The wide availability of CNN in the early 1980s prompted both private and public Canadian broadcasters to apply for a licence for a similar 24-hour news service in Canada. In 1987 the CRTC awarded such a license to the CBC, and CBC Newsworld began broadcasting in the summer of 1989, as Canada’s first 24-hour news […]
Category: CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
Between 1979 and 1992, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation operated this specialty channel to broadcast the proceedings of the House of Commons. Television coverage from the Commons had only begun in 1977 with the CBC being assigned the responsibility to distribute the service to cable companies via Anik satellites. Because of budget cuts, the CBC announced […]
On August 20th 2008, the CRTC granted the CBC a licence for a new speciality channel, CBC Sports Plus, which would offer programming “dedicated primarily to the coverage and celebration of Canadian athletes, with a particular emphasis on amateur athletes”. The licence specified that a minimum of 30% of the programming should be devoted to […]
Corus Entertainment was granted a licence in November 2000 for The Canadian Documentary Channel, a specialty channel to be devoted to long-form documentaries and films, and the Documentary Channel was launched in September 2001. Corus held 53% of the shares (through YTV Canada), while the CBC held 29% and the National Film Board and four […]