2024 Canadian Specialty Television Realignment
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In June 2024,
Rogers Communications Rogers Communications Inc. is a Canadian communications and media company operating primarily in the fields of wireless communications, cable television, telephony and Internet, with significant additional telecommunications and mass media ass ...
announced a licensing agreement with
Warner Bros. Discovery Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. (WBD) is an American Multinational corporation, multinational mass media and Outline of entertainment, entertainment Conglomerate (company), conglomerate headquartered in New York City. It was formed from WarnerMedi ...
(WBD), under which it holds the rights to the channel brands and programming of WBD's
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and lifestyle television networks (such as
Discovery Channel Discovery Channel, known as The Discovery Channel from 1985 to 1995, and often referred to as simply Discovery, is an American cable channel that is best known for its ongoing reality television shows and promotion of pseudoscience. It init ...
,
Animal Planet Animal Planet (stylized in all lowercase since 2018) is an American multinational pay television channel focusing on the animal kingdom owned by the Warner Bros. Discovery Networks unit of Warner Bros. Discovery. First established on June 1 ...
,
Food Network Food Network is an American basic cable channel owned by Television Food Network, G.P., a unit of Warner Bros. Discovery, who manages and operates it as a division of the Warner Bros. Discovery U.S. Networks Group. The channel airs both televi ...
, and
HGTV HGTV (an initialism for Home & Garden Television) is an American basic cable channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The network primarily broadcasts reality programming related to home improvement and real estate. HGTV Dream Home is an ...
among others). The agreement triggered a major re-alignment of Canadian specialty television, ending the long-term associations between the brands of WBD predecessors
Discovery, Inc. Discovery, Inc. was an American multinational mass media factual television conglomerate based in New York City. Established in 1982, the company operated a group of factual and lifestyle television brands, such as the namesake Discovery Chan ...
and
Scripps Networks Interactive Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc. (SNI) was an American mass media company, which was formed on July 1, 2008, and acquired by and merged into Discovery Communications on March 6, 2018. It was formed in 2008, through the spin-off of the E. ...
with
Bell Media Bell Media Inc. (Canadian French, French: ) is a Canadian media conglomerate that is the mass media subsidiary of BCE Inc. (also known as Bell Canada Enterprises, the owner of telecommunications company Bell Canada). Its operations include nati ...
and
Corus Entertainment Corus Entertainment Inc. (often simply known as Corus) is a Canadian mass media and television production company. The company was founded in 1987 as Shaw Radio Ltd. as a subsidiary of Shaw Communications and was spun-off from Shaw in 1999. It h ...
respectively. Most of the changes associated with these agreements took place on and around January 1, 2025, including the rebranding of multiple specialty channels across both companies under new proprietary brands with revised programming lineups; Corus relaunched its Food Network and HGTV channels on December 30, 2024, as Flavour Network and
Home Network Home Network is a Television in Canada, Canadian English-language Discretionary service, discretionary cable television, cable and satellite television, satellite specialty channel owned by Corus Entertainment. Home Network broadcasts programs r ...
respectively, and Bell rebranded most of its Discovery-branded channels under the CTV brand on January 1, 2025. An exception were Bell's
Discovery Channel Discovery Channel, known as The Discovery Channel from 1985 to 1995, and often referred to as simply Discovery, is an American cable channel that is best known for its ongoing reality television shows and promotion of pseudoscience. It init ...
and
Investigation Discovery Investigation Discovery (stylized and branded on-air as ID since 2008) is an American multinational pay television network dedicated to true crime documentaries, similar to corporate sibling HLN. It is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery's netw ...
channels, which relaunched as
USA Network USA Network (or simply USA) is an American basic cable television channel owned by the NBCUniversal Media Group division of Comcast's NBCUniversal. It was launched in 1977 as Madison Square Garden Sports Network, one of the first national sports ...
