The History of Canadian Broadcasting
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 […]
ASN was owned by Bell Media, with its studios located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and was part of Bell Media’s A Network, though uniquely with no over-the-air signal. The satellite to cable channel had launched as the Atlantic Satellite Network (ASN) in 1983, and carried programming from CHUM’s Citytv and A-Channel . Some CTV programs […]
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 […]
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 […]
Current Station Group: Bell Media Inc. Licensed in 1994, Bravo went on the air the following January 1st. Promoted as Canada’s New Style Arts Channel, Bravo covered all facets of the Arts, with movies, specials documentaries and interviews covering everything from ballet to architecture, and from literature to jazz. The Network was owned by CHUM Limited, […]
Current Station Group: Bell Media Inc. CTV’s application for a licence for The Comedy Network was approved in 1996, and the channel was launched the following year. Offering a 24-hour service, the channel’s schedule included stand-up comedy, improv, sketches, sitcoms, game shows, animation and talk shows, from both Canadian and foreign sources, including material first seen […]
CTV’s application for a licence for The Comedy Network was approved in 1996, and the channel was launched the following year. Offering a 24-hour service, the channel’s schedule included stand-up comedy, improv, sketches, sitcoms, game shows, animation and talk shows, from both Canadian and foreign sources, including material first seen on the full CTV Network. […]
Licensed in 1994, Bravo went on the air the following January 1st. Promoted as Canada’s New Style Arts Channel, Bravo covered all facets of the Arts, with movies, specials documentaries and interviews covering everything from ballet to architecture, and from literature to jazz. The Network was owned by CHUM Limited, until CTVglobemedia’s acquisition of the […]
Current Station Group: Bell Media Inc. On December 3rd 2013, Gusto TV, Canada’s new Food & Lifestyle specialty channel, announced its upcoming launch on December 11th. In a press release, the channel’s owners Knight Enterprises said that the channel’s online presence would be “a foodie destination for fresh recipes and tips, including special video content and web-only […]
Disney Junior programming was originally licensed to Canada and launched on November 30, 2007 as a multiplex channel of Astral’s Family Channel. The channel was re-launched under the Disney Junior brand on May 6, 2011. On June 27, 2013, after a previous such application had been denied in 2012, the CRTC approved an application by […]