2025 in Canadian television
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This article lists notable events affecting Canadian television in 2025. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, cancellations, and channel launches, closures and rebrandings.
January
| Date | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rogers Sports & Media's new agreement for Warner Bros. Discovery lifestyle and factual brands, announced in June 2024, takes effect. New versions of five WBD-licensed channel brands previously licensed to Bell Media or Corus Entertainment launched under Rogers ownership, with other affected brands available through Citytv+. Five Discovery-branded channels owned by Bell rebranded, two adopting new brands licensed from NBCUniversal, later Versant. | [1][2] |
February
| Date | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | Sid Seixeiro and Meredith Shaw simultaneously depart as hosts of Citytv's Breakfast Television. | [3] |
March
| Date | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 17 | Dina Pugliese returns as host of Citytv's Breakfast Television after departing the program in 2023, alongside new co-host Tim Bolen. | [4] |
May
| Date | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 13 | Stingray Group announces the closure of its stations in Lloydminster, Alberta/Saskatchewan, CKSA-DT and CITL-DT, effective immediately, citing "challenging economic conditions." | [5] |
June
| Date | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | Pattison Media announces the closure of Medicine Hat's CHAT-TV after 68 years due to decreasing support for local television and ongoing losses, making it impossible to continue TV operations in the city. | [6] |
| 4 | Longtime CBC News Network morning anchor Heather Hiscox announces her retirement, effective November 6. | [7] |
July
| Date | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | Corus Entertainment announces the closure of ABC Spark, Disney Jr., Disney XD, La Chaîne Disney, and Nickelodeon on September 1 due to financial pressure within Corus. On the day after this closure, Corus also announces that its animation studio Nelvana would suspend operations, with its current projects ending production. | [8][9] |
August
| Date | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 25 | WildBrain announces the closures of Family Channel, Family Jr., Télémagino, and WildBrainTV effective October 22, due to a decline of its carriage agreements with Bell and Rogers caused the networks to become economically unviable, and the cancellation of its proposed sale of a majority stake in the channels to IoM Media Ventures. WildBrain had originally acquired the networks from Astral Media in 2014, following their acquisition by Bell Media in 2013. | [10][11] |
September
| Date | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Following the shutdown of Nickelodeon in Canada, its programming are removed from sister channels YTV and Treehouse due to Corus' continued financial issues. Some series are moved to the Canadian version of Paramount+. | [citation needed] |
| 12 | The CRTC approves the acquisition of the Hollywood Suite pay television service by Anthem Sports & Entertainment. | [12] |
December
| Date | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 18 | WildBrain announces an agreement to eliminate its remaining debts by selling the plurality stake it holds in the American Peanuts franchise to Sony in a deal valued at US$457 million. | [13] |
| 22 | Global Television Network accidentally uploads a version of a 60 Minutes episode containing the story pulled from the American broadcast titled "Inside CECOT" to its streaming services. It is then leaked to online websites afterwards. | [14] |
Programs
Programs debuting in 2025
| Start date | Show | Channel | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 6 | Saint-Pierre | CBC Television | [15] |
| January 7 | North of North | ||
| February 1 | Sounds Black | History | [16] |
| February 10 | Novelette Is Trying | OUTtv | [17] |
| February 14 | Settle Down | OUTtv | [18] |
| February 18 | Hanomansing Tonight | CBC News Network | [19] |
| February 24 | Pamela's Cooking with Love | Flavour | [20] |
| February 25 | Small Achievable Goals | CBC Television | [15] |
| April 21 | Big Burger Battle | Flavour | |
