MTV (Canadian TV channel)
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Ownership | |
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Owner | Bell Media (Brand Licensing Agreement with Paramount Global) |
Sister channels | Much |
History | |
Launched | September 1, 2000 |
Former names | TalkTV (2000–2006) |
Links | |
Website | MTV Canada |
MTV is a Canadian English-language discretionary specialty channel owned by Bell Media with the name and branding used under a licensing agreement with Paramount Global. The channel is devoted to talk, lifestyle and documentary programming, and also airs some scripted programming.
The channel launched as Talktv in 2000, but was not as widely available prior to its relaunch in March 2006. Unlike MTV channels in the United States and elsewhere, the channel was restricted in its ability to carry music programming until 2015, due to conditions in the channel's licence issued by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). Thus, the channel never used the "Music Television" tagline as its international counterparts did prior to 2010. Instead, MuchMusic had been launched in 1984 as the designated Canadian channel dedicated to mainstream music.
As a former
History
MTV in Canada before 2005
In October 2001, MTV partnered with
Craig was ordered to come into compliance with its broadcasting licence, but after CHUM purchased Craig in 2004, MTV Networks terminated the agreement with Craig as the contract had included a provision to cancel the agreement if there was a change in ownership. MTV Canada was subsequently rebranded as Razer from 2005 to 2008, when the channel was rebranded as
Meanwhile, Talktv was launched on September 1, 2000, and primarily carried repeats of
Relaunch
On September 28, 2005, CTV and MTV Networks announced that Talktv would be relaunched as a new Canadian incarnation of MTV, while continuing to maintain its licence requirement of "documentary programming" with over 68% Canadian content. In the September 28 press release, CTV claimed to have applied for a Category 2 licence that would feature music videos, along the lines of the former MTV2 Canada (now Juicebox).
Prior to the relaunch,
The relaunch occurred on March 21, 2006, at 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time, with the first edition of MTV Live.
Starting in 2013, the channel would begin airing MTV's scripted programming and the MTV Video Music Awards, alongside new episodes of Degrassi: The Next Generation and its in-house produced aftershow, After Degrassi.[4][5]
In August 2021, the channel began adopting the current logo being used worldwide.
In February 2024, it was announced that sister channel MTV2 would be shutting down at midnight on March 29, 2024.
Programming
MTV carries most of the original programming seen on its U.S. counterpart, though the network's scripted programming (Teen Wolf and Awkward., etc.) and the MTV Video Music Awards did not begin airing on the Canadian channel until 2013.[6]
Music-based programming was absent from the channel because the original broadcasting licence issued for Talktv did not allow for any music programming. Moreover, MuchMusic's previous status as Canada's mainstream music channel (and the accompanying genre protection from direct competition) meant that MTV could not have requested a new format enabling it to compete directly with Much in any event. Since mid-2007, Much and its affiliated channels have been under the same ownership, following CTVglobemedia's acquisition of CHUM Limited, making the former rival networks present-day sister channels.
In March 2015, the CRTC announced it would no longer enforce conditions of licence related to programming for most specialty channels other than those primarily airing news or sports.[7] By that point, MTV's schedule had begun to emphasize scripted series reruns during the daytime hours, including Canadian-produced shows to fulfill Canadian content quotas.
MTV also maintains a Canadian-exclusive web brand called "MTV FORA", which is dedicated to beauty, fashion, and lifestyle content.[8]
Notes
- ^ Decision CRTC 96-612, September 4, 1996
- ^ ARCHIVED - Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2002-143
- ^ GUY DIXON. "Toronto's Masonic Temple is born again, and again ..." Archived from the original on February 24, 2006.
- ^ "Music's Greatest Have Landed! The 2013 MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS Air Live Aug. 25, on MTV". Bell Media. Retrieved 2020-09-15.
- ^ "DEGRASSI Finds a New Home on MTV with Exclusive Fall Premiere, Oct. 3". Bell Media. Retrieved 2020-09-15.
- ^ "2006 MTV VMA's to air on CTV". CTV. Archived from the original on 2008-05-04. Retrieved 2008-12-13.
- ^ Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (March 12, 2015). "Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2015-86". Retrieved May 12, 2018. (paragraph 254)
- ^ "MTV.ca".
Further reading
- Pegley, Kip (2009), Coming to you wherever you are: MuchMusic, MTV, and youth identities, Wesleyan Univ. Press, ISBN 978-0819568694