Salter Street Films were licensed in November 2000 to operate a cable specialty channel to be called Scream, to be dedicated to the horror genre, with a mix of movies, horror series “….and magazine shows that explore the horror phenomenon.” Corus Entertainment became major shareholders before Scream was launched on September 2001, by which time […]
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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 Fiction was […]
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Sex TV – The Channel
Originally licensed to CHUM Limited in 2001 as a specialty channel to be titled Relationships, the service eventually launched as Sex TV; The Channel, and by the time it was acquired by CTVglobemedia in 2007 as part of the acquisition of the assets of CHUM Limited (see below), Sex TV was describing itself as “…a […]
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Sundance Channel
On December 8th 2009, Corus Entertainment and Rainbow Media announced that they had finalized a licensing agreement that would enable Corus to add Sundance Channel to its portfolio of Canadian specialty services. Under the creative direction of Robert Redford, Sundance Channel featured a broad range of programming, from niche, genre-focused cinema to socially provocative films, […]
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Telelatino
While Telelatino is primarily a digital channel, it is available on analogue in parts of Ontario and Quebec. The channel, known as TLN, was launched in 1984 and is licensed to provide a national program service in Italian, Spanish, English and French. 100% of the programming is required to serve an ethnocultural audience, with a minimum […]
Current Station Group: Bell Media Inc. Previous Station Group(s): Astral Media Inc, Bell Media Inc, Corus Entertainment Inc. Teletoon, a channel established to present animated film and tape productions, was originally licensed in 1996 to a group consisting of Astral Communications, WIC, YTV, Cinar and Nelvana. A subsequent ownership realignment gave 40% ownership to Corus Entertainment, 40% to […]
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Teletoon Retro
While licensed as a digital channel in 2000, Teletoon Retro remained an element in the parent Teletoon Channel until 2007, when it was launched on October 1st as a separate entity. The channel offered classic cartoons at least ten years old, including such favourites as Fat Albert, Superfriends, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Bugs Bunny, the Flintstones, Scooby-Doo and […]
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Treehouse TV
A program block on Corus Entertainment’s YTV, called Treehouse, was the jumping off point for an application to the CRTC for a speciality channel of that name, to be dedicated to programming for pre-school children. A licence was granted in 1996, and Treehouse began broadcasting in 1997. The channel uses both original Canadian production and the best […]
Another in the strong portfolio of specialty channels owned at the time by Toronto’s CHUM Limited, CLT was licensed in 1996, but did not begin broadcasting until September 1999. It was Canada’s only national educational television specialty service, and was owned by Edmonton’s Access Media Group, which was in turn owned by CHUM Limited. Many of its […]
On July 15th 2009, Corus Entertainment Inc announced that it had agreed to purchase the specialty channel SexTV from CTVglobemedia, subject to CRTC approval. On September 29th, Corus president John Cassaday said that if the application was approved, Sex TV would be replaced with W Movies early in 2010. On November 19th, Corus announced that […]