| May 2 | Drag Brunch Saved My Life | Crave | [21] |
| May 15 | Game Changers | AMI-tv | [22] |
| May 16 | Super Team Canada | Crave | [23] |
| May 26 | We Were Broncos | AMI-tv | [24] |
| June 12 | Revival | CTV Sci-Fi | [25] |
| July 8 | Pretty Blind | AMI-tv | [26] |
| July 11 | Underdog Inc. | [27] | |
| August 25 | Coastal Carvings | APTN Lumi | [28] |
| September 4 | Beer Budget Reno | Home | [29] |
| September 7 | Building Baeumler | Home | [29] |
| November 6 | The Assembly | CBC Television | [30] |
| November 10 | Rentovation | Home | [29] |
| November 28 | Heated Rivalry | Crave | [31] |
| N/A | Bad Trips | Crave | [32] |
| Locals Welcome | CBC Television | [33] | |
| My Pet Ate What? | CTV Wild | [34] | |
| One Day We'll All Be Dead | Crave | [35] | |
| Queen of the Castle | CTV Life | [34] | |
| Shipwreck Kings | Discovery | [34] | |
| Sounds Black | History | [36] | |
| Yukon Rescue | History | [36] |
Programs ending in 2025
| End date | Show | Channel | First aired | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 27 | Children Ruin Everything | CTV | 2022 | Ended | [37] |
| June 27 | The Agenda | TVO | 2006 | Ended | [38] |
Specials
| Date | Show | Channel | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| March 30 | Juno Awards of 2025 | CBC | [39] |
| June 1 | 13th Canadian Screen Awards | CBC | [40] |
| June 27 | King Arthur's Night | AMI-tv | [41] |
| October 8 | Michelle Ross: Unknown Icon | Documentary | [42] |
| September 13 | 2025 Canadian Country Music Association Awards | CTV | |
| November 16 | 112th Grey Cup | CTV, TSN | |
| December 7 | 27th Quebec Cinema Awards | Noovo |
Networks and services
Network launches
| Network | Type | Launch date | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Discovery | Cable and satellite | January 1 | New channels operated by Rogers Sports & Media, under brands previously used by different channels. |
| Food Network | |||
| HGTV | |||
| Investigation Discovery | |||
| Magnolia Network | |||
Network rebrandings
| Old network name | New network name | Type | Conversion date | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Planet | CTV Wild Channel | Cable/satellite | January 1 | Bell Media channels relaunched due to previous programming and brand rights being acquired by Rogers. |
| Discovery Channel (original) | USA Network | |||
| Discovery Science | CTV Nature Channel | |||
| Discovery Velocity | CTV Speed Channel | |||
| Investigation Discovery (original) | Oxygen True Crime |
Station closures
| Market | Station | Affiliation | Closure date | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lloydminster, Alberta/Saskatchewan | CKSA-DT | Citytv | May 13 | [5] |
| CITL-DT | CTV | |||
| Medicine Hat, Alberta | CHAT-TV | Citytv | June 3 | [6] |
Network closures
| Network | Type | Closure date | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABC Spark | Cable/satellite | September 1 | [8] |
| Disney Jr. | |||
| Disney XD | |||
| La Chaîne Disney | |||
| Nickelodeon | |||
| Family Channel | Cable/satellite | October 23 | [43] |
| Family Jr. | |||
| Télémagino | |||
| WildBrainTV |
Deaths
| Date | Name | Age | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 6 | Dale Wilson | 82 | Voice actor for Ocean Productions and Nelvana | [44] |
| April 10 | Ted Kotcheff | 94 | Canadian-born Bulgarian director (On Camera, Family of Cops) | [45] |
| June 3 | Juliette Powell | 54 | Beauty pageant winner (Miss Canada 1989) and television news reporter and host (MusiquePlus, MuchMusic, CP24) | [46] |
| September 1 | Graham Greene | 73 | First Nations actor (9B, The Adventures of Dudley the Dragon, The Red Green Show) | [47] |
| September 14 | Beverly Thomson | 61 | Reporter/anchor (CFTO and CIII/Toronto, CTV News Channel) and host of CTV's Canada AM | [48] |
| September 17 | Riff Markowitz | 86 | Producer and host (The Hilarious House of Frightenstein, Party Game, The Wolfman Jack Show) | [49] |
| November 1 | Anna Sandor | 76 | Hungarian-born Canadian/American writer (series including King of Kensington, Hangin' In, and Seeing Things; television movies including Charlie Grant's War and The Marriage Bed) | [50] |
| November 25 | Colleen Jones | 65 | Champion curler and reporter/host for CBC News and CBC Sports | [51] |
| December 25 | Stu Phillips | 92 | Country singer (Music Place) | [52] |