List of years in Canadian television:

The following is a list of events affecting Canadian television in 2018. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, cancellations, and channel launches, closures and rebrandings.

Events

Notable events

January

Date Event
3 CBC Television broadcasts Tower of Song: A Memorial Tribute to Leonard Cohen, a tribute concert to Canadian musician Leonard Cohen which took place in November 2017.
23 Bell Media announces a branding and content agreement with the American television channel Starz, which will see The Movie Network Encore rebranded as a Canadian Starz channel.[1]

March

Date Event
TBA Vassy Kapelos, formerly the host of Global's political news series The West Block, moves to CBC News Network as the host of Power & Politics.[2]
11 The 6th Canadian Screen Awards air on CBC.
31 Viceland ceases television distribution, after majority owner Rogers Media drops out of the venture. Branding partner Vice Media will take over the channel's Canadian assets, which will be used to produce content for the main vice.com Web site.[3]

April

Date Event
11 After emerging from creditor protection, Canadian pay television multiplex provider Super Channel announces the rebranding of its channels as Super Channel Fuse and Super Channel Heart & Home.[4]

August

Date Event
27 Corus Entertainment's three stations in Southeastern Ontario, CKWS-DT in Kingston, CHEX-DT in Peterborough, and CHEX-TV-2 in Oshawa, end their program supply agreement with the CTV Television Network after 3 years and become full-time owned-and-operated stations of the Corus-owned Global Television Network. (The three stations, which had been three of the CBC's last private affiliates prior to 2015, had been airing Global's nightly newscast Global National and local variations of its Morning Show since September 2016.)[5][6][7]

November

Date Event
1 Bell Media rebrands the pay TV service The Movie Network as Crave, aligning it with the branding of its television streaming service Crave.[8]

December

Date Event
31 BBC Kids shuts down on New Years Eve due to ¨Challenging regularity environment for independent channels¨

Television programs

Programs debuting in 2018

Series currently listed here have been announced by their respective networks as scheduled to premiere in 2018. Note that shows may be delayed or cancelled by the network between now and their scheduled air dates.

Start Date Show Channel Source
January 10 Burden of Truth CBC
The Launch CTV
January 14 The Weekly with Wendy Mesley CBC
February 2 Crawford CBC
February 13 Skindigenous APTN [9]
February 15 (digital) This Blows CBC
February 26 Caught CBC [10]
March 1 Little Dog CBC [11]
March 25 The Detail CTV
April 2 Corner Gas Animated The Comedy Network
May 12 Anaana's Tent APTN [12]
May 15 Carter Bravo
May 17 Where to I Do? Gusto
June 4 ReBoot: The Guardian Code YTV
September 10 Discussions avec mes parents Ici Radio-Canada Télé [13]
September 11 First Contact APTN [14]
September 21 In the Making CBC [15]
November 13 Future History APTN
November 15 From the Vaults CBC [15]
Unknown date Miss Persona YouTube, Treehouse TV [16]

Programs ending in 2018

Start Date Show Channel Source
January 30 Hard Rock Medical TVOntario

Television films

Start Date Show Channel Source
September 30 Believe Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey Showcase
October 21 Etthén Heldeli: Caribou Eaters Citytv [17]

Deaths

Date Name Age Notability Source
January 8 Donnelly Rhodes 80 Character actor best known for appearances in Soap, Battlestar Galactica, and Da Vinci's Inquest. [18]
January 26 Jacques Languirand 86 Radio host, writer and actor (Le Colombier, Le Rebut Global). [19]
January 29 Jay Switzer 61 Television executive for Citytv. [20]
January 31 Alf Humphreys 64 Actor (The X Files, The Twilight Zone (the 1985 and 2002 revivals), Smallville, Outer Limits and Da Vinci's Inquest). [21]
Leah LaBelle 31 Canadian-born singer who competed on Season 3 of American Idol. [22]
February 5 Manfred Joehnck 64 News anchor for CTV News Regina. [23]
February 10 Tina Louise Bomberry 52 Mohawk actress best known for her role as Rosie Deela in North of 60 and its three follow-up films. [24]
May 13 Margot Kidder 69 Canadian-born actress who was active in Canadian television from the late 1960s through the mid-1970s [25]
November 11 Wayne Maunder 80 Canadian-born actor (Custer, Lancer, Chase) [26]

