List of years in Canadian television: |
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The following is a list of events affecting Canadian television in 2025. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, cancellations, and channel launches, closures and rebrandings.
Date | Event | Source |
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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. | [1] [2] |
Date | Event | Source |
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10 | Sid Seixeiro and Meredith Shaw simultaneously depart as hosts of Citytv's Breakfast Television . | [3] |
Date | Event | Source |
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17 | Dina Pugliese returns as host of Citytv's Breakfast Television after departing the program in 2023, alongside new co-host Tim Bolen. | [4] |
Date | Event | Source |
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13 | Stingray Group announces the closure of its twinstick stations in Lloydminster, Alberta/Saskatchewan, CKSA and CITL, effective immediately, citing “challenging economic conditions.” | [5] |
Date | Event | Source |
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3 | Pattison Media announces the closure of Medicine Hat's CHAT-TV after 68 years, citing shrinking support for local TV 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] |
Date | Event | Source |
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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. | [8] |
Date | Event | Source |
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25 | WildBrain announces the impending closure of Family Channel, Family Jr., Télémagino, and WildBrainTV over the coming months, after the loss of its carriage agreements with Bell and Rogers caused the networks to become economically unviable, and the proposed sale of a majority stake in the channels to IoM Media Ventures to fall through. WildBrain had originally acquired the networks from Astral Media in 2014. | [9] [10] |
Start date | Show | Channel | Source |
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January 6 | Saint-Pierre | CBC Television | [11] |
January 7 | North of North | ||
February 1 | Sounds Black | History | [12] |
February 10 | Novelette Is Trying | OUTtv | [13] |
February 18 | Hanomansing Tonight | CBC News Network | [14] |
February 24 | Pamela's Cooking with Love | Flavour | [15] |
February 25 | Small Achievable Goals | CBC Television | [11] |
April 21 | Big Burger Battle | Flavour | |
May 2 | Drag Brunch Saved My Life | Crave | [16] |
May 15 | Game Changers | AMI-tv | [17] |
May 16 | Super Team Canada | Crave | [18] |
May 26 | We Were Broncos | AMI-tv | [19] |
June 12 | Revival | CTV Sci-Fi | [20] |
July 8 | Pretty Blind | AMI-tv | [21] |
July 11 | Underdog Inc. | [22] | |
August 25 | Coastal Carvings | APTN Lumi | [23] |
September 4 | Beer Budget Reno | Home | [24] |
September 7 | Building Baeumler | Home | [24] |
November 10 | Rentovation | Home | [24] |
TBA | Bad Trips | Crave | [25] |
Life Is Messy | Home | [24] | |
Locals Welcome | CBC Television | [26] | |
My Pet Ate What? | CTV Wild | [27] | |
One Day We'll All Be Dead | Crave | [28] | |
Queen of the Castle | CTV Life | [27] | |
Shipwreck Kings | Discovery | [27] | |
Sounds Black | History | [29] | |
Yukon Rescue | History | [29] |
End date | Show | Channel | First aired | Status | Source |
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February 27 | Children Ruin Everything | CTV | 2022 | Ended | [30] |
June 27 | The Agenda | TVO | 2006 | Ended | [31] |
Start date | Show | Channel | Source |
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March 30 | Juno Awards of 2025 | CBC | [32] |
June 1 | 13th Canadian Screen Awards | CBC | [33] |
November 16 | 112th Grey Cup | CTV, TSN | |
Dates TBA | 2025 Canadian Country Music Awards | CTV | |
27th Quebec Cinema Awards | Noovo |
Network | Type | Launch date | Notes |
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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 | |||
Old network name | New network name | Type | Conversion date | Notes |
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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 | |||
Market | Station | Affiliation | Closure date | Notes |
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Lloydminster, Alberta/Saskatchewan | CKSA-DT | Citytv | May 13 | [5] |
CITL-DT | CTV | |||
Medicine Hat, Alberta | CHAT-TV | Citytv | June 3 | [6] |
Network | Type | Closure date | Notes |
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ABC Spark | Cable/satellite | September 1 | [8] |
Disney Jr. | |||
Disney XD | |||
La Chaîne Disney | |||
Nickelodeon | |||