Non-Canadian programming services authorized for distribution

[Randi]

as of 23 July 2012

WCVB-TV Boston/WKBW-TV Buffalo/WVNY Burlington/
WXYZ-TV Detroit/WJET-TV Erie/KSTP-TV Minneapolis/
KXLY-TV Spokane/KOMO-TV Seattle (ABC affiliate)
WBZ-TV Boston/WIVB-TV Buffalo/WCAX-TV Burlington/
WSEE Erie/WTOL-TV Toledo/WCCO-TV Minneapolis/
KREM-TV Spokane/KIRO-TV Seattle/WWJ-TV Detroit (CBS affiliate)
WHDH-TV Boston/WGRZ-TV Buffalo/WPTZ Burlington/
WDIV Detroit/WICU-TV Erie/KARE Minneapolis/
KHQ-TV Spokane/KING-TV Seattle (NBC affiliate)
WUTV Buffalo/WFFF-TV Burlington/WFTC Minneapolis/
WUHF Rochester/KAYU-TV Spokane/KCPQ Tacoma/
WFXT Boston (FOX affiliate)
WGBH-TV Boston/WNED-TV Buffalo/WETK Burlington/
WTVS Detroit/WQLN Erie/KSPS-TV Spokane/KCTS-TV Seattle (PBS affiliate)
KSTW (IND) Tacoma/Seattle
KTLA Los Angeles
KWGN-TV Denver
WGN-TV Chicago
WPCH-TV Atlanta
WPIX New York City
WSBK-TV Boston
WUAB-TV (IND) Cleveland
WWOR-TV New York City
2M Maroc
Aaj Tak Channel
AAJ TV
Aapka Colors
Aastha Bhajan
Al Arabiya News Channel
Al Jazeera*
Al Jazeera English
American Movie Classics
Ariana Television
ART America
ART Movies
ARY Musik
ARY News
ARY Qtv
ARY Zauq
The Arts and Entertainment Network (A&E)
Asianet Plus
ATV Home Channel (America)
AXS TV
Azteca 13 International
Baby TV
BabyFirstTV
BBC World
Beijing TV
Benfica TV
Benglavision
Big Ten Network
Black Entertainment Television (BET)
Bloomberg Television
Bridges TV
BVN-TV
Cable News Network (CNN)
Cable Satellite Public Affairs Network (C-Span)
Canal 52 MX
Canal de las Estrellas Latinoamérica
Canal SUR
Caracol Television International
Caribbean Everyday Entertainment Network
CaribVision
CBS Sports Network
CCTV-4
CCTV English News
CCTV Entertainment Channel
CCTV-Français
Channel-i
Channel One
Channel One Russia Worldwide TV
Channel [V] Taiwan
China Yellow River Television Station
Cine Bangla
CineLatino
CNN Headline News (CNN-2)
CNN International
Comedy Central
Consumer News and Business Channel (CNBC)
Court TV
Cubavision Internacional
Dandana TV
Dawn News
Danwn News (Urdu)
De Pelicula Channel
Deutsche Welle
Dragon TV
Ekushey TV (ETV)
El Gourmet.com
ET-Global Channel
Eternal Word Television Network
ETV Bangla
Eurochannel
EuroNews
Eurosportnews
Express News
The Filipino Channel
Fox Business Network
Fox News
France 24 (English)
France 24 (French)
Future Television Channel
Game Show Network
GEO TV
German Kino Plus
German TV
GMA Life TV
GMA News TV
GMA Pinoy TV
The Golf Channel
Gone Viral TV
Grandes Documentales de TVE
Headlines Today Channel
Hope Channel TV
Horizon Channel
HTV
Hunan Satellite TV
Indus Music
Indus Vision
ITVN
Jewish Life Television
Jiangsu International TV Channel
KTO
K TV
LBC America
The Learning Channel
Lifetime Television
LUXE.TV
Masala Television
MBC Channel (America)
Mezzo
Military Channel
MSNBC
Muslim Television Ahmadiyya
MyZen.TV
NASA Television
NDTV GOOD TIMES
NDTV India
NDTV Profit
Network TEN (Australia)
NEW SAT
New Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV)
NFL Network
NTV Bangla
Oxygen Network
Paris-Première
Phoenix InfoNews Channel
Phoenix North American Chinese Channel (PNACC)
Planète
Planète Thalassa
Playboy TV**
Polsat 2 International
Premiere Futebole Clube (PFC)
ProSiebenSat.1 Welt
PTV-Prime USA
Radio-France outre-mer (RFO1)
Radio Television Portugal International (RTPi)
RAI International 2
RAINews
Ritmoson Latino Channel
Romanian Television International (RTVI)
RTR-Planeta TV
RTV
RTV Palma
Russia Today
Sahara One
Sahara Samay
SIC Noticias
The Satellite Channel of Southern Television Guandong
The Silent Network (Kaleidoscope)
Sony Entertainment Television Asia (SET Asia)
Sony Max
Southeast TV Station
Speed Channel
Spike TV
Star Chinese Channel
Star Chinese Movies 2
Star India Gold
Star India News Channel
Star India One Channel
Star India Plus
Sun TV
Supercanal Caribe
Suvarna
TELEFE Internacional
TL Novelas Channel
TRACE TV
TV Asia
TV Chile
TVColombia
TV Globo Internacional
TV Japan
TV Land
TV Polonia
TVE Internacional
TV3 Republic of Ireland
TV3 Television Network (New Zealand)
TV4 Television Network (New Zealand)
Turner Classic Movies
Utilisima
Vijay Channel
The Weather Channel (TWC)
WMNB-TV: Russian-American Broadcasting Company