and
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respectively under a licensing agreement with
NBCUniversal NBCUniversal Media, LLC (abbreviated as NBCU and Trade name, doing business as NBCUniversal or Comcast NBCUniversal since 2013) is an American Multinational corporation, multinational mass media and Show business, entertainment conglomerate (comp ...
. Corus would close multiple specialty channels due to the changes, including
Cooking Channel Cooking Channel is an American basic cable channel owned by and spin-off of Food Network. Both are owned by Television Food Network, G.P., a joint venture and general partnership between Warner Bros. Discovery Networks (69%) and Nexstar Media ...
, its iteration of
Magnolia Network Magnolia Network is an American basic cable network owned by Warner Bros. Discovery in partnership with Chip Gaines, Chip and Joanna Gaines, the founders of lifestyle company Magnolia. It broadcasts personality-based lifestyle programs related ...
, and
Oprah Winfrey Network The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN, also known as the OWN Network) is an American multinational basic cable television network which launched on January 1, 2011, effectively replacing the Discovery Health Channel, which one month later merged with ...
. Alongside the WBD deal, Rogers concurrently announced an agreement with NBCUniversal for the Canadian rights to
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(mostly replacing an existing relationship with the Corus-owned specialty channel Slice)—which launched in September 2024 as a replacement for OLN. Other closures unrelated to the WBD agreements also occurred at the end of 2024, including Bell shutting down its
MTV MTV (an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable television television channel, channel and the flagship property of the MTV Entertainment Group sub-division of the Paramount Media Networks division of Paramount Global. Launched on ...
channel, Rogers ending Canadian distribution of
WWE Network WWE Network is a subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service and digital television network owned by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE, a division of TKO Group Holdings. The service relied on technology develo ...
due to its loss of rights to
WWE World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) is an American professional wrestling promotion. It is owned and operated by TKO Group Holdings, a majority-owned subsidiary of Endeavor Group Holdings. A global integrated media and entertainment company, ...
content to
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, and
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withdrawing
BET Black Entertainment Television (BET) is an American basic cable channel targeting Black American audiences. It is the flagship channel of the BET Media Group, a subsidiary of Paramount Global's CBS Entertainment Group. Originally launched ...
and
CBS Sports Network CBS Sports Network (a.k.a. CBSSN) is an American digital cable and satellite television network owned by the CBS Entertainment Group unit of Paramount Global. When it launched in 2002 as the National College Sports Network (later College Sports ...
from Canadian distribution. The loss of its rights to WBD lifestyle content exacerbated financial issues being faced by Corus since the Shaw family's sale of former sister company
Shaw Communications Shaw Communications Inc. was a Telecommunications in Canada, Canadian telecommunication, telecommunications company which provided telephone, Internet, television, and mobile services. The company was founded in 1966 as Capital Cable Televisio ...
(for which it had financial synergies) to Rogers itself in 2023, resulting in various notable cuts across its properties in mid-2024. Corus also accused Rogers of abusing its market position in
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since the merger in ways that it considered detrimental to its specialty channels, and of intending to regard the rebranded Flavour and Home Network as "new" channels and move them to new channel positions in favour of Rogers' new
Food Network Food Network is an American basic cable channel owned by Television Food Network, G.P., a unit of Warner Bros. Discovery, who manages and operates it as a division of the Warner Bros. Discovery U.S. Networks Group. The channel airs both televi ...
and
HGTV HGTV (an initialism for Home & Garden Television) is an American basic cable channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The network primarily broadcasts reality programming related to home improvement and real estate. HGTV Dream Home is an ...
channels.


