The History of Canadian BroadcastingOn June 4th, CTV and Discovery Communications announced a renewal of their joint venture, through which three new channel brands would be launched in Canada. One of these was Investigation Discovery, which would replace CTV’s Court TV speciality channel. Launched in the US in 2008, Investigation Discovery described itself as bringing justice to television. It dealt […]
MTV was launched in Canada by CTV in 2006, replacing the specialty channel TalkTV which had been licensed and launched in 1996. MTV had already been launched in the US many years earlier, and by 2006 had no less than 43 program services throughout the world. CTV had already carried several MTV programs, including The Osbournes, Pimp […]
MTV 2 – see MTV listing. Written by Pip Wedge – August, 2008 Ownership: CTV Start Year: 2008
Another spin-off for CHUM Limited from their highly successful MuchMusic channel was MuchLoud, which was licensed by the CRTC in December of 2000 to provide “a…… television service dedicated exclusively to alternative, hard rock, metal and punk music or alternative music-related programming.” The channel launched in September 2001. A CRTC hearing on an application by CTVglobemedia […]
Licensed to CHUM Limited in 1996, MuchMoreMusic began broadcasting in 1998.The speciality channel, a sister to CHUM’s long-running MuchMusic, offers adult contemporary and classic rock videos, plus international specials, documentaries and movies, as well as original programming produced by and for the channel. A CRTC hearing on an application by CTVglobemedia to acquire the assets of […]
Dedicated to music videos and other recorded performances of the eighties and nineties, MuchMoreRetro was yet another channel in the MuchMusic franchise to be spun off by CHUM Limited, and was launched in September 2003. The target audience was those who grew up watching their music on television. A CRTC hearing on an application by CTVglobemedia […]
MuchMusic was one of the first cable specialty channels to be licensed in 1983, and its owners CHUM Limited launched it in the following year as Canada’s first 24-hour music specialty channel, offering music videos from Canadian and international sources, plus concerts and studio performances as well as news and features about the music business and the […]
Another of the CHUM Limited MuchMusic spin-offs, MuchVibe was licensed in November 200 and launched on September 7th 2001. The licence described the planned programming as “dedicated to Urban music – HipHop, Rap, R & B, Soul and Reggae”. The channel invited viewers to “tune in for a hype mix of the old school, true school […]
Owned by CTV, Rogers Media and Comcast, OLN was licensed in 1996 and began its service in the following year. The channel offers factual entertainment with an emphasis on series and documentaries under six main categories: Adrenaline, Road Warriors, Survival, True Grit, Adventure and Rough Stock, plus an anthology block, OLN Big Screen, as well a live […]
Craig Media was awarded a licence in November 2000 for a package of five cable specialty channels to be called Music Five, which would offer “a package of five separate music video channels, each focussed on a specific musical genre: pop, dance, urban, R & B and hot hits.” From this emerged MTV2, a single music […]