2016 in Canadian television

The following is a list of events affecting Canadian television in 2016. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, cancellations, and channel launches, closures and rebrandings.

Events

Notable events

January

Date Event
13 Corus Entertainment enters a deal to acquire the assets of Shaw Media, including the Global Television Network.[1]

February

Date Event
22 Bell Media switches the affiliations of CFTK in Terrace, British Columbia and CJDC in Dawson Creek, British Columbia from CBC to CTV Two owned-and-operated stations.
29 The Biography Channel, owned by Rogers Media, is relaunched in conjunction with Vice magazine as a Canadian version of Viceland.[2]
Gord Martineau signs off CityNews Toronto.

April

Date Event
10 Stéphanie St-Jean wins the fourth season of La Voix.
30 TVA Group closes Argent, a French-language channel which focused on business news and financial information, due to poor profitability.

May

Date Event
4 Bell Media acquires Gusto TV and the Gusto brand from Knight Enterprises.[3]
12 Nick and Phil Paquette win the fourth season of Big Brother Canada.

June

Date Event
3 After being cancelled the previous day, CTV's morning show Canada AM airs for the last time. Canada AM has aired on CTV since 1972.[4]
14 Rogers Media files an application with the CRTC to convert OMNI Television, currently a system of four multicultural television stations in major metropolitan cities, into a nationally-distributed cable channel.[5]
15 The CRTC announces a new policy for the provision of local news content on Canadian television stations, now requiring a minimum of just seven hours per week on non-metropolitan stations and creating a new local news fund to assist in paying for that programming.[6]

August

Date Event
8-19 The CTV Television Network airs the first season of Game of Thrones unedited, and with reduced commercial time at 10 p.m. in all markets. This is the first time Game of Thrones has aired on network television in North America.[7]
20 The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation broadcasts iconic Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip's August 20 concert at the K-Rock Centre in their hometown of Kingston, an event which was the band's last-ever large scale concert performance following Gord Downie's diagnosis with glioblastoma, as a live cross-platform broadcast on CBC Television, CBC Radio One, CBC Radio 2, CBC Music and YouTube.[8]
22 Your Morning, the replacement for Canada AM, premieres on CTV stations in Eastern Canada and on the CTV News Channel nationwide.[4]

September

Date Event
1 CKSA-DT switches affiliation from CBC to the Global Television Network.
5 Peter Mansbridge, the longtime anchor of CBC Television's newscast The National, announces that he will retire in 2017 following the network's special Canada Day broadcast on July 1.[9]
7 CHCH announces it will resume broadcasting local news on the weekends in the form of two half-hours of news programming at 6pm and 11pm starting October 29, 2016. The station previously aired weekend news until December 2015 when the station's news division filed for bankruptcy.[10]

Television programs

Programs debuting in 2016

Series currently listed here have been announced by their respective networks as scheduled to premiere in 2016. Note that shows may be delayed or cancelled by the network between now and their scheduled air dates.

Start Date Show Channel Source
January Lost & Found Music Studios Family Channel [11]
February 7 Letterkenny CraveTV, The Comedy Network [12]
April 4 Wynonna Earp CHCH-DT
April 24 Home to Win HGTV [13]
May 8 Raising Expectations Family Channel
May 24 St. Nickel Unis [14]
May 26 Private Eyes Global [15]
June 14 Baroness von Sketch Show CBC Television
July 25 The Switch OutTV
August 22 Your Morning CTV [4]
August 28 Four in the Morning CBC Television
September 5 Tricked YTV [16]
September 6 Dot. CBC Television [17]
September 10 Snapshots [17]
October 2 This Is High School [17]
October 3 The Goods [17]
October 4 Kim's Convenience [17]
October 10 Shoot the Messenger [17]
October 17 Travelers Showcase [18]
TBA The Beaverton The Comedy Network [19]
Cardinal CTV [20]
Cheer Stars ABC Spark [21]
Frontier Discovery, CraveTV [22]
Hardwood
Hello Goodbye
Nirvanna the Band the Show City, Viceland
Le nouveau show ARTV, Ici Radio-Canada Télé
Second Jen City
What Would Sal Do? Super Channel [23]

References

  1. ↑ "Corus Entertainment acquires Shaw Media for $2.65-billion". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
  2. ↑ "Rogers and VICE Announce New Specialty Channel". Broadcaster, November 5, 2015.
  3. ↑ http://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/bon-appetit-bell-media-acquires-gusto-brand-to-launch-its-first-food-and-lifestyle-channel-578142061.html
  4. 1 2 3 Peter Edwards (2016-06-06). "Ben Mulroney, Anne-Marie Mediwake to host CTV's new show 'Your Morning'". Toronto Star. Retrieved 2016-06-06.
  5. ↑ "Rogers seeks to revive OMNI with national multicultural channel". BNN, June 14, 2016.
  6. ↑ "CRTC wants TV stations to air 7 hours a week of local news". Toronto Star, June 15, 2016.
  7. ↑ http://www.bellmedia.ca/pr/press/winter-is-coming/
  8. ↑ "Tragically Hip's final concert to be broadcast live on CBC". CBC News, June 17, 2016.
  9. ↑ "Peter Mansbridge to step down from The National next year". CBC News. 5 September 2016. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
  10. ↑ http://www.chch.com/chch-to-bring-back-weekend-news-broadcasts/
  11. ↑ Brioux, Bill (11 December 2015). "Family Channel's next step: 'Empire for tweens'". Toronto Star. The Canadian Press. p. E8.
  12. ↑ "TV Show "Letterkenny", starring Listowel's Jared Keeso, has a launch date". 570 News, November 9, 2015.
  13. ↑ "HGTV Canada Begins Production on New Original Series". Broadcaster, October 15, 2015.
  14. ↑ "«St-Nickel»: une première série originale pour Unis TV". Huffington Post, June 25, 2015.
  15. ↑ "Jason Priestley, 'Rookie Blue' Star Cindy Sampson Find 'The Code'". The Hollywood Reporter, October 13, 2015.
  16. ↑ "YTV to Debut New Canadian Original Series ‘Tricked’". Broadcaster, August 24, 2016.
  17. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "CBC Announces Fall Program Schedule". Broadcaster, August 25, 2016.
  18. ↑ "Showcase Unveils Fall Lineup". Broadcaster, August 29, 2016.
  19. ↑ "Canadian Satire Site 'The Beaverton' Becomes Fake News Show". Exclaim!, June 2, 2016.
  20. ↑ "CTV and Super Écran Partner on New Serialized Drama". Broadcaster, February 11, 2016.
  21. ↑ "ABC Spark Begins Production on First Original Series". Broadcaster, October 30, 2015.
  22. ↑ "Jason Momoa to star in Canadian TV drama about fur trade". Toronto Star, November 16, 2015.
  23. ↑ "Super Channel Announces Start of Production on Original Scripted Comedy Series". Broadcaster, August 19, 2015.
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