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.

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Events

January

DateEventSource
11After 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

DateEventSource
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

DateEventSource
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

DateEventSource
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 launch Bravo 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

DateEventSource
26–August 11The 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France airs on CBC, CBC Gem, Ici Télé, and cable networks TSN, RDS, and Sportsnet.

September

DateEventSource
1After 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.
7The 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

DateEventSource
22The 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

DateEventSource
30Corus 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 orignal 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 comfirmed 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

Start dateShowChannelSource
January 8 MasterChef Québec TVA [9]
January 9 One More Time CBC [10]
January 10 Wild Cards [10]
January 19 Late Bloomer Crave [11]
January 21 Sight Unseen CTV [12]
January 26 Ghosting with Luke Hutchie and Matthew Finlan CBC Gem [13]
February 5 Timber Titans Discovery [14]
February 7 Allegiance CBC [10]
February 8 The Great Canadian Pottery Throw Down [15]
February 22 Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent Citytv [16]
March 5 Treaty Road APTN [17]
March 8Gangnam Project CBC Kids [18]
March 22 The Trades Crave [19]
April 1Dylan's Playtime Adventures CBC Kids [20]
May 7 Pow Wow Chow APTN [21]
May 8Hop CBC Kids [22]
May 30 Geek Girl Netflix
July 12 Made for TV with Boman Martinez-Reid Crave [23]
August 23 Don't Even Crave [24]
September 2My Haunted Hometown T+E [25]
September 5House of Ali HGTV [26]
September 8Old Enough! Canada TVO [27]
September 9 Quel talent! Noovo [28]
September 19The Rebuild: Inside the Montreal Canadiens Crave
September 20 The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal Prime Video [29]
September 24 Murder in a Small Town Global [26]
September 27 So Long, Marianne Crave [30]
October 2 Mark McKinney Needs a Hobby CTV [31]
October 8 Todd Talbot Builds: The Passive House Project Cottage Life [32]
October 11 The Office Movers Crave [33]
October 14 Barney's World Treehouse
October 30 Anna Comes Home (Le retour d'Anna Brodeur) Crave [34]
December 6 The Sticky Amazon Prime Video [35]
December 31 Slaycation Crave [36]

Programs ending in 2024

End dateShowChannelFirst airedStatusSource
January 19 Transplant CTV 2020Ended [37]
March 23 W5 1966 [38]
April 2 Run the Burbs CBC Television 2022Canceled [39]
May 3 CityLine Citytv 1984Canceled [40]
May 8 Big Brother Canada Global 2013Canceled

Specials

Start dateShowChannelSource
March 24 Juno Awards of 2024 CBC [41]
May 31 12th Canadian Screen Awards [42]
September 14 2024 Canadian Country Music Awards CTV
November 17 111th Grey Cup CTV, TSN
December 8 26th Quebec Cinema Awards Noovo

Networks and services

Network launches

NetworkTypeLaunch dateNotes
QUB Cable and satellite January 11
APTN Languages September 1

Network rebrandings

Old network nameNew network nameTypeConversion dateNotes
Moi et Cie Temoin Cable/satelliteApril 9
OLN Bravo Cable/satelliteSeptember 1New channel operated by Rogers Sports & Media, under license from NBCUniversal.
GiNX eSports TV Canada Super Channel Quest Cable/satelliteSeptember 4
Club Illico Illico+Cable/satellite
HGTV Canada (original) Home Network Cable/satelliteDecember 31Outgoing 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

NetworkTypeClosure dateNotes
Yoopa Cable/satelliteJanuary 11
MTV2 March 29
TV Japan March 31
OWN Canada September 1
VraiOctober 23
WWE Network December 31
MTV
Cooking Channel
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

DateNameAgeNotesSources
April 24 Bob Cole 90Sportscaster and play-by-play voice for Hockey Night in Canada [43]
May 15 Darren Dutchyshen 57Sportscaster and anchor for TSN's SportsCentre [44]
October 11 Mike Bullard 67Comedian and host of CTV's Open Mike with Mike Bullard and Global's The Mike Bullard Show [45]

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