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2016 in Canadian television

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The following is a list of events affecting Canadian television in 2016. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, cancellations, and channel launches, closures and rebrandings.

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"Corus Entertainment acquires Shaw Media for $2.65-billion". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 13 January 2016.

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"Rogers and VICE Announce New Specialty Channel". Broadcaster, November 5, 2015.

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"Canadian comic Norm Macdonald to host Canadian Screen Awards". Hamilton Spectator, October 6, 2015.

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"Quebecor Media's TVA Group closing business channel Argent". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 19 April 2016.

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"Bon Appétit! Bell Media Acquires Gusto Brand to Launch its First Food and Lifestyle Channel".

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Peter Edwards (2016-06-06). "Ben Mulroney, Anne-Marie Mediwake to host CTV's new show 'Your Morning'". Toronto Star. Retrieved 2016-06-06.

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"Rogers seeks to revive OMNI with national multicultural channel". BNN, June 14, 2016.

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"CRTC wants TV stations to air 7 hours a week of local news". Toronto Star, June 15, 2016.

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"Winter is Coming -- CTV to Broadcast GAME OF THRONES Season 1 in Historic Network Marathon Beginning August 8".

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"Tragically Hip's final concert to be broadcast live on CBC". CBC News, June 17, 2016.

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"Peter Mansbridge to step down from The National next year". CBC News. 5 September 2016. Retrieved 6 September 2016.

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"CHCH to Bring Back Weekend News Broadcasts - CHCH".

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Brioux, Bill (11 December 2015). "Family Channel's next step: 'Empire for tweens'". Toronto Star. The Canadian Press. p. E8.

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Manon Dumais, "Les pays d’en haut sans les belles histoires". Le Devoir, December 18, 2015.

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"TV Show "Letterkenny", starring Listowel's Jared Keeso, has a launch date". 570 News, November 9, 2015.

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"HGTV Canada Begins Production on New Original Series". Broadcaster, October 15, 2015.

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"«St-Nickel»: une première série originale pour Unis TV". Huffington Post, June 25, 2015.

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"Jason Priestley, 'Rookie Blue' Star Cindy Sampson Find 'The Code'". The Hollywood Reporter, October 13, 2015.

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"ABC Spark Begins Production on First Original Series". Broadcaster, October 30, 2015.

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"YTV to Debut New Canadian Original Series ‘Tricked’". Broadcaster, August 24, 2016.

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"CBC Announces Fall Program Schedule". Broadcaster, August 25, 2016.

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"Showcase Unveils Fall Lineup" Archived 2016-12-20 at the Wayback Machine. Broadcaster, August 29, 2016.

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"Jason Momoa to star in Canadian TV drama about fur trade". Toronto Star, November 16, 2015.

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"Canadian Satire Site 'The Beaverton' Becomes Fake News Show". Exclaim!, June 2, 2016.

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Date	Event
1	Corus Entertainment completes their acquisition of Shaw Media and adopts a new logo.
10	Stéphanie St-Jean wins the fourth season of La Voix.
30	TVA Group closes Argent, a French-language channel which focused on business news and financial information, due to poor profitability.^[4]

Date	Event
4	Bell Media acquires Gusto TV and the Gusto brand from Knight Enterprises.^[5]
12	Nick and Phil Paquette win the fourth season of Big Brother Canada.

Date	Event
3	After being cancelled the previous day, CTV's morning show Canada AM airs for the last time. Canada AM has aired on CTV since 1972.^[6]
14	Rogers Media files an application with the CRTC to convert OMNI Television, currently a system of four multicultural television stations in major metropolitan cities, into a nationally distributed cable channel.^[7]
15	The CRTC announces a new policy for the provision of local news content on Canadian television stations, now requiring a minimum of just seven hours per week on non-metropolitan stations and creating a new local news fund to assist in paying for that programming.^[8]

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8-19	The CTV Television Network airs the first season of Game of Thrones unedited, and with reduced commercial time at 10 p.m. in all markets. This is the first time Game of Thrones has aired on network television in North America.^[9]
20	Following Gord Downie's diagnosis with glioblastoma, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation broadcasts The Tragically Hip: A National Celebration, iconic Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip's August 20 concert at the K-Rock Centre in their hometown of Kingston, as a live cross-platform broadcast on CBC Television, CBC Radio One, CBC Radio 2, CBC Music and YouTube.^[10]
22	Your Morning, the replacement for Canada AM, premieres on CTV stations in Eastern Canada and on the CTV News Channel nationwide.^[6]

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5	Peter Mansbridge, the longtime anchor of CBC Television's newscast The National, announces that he will retire in 2017 following the network's special Canada Day broadcast on July 1.^[11]
7	CHCH announces it will resume broadcasting local news on the weekends in the form of two half-hours of news programming at 6pm and 11pm starting October 29, 2016. The station previously aired weekend news until December 2015 when the station's news division filed for bankruptcy.^[12]

2016_in_Canadian_television

2016 in Canadian television

Events

Notable events

January

February

March

April

May

June

August

September

Television programs

Programs debuting in 2016

Programs ending in 2016

Networks and services

Closures

Television stations

Network affiliation changes

See also

References

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Start Date	Show	Channel	Source
January	Lost & Found Music Studios	Family Channel	^[13]
January 4	Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race	Cartoon Network
January 8	Hello Goodbye	CBC Television
January 11	Les Pays d'en haut	Ici Radio-Canada Télé	^[14]
February 7	Letterkenny	CraveTV, The Comedy Network	^[15]
April 4	Wynonna Earp	CHCH-DT
April 24	Home to Win	HGTV	^[16]
May 8	Raising Expectations	Family Channel
May 24	St. Nickel	Unis	^[17]
May 26	Private Eyes	Global	^[18]
June 14	Baroness von Sketch Show	CBC Television
July 6	Cheer Squad	ABC Spark	^[19]
July 25	The Switch	OutTV
August 22	Your Morning	CTV	^[6]
August 28	Four in the Morning	CBC Television
September 4	Hip-Hop Evolution	HBO Canada
September 5	Tricked	YTV	^[20]
September 5	Ranger Rob	Treehouse TV
September 6	Dot.	CBC Television	^[21]
September 10	Snapshots		^[21]
October 2	This Is High School		^[21]
October 3	The Goods		^[21]
October 4	Kim's Convenience		^[21]
October 10	Shoot the Messenger		^[21]
October 17	Travelers	Showcase	^[22]
October 27	Second Jen	City
November 1	Counterfeit Cat	Teletoon
November 6	Frontier	Discovery, CraveTV	^[23]
November 9	The Beaverton	The Comedy Network	^[24]

Date	Market	Station	Channel	Old affiliation	New affiliation	References
February 22	Dawson Creek, British Columbia	CJDC-TV	5 (analogue)	CBC	CTV 2
February 22	Terrace, British Columbia	CFTK-TV	3 (Analogue)		CTV 2
September 1	Lloydminster, Alberta-Saskatchewan	CKSA-DT	2.1		Global	^[25]