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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

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January

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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

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

Programs

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Programs debuting in 2025

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Start date Show Channel Source
January 6 Saint-Pierre CBC Television [4]
January 7 North of North
February 10 Novelette Is Trying OUTtv [5]
February 18 Hanomansing Tonight CBC News Network [6]
February 25 Small Achievable Goals CBC Television [4]
TBA Bad Trips Crave [7]
Beer Budget Reno Home [8]
Big Burger Battle Flavour
Building Baeumler Home
Drag Brunch Saved My Life Crave [9]
Life Is Messy Home [8]
Locals Welcome CBC Television [10]
My Pet Ate What? CTV Wild [11]
One Day We'll All Be Dead Crave [12]
Pamela's Cooking with Love Flavour [8]
Queen of the Castle CTV Life [11]
Rentovation Home [8]
Revival CTV Sci-Fi [11]
Shipwreck Kings Discovery [11]
Snotty Nose Rez Kids CBC Television [13]
Sounds Black History [14]
Super Team Canada Crave [15]
Yukon Rescue History [14]

Specials

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

Networks and services

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See also: 2024 Canadian specialty television realignment

Network launches

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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

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Old network name New network name Type Conversion date Notes
Animal Planet CTV Wild Channel Cable/satellite January 1
Discovery Channel (original) USA Network Outgoing rightsholder to this brand; channel operated by Bell Media
Discovery Science CTV Nature Channel
Discovery Velocity CTV Speed Channel
Investigation Discovery (original) Oxygen True Crime Outgoing rightsholder to this brand; channel operated by Bell Media

See also

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Notes

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References

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  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. ^ a b Jamie Casemore, "CBC sets winter 2025 streaming, broadcast lineup". Playback, November 28, 2024.
  5. ^ Kelly Townsend, "OutTV commissions Vancouver scripted series, renews five titles". Playback, June 6, 2024.
  6. ^ Cassandra Szklarski, "Ian Hanomansing to host live CBC News Network prime-time show from Vancouver". Toronto Star, February 12, 2025.
  7. ^ Alex Nino Gheciu, "New Will Arnett animated show, Drag Race series coming to Bell this fall/winter". Lakeland Today, June 6, 2024.
  8. ^ a b c d Connie Thiessen, "Corus unveils more programming details around rebranded Home Network, Flavour Network". Broadcast Dialogue, October 21, 2024.
  9. ^ Megan LaPierre, "Priyanka Helms New TV Show 'Drag Brunch Saved My Life'". Exclaim!, June 6, 2024.
  10. ^ Justin Anderson, "Food format “Locals Welcome,” new docs among CBC’s 2024-25 slate". RealScreen, May 23, 2024.
  11. ^ a b c d 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.
  12. ^ Cassandra Szklarski, "CTV adds homegrown baking contest, quiz show while Crave leans into edgy comedies". Toronto Star, June 9, 2022.
  13. ^ Jesse Whittock, "CBC’s 2024-25 Slate Includes Netflix Comedy, Sitcom From ‘Baroness Von Sketch’ Pair & Music Doc Backed By Idris Elba; Simu Liu To Guest On ‘Dragons’ Den’". Deadline Hollywood, May 23, 2024.
  14. ^ a b Alex Nino Gheciu, "New Pamela Anderson, Bryan Baeumler shows among Corus’ fall/winter plans". CityNews, June 5, 2024.
  15. ^ Alex Nino Gheciu, "New Will Arnett animated show, Drag Race series coming to Bell this fall/winter". Yahoo! News, June 6, 2024.
  16. ^ Stuart Derdeyn, "Vancouver to host the 54th Juno Awards in 2025". Vancouver Sun, January 25, 2024.
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