documentary (TV channel)

Documentary (stylized documentary) is a Canadian English language Category A specialty channel owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), the National Film Board of Canada and four other independent producers. Its programming is devoted to featuring documentary films along with select television series.

History

Licensed as The Canadian Documentary Channel on November 24, 2000 by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC); it was launched as the Documentary Channel on September 7, 2001 under the majority ownership of Corus Entertainment along with the current owners.

On May 11, 2006, Corus Entertainment announced that it would sell its 53% majority stake in the service to the CBC; bringing the CBC's interest to 82% from its former 29%. Corus decided to sell its interest in the service because it stated documentaries were considered a non-core asset and it wanted to further focus its attention on core assets; youth, women's related programming and films.^[2] On June 22, 2007 the CRTC approved the deal and the transaction was completed.

On March 27, 2008 at 12:01 a.m. EST, the Documentary Channel changed its name to simply, Documentary, along with a new logo and on-air format.

Documentary HD

On April 1, 2011 the CBC launched Documentary HD, a high definition feed simulcasting the standard definition feed. It is available on Rogers Cable, EastLink, Bell TV and Bell Fibe TV.

Logos

2001 – 2008	2008 – present

See also

• List of documentary channels
• Documentary Organization of Canada

References and notes

1. ↑ The 4 independent producers are: Omni Film Productions Limited, Cinenova Productions Inc., E1 Television and Galafilm Inc.
2. ↑ CBC buys into doc channel; Playback Magazine; 2006-05-29

External links

• Documentary

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