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The Zone (YTV)
''The Zone'' is the flagship weekday afternoon programming block on the Canadian television channel YTV. It currently airs between 4:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. ET and PT in Canada. On Saturday mornings, it is called ''The Zone Weekend'' (formerly '' Crunch''). Occasionally, guests appear on ''The Zone'', such as children's author Robert Munsch and environmentalist David Suzuki. Current version Currently, the hosts of ''The Zone'' are Spencer Litzinger, Melony Manikavasagar and Kelsey Liem. History and current developments ''The Zone'' began its life as the ''Afterschool Zone'' on YTV, debuting on September 2, 1991, with its first host Gordon Michael Woolvett (aka Gord the PJ Man). Other PJs would take turns hosting the block including PJ Phil, PJ Robb and PJ Rockin' Chan. The ''Afterschool Zone'' was simply a small segment that played between airings of regular television programming, primarily as an entertaining segue into the next programming block to retain viewe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YTV (TV Channel)
YTV is a Canadian English language specialty channel owned by YTV Canada, Inc., a subsidiary of Corus Entertainment. The channel and its programming is targeted at children and young teenagers; its name was originally thought to be an abbreviation for "Youth Television", though the channel's website has denied this. The channel was launched on September 1, 1988 by owners Rogers Media and CUC Broadcasting upon launch. In 1995, Shaw Communications acquired CUC's 34% stake and in 1998, it acquired Rogers' remaining interest of the channel, before Shaw's media division was spun off to form Corus Entertainment in 1999. Under Corus ownership, YTV sources most of its programming from U.S.-based Nickelodeon and launched its own dedicated TV channel several years later. YTV operates two time shifted feeds, running on both Eastern and Pacific Time Zone schedules, and is available in over 11.0 million households in Canada as of 2013. History The channel was licensed by the Canad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Beech
Jennifer Beech is a Canadian television host. In the early 1990s she appeared on YTV (TV channel), YTV as "PJ Jenn." She left YTV in 1994 to become the host of BBS Master Control which consisted of a line-up of children's programming from Walt Disney Animation Studios. She held that position until 1997 when she left to work on OLN. Beech studied theatre at the University of Guelph, intending to get into public relations, event marketing, or sports promotion. In 1992, YTV was looking to cast new PJs, the channel's term for Programming Jockeys, meant to parallel the Video Jockeys (VJs) of MuchMusic. Beech wasn't interested, but her mother encouraged her to audition, teaching her four guitar chords, and popular Victorian song "Star of the Evening". At YTV, she notes that she learned not only hosting skills, but all the elements dealt with by television crews, from lighting to production. PJ Jen was co-host of ''The Zone (YTV), The Zone'' with PJ Phil, albeit appearing infrequently. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherbourne Common
Sherbourne Common,''http://urbantoronto.ca/database/projects/sherbourne-common-canadas-sugar-beach-and-waters-edge-promenade Map and the article from Urban Toronto website devoted to development and construction in the GTA and the leading source for news and information on the real estate and development industries in Toronto''''http://www.toronto.ca/parks/prd/facilities/complex/1860/index.htm Official City of Toronto website page about Sherbourne Common''''https://www.thestar.com/news/article/866120--hume-sherbourne-common-is-anything-but Article in The Toronto Star'' designed by landscape architect Phillips Farevaag Smallenberg, is a waterfront park located in a former industrial area of Toronto. It is one of the earliest parks in Canada to incorporate a neighborhood-wide storm water treatment facility into its design. Located east of Lower Sherbourne Street, the 1.47 ''http://www.waterfrontoronto.ca/sherbourne_common Sherbourne Common, Toronto Official Page'' hectare park spans t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada's Drag Race
''Canada's Drag Race'' is a Canadian reality competition television series based on the American series ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' and is the Canadian edition of the ''Drag Race'' franchise, produced by Blue Ant Studios. In a similar format to the American version, the show features a crop of Canadian drag queens as they compete for a grand prize of $100,000 and the title of "Canada's Next Drag Superstar". The series airs on Crave in Canada, the United Kingdom's BBC Three, and worldwide on WOW Presents Plus. It was the fourth international version of the ''Drag Race'' franchise to be announced, following '' Drag Race Thailand'', ''The Switch Drag Race'' (Chile) and ''RuPaul's Drag Race UK''; two months after the announcement of the Canadian version, ''RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under'' was also announced. ''Canada's Drag Race'' was the first English-language iteration of ''Drag Race'' to not be hosted by RuPaul, although RuPaul does appear in video messages to the contestants, and n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Global Television Network
The Global Television Network (more commonly called Global, or occasionally Global TV) is a Canadian English-language terrestrial television network. It is currently Canada's second most-watched private terrestrial television network after CTV, and has fifteen owned-and-operated stations throughout the country. Global is owned by Corus Entertainment — the media holdings of JR Shaw and other members of his family. Global has its origins in a regional television station of the same name, serving Southern Ontario, which launched in 1974. The Ontario station was soon purchased by the now-defunct CanWest Global Communications, and that company gradually expanded its national reach in the subsequent decades through both acquisitions and new station launches, building up a quasi-network of independent stations, known as the CanWest Global System, until the stations were unified under the Ontario station's branding in 1997. History NTV The network has its origins in NTV, a new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Entertainment Tonight Canada
