NationMaster - Encyclopedia: BBC Canada

BBC Canada is a general entertainment Canadian category 2 digital cable television channel. Along with BBC Kids, it is a joint venture between Alliance Atlantis and BBC Worldwide. Image File history File links BBC_Canada_logo. ... Digital cable is a term for a type of cable digital television that delivers more channels than possible with analog cable by using digital video compression. ... A specialty channel or specialty service is a television channel, generally not available through conventional broadcast television, which consists of programming focused on a single type or targeted at a specific demographic. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Canada. ... Alliance Atlantis Alliance Atlantis is a Toronto-based media company. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is one of the largest broadcasting corporations in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the UK alone and with a budget of more than Â£4 billion. ... September 7 is the 250th day of the year (251st in leap years). ... 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Category 2 channels are Canadian television channels defined by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission which may be carried, optionally, by all digital cable television and direct broadcast satellite providers. ... Digital cable is a term for a type of cable digital television that delivers more channels than possible with analog cable by using digital video compression. ... The term television channel generally refers to either a television station or its cable/satellite counterpart (both outlined below). ... BBC Kids is a Canadian category 2 digital cable television channel owned by Alliance Atlantis and BBC Worldwide. ... Alliance Atlantis Alliance Atlantis is a Toronto-based media company. ... BBC Worldwide Limited is the wholly-owned commercial subsidiary of the British Broadcasting Corporation, formed out of a restructuring of its predecessor BBC Enterprises in 1995. ...

Programming

As BBC Canada is effectively a Canadian channel which merely happens to be partly British-owned, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission's broadcasting regulations require it carry a quota of Canadian content. In addition to BBC programmes, therefore, it also broadcasts Canadian series such as Real Renos, Debbie Travis' Facelift, Holmes on Homes and more. BBC Canada is also prohibited to air newscasts, however BBC World is available in Canada. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC, in French Conseil de la radiodiffusion et des tÃ©lÃ©communications canadiennes) was established in 1968 by the Canadian Parliament to replace the Board of Broadcast Governors. ... Debbie Travis Facelift is a home improvement reality television show produced in Canada for Home & Garden Television. ... Holmes on Homes is a Canadian television series airing on Home & Garden Television in Canada, and also on several other Alliance Atlantis networks in Canada (including BBC Canada and Life Network), as well as in Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. ... BBC World is the BBCs 24-hour international, news and information television channel, launched in January 1995. ...

BBC Canada is also the only channel in Canada that puts its TV rating on the top-right side of the screen, the opposite of the standard top-left side, as the channel's identifying digital on-screen graphic (DOG) occupies the top-left side, in line with those of several British television channels. DOG on BBC News 24. ...

Noted Series

Life on Mars is a British television drama series, which was shown on BBC One in January and February 2006. ... See also WAGs, acronym for footballers wives and girlfriends. This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... Hotel Babylon is a BBC television drama series based on the book of the same name by Imogen Edwards-Jones and Anonymous, first shown in January 2006. ... The Office is a British television comedy series, created, written and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, and first aired in the UK on BBC Two on July 9, 2001. ... Coupling is a sitcom written by Steven Moffat, produced by Hartswood Films for the BBC, that debuted on BBC2 in May 2000, and ended in 2004. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... The Kumars at No. ... How Not To Decorate was a television series which aired on Five in the United Kingdom in which designers Justin Ryan & Colin McAllister helped redecorate notoriously ugly or unstylish homes, in a format similar to the What Not to Wear series. ... What Not to Wear is a makeover television show. ... The Thick of It is a British comedy television series, which satirises the inner workings of modern British government. ... The Smoking Room is a British television sitcom, written by Brian Dooley, who won a BAFTA for the series in 2005. ... This article is about the television series. ...

See also

The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is one of the largest broadcasting corporations in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the UK alone and with a budget of more than Â£4 billion. ...

