Originally licensed by the CRTC in 1994 to Moffat Communications, and launched in January 1995 as WTN, for Women’s Television Network, the specialty channel was acquired by Shaw Communications in 2001 along with ownership of Moffat, and the following year it was Shaw subsidiary Corus Entertainment who took over WTN, and rebranded it as the W […]
Category: Corus
When YTV was licensed in 1987 to a group of cable companies and producers of children’s and youth programming, Rogers Cable and Geoff Conway’s CUC Broadcasting were the two major shareholders. YTV was launched on September 1st 1988, with eight major cable operators committed to carrying its program service. In 1995, Shaw Communications’ acquisition of […]