The History of Canadian BroadcastingOn October 14th, 2009, Canwest Television Limited Partnership received approval for a new specialty channel to be known as Reality TV. This new channel would be devoted exclusively to reality-based programs, including competition-based reality and do-it-yourself makeover programs. In order to ensure that Reality TV would not be directly competitive with analog pay or speciality […]
In November 2000, the CRTC awarded Craig Broadcast systems a licence for a specialty channel to be called Connect, planned to target what was perceived as an underserved segment of the viewing public, aged between 12 and 24 years. The channel launched under the brand name MTV 1. Craig was subsequently acquired by CHUM Limited, and […]
Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, owners of the Toronto Raptors basketball team, were granted a licence in November 2000 for a cable specialty channel, then called the Raptors Basketball Channel, which planned to include panel and phone-in shows, player profiles, statistics and analysis, and historical material about the Raptors and other teams. The channel was […]
In April 2006, the CRTC granted a licence to John S. Panikkar to launch AHD, a digital HD specialty channel. The channel launched on September 5, 2006 as Rush HD. Panikkar had licensed access to the programming of Rainbow Media, original owners of what had been Vroom HD Networks, who owned Rush HD in the United States. […]
Craig Media was awarded a licence in November 2000 for a package of five cable specialty channels to be called Music Five, which would offer “a package of five separate music video channels, each focussed on a specific musical genre: pop, dance, urban, R & B and hot hits.” From this emerged MTV2, a single music […]