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2024 Canadian Specialty Television Realignment
In June 2024, Rogers Communications announced a licensing agreement with Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), under which it holds the rights to the channel brands and programming of WBD's factual and lifestyle television networks (such as Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, Food Network, and HGTV among others). The agreement triggered a major re-alignment of Canadian specialty television, ending the long-term associations between the brands of WBD predecessors Discovery, Inc. and Scripps Networks Interactive with Bell Media and Corus Entertainment respectively. Most of the changes associated with these agreements took place on and around January 1, 2025, including the rebranding of multiple specialty channels across both companies under new proprietary brands with revised programming lineups; Corus relaunched its Food Network and HGTV channels on December 30, 2024, as Flavour Network and Home Network respectively, and Bell rebranded most of its Discovery-branded channels under the CTV br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rogers Communications
Rogers Communications Inc. is a Canadian communications and media company operating primarily in the fields of wireless communications, cable television, telephony and Internet, with significant additional telecommunications and mass media assets. Rogers has its headquarters in Toronto, Ontario. The company traces its origins to 1914, when Edward S. Rogers Sr. founded Rogers Vacuum Tube Company to sell battery-less radios, although this present enterprise dates to 1960, when Ted Rogers and a partner acquired the CHFI-FM radio station; they then became part-owners of a group that established the CFTO television station. The chief competitor to Rogers is Bell Canada, which has a similarly extensive portfolio of radio and television media assets, as well as wireless, television distribution, and telephone services, particularly in Eastern and Central Canada. The two companies are often seen as having a duopoly on communications services in their regions, and both companies own ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USA Network
USA Network (or simply USA) is an American basic cable television channel owned by the NBCUniversal Media Group division of Comcast's NBCUniversal. It was launched in 1977 as Madison Square Garden Sports Network, one of the first national sports cable television channels. It was relaunched under its current name on April 9, 1980, and in the years since then, USA steadily gained popularity through its original programming, a long-established partnership with WWF/ WWE and, for many years, limited sports programming. USA increased its sports coverage significantly in 2022, after the shutdown of NBCSN, and now serves as the main cable component of NBC Sports. , USA Network is available to approximately 70 million pay television households in the United States, down from its 2011 peak of 100 million households. History Madison Square Garden Sports Network (1977–1980) USA Network was launched on September 22, 1977, as the Madison Square Garden Sports Network (not to be confused ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
JR Shaw
JR Shaw (born James Robert Shaw, August 14, 1934 – March 23, 2020) was a Canadian businessman. He founded Alberta-based Shaw Communications in 1966 and was the executive chairman of the company. As of 2016, Shaw and other members of his family controlled 85 percent of the Class A voting shares of Corus Entertainment, and 80 per cent of the class A voting shares of Shaw Communications. Shaw sat on the board of directors of Suncor Energy from 2001 to 2007. The School of Business at NAIT is named after him. Early years Shaw was born in 1934 in Brigden, Ontario, the son of Lottie and Francis Shaw, and was raised on his family's farm with his siblings, Les, Bertha and Dolly. The Shaw business dynasty originated in rural Lambton County with Francis Shaw, originally from Kimball, who served in World War I. Francis inherited the family farm, and his brother Joel inherited the grist mill. Lottie Shaw ran the farm, while Francis, an entrepreneur, slowly built a construction company ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CBS Sports Network
CBS Sports Network (a.k.a. CBSSN) is an American digital cable and satellite television network owned by the CBS Entertainment Group unit of Paramount Global. When it launched in 2002 as the National College Sports Network (later College Sports Television also known as CSTV), it operated as a multi-platform media brand which also included its primary website, collegesports.com, and a network of websites operated for the athletic departments of 215 colleges and universities. After CSTV was acquired by CBS in 2006 (handed over from Viacom who purchased the network the previous year), the network was re-branded as the CBS College Sports Network in 2008. The network initially maintained its college sports focus, but in February 2011, the service was re-branded as CBS Sports Network to re-position it as a mainstream sports service. The network continues to have a particular focus on college sports, along with coverage of smaller leagues and events, simulcasts of sports radio shows fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paramount Global
Paramount Global (Trade name, d/b/a Paramount) is an American multinational mass media and entertainment Conglomerate (company), conglomerate controlled by National Amusements and Headquarters, headquartered at One Astor Plaza in Times Square, Midtown Manhattan. The company was formed on December 4, 2019, as ViacomCBS through the 2019 merger of CBS and Viacom, merger of the second incarnations of CBS Corporation and Viacom (2005–2019), Viacom (which were split from the Viacom (1952–2005), original Viacom on December 31, 2005). The company took its current name on February 16, 2022. Paramount's main properties include the namesake Paramount Pictures Corporation, the List of assets owned by Paramount Global#CBS Entertainment, CBS Entertainment Group (consisting of the CBS and partially owned The CW television networks and CBS News and Stations, television stations, BET Media Group (which oversees BET and its sister channels), and other CBS-branded assets), Paramount Media Net ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Netflix