Source: CRTC's website

[CDN Viewer]

FYI- the following channels on that list no longer exist (for some reason the CRTC has not bothered updating the list to reflect these changes?!):

Channel One
German TV
Grandes Documentales de TVE
RTV Palma
The Silent Network (Kaleidoscope)

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It would also be nice if these Channels

ION
Smile of a Child
Family Net
KVOS Bellingham
The Hub

were being allowed in Canada!!!

[lostjon]

It would also be nice if these Channels

ION
Smile of a Child
Family Net
KVOS Bellingham
The Hub

were being allowed in Canada!!!

It's an interesting case with ION. In recent years, it has become a lot like MyNetworkTV, operating as more of a programming service filtered with reruns of both current and cancelled crime dramas like Without a Trace, Cold Case, Criminal Minds and Psych.

Unlike MyNet, they're at least trying their hand at airing original episodes of shows such as Flashpoint, and soon, the first two seasons of The Listener, both of which are Canadian, and they have WWE Main Event set to debut this fall.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...Ion_Television

As far as I know, viewers in Canada at this time can only get it through DTV over the air, but it is limited. For instance, In Quebec, there is currently no affiliate within Burlington/Plattsburgh that is affiliated with ION - there was a station back in 2006/2007 but has since gone off the air.

That being said, here is a link showing the stations currently affiliated with ION. Judging from this list, it appears to be accessible for viewers for most markets in Canada, including Southern Ontario, B.C., Alberta, and parts of Atlantic Canada, provided there is great reception with OTA DTV.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ion_affiliates

I figure these are some of the ION affiliates that can reach Canada for viewers close to the border:
WPXJ 51 Buffalo (Golden Horseshoe - GTA/Southern Ontario)
WPXD 31 Detroit (Windsor, SW Ontario)
WSPX 56 Syracuse (parts of Southern Ontario)
WVPX 23 Akron/Cleveland (SW Ontario)

KWPX 33 Seattle (Vancouver/Vancouver Island)
KGPX 34 Spokane (Calgary, southern Alberta)
KPXM 41 Minneapolis/St. Paul (Winnipeg, southern Manitoba)

WBGR-LP 33 Bangor (southern New Brunswick)

Any other ION affiliates?

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It would also be nice if these Channels

ION
Smile of a Child
Family Net
KVOS Bellingham
The Hub


were being allowed in Canada!!!

WKRP TV Cincinatta

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It's an interesting case with ION. In recent years, it has become a lot like MyNetworkTV, operating as more of a programming service filtered with reruns of both current and cancelled crime dramas like Without a Trace, Cold Case, Criminal Minds and Psych.

I've caught it a few times, it airs series like Criminal Minds, Psych and Cold Case back to back to back, for the whole primetime and daytime schedule, with a few breaks in between. Its like A&E is with Criminal Minds, but its FTA.

As far as I know, viewers in Canada at this time can only get it through DTV over the air, but it is limited. For instance, In Quebec, there is currently no affiliate within Burlington/Plattsburgh that is affiliated with ION - there was a station back in 2006/2007 but has since gone off the air.

