Documentary Channel (Canadian TV channel)

Documentary Channel
	Documentary Channel logo
Country	Canada
Broadcast area	National
Headquarters	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Programming
Picture format	480i (SDTV); 1080i (HDTV)
Ownership
Owner	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (82% & managing partner); National Film Board of Canada (14%); 4 independent producers (1% each)
History
Launched	September 7, 2001
Former names	Documentary; (2008–2016)
Links
Website	Documentary Channel

Documentary Channel (stylized as documentary Channel) is a

Category A specialty channel owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), the National Film Board of Canada and four other independent producers. Its programming is devoted to featuring primarily documentary films

along with documentary-style television series.

History

Licensed as The Canadian Documentary Channel on November 24, 2000 by the

Barna-Alper Productions

, and Galafilm.

On May 11, 2006, Corus Entertainment announced that it would sell its 53% majority stake in the service to the CBC; bringing the CBC's interest to 82% from its former 29%. Corus decided to sell its interest in the service because it stated documentaries were considered a non-core asset and it wanted to further focus its attention on core assets; kids and family, women's lifestyle, and films.[2] On June 22, 2007 the CRTC approved the deal and the transaction was completed.

On March 27, 2008 at 12:01 a.m.

EST

, the Documentary Channel changed its name to simply, documentary, along with a new logo and on-air graphics.

In October 2013, Neil Tabatznik purchased

eOne Television's interest (who gained ownership in the channel when it purchased Barna-Alper Productions in January 2008) in the channel.^[3]

In 2016, the CBC rebranded the channel again, slightly modifying the logo to introduce the word "channel", renaming it back to documentary Channel.