Background


Past licensing relationships

Discovery Channel Discovery Channel, known as The Discovery Channel from 1985 to 1995, and often referred to as simply Discovery, is an American cable channel that is best known for its ongoing reality television shows and promotion of pseudoscience. It init ...
in Canada was first established in 1994 by NetStar Communications, a company formed from the broadcasting assets of
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after its sale to
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(due to restrictions on the foreign ownership of broadcasters). Due to its ownership of TSN,
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also held a stake in the company. A majority stake in NetStar was acquired in 2000 by CTV Inc., which was then acquired by
Bell Canada Enterprises BCE Inc., an abbreviation of its former name Bell Canada Enterprises Inc., is a publicly traded Canadian holding company for Bell Canada, which includes telecommunications providers and various mass media assets under its subsidiary Bell ...
along with ''
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'' to form Bell Globemedia—the direct precursor to the current
Bell Media Bell Media Inc. (Canadian French, French: ) is a Canadian media conglomerate that is the mass media subsidiary of BCE Inc. (also known as Bell Canada Enterprises, the owner of telecommunications company Bell Canada). Its operations include nati ...
. The subsidiary, now CTV Specialty Television, would launch other Discovery channel brands in Canada, including a Canadian version of
Animal Planet Animal Planet (stylized in all lowercase since 2018) is an American multinational pay television channel focusing on the animal kingdom owned by the Warner Bros. Discovery Networks unit of Warner Bros. Discovery. First established on June 1 ...
in 2000, and then Discovery World,
Investigation Discovery Investigation Discovery (stylized and branded on-air as ID since 2008) is an American multinational pay television network dedicated to true crime documentaries, similar to corporate sibling HLN. It is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery's netw ...
, and
Discovery Science Discovery science (also known as discovery-based science) is a scientific methodology which aims to find new patterns, correlations, and form hypotheses through the analysis of large-scale experimental data. The term “discovery science” enc ...
(
Science Channel Science Channel (often simply branded as Science; abbreviated to SCI) is an American pay television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The channel features programming focusing on science related to wilderness survival, engineering, manu ...
) in 2010 as part of an expanded licensing agreement with
Discovery Communications Discovery, Inc. was an American multinational mass media factual television conglomerate based in New York City. Established in 1982, the company operated a group of factual and lifestyle television brands, such as the namesake Discovery Cha ...
.
Corus Entertainment Corus Entertainment Inc. (often simply known as Corus) is a Canadian mass media and television production company. The company was founded in 1987 as Shaw Radio Ltd. as a subsidiary of Shaw Communications and was spun-off from Shaw in 1999. It h ...
's association with the former
Scripps Networks Scripps Networks, LLC, formerly known as Katz Broadcasting, is an American specialized digital multicasting network media company and a division of the E. W. Scripps Company. The company owns (as of 2024) eight broadcast television networks ...
brands dates back to a corporate precursor,
Atlantis Communications Atlantis Communications was a Canadian production company and television broadcaster that was formed in 1978 by Queen's University students Michael MacMillan, Janice L. Platt and Seaton S. MacLean. It was later merged in 1998 with Alliance Comm ...
, who launched a Canadian version of
HGTV HGTV (an initialism for Home & Garden Television) is an American basic cable channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The network primarily broadcasts reality programming related to home improvement and real estate. HGTV Dream Home is an ...
in partnership with Scripps in 1997. Atlantis would later merge with Alliance Communications, forming
Alliance Atlantis Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc. (commonly known as Alliance Atlantis) was a Canadian media company that operated primarily as a specialty service operator in Canada. Alliance Atlantis also had offices in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Halifax, Los ...
. The company would go on to form Food Network Canada in 2000, replacing the original U.S. network on television providers. In 2007, Alliance Atlantis' television assets were sold to a consortium of
Canwest Canwest Global Communications Corporation, which operated under the corporate name Canwest, was a major Canadian media conglomerate based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with its head offices at Canwest Place (now called 201 Portage). It held radio, ...
and
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known as CW Media. After Canwest filed for bankruptcy, the company's assets were acquired by
Shaw Communications Shaw Communications Inc. was a Telecommunications in Canada, Canadian telecommunication, telecommunications company which provided telephone, Internet, television, and mobile services. The company was founded in 1966 as Capital Cable Televisio ...
via the
Shaw Media Shaw Media, Inc. was the television broadcasting division of Shaw Communications. It owned the Global Television Network, which broadcasts nationally via 13 television stations, as well as 19 specialty channels including Slice (TV channel), Slice ...
subsidiary. Shaw Media was subsumed by Corus in 2016; both companies had already been principally controlled by JR Shaw and his family, with Corus originally established as a spin-off from Shaw in 1999. Corus would launch other Scripps brands such as DIY Network (which would later be replaced, as in the U.S., by
Magnolia Network Magnolia Network is an American basic cable network owned by Warner Bros. Discovery in partnership with Chip Gaines, Chip and Joanna Gaines, the founders of lifestyle company Magnolia. It broadcasts personality-based lifestyle programs related ...
) and
Cooking Channel Cooking Channel is an American basic cable channel owned by and spin-off of Food Network. Both are owned by Television Food Network, G.P., a joint venture and general partnership between Warner Bros. Discovery Networks (69%) and Nexstar Media ...
, and served as a Canadian launch partner for Discovery's streaming platform
Discovery+ Discovery may refer to: * Discovery (observation), observing or finding something unknown * Discovery (fiction), a character's learning something unknown * Discovery (law), a process in courts of law relating to evidence Discovery, The Discov ...
. Some of HGTV's
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programs have been aired by HGTV U.S., with '' Love It or List It'' and ''
Property Brothers ''Property Brothers'' is a Canadian reality television series now produced by Scott Brothers Entertainment, and is the original show in the Property Brothers (franchise), ''Property Brothers'' franchise. The series features twin brothers Drew S ...
'' in particular being among its top shows. In March 2024, according to ratings from
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, Corus stated that its channels accounted for 17 out of the top 20 entertainment (non-sports) programs on Canadian specialty television in January and February, including HGTV and Food Network programs such as ''
Celebrity IOU The ''Property Brothers'' franchise is a Canadian media franchise that stars Canadian twins Jonathan and Drew Scott and centers around the selling, purchasing, and renovation of real estate property. The shows also often guest star their older ...
'', ''
House Hunters ''House Hunters'' is an American unscripted television series that airs on HGTV and is produced by Pie Town Productions. Each episode follows people making a decision about a new home purchase or rental. Debuting in October 1999, the show has ...
'', and '' Beat Bobby Flay''.


