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Encyclopedia > CBC Country Canada
CBC Country Canada
Image:CBC_Country_Canada.jpeg
Type Digital cable specialty channel
Country  Canada
Availability National
Owner Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Launch date September 4, 2001
Past names Country Canada
Website cbccountrycanada.ca

CBC Country Canada is a Canadian category 1 digital cable specialty channel owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Image File history File links CBC_Country_Canada. ... 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_(bordered). ... The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), a Canadian crown corporation, is the country’s national public radio and television broadcaster. ... September 4 is the 247th day of the year (248th in leap years). ... 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Category 1 channels are Canadian television channels defined by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission that must be carried by all digital cable and direct broadcast satellite providers that have the capability to do so. ... 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. ... The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), a Canadian crown corporation, is the country’s national public radio and television broadcaster. ...

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History

Licensed as "Land and Sea" on November 24, 2000 by the CRTC as a joint venture between Corus Entertainment (70%) and the CBC (30%); it was intended as a service dedicated to programs of interest to rural Canadians and the lifestyle. The channel launched on September 4, 2001 as Country Canada; based on the CBC Television series Country Canada. In 2002 Corus sold its interest in Country Canada to the CBC and thus changed its name to CBC Country Canada thereafter. After the sale the service began a shift in its programming and continuously promoted itself and its programs as a channel dedicated to celebrating Canada, its land, people, regions and passions with less emphasis on rural programming. This shift included an increase in dramatic television series from Canada and Britain that had little relation to the rural lifestyle along with amature sports coverage including alpine skiing, curling snowboarding and more. As with this shift, today CBC Country Canada no longer promotes itself as a rural lifestyle service, rather a "new home for exclusive dramas and world championship sports". November 24 is the 328th day (329th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC, in French Conseil de la radiodiffusion et des télécommunications canadiennes) was established in 1968 by the Canadian Parliament to replace the Board of Broadcast Governors. ... Corus Entertainment Inc. ... The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), a Canadian crown corporation, is the country’s national public radio and television broadcaster. ... September 4 is the 247th day of the year (248th in leap years). ... 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... CBC Television is the primary English language television service of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Alpine skier carving a turn on piste Alpine skiing (or downhill skiing) is a recreational activity and sport involving sliding down snow-covered hills with long, thin skis attached to each foot. ... Curling is a precision team sport similar to bowls or bocce, played on a rectangular sheet of prepared ice by two teams of four players each, using heavy polished granite stones which players slide down the ice towards a target area called the house. ... Snowboarder in a half-pipe Snowboarder trail entry Snowboarding is a boardsport that involves descending a snow-covered slope on a snowboard that is attached to ones feet. ...

Logo of Country Canada
Logo of Country Canada

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Noted Programs

72 Hours: True Crime is a television program that is broadcast by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, or CBC. It focuses on crime, specifically on the first 72 hours after a crime is committed, which are very important in solving it. ... The Associates were a Scottish pop band of the early 1980s. ... Coronation Street is Britains longest-running television soap opera, and its consistently highest-rating programme, first broadcast on Friday December 9, 1960, in the Granada region of ITV. It was created by Tony Warren and is produced by Granada Television (now branded ITV Productions), holder of the ITV franchise... Dangerfield is a surname and may refer to: Stuart Dangerfield, (1971) a racing cyclist Rodney Dangerfield, (1921 - 2004) a famous comedian George Dangerfield, (1904 – 1986) a journalist Thomas Dangerfield, (1650 - 1685) a 1685 English conspirator Fyfe Dangerfield, of the band mentioned below Dangerfield also refers or referred to: Dangerfield (TV... Eleventh Hour is a four part television series developed by Granada Television for ITV by writer Stephen Gallagher. ... Getting Along Famously is a Canadian sitcom pilot, which aired January 10, 2005 on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. ... Land and Sea is a locally-produced Canadian television show broadcast in Newfoundland and Labrador on CBC St. ... North of 60 was a mid-1990s Canadian television series depicting life in the sub-Arctic northern boreal forest (north of 60 degrees North latitude, hence the title). ... Cara Pifko, right, of This is Wonderland. ... Traders was a Canadian television drama series, which aired on Global Television Network from 1995 to 2000. ... Vincent is an ITV drama series made and aired in 2005 starring Ray Winstone and Suranne Jones as two members of a team of private eyes hired by people to spy on their partners or indeed anyone else they need to keep tabs on. ...

See also

Canada has adopted the NTSC and ATSC television transmission standards without any alterations. ...

External link

  • Official Site
CBC Television
English networks: CBC Television | CBC North | CBC Newsworld | CBC Country Canada | Documentary Channel
French networks: Télévision de Radio-Canada | Réseau de l'information | ARTV
Digital-only channels: Galaxie
Defunct channels: Newsworld International | CBC Parliamentary Television Network
Proposed channels: CBC-2 | Télé-2

  Results from FactBites:
 
CBC News: Country Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (108 words)
CBC News: Country Canada (until January 2006 simply titled Country Canada) is a Canadian television series broadcast on CBC Television, hosted by Reg Sherren.
It is produced by CBC Winnipeg, and profiles rural and country life in Canada.
There is also a digital specialty television channel focused largely on rural Canadians called CBC Country Canada.
CBC: Country Canada (355 words)
Country Canada explores the issues that are important to you.
Country Canada is produced out of Winnipeg, Manitoba but with producers from Edmonton to Halifax, it continues to cover stories across the country.
Country Canada now goes beyond the intricacies of farm machinery to cover everything from the depletion of cod stocks on the East Coast, to regulations for food animal drugs, to the daily life of loggers in British Columbia.
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