The History of Canadian BroadcastingOriginally licensed by the CRTC as The Drive-In Channel, this CHUM-owned specialty service was launched in September 2001 as Drive-In Classics. Its mandate from the CRTC was to present the entire spectrum of typical drive-in movies from the 50s, 60s and 70s – “….horror and thriller movies, beach party movies, car chase movies and social […]
Corus Entertainment announced on June 26th 2009 that its specialty network Scream would be rebranded as Dusk, effective September 9, 2009. The relaunch was planned to see the service expand its programming scope to include a more extensive lineup of movie titles and series that appealed to a broader demographic. Corus said that Dusk would […]
Encore Avenue 1 and Encore Avenue 2 were two of the multiple movie channels offered on cable by the Corus Entertainment group under the umbrella name Movie Central. Movie Central was the most recent incarnation of pay television movie service available via cable to Western Canada. It was owned by Corus Entertainment. In 1984, two […]
On April 12th 2000, Astral Networks and Alliance Atlantis Broadcasting acquired 50%-50% ownership and control of the assets of the French language specialty channels Series+ (formerly Canal Fiction) and Historia (formerly Canal Histoire). The original licences for these channels had been granted to Alliance and its then partner Premier Choix on May 21st 1999. Canal […]
CanWest Global received a licence in November 2000 for a cable speciality channel to be called Adventure, and to be devoted to action adventure programming. When it was launched in 2001, the name of the channel had been changed to Lonestar, and the main thrust of its programming was westerns, both classic and modern movies […]
Movie Central was at the time the most recent incarnation of pay television movie service available via cable to Western Canada. It was owned by Corus Entertainment. In 1984, two years after the first eight regional pay-tv licences were issued in 1982, various amalgamations saw the emergence of one eastern licensee, First Choice Communications, and one […]
Movie Central was at the time the most recent incarnation of pay television movie service available via cable to Western Canada. It was owned by Corus Entertainment. In 1984, two years after the first eight regional pay-tv licences were issued in 1982, various amalgamations saw the emergence of one eastern licensee, First Choice Communications, and one […]
Current Station Group: Corus Entertainment Inc. Alliance Atlantis received a licence in November 2000 for a cable speciality channel which was launched in September 2001 as National Geographic Canada. As with the magazine of the same name, and the U.S. channel from which much of its material was licensed, National Geographic Canada programmed documentary material on […]
On September 29th 2009 Corus Entertainment Inc announced an agreement with MTV Networks International whereby a 24-hour Canadian version of the Nickelodeon program service for children would be launched in Canada on November 2nd 2009. The new specialty channel would have exclusive rights in Canada to all current Nickelodeon animated programming, as well as live […]
On Tuesday, January 15, 2008, Oprah Winfrey and the U.S. Discovery Communications company announced plans to create OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network. OWN was expected to debut in 2009. On September 29th 2009, at which time OWN had not yet launched, the Oprah Winfrey Network announced that they had finalized a licensing agreement with Canada’s Corus Entertainment […]