2016 in Canadian television

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.

Events

Notable events

January

Date Event
13 Corus Entertainment enters a deal to acquire the assets of Shaw Media, including the Global Television Network.

February

Date Event
29 The Biography Channel, owned by Rogers Media, is rebranded in conjunction with Vice magazine as a Canadian version of Viceland.

March

Date Event
13 The 4th Canadian Screen Awards airs on CBC.

April

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.

May

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

June

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.
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.
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.

August

Date Event
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.
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.
22 Your Morning, the replacement for Canada AM, premieres on CTV stations in Eastern Canada and on the CTV News Channel nationwide.

September

Date Event
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.
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.

Television programs

Programs debuting in 2016

Series currently listed here have been announced by their respective networks as scheduled to premiere in 2016. Note that shows may be delayed or cancelled by the network between now and their scheduled air dates.

Start Date Show Channel Source
January Lost & Found Music Studios Family Channel
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
February 7 Letterkenny CraveTV, The Comedy Network
April 4 Wynonna Earp CHCH-DT
April 24 Home to Win HGTV
May 8 Raising Expectations Family Channel
May 24 St. Nickel Unis
May 26 Private Eyes Global
June 14 Baroness von Sketch Show CBC Television
July 6 Cheer Squad ABC Spark
July 25 The Switch OutTV
August 22 Your Morning CTV
August 28 Four in the Morning CBC Television
September 4 Hip-Hop Evolution HBO Canada
September 5 Tricked YTV
September 5 Ranger Rob Treehouse TV
September 6 Dot. CBC Television
September 10 Snapshots
October 2 This Is High School
October 3 The Goods
October 4 Kim's Convenience
October 10 Shoot the Messenger
October 17 Travelers Showcase
October 27 Second Jen City
November 1 Counterfeit Cat Teletoon
November 6 Frontier Discovery, CraveTV
November 9 The Beaverton The Comedy Network

Programs ending in 2016

Series currently listed here have been announced by their respective networks as scheduled to premiere in 2016. Note that shows may be delayed or cancelled by the network between now and their scheduled air dates.

End Date Show Channel Source
April 1 Fugget About It Adult Swim

Networks and services

Closures

Network Type Date Notes
The Pet Network May 2
ichannel August 15
M3 September 1

Television stations

Network affiliation changes

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

See also


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