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 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 CTV Television Network announces significant news cutbacks at its owned-and-operated stations, including the cancellation of all noon-hour and weekend local newscasts outside of a few major metropolitan markets. [1]

April

DateEventSource
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. [2]

June

DateEventSource
6 Eastlink ends their dispute with Corus Entertainment and re-adds the channels back on some new Theme Packs, TiVo Classic customers just got the combination of HGTV, Food Network, W Network, Showcase and History.
10 Rogers Communications inks new multi-year deals with Warner Bros. Discovery and NBCUniversal, resulting in several established television channels, including HGTV Canada, Food Network Canada, Discovery Canada, and other lifestyle and factual channels, being lost by competitors Corus Entertainment and Bell Media. [3] Corus and Bell said that their respective separate deals for Cartoon Network/Adult Swim content and HBO content aren't affected by this change.

Future events

July

DateEventSource
26–August 11The 2024 Summer Olympics, which will take place in Paris, France, is scheduled to air on CBC, CBC Gem, Ici Télé, and Cable networks like TSN, RDS and Sportsnet.

September

DateEventSource
1The Canadian version of the Oprah Winfrey Network will be shut down.
7The Canadian Football League will return to over-the-air television in Canada for the first time in 17 years with a package of Saturday afternoon contests on CTV. [4] [5]


Programs

Programs debuting in 2024

Start dateShowChannelSource
January 8 MasterChef Québec TVA [6]
January 9 One More Time CBC [7]
January 10 Wild Cards [7]
January 19 Late Bloomer Crave [8]
January 21 Sight Unseen CTV [9]
February 5 Timber Titans Discovery [10]
February 7 Allegiance CBC [7]
February 8 The Great Canadian Pottery Throw Down [11]
February 22 Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent Citytv [12]
March 5 Treaty Road APTN [13]
March 8Gangnam Project CBC Kids [14]
March 22 The Trades Crave [15]
April 1Dylan's Playtime AdventuresCBC Kids [16]
May 7 Pow Wow Chow APTN [17]
May 8HopCBC Kids [18]
May 30 Geek Girl Netflix
July 12 Made for TV with Boman Martinez-Reid Crave [19]
SeptemberOld Enough! Canada TVO [20]
TBABad Trips Crave [21]
Beer Budget Reno HGTV [22]
Bon Cop, Bad Cop Crave [23]
Building Baeumler HGTV [22]
Darcy & Jer: No Refunds Crave [24]
Drag Brunch Saved My Life Crave [25]
House of Ali HGTV [22]
The Last Captains Discovery [24]
Mark McKinney Needs a Hobby CTV [21]
Murder in a Small Town Global [22]
My Pet Ate What? Animal Planet [24]
Novelette Is Trying OUTtv [26]
The Office Movers Crave [21]
One Day We'll All Be Dead Crave [8]
Pamela's Cooking with Love Food Network [22]
Queen of the Castle CTV Life [24]
Quel talent! Noovo [27]
The Rebuild: Inside the Montreal Canadiens Crave
Revival CTV Sci-Fi [24]
Shipwreck Kings Discovery [24]
Sounds Black History [22]
Slaycation Crave [21]
Snotty Nose Rez Kids CBC [28]
So Long, Marianne Crave
The Sticky Amazon Prime Video [29]
Super Team Canada Crave [21]
Yukon Rescue History [22]

Programs ending in 2024

End dateShowChannelFirst airedStatusSource
January 19 Transplant CTV 2020Ended [30]
March 23 W5 1966 [31]
April 2 Run the Burbs CBC Television 2022Canceled [32]
May 3 CityLine Citytv 1984Canceled [33]

Specials

Start dateShowChannelSource
March 24 Juno Awards of 2024 CBC Television [34]
May 31 12th Canadian Screen Awards [35]
Dates TBA 2024 Canadian Country Music Awards CTV
111th Grey Cup CTV, TSN
26th Quebec Cinema Awards Noovo

Networks and services

Network launches

Network rebrandings

Network closures

Deaths

DateNameAgeNotesSources
April 24 Bob Cole 90Sportscaster and play-by-play voice for Hockey Night in Canada [37]
May 15 Darren Dutchyshen 57Sportscaster and anchor for TSN's SportsCentre [38]

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  2. ↑ "Prime Video Adds Live NHL Hockey Games in Canada," from The Hollywood Reporter, 4/25/2024
  3. ↑ Connie Thiessen, "Rogers scoops Warner Bros. Discovery rights from Corus and Bell". Broadcast Dialogue, June 10, 2024.
  4. ↑ "Star-Studded New Series, Returning Hits, and Live Events to Anchor CTV's 2024/25 Schedule". Bell Media . Retrieved 2024-06-06.
  5. ↑ "Where to Watch: 2024 CFL Broadcast Information". CFL.ca. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
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  10. ↑ Greg David, "New Canadian original series Timber Titans anchors Discovery’s winter programming lineup". TV, eh?, January 19, 2024.
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  38. ↑ Obituary for Darren Dutchyshen from The Canadian Press, 5/16/2024
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