Shaw acquisition by Rogers

On March 15, 2021,
Rogers Communications Rogers Communications Inc. is a Canadian communications and media company operating primarily in the fields of wireless communications, cable television, telephony and Internet, with significant additional telecommunications and mass media ass ...
announced a $26 billion offer to acquire Shaw, subject to regulatory and shareholder approval. The sale was completed on April 13, 2023. The CRTC began to classify Corus as an independent broadcaster as a result. In the months following the sale, Corus began to experience financial issues and declining revenue; on July 13, 2023, Corus announced that it would sell its
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animation software to the private equity firm
TPG Inc. TPG Inc., previously known as Texas Pacific Group and TPG Capital, is an American private equity firm based in Fort Worth, Texas. TPG manages investment funds in growth capital, venture capital, stock, public equity, and debt investments. The f ...
for $147.5 million to help pay down its debt. On October 27, 2023, Corus announced the suspension of its dividend and intention to redirect the use of free cash flow from dividends to debt repayment. On May 13, 2024, the CRTC approved an "exceptional" request from Corus to reduce its mandatory expenditures into programs of national interest (PNI) from 8.5% to 5% of revenue, in order to help offset its loss of Shaw community television expenditures for
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in metropolitan markets (which was reallocated from Corus's
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stations to Rogers'
Citytv Citytv (sometimes shortened to City, which was the network's official branding from 2012 to 2018) is a Television in Canada, Canadian television network owned by the Rogers Sports & Media subsidiary of Rogers Communications. The network consis ...
stations as a result of the acquisition).


