The History of Canadian BroadcastingLevfam Holdings, on behalf of a company to be incorporated, was licensed in November 2000 to operate a cable specialty channel to provide news and information, lifestyle and entertainment programming designed to meet the interests of the gay and lesbian community, and to be known as PrideVision. Levfam would hold a 70% interest in the […]
Vision TV was granted a specialty cable channel licence in November 2000 for a program service, then planned to be called Wisdom: Canada’s Body, Mind and Spirit Channel. The application promised that Wisdom would “focus on a holistic approach to wellness, offering programming that will address the interests of a large number of Canadians in […]
Current Station Group: Rogers Media 2017 – On May 15, the CRTC approved, in part, an application by Rogers Media Inc. to operate a national, multilingual multi-ethnic discretionary service to be known as OMNI Regional for a licence term of three years, beginning 1 September 2017. Since the application did not fully meet the Commission’s expectations of […]
Owned by CTV, Rogers Media and Comcast, OLN was licensed in 1996 and began its service in the following year. The channel offers factual entertainment with an emphasis on series and documentaries under six main categories: Adrenaline, Road Warriors, Survival, True Grit, Adventure and Rough Stock, plus an anthology block, OLN Big Screen, as well a live […]
In September 1996, the CRTC granted a licence to Peter Maniatakos for a cable specialty channel to be called Odyssey, to serve the Greek community in the province of Ontario only. In January 1997, the company, now known as Odyssey Television Network Inc., applied for and eventually received permission to expand its coverage to all […]
On August 2nd 2005, John S. Panikkar, on behalf of a corporation to be incorporated, received CRTC approval for a broadcasting licence to operate a new Category 2 specialty programming undertaking to be known as OasisHD. The applicant proposed to offer an HD programming service featuring urban and wild landscapes by Canadian and international cinematographers. When the […]
On behalf of a company to be incorporated, the Eurasian Canadian Television Network Limited applied in 2000 for a cable specialty channel licence, to provide a service in Russian under the name NTV International, whose name in Russian is represented by the Cyrillic letters HBC. The channel later became owned by Ethnic Channels Group, and was […]
On September 29th 2009 Corus Entertainment Inc announced an agreement with MTV Networks International whereby a 24-hour Canadian version of the Nickelodeon program service for children would be launched in Canada on November 2nd 2009. The new specialty channel would have exclusive rights in Canada to all current Nickelodeon animated programming, as well as live […]
One-time NHL exec Jim Gregory received a licence from the CRTC in November 2000 to form what would become The NHL Network Inc, an organization that would operate a specialty channel to be known as The Hockey Channel. Its success encouraged the formation of a similar network in the US. The channel continued to operate under […]
In April 2005, Asian Television Network International Limited (ATN) was granted a licence to run a cable specialty channel to be known as ATN- South Asian News – English, to be devoted to news about the South Asian sub-continent, and broadcast entirely in English. The now-standard requirement of a minimum of 15% Canadian content was a […]