CTV Television Network

Canadian television network

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January 1 2025 Animal Planet, Discovery Science, and Discovery Velocity are relaunched as CTV Wild Channel, CTV Nature Channel, and CTV Speed Channel respectively.
2024 CTV exclusively aired 7 CFL games during Saturday afternoons in the Fall, and simulcast the Eastern Semi-final, Eastern Final, and 111th Grey Cup with TSN.
October 2024 Bell Media announces the relaunch of Warner Bros. Discovery factual networks as CTV Wild Channel, CTV Nature Channel, and CTV Speed Channel.
July 2020 New CTV app is released, unifying streaming platforms for CTV channels and Bell Media networks.
September 12 2019 Four specialty channels are relaunched under CTV branding: CTV Drama Channel, CTV Comedy Channel, CTV Life Channel, and CTV Sci-Fi Channel.
2018 CKWS-DT, CHEX-TV-2, and CHEX-DT leave the CTV network and become Global owned-and-operated stations.
December 2018 Bell launches two ad-supported video on demand (AVOD) services: CTV Movies and CTV Throwback, with content primarily from Sony Pictures Television.
September 24 2018 CTV introduced a new flat 'digital' logo with brighter colors and refined letter shapes, along with a new promotional campaign 'Get into it'.
June 2018 Bell Media announces plans to rename existing specialty channels under the CTV branding.
2015 CKWS-DT in Kingston, CHEX-TV-2 in Oshawa, and CHEX-DT in Peterborough become CTV affiliates.
May 20 2015 Corus Entertainment announced an agreement with Bell Media to switch three CBC affiliates in Ontario (CHEX-DT, CHEX-TV-2, and CKWS-DT) to CTV affiliations, effective August 31, 2015.
June 2014 Announcement that CKPR-DT in Thunder Bay, Ontario would change affiliations from CBC to CTV on September 1, 2014.
October 2012 CFRN-DT in Edmonton upgraded local news production to high definition.
October 2011 CFCN-DT in Calgary began broadcasting local newscasts in high definition.
September 1 2011 CTV launched HD simulcast of CKY-DT Winnipeg on MTS and CKCO-DT Kitchener on Rogers.
August 29 2011 CTV Two officially launches, consisting of over-the-air and regional cable-only channels in Ontario, British Columbia, Atlantic Canada, and Alberta.
May 30 2011 Bell officially announces the rebranding of A-Channel to CTV Two.
May 11 2011 CTV launched HD simulcast of CJCH-DT Halifax on Eastlink.
April 1 2011 CTVglobemedia was officially renamed Bell Media.
January 28 2011 CTV launched free-to-air HD feed for CFCF-DT Montreal.
January 8 2011 CTV launched HD simulcast of CFCN-DT Calgary on Shaw.
September 10 2010 BCE Inc. announced it would purchase the remaining shares of CTVglobemedia for $1.3 billion (CAD).
February 12 2010 CTV affiliate CHFD in Thunder Bay, Ontario left the network after being unable to reach new affiliation terms.

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