Netflix is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service. The service primarily distributes original and acquired films and television shows from various genres, and it is available internationally in multiple languages. Launched in 2007, nearly a decade after Netflix, Inc. began its pioneering DVD-by-mail movie rental service, Netflix is the most-subscribed video on demand streaming media service, with 301.6 million paid memberships in more than 190 countries as of 2025. By 2022, "Netflix Original" productions accounted for half of its library in the United States and the namesake company had ventured into other categories, such as video game publishing of mobile games through its flagship service. As of 2025, Netflix is the 18th most-visited website in the world, with 21.18% of its traffic coming from the United States, followed by the United Kingdom at 6.01%, Canada at 4.94%, and Brazil at 4.24%. History Launch as a mail-based renta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WWE Network (Canadian TV Channel)
WWE Network was an English language specialty television channel programmed by United States–based professional wrestling promotion WWE, a subsidiary of TKO Group Holdings, and distributed to Canadian television service providers by Rogers Sports & Media. Its programming consisted entirely of the linear feed offered as part of the WWE Network video streaming service. Due to WWE's new international distribution agreement with Netflix coming into effect, the network ended operations on January 2, 2025. History and distribution On July 31, 2014, Rogers Communications announced a ten-year agreement with WWE, making Rogers the exclusive distributor of WWE programming in Canada through 2024. In addition to Rogers' Sportsnet 360 retaining exclusive rights to WWE's weekly programming (excluding certain reality series aired at the time by E! and its Canadian counterpart), Rogers secured the Canadian distribution rights to WWE Network, a streaming service that had launched in the U.S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MTV (Canadian TV Channel)
MTV was a Television in Canada, Canadian English language, English-language Discretionary service, discretionary specialty channel formerly owned by Bell Media subsidiary of BCE Inc. with the name and branding used under a brand licensing, licensing agreement with Paramount Global. Originally devoted to talk, lifestyle, documentary and scripted programming, the channel channel drift, drifted towards programming sourced from its MTV, U.S. counterpart aimed at men ages 12-87 before the channel would wind down in 2024. The channel launched as Talktv in 2000 by Bell Globemedia, but was not as widely available prior to its relaunch in March 2006. Unlike MTV channels in the United States and elsewhere, the channel was restricted in its ability to carry music programming until 2015, due to conditions in the channel's licence issued by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). Thus, the channel never used the "Music Television" tagline as its international c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slice (TV Channel)
Slice is a Television in Canada, Canadian English language specialty channel owned by Corus Entertainment. The channel primarily broadcasts programming targeting young adult women, including Television comedy, comedy, Reality television, reality, lifestyle, and true crime programming. It was launched on January 1, 1995, as Life Network under the ownership of Alliance Atlantis, Atlantis Communications. Atlantis was acquired by Alliance Communications in 1998 and Life Network was relaunched as Slice on March 5, 2007. In 2008, Canwest and Goldman Sachs acquired Alliance Atlantis, and the channel's ownership was later sold to Shaw Media in 2010, and ultimately, Corus in April 2016. History As Life Network In June 1994, Your Channel Television Inc., a company majority owned by Atlantis Television Ventures Inc. (Atlantis Communications), was granted a television broadcasting licence by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) for a channel called ''YOU: Yo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bravo (American TV Network)
Bravo is an American basic cable television network, launched on December 8, 1980. It is owned by the NBCUniversal Media Group division of Comcast's NBCUniversal. The channel originally focused on programming related to fine arts and film. Since the 2000s, its has focused heavily on reality series targeted at 25-to-54-year-old women and the LGBTQ community at large. Its former sister channels are Nickelodeon and IFC, which are currently owned by Paramount Global and AMC Networks, respectively. , Bravo is available to approximately 70,000,000 pay television households in the United States, down from its 2013 peak of 95,000,000 households. History Launch and early programming Bravo originally launched as a commercial-free premium channel on December 8, 1980. It was originally co-owned by Cablevision's Rainbow Media division and Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment; the channel claimed to be "the first television service dedicated to film and the performing arts". [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oprah Winfrey Network (Canadian TV Channel)
Oprah Winfrey Network, more commonly shortened to OWN, was a Canadian English language discretionary service channel owned by Corus Entertainment. The network's owner, Corus Entertainment, licensed the OWN brand and its American programming from Warner Bros. Discovery. Established on September 1, 1999 as Canadian Learning Television (CLT) by Learning and Skills Television of Alberta, Ltd., , the channel began as a spinoff of Access, targeting a family and male demographic with a focus on educational and infomercial programming. Its lineup later expanded to incorporate lifestyle, entertainment and reality programming aimed at a female audience. Under Corus ownership and its final branding as Oprah Winfrey Network, the channel adopted its final format and largely retired its original format. Corus eventually lost the rights to the OWN brand and its U.S. programming at the end of summer 2024, resulting in the complete shutdown of OWN effective September 1, 2024. Although Rogers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magnolia Network (Canadian TV Channel)
Magnolia Network is a Canadian exempt discretionary specialty channel owned by Rogers Sports & Media. Based on the U.S. cable network of the same name, It broadcasts personality-based programming related to home construction, improvement, and cuisine. The first incarnation of the network was formed in 2009 by CW Media—a joint venture of Canwest and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners—as DIY Network. The channel—which was initially licensed as a Category B specialty channel—was based on the U.S. cable network of the same name. Similarly to its U.S. namesake, it served as a sister network to HGTV, with an initial focus on instructional programming relating to "do it yourself" (DIY) activities such as home improvement. It later pivoted to primarily airing reality shows following personalities in the home renovation and construction businesses. Following the lead of its U.S. parent, the channel relaunched as Magnolia Network in March 2022. In June 2024, Rogers Sports & Medi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
