2024 in Canadian television
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The following is a list of events affecting Canadian television in 2024. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, cancellations, and channel launches, closures and rebrandings.
January
| Date | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 11 | After over 13 years on the air, Groupe TVA's only children's channel Yoopa ended operations. The channel was replaced with QUB, a TV broadcast version of Groupe TVA's Qub Radio. |
February
| Date | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 8 | Bell Media announces significant cutbacks at the CTV News division, including the cancellation of all noon-hour and weekend local newscasts outside of a few major metropolitan markets on its CTV owned-and-operated stations, cuts to programming at CTV News Channel and BNN Bloomberg, and the cancellation of its newsmagazine W5 as a regular program. | [1][2] |
April
| Date | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | Moi et Cie is rebranded as Témoin. | |
| 25 | Amazon Prime Video announces it has reached a deal with the National Hockey League and Rogers Communications to exclusively carry national Monday night regular season NHL games (in English) during the 2024-25 and 2025-26 seasons. | [3] |
June
| Date | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | Eastlink ends their dispute with Corus Entertainment and re-adds their specialty channels back on some new Theme Packs. While TiVo Stream customers would get all of them, TiVo Classic customers will only be able to access HGTV, Food Network, W Network, Showcase and History. | |
| 10 | Rogers Sports & Media announces a multi-year agreement with Warner Bros. Discovery, under which it will assume rights to many of its factual and lifestyle television brands beginning January 1, 2025, including most prominently Discovery, Food Network, and HGTV among others, ending their long-term associations with Bell Media and Corus Entertainment specialty channels respectively. Rogers also announced an agreement with NBCUniversal to relaunch the Bravo brand in Canada beginning on September 1, 2024. Corus and Bell stated that other WBD deals (Cartoon Network and Adult Swim for the former and HBO for the latter) are not affected by these changes. | [4] |
July
| Date | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 26–August 11 | The 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France airs on CBC, CBC Gem, Ici Télé, and cable networks TSN, RDS, and Sportsnet. |
September
| Date | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | After 25 years of operation, the Oprah Winfrey Network was shut down by Corus Entertainment. The channel's broadcast license was surrendered to the CRTC on October 8. | |
| OLN is rebranded and relaunched as Bravo, under license from NBCUniversal. | ||
| 7 | The Canadian Football League returns to Canadian over-the-air television for the first time in 17 years with a package of Saturday afternoon contests on CTV. | [5][6] |
October
| Date | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 22 | The CRTC announces the approval of Uvagut TV, an Inuktitut language television channel previously carried only in Nunavut, for national distribution by all Canadian cable and direct broadcast satellite providers, beginning January 2025. | [7] |
December
| Date | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 30 | Corus Entertainment rebranded specialty channels HGTV Canada and Food Network Canada as Home Network and Flavour Network, respectively. | [8] |
| 31 | MTV Canada was shut down by Bell Media, with the unaired new episodes of its original programming Jersey Shore: Family Vacation, The Challenge and Ridiculousness moving over to sister channel Much. | |
| The WWE Network was shut down by Rogers Sports & Media, due to Netflix's new deal with the WWE taking place the next day. | ||
| After being confirmed by multiple TV service providers, Cooking Channel and the original Magnolia Network, both owned by Corus Entertainment, ceased broadcasting. A new version of Magnolia Network was launched under Rogers Sports & Media immediately thereafter the next day. |
Programs
Programs debuting in 2024
Programs ending in 2024
| End date | Show | Channel | First aired | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 19 | Transplant | CTV | 2020 | Ended | [45] |
| March 23 | W5 | 1966 | [46] | ||
| April 2 | Run the Burbs | CBC Television | 2022 | Canceled | [47] |
| May 3 | CityLine | Citytv | 1984 | Canceled | [48] |
| May 8 | Big Brother Canada | Global | 2013 | Canceled |
Specials
| Start date | Show | Channel | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| March 10 | Nobody Wants to Talk About Jacob Appelbaum | Documentary | |
| March 24 | Juno Awards of 2024 | CBC | [49] |
| May 31 | 12th Canadian Screen Awards | [50] | |
| September 14 | 2024 Canadian Country Music Awards | CTV | |
| October 24 | It's Not Funny Anymore: Vice to Proud Boys | Documentary | [51] |
| November 17 | 111th Grey Cup | CTV, TSN | |
| December 8 | 26th Quebec Cinema Awards | Noovo |
Networks and services
Network launches
| Network | Type | Launch date | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| QUB | Cable and satellite | January 11 | |
| APTN Languages | September 1 | ||
Network rebrandings
| Old network name | New network name | Type | Conversion date | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moi et Cie | Temoin | Cable/satellite | April 9 | |
| OLN | Bravo (new) | Cable/satellite | September 1 | Operated under license from NBCUniversal. |
| GiNX eSports TV Canada | Super Channel Quest | Cable/satellite | September 4 | |
| Club Illico | Illico+ | Cable/satellite | ||
| HGTV Canada (original) | Home Network | Cable/satellite | December 31 | Outgoing rightsholders to this brand; channels operated by Corus Entertainment. New channels under this brand, operated by Rogers Sports & Media, launched on January 1, 2025. |
| Food Network Canada (original) | Flavour Network | |||
Network closures
| Network | Type | Closure date | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yoopa | Cable/satellite | January 11 | |
| MTV2 | March 29 | ||
| TV Japan | March 31 | Indirectly replaced by Jme direct-to-consumer streaming service | |
| OWN Canada | September 1 | U.S. programming rights transferred to Citytv+ on January 1, 2025 | |
| Vrai | October 23 | Closed following integration of content into Illico+ | |
| WWE Network | December 31 | Most programming rights transferred to Netflix on January 1, 2025 | |
| MTV | Most programming rights transferred to Much and/or Paramount+ | ||
| Cooking Channel | U.S. programming rights transferred to Citytv+ on January 1, 2025 | ||
| Magnolia Network (original) | Outgoing rightsholder to this brand; channel operated by Corus Entertainment. A new channel under this brand, operated by Rogers Sports & Media, launched on January 1, 2025. | ||
Deaths
| Date | Name | Age | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 24 | Bob Cole | 90 | Sportscaster and play-by-play voice for Hockey Night in Canada | [52] |
| May 15 | Darren Dutchyshen | 57 | Sportscaster and anchor for TSN's SportsCentre | [53] |
| October 11 | Mike Bullard | 67 | Comedian and host of CTV's Open Mike with Mike Bullard and Global's The Mike Bullard Show | [54] |