Cooking Channel (Canadian TV channel)
SDTV feed) | |
Ownership | |
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Owner | Corus Entertainment (80.2%) Warner Bros. Discovery (19.8%) |
Sister channels | ABC Spark Adult Swim CMT DTour Food Network HGTV Magnolia Network Oprah Winfrey Network Slice W Network |
History | |
Launched | September 7, 2001 |
Former names | SexTV: The Channel (2001–2010) W Movies (2010–2016) |
Links | |
Website | cookingchannel |
Cooking Channel is a Canadian English language discretionary specialty channel majority-owned by Corus Entertainment. Dedicated to programming related to food and cooking, it serves as a spin-off of Food Network.
The channel was launched in 2001 as
History
As SexTV: The Channel
In June 2001, CHUM Limited received approval by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to launch a national Category 2 specialty channel known as Relationship Television, a channel described as being "devoted exclusively to programming related to love, romance, marriage, relationship-themed game shows, sexuality and gender issues, family planning, relationship breakdown and magazine style programming featuring romantic vacation resorts."[1]
The channel was launched three months later on September 7, 2001 as SexTV: The Channel,
In July 2006, Bell Globemedia (later
As W Movies
On July 14, 2009, CTVglobemedia announced that it would sell Sex TV, along with Drive-In Classics (then Sundance Channel, now defunct), to Corus Entertainment for a combined CAD$40 million.[5] In late September, Corus announced that the channel would be rebranded as W Movies, a spin-off of W Network with a focus on films targeting women.[6] The sale was approved by the CRTC on November 19,[7] with the transaction being completed by December. The on-air relaunch as W Movies took place on March 1, 2010.
On December 2, 2011, W Movies launched a high definition feed. It is currently available through all major television providers in the country.
As Cooking Channel
On October 19, 2016, Corus announced that W Movies would be relaunched as a Canadian version of Cooking Channel on December 12, 2016. The network served as a spin-off of Corus's Canadian version of Food Network, and came shortly after Bell Media's re-launch of Gusto, which competes directly against Food Network.[8] Scripps Networks Interactive subsequently acquired a 19.8% interest in the channel.[9]
Programming
The Cooking Channel airs programming identical to its U.S. counterpart, focusing primarily on instruction- and personality-based programming largely displaced by Food Network's current focus on reality and competition-style series.
As SexTV: The Channel, the network aired programming devoted to human sexuality including issues on love, dating, romance and related subjects. Past programs on the network included Sex Wars: Gender in the Age of Representation, Beyond Carnival: Sex in Brazil, and Sexploration.
References
- ^ Decision CRTC 2001-304; CRTC; 2001-06-04
- ^ The history of CHUM Archived October 23, 2013, at the Wayback Machine, The Globe and Mail, June 12, 2006.
- ^ Bell Globemedia acquires CHUM Archived 2011-09-27 at the Wayback Machine; Fasken Martineau; 2006-07-12
- ^ Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2007-165; CRTC; 2007-06-08
- ^ Corus to acquire Drive-In Classics and SexTV from CTVglobemedia for $40 million; The Canadian Press; 2009-07-14
- ^ "Corus shuttering Discovery Kids, will re-brand Sex TV and Drive-In Classics channels Archived 2012-02-25 at the Wayback Machine", CARTT.ca, September 29, 2009
- ^ (CRTC), Government of Canada, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (November 19, 2009). "ARCHIVED - SexTV: The Channel and Drive-In Classics Channel - Acquisition of assets". www.crtc.gc.ca. Retrieved April 22, 2018.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Corus feeds the food genre with new channel". Realscreen. Retrieved October 19, 2016.
- ^ "Corus Entertainment shareholders report (Q3 2017)" (PDF). Corus Entertainment. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 3, 2017. Retrieved July 15, 2017.
On December 12, 2016, the Company sold a 19.8% interest in 7202377 Canada Inc. (the "Cooking Channel"), a subsidiary, to Scripps Network LLC for $7,500, the fair value at the date of the sale. Cash proceeds of $5,250 were received upon closing. Control of this subsidiary did not change, therefore a business combination did not occur