The History of Canadian BroadcastingIn May 2010, FDR Media Group Inc. received CRTC approval to launch Bollywood Times HD TV. The Canadian Hindi language channel launched on November 28, 2011. At some point FDR sold its broadcast licenses to Channel Zero. Bollywood Times was shut down in January of 2018. Start Year: 2011 to 2018
Book Television – The Channel was licensed in November 2000 to the Access Media Group, a subsidiary of CHUM Limited and the operators of both ACCESS, the Alberta educational channel, and the specialty channel Canadian Learning Television, and was launched in September 2001. The suffix “The Channel” was dropped shortly thereafter. As described in the […]
One of a large number of digital specialty channels licensed by the CRTC in November 2000 was called Land and Sea, originally intended to provide programming for underserved rural and coastal communities. It was 70% owned by Corus Entertainment, and the CBC held a 30% interest, in part because of what the licence decision referred […]
Current Station Group: Bell Media Inc. Report on Business Television was originally licensed in 1996 to the Globe and Mail, WIC and Cancom, and began its service in 1999. It was acquired outright by CanWest Global in 2000, but was acquired by Bell Globemedia ( later CTVglobemedia) in November of that year. Operated under the aegis […]
Channel Zero launched Bloomberg TV Canada on November 17, 2015. It had replaced the American version of Bloomberg TV that was available in Canada. The Canadian network was shut down October 5, 2017. Bloomberg then partnered with Bell Media’s Business News Network to form the BNN Bloomberg channel. Channel Zero was the owner of CHCH-TV […]
The first interactive television channel to be made available in Canada, Bite TV was targeted for a male 18-34 audience, and was licensed to provide a service “devoted entirely to short form films shot on film, video or created with computer animation”, and to “showcase Canadian and international cutting edge short form films, from 1 […]
While conventional television broadcasters in Canada did their best to satisfy what appeared to be an insatiable appetite for biographical programs on the part of their audiences, there were still vast sources of untapped material in this genre being produced around the world. In November 2000 Rogers, in association with Shaw Cable and A and […]
In 2013, Ethnic Channels Group signed an agreement with Al Jazeera Media Network, owner of beIN Sports, to launch a version of that brand in Canada. On January 31, 2014, beIN Sports was launched in this country. In August of the same year, the CRTC gave Ethnic Channels permission to distribute the Spanish version of […]
Current Station Group: Corus Entertainment Inc. The BBC has always had a world-wide reputation for its children’s programming, some of which made its way to Canada. Much more was however available than could be accommodated by the conventional television channels, and in November 2000 Alliance Atlantis was licensed to start a specialty channel to be titled […]
Current Station Group: Corus Entertainment Inc. While at the turn of the century much BBC programming was already available in Canada on both over-the-air and specialty channels, there remained a substantial catalogue of attractive programming in the BBC inventory that was not being seen here. In November 2000, Alliance Atlantis was licensed by the CRTC […]