2025 in Canadian television

List of years in Canadian television:

The following is a list of events affecting Canadian television in 2025. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, cancellations, and channel launches, closures and rebrandings.

Upcoming 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. [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 twinstick stations in Lloydminster, Alberta/Saskatchewan, CKSA and CITL, 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, citing shrinking support for local TV 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]

September

Date Event Source
1 Corus Entertainment will cease operations of five children's and family channels due to financial pressure. Networks being discontinued include ABC Spark, Nickelodeon, Disney Jr., Disney XD, and La Chaîne Disney.

Programs

Programs debuting in 2025

Start date Show Channel Source
January 6 Saint-Pierre CBC Television [8]
January 7 North of North
February 1 Sounds Black History [9]
February 10 Novelette Is Trying OUTtv [10]
February 18 Hanomansing Tonight CBC News Network [11]
February 25 Small Achievable Goals CBC Television [8]
April 21 Big Burger Battle Flavour
May 2 Drag Brunch Saved My Life Crave [12]
May 15 Game Changers AMI-tv [13]
May 26 We Were Broncos AMI-tv [14]
June 12 Revival CTV Sci-Fi [15]
TBA Bad Trips Crave [16]
Beer Budget Reno Home [17]
Building Baeumler Home
Life Is Messy Home
Locals Welcome CBC Television [18]
My Pet Ate What? CTV Wild [19]
One Day We'll All Be Dead Crave [20]
Pamela's Cooking with Love Flavour [17]
Queen of the Castle CTV Life [19]
Rentovation Home [17]
Shipwreck Kings Discovery [19]
Sounds Black History [21]
Super Team Canada Crave [22]
Yukon Rescue History [21]

Programs ending in 2025

End date Show Channel First aired Status Source
February 27 Children Ruin Everything CTV 2022 Ended [23]
June 27 The Agenda TVO 2006 Ended [24]

Specials

Start date Show Channel Source
March 30 Juno Awards of 2025 CBC [25]
June 1 13th Canadian Screen Awards CBC [26]
November 16 112th Grey Cup CTV, TSN
Dates TBA 2025 Canadian Country Music Awards CTV
27th Quebec Cinema Awards Noovo

Networks and services

See also: 2024 Canadian specialty television realignment

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]

See also

Notes

References

  1. ^ Thiessen, Connie (August 28, 2024). "Rogers outlines plans to launch new channels". Broadcast Dialogue. Retrieved August 29, 2024.
  2. ^ Thiessen, Connie (2024-10-17). "Bell to bring USA Network, Oxygen True Crime to Canada". Broadcast Dialogue. Retrieved 2024-10-17.
  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". Toronto Star, March 17, 2025.
  5. ^ a b Thiessen, Connie (13 May 2025). "Stingray shutters Lloydminster TV stations". Broadcast Dialogue. Retrieved 14 May 2025.
  6. ^ a b Thiessen, Connie (3 June 2025). "Medicine Hat's CHAT-TV closing its doors after 68 years". Broadcast Dialogue. Retrieved 3 June 2025.
  7. ^ Connie Thiessen, "CBC Morning Live host Heather Hiscox announces retirement". Broadcast Dialogue, June 4, 2025.
  8. ^ a b Jamie Casemore, "CBC sets winter 2025 streaming, broadcast lineup". Playback, November 28, 2024.
  9. ^ Rosie Long Decter. "New Docuseries 'Sounds Black' Explores Impact of Black Music in Canada". Billboard. Retrieved March 21, 2025.
  10. ^ Kelly Townsend, "OutTV commissions Vancouver scripted series, renews five titles". Playback, June 6, 2024.
  11. ^ Cassandra Szklarski, "Ian Hanomansing to host live CBC News Network prime-time show from Vancouver". Toronto Star, February 12, 2025.
  12. ^ Megan LaPierre, "Priyanka Helms New TV Show 'Drag Brunch Saved My Life'". Exclaim!, June 6, 2024.
  13. ^ Greg David, "He’s back! AMI’s Dave Brown returns with a brand-new series, Game Changers, debuting May 15 on AMI-tv and AMI+". TV, eh?, May 8, 2025.
  14. ^ Greg David, "A story of perseverance in life and adaptive sport, We Were Broncos debuts May 26 on AMI-tv and AMI+". TV, eh?, May 14, 2025.
  15. ^ Vejvoda, Jim (May 1, 2025). "Revival: Exclusive Trailer, Poster and Release Date for SYFY's Image Comics TV Adaptation". IGN. Retrieved May 19, 2025.
  16. ^ Alex Nino Gheciu, "New Will Arnett animated show, Drag Race series coming to Bell this fall/winter". Lakeland Today, June 6, 2024.
  17. ^ a b c Connie Thiessen, "Corus unveils more programming details around rebranded Home Network, Flavour Network". Broadcast Dialogue, October 21, 2024.
  18. ^ Justin Anderson, "Food format “Locals Welcome,” new docs among CBC’s 2024-25 slate". RealScreen, May 23, 2024.
  19. ^ a b c Jesse Whittock, "Canada’s Crave Confirms U.S. & UK Titles & Will Arnett Voice Role In ‘Super Team Canada’ As Streamer Aims To Topple Rivals: 'We Know We Can Do More'. Deadline Hollywood, June 7, 2024.
  20. ^ Cassandra Szklarski, "CTV adds homegrown baking contest, quiz show while Crave leans into edgy comedies". Toronto Star, June 9, 2022.
  21. ^ a b Alex Nino Gheciu, "New Pamela Anderson, Bryan Baeumler shows among Corus’ fall/winter plans". CityNews, June 5, 2024.
  22. ^ Alex Nino Gheciu, "New Will Arnett animated show, Drag Race series coming to Bell this fall/winter". Yahoo! News, June 6, 2024.
  23. ^ Kelly Townsend, "CTV’s Children Ruin Everything to end with season four". Playback, February 11, 2025.
  24. ^ "TVO's 'The Agenda with Steve Paikin' to end after 19 seasons". Toronto Star. April 22, 2025. Retrieved April 22, 2025.
  25. ^ Stuart Derdeyn, "Vancouver to host the 54th Juno Awards in 2025". Vancouver Sun, January 25, 2024.
  26. ^ Barry Hertz, "With NHL out of the way, Canadian Screen Awards reverses course to find home on CBC". The Globe and Mail, May 29, 2025.
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