The History of Canadian BroadcastingNetwork: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1954 to 1958 Broadcast Medium: Television A classical music program, was produced in Montreal and transmitted on both English and French stations, and included commentary in both languages. CBFT-TV had presented L’Heure du Concert every other week, alternating with Teletheatre, but the musical show changed to a weekly broadcast when the network picked it […]
Stornoway Communications Ltd., received a licence from the CRTC in November 2000 for a cable specialty channel to be called The Pet Network, to be dedicated to pets and ‘working animals’. By 2003, the channel had not begun broadcasting, and Stornoway received an extension to November 2004 to get the service up and running. With […]
Current Station Group: Bell Media Inc. Animal Planet was licensed to CTV in November 2000, and launched on September 7, 2001, with CTV holding 80% ownership in partnership with ESPN and the U.S. Discovery Channel. The programming offered was a combination of Canadian productions and material acquired from Animal Planet in the U.S. and other international […]
Current Station Group: Corus Entertainment Inc. In 2000, Showcase Television Inc. (division of Alliance Atlantis) received CRTC approval to launch Action Television, “a national English-language Category 2 specialty television service devoted to action movies and series primarily driven by a fast-paced fictional plot featuring car chases, explosions, special effects, or martial arts.” Showcase Action launched on […]
On July 27th 2007, The National Broadcast Reading Service (NBRS) received approval from the CRTC for a licence to operate a national, English-language digital specialty described-video programming undertaking to be known as The Accessible Channel – TACtv. The channel was also approved for mandatory distribution on digital basic by satellite and most cable services. The […]
Current Station Group: Corus Entertainment Inc. Previous Station Group(s): Shaw Media Corus Entertainment (51%) and Shaw Media (49%) launched a new specialty channel, ABC Spark, on Monday, March 26, 2012. ABC Spark, based on the successful U.S. brand ABC Family, launched with series including The Secret Life of the America Teenager (starring Golden Globe nominee Shailene Woodley […]
Aastha-The Faith Channel was India’s major socio-spiritual-cultural television channel, and was launched in Canada in 2005 by South Asian Network International Limited (ATN). It was a specific condition of licence that no programming should be in the English language, and that there should be 15% Canadian content in the channel’s programming. Aasthatv Website Ownership: South Asian […]