Rogers agreements with Warner Bros. Discovery and NBCUniversal

On June 6, 2024, Corus disclosed that
Warner Bros. Discovery Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. (WBD) is an American Multinational corporation, multinational mass media and Outline of entertainment, entertainment Conglomerate (company), conglomerate headquartered in New York City. It was formed from WarnerMedi ...
(WBD) had declined to renew some of its brand licensing and programming agreements with the company, which were set to expire at the end of the year. Without revealing specific details, Corus CEO Doug Murphy alluded to the presence of "inequitable structural relationships in the Canadian media and telecom industries, particularly affecting independent broadcasters like Corus". On June 10, 2024,
Rogers Sports & Media Rogers Media Inc., operating as Rogers Sports & Media, is a Canadian subsidiary of Rogers Communications that owns the company's mass media and sports properties. Operations Current television brands owned by Rogers include two television sy ...
announced an exclusive licensing agreement with WBD, under which the rights to all WBD lifestyle and factual brands would move to Rogers platforms beginning in 2025, including
Animal Planet Animal Planet (stylized in all lowercase since 2018) is an American multinational pay television channel focusing on the animal kingdom owned by the Warner Bros. Discovery Networks unit of Warner Bros. Discovery. First established on June 1 ...
,
Discovery Channel Discovery Channel, known as The Discovery Channel from 1985 to 1995, and often referred to as simply Discovery, is an American cable channel that is best known for its ongoing reality television shows and promotion of pseudoscience. It init ...
,
Food Network Food Network is an American basic cable channel owned by Television Food Network, G.P., a unit of Warner Bros. Discovery, who manages and operates it as a division of the Warner Bros. Discovery U.S. Networks Group. The channel airs both televi ...
,
HGTV HGTV (an initialism for Home & Garden Television) is an American basic cable channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The network primarily broadcasts reality programming related to home improvement and real estate. HGTV Dream Home is an ...
,
Investigation Discovery Investigation Discovery (stylized and branded on-air as ID since 2008) is an American multinational pay television network dedicated to true crime documentaries, similar to corporate sibling HLN. It is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery's netw ...
(ID),
Magnolia Network Magnolia Network is an American basic cable network owned by Warner Bros. Discovery in partnership with Chip Gaines, Chip and Joanna Gaines, the founders of lifestyle company Magnolia. It broadcasts personality-based lifestyle programs related ...
,
Motor Trend ''Motor Trend'' is an American automobile magazine. It first appeared in September 1949, and designated the first Car of the Year, also in 1949. Petersen Publishing Company in Los Angeles published ''Motor Trend'' until 1998, when it was sold ...
, the
Oprah Winfrey Network The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN, also known as the OWN Network) is an American multinational basic cable television network which launched on January 1, 2011, effectively replacing the Discovery Health Channel, which one month later merged with ...
(OWN), and
Science Channel Science Channel (often simply branded as Science; abbreviated to SCI) is an American pay television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The channel features programming focusing on science related to wilderness survival, engineering, manu ...
. Content would be distributed via new and existing Rogers platforms, including its television networks and
Citytv+ Citytv (sometimes shortened to City, which was the network's official branding from 2012 to 2018) is a Canadian television network owned by the Rogers Sports & Media subsidiary of Rogers Communications. The network consists of six owned-and-o ...
; on January 1, 2025, Rogers relaunched
Discovery Discovery may refer to: * Discovery (observation), observing or finding something unknown * Discovery (fiction), a character's learning something unknown * Discovery (law), a process in courts of law relating to evidence Discovery, The Discovery ...
,
Food Network Food Network is an American basic cable channel owned by Television Food Network, G.P., a unit of Warner Bros. Discovery, who manages and operates it as a division of the Warner Bros. Discovery U.S. Networks Group. The channel airs both televi ...
,
HGTV HGTV (an initialism for Home & Garden Television) is an American basic cable channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The network primarily broadcasts reality programming related to home improvement and real estate. HGTV Dream Home is an ...
, ID, and Magnolia Network as new linear
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s. Content from Animal Planet, Cooking Channel, Motor Trend, OWN, and Science Channel will stream on
Citytv+ Citytv (sometimes shortened to City, which was the network's official branding from 2012 to 2018) is a Canadian television network owned by the Rogers Sports & Media subsidiary of Rogers Communications. The network consists of six owned-and-o ...
. ''The Gazette'' media writer Steve Faguy noted that all five of the new channels are most likely operating as exempted discretionary services, allowing them to launch without formal approval from the
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, provided that Rogers submits applications for discretionary service licenses after they exceed 200,000 subscribers. Alongside the WBD deal, Rogers also announced an agreement with
NBCUniversal NBCUniversal Media, LLC (abbreviated as NBCU and Trade name, doing business as NBCUniversal or Comcast NBCUniversal since 2013) is an American Multinational corporation, multinational mass media and Show business, entertainment conglomerate (comp ...
to acquire the Canadian rights to
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and its original programming (which had historically been carried by Corus channel Slice); Bravo would launch in Canada on September 1, 2024, using the former channel allotments and
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of OLN.


Programming changes

Due to the end of the licensing agreements, both Bell Media and Corus Entertainment announced plans to rebrand and/or relaunch their WBD-licensed channels under new brands, while preserving existing programming scopes and Canadian productions:


