No more kid channels in Canada.

[RandomMe]

- La Canal Familie/Vrak ended pretty early, when the network was in it's infancy it closed down at the earliest at 6PM! This trend continued til when the channel shut down
- Yoopa, im pretty much sure closed at 11PM/12AM

I wasn't aware of the latter. The former was back when it was still owned by Videotron and mostly limited to the area of its head-end.

 

[Two Two's]

I wasn't aware of the latter. The former was back when it was still owned by Videotron and mostly limited to the area of its head-end.

Vrak went through a unique form of network decay and im pretty much sure ditched children's programming

 

[RandomMe]

It closed with practically no cartoons and being a teen channel in 2023

 

[Perla Magica]

It closed with practically no cartoons and being a teen channel in 2023

It even closed down without any fanfare. Just testcard with "We'll be back at 6 AM" and black screen.

 

[RandomMe]

It even closed down without any fanfare. Just testcard with "We'll be back at 6 AM" and black screen.

I remember that, it fell under the current status of anticlimactic shutdowns.

 

[Corwin Haught]

The name of the thread should probably be changed.

 

[PrevueLovesAnimeTV]

Caillou.

Wow they really want us to hate linear kids tv. In its last hours.

to quote This Hour has 22 Minutes (The Drunk Newas they themselves call it): "Caillou will now only be seen in your nightmares"

 

[Kirben]

With that said, Australia is also losing kids channels as well compare to Canada. Australia had already lost Cartoon Network and Boomerang earlier this year thanks to Foxtel while ABC Me became ABC Entertains last year (while retaining some kids shows in the mornings).

Free to air TV is more common in Australia though, and kids programming died long ago now. With the death of Saturday Disney, Kids WB, and finally Toasted TV. The ABC is a joke now, it used to offer more unique and obscure cartoon series from around the world, but is mainly streaming content from major producers overseas (MLP:FIM, Pokemon, Scooby-Doo), when it is government funded....

They've been losing kids' programming since their government deiced to let the broadcasters not have to make it anymore. Which is also terrible.

Actually this never really helped, and mainly produced bad or generic content. The last good series with potential (Prisoner Zero) never even got renewed, and can barely even be seen outside Australia.

 

[LinusFan303]

Free to air TV is more common in Australia though, and kids programming died long ago now. With the death of Saturday Disney, Kids WB, and finally Toasted TV. The ABC is a joke now, it used to offer more unique and obscure cartoon series from around the world, but is mainly streaming content from major producers overseas (MLP:FIM, Pokemon, Scooby-Doo), when it is government funded....


Actually this never really helped, and mainly produced bad or generic content. The last good series with potential (Prisoner Zero) never even got renewed, and can barely even be seen outside Australia.

The broadcasters won't do it on their own, the streamers aren't from there and don't care, so there has to be some pushing. Smaller markets should have done more protection. I'd rather it have been done in pride , but it's bad too just let mostly American TV take over the space when Australian children should have their own country , accents, culture and etc. in their programming. Same with Canada.

 

[PrevueLovesAnimeTV]

Free to air TV is more common in Australia though, and kids programming died long ago now. With the death of Saturday Disney, Kids WB, and finally Toasted TV. The ABC is a joke now, it used to offer more unique and obscure cartoon series from around the world, but is mainly streaming content from major producers overseas (MLP:FIM, Pokemon, Scooby-Doo), when it is government funded....


Actually this never really helped, and mainly produced bad or generic content. The last good series with potential (Prisoner Zero) never even got renewed, and can barely even be seen outside Australia.

Foxtel aside from the ABC, 9Go! and Nickelodeon (Network 10's Version) and the BBC stuff on Fetch, there is only one Channel left called Dreamworks, if that leaves, the could see the 700s skipped due to a lack of kids channels, blame youtube kids and the Internet for killing Kids TV and turning into a Competition on who could grab the most money with their franchises

 

[RegularMan]

The broadcasters won't do it on their own, the streamers aren't from there and don't care, so there has to be some pushing. Smaller markets should have done more protection. I'd rather it have been done in pride , but it's bad too just let mostly American TV take over the space when Australian children should have their own country , accents, culture and etc. in their programming. Same with Canada.

They still have stuff like Bluey and Rags. Their culture is not going anywhere.

Besides this isn’t even about Australian children’s channels. Time to get back on topic.

 

[RandomMe]

I also think that Global won't even air any kids content from their cable channels (CN, Boomerang, Disney) because it would serve as some sort of provocation to the cable companies owning the competing networks (Bell with CTV and Rogers with CityTV). Those two don't own major kids networks and likely object any programming aimed at them on the OTA networks.

CBC is still afloat. Big Blue was their first attempt to try and aim at older demographics in a while, in a market dominated by preschool programming, especially when it's mostly homemade.

 

[Corwin Haught]

I also think that Global won't even air any kids content from their cable channels (CN, Boomerang, Disney) because it would serve as some sort of provocation to the cable companies owning the competing networks (Bell with CTV and Rogers with CityTV). Those two don't own major kids networks and likely object any programming aimed at them on the OTA networks.

CBC is still afloat. Big Blue was their first attempt to try and aim at older demographics in a while, in a market dominated by preschool programming, especially when it's mostly homemade.

Global won't air any kids' shows because such programming on commercial over-the-air TV in North America died over a decade ago. That, and Quebec has severe limits on advertising to children on TV stations licensed to that province.

 

[PrevueLovesAnimeTV]

Global won't air any kids' shows because such programming on commercial over-the-air TV in North America died over a decade ago. That, and Quebec has severe limits on advertising to children on TV stations licensed to that province.

They did air stuff on their KTV until around 2001

 

[RandomMe]

They did air stuff on their KTV until around 2001

What shows in its later years (when it became a national network)?

 

[PrevueLovesAnimeTV]

They aired alot of Kids WB and Fox Kids Shows as well as Some Anime

 

[RandomMe]

They aired alot of Kids WB and Fox Kids Shows as well as Some Anime

Eventually Kids WB came in solely via cable, most Canadians were like that. Global didn't do simsubbing otherwise they would suffer from Canadian advertising limitations.

 

[PrevueLovesAnimeTV]

Eventually Kids WB came in solely via cable, most Canadians were like that. Global didn't do simsubbing otherwise they would suffer from Canadian advertising limitations.

but CFCF did simsub CBS Programming in the mid 90s but they replaced the CBS Eye with their own logo

 

[RandomMe]

but CFCF did simsub CBS Programming in the mid 90s but they replaced the CBS Eye with their own logo

I was talking about kids programming though.

 

[Takao]

Global actually aired a handful of Treehouse shows in the weekend early mornings between late 2016 and early 2017. I don't think you'll see that repeated, though.