Television stations

Network launches

Network Type Launch date Notes
Natyf TV Cable June 14 French language multicultural channel

Network affiliation changes

Date Market Station Channel Previous affiliation New affiliation Notes/References
August 27 Kingston, Ontario CKWS-DT 11.1 CTV Global [27]
Oshawa, Ontario CHEX-TV-2 22 (analog)
Peterborough, Ontario CHEX-DT 12.1

Network conversions and rebrandings

Old network name New network name Type Conversion date Notes
The Movie Network Crave November 1

Network closures

Network Type Closure date Notes
Sundance Channel March 1
Viceland March 31
BBC Kids December 31

See also

References

  1. ^ "Bell Media signs deal with Starz to bring content to Canada". Canadian Press via CTV News, January 23, 2018.
  2. ^ "Vassy Kapelos to host CBC's 'Power and Politics'". Canadian Press, February 15, 2018.
  3. ^ Vlessing, Etan (January 22, 2018). "Viceland to Go Off the Air on Canada's Rogers Communications". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 22, 2018.
  4. ^ "Allarco exits creditor protection, rebrands Super Channel". RealScreen, April 11, 2018.
  5. ^ "CKWS will be a fully global station this fall". Global News. Corus Entertainment. Retrieved September 23, 2018.
  6. ^ "CHEX-TV newscasts rebranding as CHEX News on Global Peterborough". Peterborough Examiner. August 14, 2018. Retrieved September 23, 2018.
  7. ^ "'Global National,' 'The Morning Show' expanding into new areas". Global News. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
  8. ^ "CraveTV to be included in 'TMN + HBO' packages at no additional cost later this year". MobileSyrup. 2018-10-01. Retrieved 2018-10-12.
  9. ^ Daniel J. Rowe, "Skindigenous takes tour of global ink world". Eastern Door, February 20, 2018.
  10. ^ "Here's your first look at the CBC adaptation of Lisa Moore's Caught". CBC Books, January 16, 2018.
  11. ^ "Little Dog on the little screen: New TV show set to film in St. John's". CBC News Newfoundland and Labrador, June 14, 2017.
  12. ^ "New Inuktitut show for preschoolers to premiere on APTN | CBC News".
  13. ^ Sandra Godin, "Québec en vedette dans la série télévisée Discussion avec mes parents". Le Journal de Québec, September 6, 2018.
  14. ^ "‘First Contact’: TV docuseries seeks to shatter Indigenous Canadian stereotypes". Global News, September 12, 2018.
  15. ^ a b "Upfronts ’18: CBC debuts 17 new series". Playback, May 24, 2018.
  16. ^ Mike Devlin, "Victoria native's Miss Persona hits the TV big time; Preschool program will be broadcast on Treehouse". Victoria Times-Colonist, January 12, 2019.
  17. ^ Jason Kerr, "The hunt is on in the north". Prince Albert Daily Herald, October 11, 2018.
  18. ^ "Canadian television actor Donnelly Rhodes dies at age 80". Archived from the original on 2018-01-09. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
  19. ^ Author, radio host and philosopher Jacques Languirand dies at 86
  20. ^ Veteran Canadian TV Programmer Jay Switzer Dies at 61
  21. ^ "Actor Alf Humphreys dead at 64". Archived from the original on 2018-02-07. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
  22. ^ Former NBA Player Rasual Butler and Wife Leah LaBelle Killed In Car Crash
  23. ^ Long-time broadcaster, Manfred Joehnck, passes away
  24. ^ Tina Louise Bomberry, 'North of 60' Star, Dies at 52
  25. ^ Gittens, Hasani (May 14, 2018). "Margot Kidder, actress best known for 'Superman' movies, dead at 69". NBC News. Retrieved May 14, 2018.
  26. ^ "Wayne Maunder, Star of the 1960s Western 'Lancer,' Dies at 80". The Hollywood Reporter. 21 November 2018.
  27. ^ “CKWS-TV will be a fully Global station starting this fall”. Global News. Corus Entertainment. April 19, 2018. Retrieved February 8, 2019.

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