''ET Canada'' (previously referred to as ''Entertainment Tonight Canada'') is a Canadian entertainment news television series, using the same format as the American entertainment newsmagazine ''Entertainment Tonight''. ''ET Canada'' is a broadcast show that airs back-to-back with the American version on most of Global's stations. ''ET Canada'' is hosted by longtime Global Toronto entertainment host Cheryl Hickey and presented by reporters Roz Weston, Sangita Patel, Carlos Bustamante and Keshia Chanté. ''ETC Live'' is an online show in connection with ET Canada, that airs weekdays via Facebook and YouTube, shot live with expanded coverage of entertainment news. It is an interactive show, allowing viewers to submit commentary as Weston, Chanté and Graeme O'Neil debate topics. In 2021, Global announced the launch of a weekend edition of ''ET Canada;'' this version aired on Saturdays with host Sangita Patel and premiered on 18 September 2021. The weekend edition wasn't renewed f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Bonnetta
Rachel Bonnetta (born 8 October 1991) is a Canadian reporter and a former television host for NFL Network in the United States. She joined Fox Sports in 2016, hosting the ''@TheBuzzer'' digital series firstly, then ''Fox Bet Live'' (formerly ''Lock It In'') on Fox Sports 1 and ''Visa Sunday Live Show'', a highlights package of weekly NFL game action, on Facebook.Rachel Bonnetta – Fox Sports Press Pass Before moving to the U.S. in 2015, Bonnetta was for club |
Mark Suki
Mark Suknanan (born May 28, 1991) is a Canadian television personality and drag queen. Competing under his drag name, Priyanka, Suknanan won the first season of the reality competition series ''Canada's Drag Race'' in 2020. He was previously a host of the YTV children's series '' The Zone'' and the YTV reality competition series ''The Next Star'', where he went by Mark Suki. His first EP, '' Taste Test'', was released in 2021. Early life Suknanan was born on May 28, 1991, in Whitby, Ontario. He is of Indo-Guyanese descent. Suknanan is an alumnus of Niagara College's broadcasting program. Career Suknanan began his career as a host in children's television, most notably on YTV's '' The Zone'' and as the web host of the YTV reality competition series ''The Next Star''. Suknanan began performing as a drag queen in 2017, initially under the name Priyanka Love, in Toronto clubs. Her first competition in drag was for a local contest at the suggestion of fellow drag queen Xtacy Love, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Bustamante (TV Personality)
Carlos Bustamante is a Canadian television personality, who has been an entertainment reporter for ''Entertainment Tonight Canada'' since 2017. Prior to joining ''ET Canada'' he was a host of programming for YTV, including '' The Zone'' (2002–2018) and ''The Next Star''. Early life Born in Manila, Philippines, Bustamante moved to Canada at a young age, with his family first settling in Calgary, Alberta. After a few years, his family lived between Vancouver and Toronto. Bustamante also lived in Burlington, Ontario, and was a tap dancer in his youth. Awards Bustamante won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Host in a Pre-School, Children's or Youth Program or Series at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards in 2014 for ''The Next Star'', and was a nominee in the same category at the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards in 2015. He was a dual nominee at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022, receiving nods for Host of a Talk Show or Entertainment News Program alongside Cheryl Hickey and Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sugar Lyn Beard
Stephanie Lyn Beard (born August 27, 1981), better known by her stage name Sugar Lyn Beard, is a Canadian actress and radio personality. Her radio host persona uses the name "Suga BayBee", and as co-host of YTV (TV channel), YTV's ''The Zone (YTV), The Zone'' from 2001–2007, she was called "Sugar". Early life Beard was born in Scarborough, Toronto, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada. Her Suga BayBee was also a character on the ''Mad Dog and Billie'' morning show formerly aired on Toronto radio station CKIS-FM, KISS 92.5. Beard's squeaky-voiced character began appearing on KISS when Beard was 19 years old and otherwise working as a sales clerk. Career Her voice in 2000 was most known as the voice of Chibiusa, Sailor Mini Moon in the Cloverway adaptation of ''Sailor Moon (TV series), Sailor Moon''. From June 2001 to January 26, 2007, Beard hosted and produced ''The Zone'', a series of short interstitial segments that aired between regular weekday programming on the Canadian children's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janis Mackey Frayer
Janis Mackey Frayer (born May 27, 1970) is a Canadians, Canadian journalist and a correspondent with NBC News based in Beijing, China. Previously she worked in Canada with CTV Television Network, CTV as its Asia Bureau Chief. She was the network's Middle East Bureau Chief in Jerusalem, from 2003 to 2009 and South Asia Bureau Chief in New Delhi, India from 2009 to 2013. Mackey Frayer holds a master's degree in International Relations from the University of Cambridge. She studied international relations and French language, French at the University of Toronto. Her career began at CFOS Radio in Owen Sound, Ontario, and at age 19 she worked at YTV (TV channel), YTV. She was later a financial news anchor with BNN and wrote a regular business column for The Globe and Mail newspaper. She is married to photojournalist Kevin Frayer and they have one son. Awards and honours Janis Mackey Frayer was awarded the Canadian Screen Awards#Television, Canadian Screen Award for Best Reportage f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Treehouse TV
Treehouse TV is a Canadian English-language specialty channel for preschoolers aged 2 to 5 that was launched in 1997. Its name comes from YTV's former preschool block, " The Treehouse". The channel is owned by YTV Canada, Inc., a subsidiary of Corus Entertainment. Development of a separate channel started when YTV aired preschool shows as part of its weekday morning lineup. This block of shows was given the name "The Treehouse" in 1994. On November 1, 1997, Treehouse TV launched as its own channel, airing preschool shows from 6 a.m. to 3 a.m. daily. Like the block it was spun off from, commercials weren't broadcast when the Treehouse channel first launched. Instead, shorts hosted by humans and puppets were broadcast. As of 2011, Treehouse TV had been available to over 7.5 million homes across Canada. History The Treehouse block The Treehouse brand began as a daily programming block for preschoolers on YTV. The block was given the name "The Treehouse" in 1994. Commercials fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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