string coaxial cable through the western half of metropolitan Winnipeg went from 1963 to 1967.

[3] Videon had hoped to include the suburbs east of the Red River, but this fell to another company, Greater Winnipeg Cablevision.

[4] Videon's first administrative offices were located at 2 Donald Street South, but moved to 651 Stafford St. around January 1976.

[5] A month later Videon had to pull a special closed-circuit program signal between Health Sciences Centre and the St. Boniface Hospital because the CRTC did not allow "point-to-point undertakings.

"[6] In 1978 Videon applied to the CRTC for a 50 cent fee increase, the first since the cable company began operations in Winnipeg.

The distance to the headend was long and Videon applied to the CRTC for a microwave link, which was approved on July 5, 1974, and installed at Tolstoi, Manitoba to pick up these two stations[10] directly from Fargo.

Between August, 1968 and 1976, Videon used to have a simple B&W camera housed on a track go back and forth to display the weather on analog dials.

When mobile facilities became available later, Videon took suggestions from the community as to what event to cover, but reserved to make the choice.

A newspaper article at the time quotes politician June Westbury saying "I support the idea because the more coverage we have, the more community involvement we can hope for.

[17] From 1996 till 2001 Videon produced a weekly public affairs phone-in program, Insight, mainly hosted by Kelly Parker.

One of its most noted episodes was the WREB Mayoral Forum of October 1998, held at the Walker Theatre in downtown Winnipeg.

For a time in the 1980s they used a song from The Alan Parsons Project, "Where's the Walrus", while a narrator, Richard Hersley, told of the community programming services offered by Videon Cable-TV in Winnipeg.

City Council, Community Committees, Manitoba Legislature Question Period, House of Commons Proceedings, Canada Day celebrations.

By 1989 the CRTC allowed MuchMusic and TSN to be part of basic cable rather than pay television stations.

Tier 3 was implemented in stages between September 1997 and October 1998, beginning with CTV News1, MuchMoreMusic, ROBtv, Star!, and TalkTv.

Videon claimed at the time that they might be able to make channel 23 (J) available for another pay-TV service, having to choose between C-Channel or Superchannel.

However, it wasn't until a full cable rebuild in the summer of 1987 that Videon was able to offer the other pay television services.

[18] In the mid-1990s when Internet access from home became affordable, Videon had helped to create a high-speed cable modem service called Wave.

For business users, Videon had FiberLink, a SONET-based voice, data communications line, which has the ability to interconnect LANs and PBXs.