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BBC Television

Television assets: BBC One • BBC Two • BBC Three • BBC Four • BBC News 24 • BBC Parliament • CBBC Channel • CBeebies • BBC One Scotland • BBC Two Northern Ireland • BBC 2W • BBCi • BBC HD BBC Television is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation which began in 1932. ... BBC One (or BBC1 as it was formerly styled) is the primary channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation. ... BBC Two (or BBC2 as it was formerly styled) was the second UK television station to be aired by the BBC and Europes first television channel to broadcast regularly in colour (from 1967), envisaged as a home for less mainstream and more ambitious programming. ... BBC Three, the successor of the similar BBC Choice, is a British television channel from the BBC broadcasting only on digital cable, terrestrial and satellite. ... BBC Four Ident BBC Four is a BBC television channel available to digital television (Freeview, satellite and cable) viewers in the UK. The successor to an earlier digital channel called BBC Knowledge, BBC Four began on March 2, 2002 â€“ its first evenings programmes being simulcast on BBC Two. ... BBC News 24 is BBC News 24-hour news television channel in the UK, its international counterpart being BBC World. ... BBC Parliament is a British television channel from the BBC. It broadcasts live and recorded coverage of the British House of Commons and House of Lords, the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly. ... The CBBC Channel is a British television service aimed at 6 to 13 year olds produced by the BBC. It complements the CBBC programming that continues to air on BBC One and BBC Two. ... CBeebies is a British television channel produced by the BBC and aimed at children under 6. ... BBC Scotland is home to Reporting Scotland, the daily news from Scotland, which shows on the BBC 1 network every day at 6. ... BBC Two Northern Ireland (now branded as BBC Two on analogue) is a television station operated by BBC Northern Ireland on analogue terrestrial and analogue cable television. ... BBC 2W is a digital television channel run by the British Broadcasting Corporation. ... BBCi is the brand name for the BBCs interactive television services. ... BBC HD is the high-definition television channel launched by the BBC on a trial basis from May 15, 2006, with the first HD originated programme, Planet Earth, shown on May 27. ...

International channels: BBC America • BBC Canada • BBC Food • BBC Kids • BBC Prime • BBC Entertainment • BBC World • BBC Knowledge • BBC Arabic Television The BBC is forbidden under its charter to undertake any commercial operations on-air within the United Kingdom, however no such restriction applies to operations in other countries. ... BBC America is an American television network, owned and operated by BBC Worldwide, which was launched on March 29, 1998, available on both cable and satellite. ... The current version of the article or section reads like an advertisement. ... BBC Kids is a Canadian category 2 digital cable television channel owned by Alliance Atlantis and BBC Worldwide. ... The old BBC Prime logo used until 1997 BBC Prime is the BBCs general entertainment TV channel in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. ... BBC Entertainment is the name of a BBC-branded general entertainment channel operated by the Corporations commercial arm, BBC Worldwide. ... BBC World is the BBCs 24-hour international, news and information television channel, launched in January 1995. ... BBC Knowledge is the name of a television channel set to be launched in the near future by BBC Worldwide, the commercial division of the BBC. BBC Worldwide announced the move in the summer of 2006 which will result in BBC Knowledge, replaced as a television channel in the United... BBC Arabic Television will be a news and information television channel broadcast to the Middle East by the BBC. The service was announced in October 2005 and is due to start broadcasting in Autumn 2007. ...

Joint ventures: Animal Planet • People+Arts • UKTV (UK and Ireland) • UK.TV (Australia and New Zealand) Animal Planet, launched in 1996, is a cable and satellite television network co-owned 80% by Discovery Communications, Inc. ... People+Arts is an arts television channel broadcasting to Spain, Portugal and Latin America. ... UKTV UKTV is a joint venture between the BBCs commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, and the NTL owned Flextech. ... UKTV is a subscription television channel in Australia and New Zealand, screening UK entertainment programming, sourced mainly from the archives of the BBC, TALKBACKThames and ITV Plc. ...

Defunct channels: BBC Knowledge • BBC Choice • BBC World Service Television • BBC TV Europe • BBC Japan BBC Knowledge was an early BBC digital television channel, available by cable, satellite, or terrestrial digital broadcasting, providing a strong programme of documentary, cultural and educational television. ... BBC Choice was a TV station from the BBC which launched on September 23, 1998. ... BBC World Service Television was the name given to the BBCs international satellite television channels between 1991 and 1995. ... BBC TV Europe was a BBC subscription-funded television service available on satellite and cable in continental Europe. ... BBC Japan was a television channel from the BBC available via satellite in Japan. ...

Other: BBC Worldwide • BBC Scotland • BBC Wales • BBC Northern Ireland BBC Worldwide Limited is the wholly-owned commercial subsidiary of the British Broadcasting Corporation, formed out of a restructuring of its predecessor BBC Enterprises in 1995. ... BBC Scotland (BBC Alba in Gaelic) is a constituent part of the British Broadcasting Corporation, the publicly-funded broadcaster of the United Kingdom. ... BBC Wales (Welsh: ) is a division of the British Broadcasting Corporation for Wales. ... BBC Northern Ireland Logo. ...

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