Corus

Corus stated that most of its WBD-licensed networks would continue to operate under new brands and an "alternate foreign program supply". Corus did not rule out the possibility of networks being shut down outright instead. The Canadian version of
Oprah Winfrey Network The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN, also known as the OWN Network) is an American multinational basic cable television network which launched on January 1, 2011, effectively replacing the Discovery Health Channel, which one month later merged with ...
shut down on September 1, 2024. Programming changes at Corus networks began in the 2024–25 television season, with Slice widening its format to include
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programming, and acquiring new reality and comedy programs (including additional We TV programs and
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's ''
The Daily Show ''The Daily Show'' is an American late-night talk show, late-night talk and news satire television program. It airs each Monday through Thursday on Comedy Central in the United States, with extended episodes released shortly after on Paramount+ ...
''; the latter having formerly aired on
CTV Comedy Channel CTV Comedy Channel (often shortened to CTV Comedy) is a Canadian English-language discretionary specialty channel owned by BCE Inc. subsidiary Bell Media which focuses primarily on comedy programming and operates two time-shifted feeds, runni ...
until 2023, following
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's departure and the aftermath of the 2023 WGA strike). On September 18, 2024, Corus announced the rebranding of HGTV and Food Network as Home Network and Flavour Network, respectively, on December 30, 2024; the two networks would be built around new and existing Corus original productions, as well as new U.S. and international acquisitions (including content from Fifth Season/
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,
ABS-CBN Studios ABS-CBN Studios (also known as ABS-CBN Entertainment, ABS-CBN Entertainment Group, ABS-CBN Entertainment Department, ABS-CBN Production, or just simply ABS-CBN) is a Philippine film, television production company, production and distribution (ma ...
, and
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). Corus co-CEO Troy Reeb stated that the rebranding was an opportunity to widen the networks' programming to be "younger", "fresher", and no longer bound by the limitations of the existing licensed brands. In December 2024, Corus announced a further acquisition of entertainment and lifestyle content from
ITV Studios ITV Studios Limited is a British multinational television media company owned by British television broadcaster ITV plc. It handles production and distribution of programmes broadcast on the ITV network and third-party broadcasters, and is ba ...
for Flavour, Home, and Slice. Beginning in November, multiple television providers stated that the Corus-owned iterations of Cooking Channel and Magnolia Network would be closed on December 31. This was confirmed directly by Corus, via the channels' websites, in early December.


Bell

Bell Media announced its plans for its WBD-licensed networks on October 17, 2024: the company announced new licensing agreements with NBCUniversal to introduce the
Oxygen Oxygen is a chemical element; it has chemical symbol, symbol O and atomic number 8. It is a member of the chalcogen group (periodic table), group in the periodic table, a highly reactivity (chemistry), reactive nonmetal (chemistry), non ...
and
USA Network USA Network (or simply USA) is an American basic cable television channel owned by the NBCUniversal Media Group division of Comcast's NBCUniversal. It was launched in 1977 as Madison Square Garden Sports Network, one of the first national sports ...
brands to Canada, which replaced ID and
Discovery Discovery may refer to: * Discovery (observation), observing or finding something unknown * Discovery (fiction), a character's learning something unknown * Discovery (law), a process in courts of law relating to evidence Discovery, The Discovery ...
respectively on January 1, 2025. ID saw no major changes in genre under Oxygen as the brand is similarly focused on true crime, but Discovery's rebranding as USA Network formally broadened the channel's scope to include more entertainment programming outside of science and technology. The remaining channels were brought under CTV branding similar to Bell Media's other thematic specialty channels, with
Animal Planet Animal Planet (stylized in all lowercase since 2018) is an American multinational pay television channel focusing on the animal kingdom owned by the Warner Bros. Discovery Networks unit of Warner Bros. Discovery. First established on June 1 ...
,
Discovery Science Discovery science (also known as discovery-based science) is a scientific methodology which aims to find new patterns, correlations, and form hypotheses through the analysis of large-scale experimental data. The term “discovery science” enc ...
, and
Discovery Velocity CTV Speed Channel is a Canadian discretionary specialty channel owned by CTV Specialty Television, a joint venture between Bell Media and ESPN Inc., with a minority interest owned by Warner Bros. Discovery via licensee 2953285 Canada Inc. It broa ...
relaunched as CTV Wild, Nature, and Speed Channel respectively. All five channels retained their existing Canadian programming. In an unrelated move, Bell Media announced that
MTV MTV (an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable television television channel, channel and the flagship property of the MTV Entertainment Group sub-division of the Paramount Media Networks division of Paramount Global. Launched on ...
would also close on December 31, 2024, citing "changing audiences".


Other companies

The realignment coincided with other changes not directly related to the Rogers/WBD deal: *
WWE Network WWE Network is a subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service and digital television network owned by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE, a division of TKO Group Holdings. The service relied on technology develo ...
(which was distributed in Canada by Rogers as part of
Sportsnet Sportsnet is a Television in Canada, Canadian English-language Discretionary service, discretionary sports broadcasting, sports specialty channel owned by Rogers Sports & Media. It was established in 1998 as CTV Sportsnet, a joint venture betw ...
's rights to
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programming) ceased operations in Canada at the end of 2024 due to a new licensing agreement with
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, which gives it rights to all WWE weekly programming, live events, and archive content outside of the United States, and exclusive rights to ''
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'' in the United States and internationally. To supplant WWE programming on
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, Rogers would announce a deal with the competing promotion
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(owned by Canadian broadcaster
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) to air its weekly series ''
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'' and other library programming beginning in January 2025. * Several television providers indicated that
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would be withdrawing
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and
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from Canadian distribution on December 31, 2024.


