2025 in Canadian television

This article lists notable events affecting Canadian television in 2025. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, cancellations, and channel launches, closures and rebrandings.

Notable events

January

Date Event Source
1 Rogers Sports & Media's new agreement for Warner Bros. Discovery lifestyle and factual brands, announced in June 2024, takes effect. New versions of five WBD-licensed channel brands previously licensed to Bell Media or Corus Entertainment launched under Rogers ownership, with other affected brands available through Citytv+. Five Discovery-branded channels owned by Bell rebranded, two adopting new brands licensed from NBCUniversal, later Versant. [1][2]

February

Date Event Source
10 Sid Seixeiro and Meredith Shaw simultaneously depart as hosts of Citytv's Breakfast Television. [3]

March

Date Event Source
17 Dina Pugliese returns as host of Citytv's Breakfast Television after departing the program in 2023, alongside new co-host Tim Bolen. [4]

May

Date Event Source
13 Stingray Group announces the closure of its stations in Lloydminster, Alberta/Saskatchewan, CKSA-DT and CITL-DT, effective immediately, citing "challenging economic conditions." [5]

June

Date Event Source
3 Pattison Media announces the closure of Medicine Hat's CHAT-TV after 68 years due to decreasing support for local television and ongoing losses, making it impossible to continue TV operations in the city. [6]
4 Longtime CBC News Network morning anchor Heather Hiscox announces her retirement, effective November 6. [7]

July

Date Event Source
10 Corus Entertainment announces the closure of ABC Spark, Disney Jr., Disney XD, La Chaîne Disney, and Nickelodeon on September 1 due to financial pressure within Corus. On the day after this closure, Corus also announces that its animation studio Nelvana would suspend operations, with its current projects ending production. [8][9]

August

Date Event Source
25 WildBrain announces the closures of Family Channel, Family Jr., Télémagino, and WildBrainTV effective October 22, due to a decline of its carriage agreements with Bell and Rogers caused the networks to become economically unviable, and the cancellation of its proposed sale of a majority stake in the channels to IoM Media Ventures. WildBrain had originally acquired the networks from Astral Media in 2014, following their acquisition by Bell Media in 2013. [10][11]

September

Date Event Source
1 Following the shutdown of Nickelodeon in Canada, its programming are removed from sister channels YTV and Treehouse due to Corus' continued financial issues. Some series are moved to the Canadian version of Paramount+.
12 The CRTC approves the acquisition of the Hollywood Suite pay television service by Anthem Sports & Entertainment. [12]

December

Date Event Source
18 WildBrain announces an agreement to eliminate its remaining debts by selling the plurality stake it holds in the American Peanuts franchise to Sony in a deal valued at US$457 million. [13]
22 Global Television Network accidentally uploads a version of a 60 Minutes episode containing the story pulled from the American broadcast titled "Inside CECOT" to its streaming services. It is then leaked to online websites afterwards. [14]

Programs

Programs debuting in 2025

Start date Show Channel Source
January 6 Saint-Pierre CBC Television [15]
January 7 North of North
February 1 Sounds Black History [16]
February 10 Novelette Is Trying OUTtv [17]
February 14 Settle Down OUTtv [18]
February 18 Hanomansing Tonight CBC News Network [19]
February 24 Pamela's Cooking with Love Flavour [20]
February 25 Small Achievable Goals CBC Television [15]
April 21 Big Burger Battle Flavour
May 2 Drag Brunch Saved My Life Crave [21]
May 15 Game Changers AMI-tv [22]
May 16 Super Team Canada Crave [23]
May 26 We Were Broncos AMI-tv [24]
June 12 Revival CTV Sci-Fi [25]
July 8 Pretty Blind AMI-tv [26]
July 11 Underdog Inc. [27]
August 21 Hey Halifax, Hello! Today! TV1 [28]
August 25 Coastal Carvings APTN Lumi [29]
September 4 Beer Budget Reno Home [30]
September 7 Building Baeumler Home [30]
November 6 The Assembly CBC Television [31]
November 10 Rentovation Home [30]
November 28 Heated Rivalry Crave [32]
N/A Bad Trips Crave [33]
Locals Welcome CBC Television [34]
My Pet Ate What? CTV Wild [35]
One Day We'll All Be Dead Crave [36]
Queen of the Castle CTV Life [35]
Shipwreck Kings Discovery [35]
Sounds Black History [37]
Yukon Rescue History [37]

Programs ending in 2025

End date Show Channel First aired Status Source
February 27 Children Ruin Everything CTV 2022 Ended [38]
June 27 The Agenda TVO 2006 Ended [39]

Specials

Date Show Channel Source
March 30 Juno Awards of 2025 CBC [40]
June 1 13th Canadian Screen Awards CBC [41]
June 27 King Arthur's Night AMI-tv [42]
October 8 Michelle Ross: Unknown Icon Documentary [43]
September 13 2025 Canadian Country Music Association Awards CTV
November 16 112th Grey Cup CTV, TSN
December 7 27th Quebec Cinema Awards Noovo