Channel distribution changes

Corus' Reeb indicated his company would be "asserting the rights of these channels to continue to be on the air, on cable, on satellite, in the position they've always been," such as Home Network retaining the channel numbers currently held by Corus' HGTV Canada. However, in early December 2024, Rogers' cable service division acknowledged to the CRTC that it intends to relocate Home and Flavour to new three-digit channel numbers when they rebrand on December 30, arguing that their customers expect to find HGTV and Food Network programming at the channels currently occupied by those brands, and that Home and Flavour are "new services". Rogers had previously made moves towards removing Slice, Home, and Flavour entirely, but such a move is currently barred under the CRTC's standstill policy, as discussed
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. In November and December 2024, some third-party providers began to release details about how they would handle the realignments: *
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, which operates in parts of Ontario and Quebec, as well as
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and
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in Saskatchewan and Tbaytel in Thunder Bay, all indicated they would maintain the continuing Corus and Bell channels under their new brands. To date, none of these companies have announced plans to carry the new Rogers channels. * Rural Ontario cable provider Hay Communications initially indicated plans to maintain the existing channel brands at their current positions, such as Rogers' Discovery Channel taking the Hay channel number of Bell's version. It later clarified that while it intends to launch the new Rogers channels, it may not be able to reach an agreement in time for their launch, and that it too would maintain the rebranded Bell and Corus channels in their existing positions. * On December 1,
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announced that its
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service would continue to carry the rebranded Flavour Network and Home Network, but initially said it would drop Bell's rebranding channels on January 1. Telus also did not announce plans to carry the replacement Rogers channels. On December 31, Telus updated its notice, saying it would carry the rebranded Bell-operated channels. Traditional TV subscribers whose providers are not carrying all the affected channels, as well as viewers without a traditional TV provider, will have other ways to access the channels' content, at additional cost: * Corus has said that Home Network, Flavour Network, and their associated content will continue to be available through its direct-to-consumer streaming package
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via
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. * Rogers has indicated that all WBD lifestyle brands and Bravo will be available to stream on its direct-to-consumer streaming package
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via Amazon Prime Video. * Bell does not offer a similar direct-to-consumer service with the affected linear channels it owns, but has said much of the content from USA, Oxygen, and the other rebranded channels will be available through its direct-to-consumer streaming service Crave.


Regulatory complaints and litigation


Bell Media litigation with WBD

On June 19, 2024, Bell Media filed a request for an injunction against both Rogers and WBD, seeking to delay the implementation of the agreement. Bell asserted that its original contract with Discovery gave it rights to a two-year " window to adjust" in the event it were not renewed, preventing the company from supplying programming to a competitor for two years. A Rogers spokesperson stated that the filing was "without merit", and accused Bell of seeking to "block Canadians from seeing these Discovery channels for two years – stopping anyone in Canada from distributing them and stopping anyone in Canada from watching them." On August 28, 2024, Bell filed that it was no longer seeking injunctive relief against Rogers, and would focus upon WBD's alleged violations of non-compete clauses and its right of first negotiation. Bell stated that it had been " isledinto believing that its exclusive right of first negotiation had been respected", and that it had attempted to begin negotiations to renew with WBD in late-2023, but that the company had made "repeated conflicting representations about their intentions on several issues". On October 8, 2024, Bell announced that it had reached a settlement with WBD. Under the agreement, Bell renewed its Canadian rights to
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and
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original programming for Crave, and also entered into pacts to develop new international co-productions, and distribute Bell Media original productions via WBD platforms internationally.


Corus complaints against Rogers

In retaliation for the agreement, Corus filed a complaint against Rogers with the
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(CRTC) in August 2024, accusing the company of abusing a dominant position in the Canadian telecom market since its acquisition of Shaw. In particular, Corus accused Rogers of showing an undue preference towards the foreign streaming service
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—for which Rogers provides Canadian advertising sales—that was harmful to its own
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-licensed networks (such as
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). These included prominent placements for the Disney+ app near the channels in the Ignite TV
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, and promotional offers bundling the ad-supported tier of Disney+ with Ignite TV service for no additional charge. Corus stated that these tactics were "clearly part of a larger, predatory strategy to 'cut out the middle company,' which affects all Canadian independent programming services", and believed that the CRTC had been lax in enforcing conditions of the sale relating to Rogers' dealings with independent broadcasters. Rogers challenged the complaint as "baseless", arguing that Corus had failed to adapt its "broken business model" to
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(especially in the children's television market), and was "trying to force service providers to carry and our customers to pay for channels they no longer want to watch". ''The Gazette'' media writer Steve Faguy noted that the original launches of Corus' Disney-branded networks in 2015 had occurred under nearly identical circumstances to Rogers' WBD deal, as Corus had acquired the Disney Channel library rights formerly held by
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(now WildBrain)'s Family Channel,
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, and
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—resulting in Corus establishing its own Disney Channel,
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, and
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channels under new licenses, and DHX's Disney Junior and XD channels being rebranded as spin-offs from Family. Following receipt of notice from Rogers' cable division in late October that it intends to relocate Flavour and Home Network on December 30, replacing their current positions with Rogers' new Food Network and HGTV channels, Corus filed a separate complaint in November about the relocations. Corus also found fault with an advisory sent by Rogers to third-party providers asking them not to refer to Corus' relaunches as "rebrands" in order to "avoid any potential legal claims". The CRTC directed Rogers not to move the Corus channels, with Rogers announcing an appeal of that finding in December 2024.


Corus litigation with Rogers

In November 2024, filings in the
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revealed that Rogers has also been in a
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with Corus, and has sought to drop a number of Corus channels (including Food Network, HGTV, Slice, and YTV among others) that they deemed to be underperforming and no longer viable under present market conditions. The CRTC has considered negotiations for Corus networks on its cable systems in Eastern Canada (Rogers' systems in Western Canada are covered by a different agreement inherited from Shaw) to be at a standstill. Under the CRTC ''Wholesale Code'', specialty channels cannot be pulled from television providers if negotiations are at a standstill, with the provider allowed to continue carrying the channel under existing terms. In August 2024, Corus sought an injunction against Rogers for planning to drop Slice from new packages on its Eastern Canada systems in September 2024; Rogers considered the channel
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and redundant to its new Bravo channel, as Bravo programming was determined by Rogers to have been the network's main draw. Corus believed that the decision violated Rogers' carriage agreement, and the CRTC standstill. In November 2024, the Ontario Superior Court ruled that Rogers did not violate the carriage agreement, as the contractual provision allowing Rogers to freely "create" packages and bundles including Corus networks did not necessarily prohibit it from modifying the packages afterward (the Western Canada contracts originally made with Shaw do contain a provision requiring a 120-day notice before a package is modified, and also requires a package to be discontinued if a Corus channel is removed from it). The Court did not rule on the CRTC matter, as it is not within its jurisdiction.


Aftermath

The announcement caused Corus's share price to fall significantly. On June 17, 2024, Corus CEO Doug Murphy retired after 21 years with the company, with CFO John Gossling and executive vice president of networks and content Troy Reeb succeeding him as co-chairmen. On July 15, citing the "challenging advertising environment", Gossling stated during Corus's third-quarter earnings report that the company planned to cut 300 more positions by the end of August (a total of 800 since September 2022) and "aggressively" cut costs. Corus continued to cut staff in its television and radio businesses over the following months, including layoffs in the
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division (including the end of local news production at
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in Kelowna, replaced with newscasts produced at Vancouver sister station
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with contributions from local reporters), layoffs at its Kingston, Ontario radio and television stations, and the closure of AM stations
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Edmonton,
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Vancouver, and
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Hamilton. The on-air announcement of CHML's closure cited "years of financial loss" and "the shift of advertising revenues to unregulated foreign platforms". On July 17, Corus-owned
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suspended its development of new projects through the end of 2024, after the departure of its vice president Athena Georgaklis. In September 2024, ''
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'' reported that rival conglomerate
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(which had acquired
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from Shaw as a condition of the Rogers–Shaw purchase) had made offers to acquire Corus, and was seeking to have the company's debt written down by 60% to ease a potential acquisition. Company representatives had met with Corus executive Heather Shaw earlier in 2024. In late January 2025, TV critic Bill Brioux, citing
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data sent to him by Corus, reported that Home and Flavour retained significantly larger audiences in the 25–54 demographic during the first two weeks of January compared to the new Rogers versions of HGTV and Food Network.


See also

* 2007 Canadian broadcast television realignment *
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*
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