Networks and services

Network launches

Network Type Launch date Notes
Discovery Cable and satellite January 1 New channels operated by Rogers Sports & Media, under brands previously used by different channels.
Food Network
HGTV
Investigation Discovery
Magnolia Network

Network rebrandings

Old network name New network name Type Conversion date Notes
Animal Planet CTV Wild Channel Cable/satellite January 1 Bell Media channels relaunched due to previous programming and brand rights being acquired by Rogers.
Discovery Channel (original) USA Network
Discovery Science CTV Nature Channel
Discovery Velocity CTV Speed Channel
Investigation Discovery (original) Oxygen True Crime

Station closures

Market Station Affiliation Closure date Notes
Lloydminster, Alberta/Saskatchewan CKSA-DT Citytv May 13 [5]
CITL-DT CTV
Medicine Hat, Alberta CHAT-TV Citytv June 3 [6]

Network closures

Network Type Closure date Notes
ABC Spark Cable/satellite September 1 [8]
Disney Jr.
Disney XD
La Chaîne Disney
Nickelodeon
Family Channel Cable/satellite October 23 [44]
Family Jr.
Télémagino
WildBrainTV

Deaths

Date Name Age Notes Sources
January 6 Dale Wilson 82 Voice actor for Ocean Productions and Nelvana [45]
April 10 Ted Kotcheff 94 Canadian-born Bulgarian director (On Camera, Family of Cops) [46]
June 3 Juliette Powell 54 Beauty pageant winner (Miss Canada 1989) and television news reporter and host (MusiquePlus, MuchMusic, CP24) [47]
September 1 Graham Greene 73 First Nations actor (9B, The Adventures of Dudley the Dragon, The Red Green Show) [48]
September 14 Beverly Thomson 61 Reporter/anchor (CFTO and CIII/Toronto, CTV News Channel) and host of CTV's Canada AM [49]
September 17 Riff Markowitz 86 Producer and host (The Hilarious House of Frightenstein, Party Game, The Wolfman Jack Show) [50]
November 1 Anna Sandor 76 Hungarian-born Canadian/American writer (series including King of Kensington, Hangin' In, and Seeing Things; television movies including Charlie Grant's War and The Marriage Bed) [51]
November 25 Colleen Jones 65 Champion curler and reporter/host for CBC News and CBC Sports [52]
December 25 Stu Phillips 92 Country singer (Music Place) [53]

See also

Notes

References

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  3. ↑ Leanne Delap, "Breakfast Television hosts Meredith Shaw and Sid Seixeiro's abrupt exit leaves audiences reeling: ‘Viewers are blindsided’". Toronto Star, February 11, 2025.
  4. ↑ Raju Mudhar, "Breakfast Television reveals its new hosts" Archived 2025-03-17 at the Wayback Machine. Toronto Star, March 17, 2025.
  5. 1 2 Thiessen, Connie (13 May 2025). "Stingray shutters Lloydminster TV stations". Broadcast Dialogue. Archived from the original on 14 May 2025. Retrieved 14 May 2025.
  6. 1 2 Thiessen, Connie (3 June 2025). "Medicine Hat's CHAT-TV closing its doors after 68 years". Broadcast Dialogue. Archived from the original on 3 June 2025. Retrieved 3 June 2025.
  7. ↑ Connie Thiessen, "CBC Morning Live host Heather Hiscox announces retirement" Archived 2025-06-12 at the Wayback Machine. Broadcast Dialogue, June 4, 2025.
  8. 1 2 "Corus to stop distributing Nickelodeon, four other kids' entertainment channels". North Shore News. 2025-07-11. Retrieved 2025-07-20.
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  13. ↑ Spangler, Todd (December 18, 2025). Sony to acquire control of Peanuts in $457 million deal Archived 2025-12-19 at the Wayback Machine. Variety. Retrieved December 19, 2025.
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  20. ↑ Mike Devlin, "Pamela Anderson on Canadian pride and Cooking With Love". Victoria Times-Colonist, March 15, 2025.
  21. ↑ Megan LaPierre, "Priyanka Helms New TV Show 'Drag Brunch Saved My Life'" Archived 2025-03-28 at the Wayback Machine. Exclaim!, June 6, 2024.
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  30. 1 2 3 Connie Thiessen, "Corus unveils more programming details around rebranded Home Network, Flavour Network" Archived 2024-11-19 at the Wayback Machine. Broadcast Dialogue, October 21, 2024.
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  37. 1 2 Alex Nino Gheciu, "New Pamela Anderson, Bryan Baeumler shows among Corus’ fall/winter plans" Archived 2024-12-19 at the Wayback Machine. CityNews, June 5, 2024.
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