ION Buffalo is one of the more difficult stations to pick up, even on a good day. Its becuase if you tune to 51.1, you'll get OMNI.2 since OMNI.2 operates on that physical channel. ION Buffalo physical channel is 23, but since CW is PSIP placement is also on 23 makes the station hard to pickup. Some TV's in cases like this will put ION Buffalo on 23.2, but you'll lose all PSIP information.

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Big Ten Network
Comedy Central
The Weather Channel (TWC)
TV Land

I always wounder why these channels are still permitted? Surly, Comedy Network and TV Land Canada (now Comedy Gold) would have automatically removed these channels off the list.

Network TEN (Australia)
TV3 Republic of Ireland
TV3 Television Network (New Zealand)
TV4 Television Network (New Zealand)

I wounder why these channels where added, but never picked up? Its reasonable to assume that (the now defunct) Canwest added Network TEN when it had ownership of the station. But why add it?

[InMontreal]

For instance, In Quebec, there is currently no affiliate within Burlington/Plattsburgh that is affiliated with ION - there was a station back in 2006/2007 but has since gone off the air.

Owners of WNMN located in Saranac Lake brought WWBI-27 (Pax) and WGMU-39 (WBVT, WB-UPN) and their retransmitters, including W52CD St. Albans, a few years ago. Zap2It lists WMNM-DT-2 sub-channel as ION affiliate, WWBI-LP as ION and WGMU as RTV affiliate.

According to another forum, the Ellenburg and St. Albans transmitters were supposed to be converted to digital early this year, but... we're still waiting.

By the way, Lifetime is also on the list. So, we didn't even need Shaw Media to licence a canadian version.

Comedy Central and TV Land are still in the list, which is a good thing. Otherwise it would be too easy for our Canadian broadcasters to take a low-rated Cat B specialty distributed nowhere, licence the brand for a year for the sole purpose of being pick up by distributors AND get the original removed from the foreign list, then at the end of the year, drop the branding and licence another english-language specialty from the foreign list, rinse and repeat.

The Aussie, NZ and Irish channels would be good imports IF they don't air ANY american shows and if they have significant programming that ain't carried by canadian channels.

[lostjon]

Owners of WNMN located in Saranac Lake brought WWBI-27 (Pax) and WGMU-39 (WBVT, WB-UPN) and their retransmitters, including W52CD St. Albans, a few years ago. Zap2It lists WMNM-DT-2 sub-channel as ION affiliate, WWBI-LP as ION and WGMU as RTV affiliate.

According to another forum, the Ellenburg and St. Albans transmitters were supposed to be converted to digital early this year, but... we're still waiting.

Owners of WNMN located in Saranac Lake brought WWBI-27 (Pax) and WGMU-39 (WBVT, WB-UPN) and their retransmitters, including W52CD St. Albans, a few years ago. Zap2It lists WMNM-DT-2 sub-channel as ION affiliate, WWBI-LP as ION and WGMU as RTV affiliate.

According to another forum, the Ellenburg and St. Albans transmitters were supposed to be converted to digital early this year, but... we're still waiting.

I'm actually curious to know if you can actually get WNMN on a clear day and with a high-quality rooftop antenna, of course depending on where you are.

I'm surprised Zap2It still lists WWBI, seeing that it has been off the air for over five years already. Unless the info on Wikipedia is incorrect, it appears that WNMN-DT-2 is affiliated with Antenna TV. WGMU-CA is more or less a re-broadcaster of WNMN, whose main affiliation is RTV, but carries the following subchannels:

40.1 - Main WNMN programming / RTV
40.2 - Antenna TV / ION?
40.3 - My40 (split between MyNetworkTV / Tuff TV)
40.4 - America One
40.5 - AMGTV
40.6 - RSN (Resort Sports Network, rebranded to Outside TV)

On a side note, The Ellenburg transmitter (W49BI) will no longer operate as its license has been cancelled by the FCC and its call letters have been removed altogether, according to another forum.

[mike10]

It would also be nice if these Channels

ION
Smile of a Child
Family Net
KVOS Bellingham
The Hub

were being allowed in Canada!!!

KVOS has been available in BC for as long as I can remember they even have a office in vancouver and help sponsor some local events

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KVOS has been available in BC for as long as I can remember they even have a office in vancouver and help sponsor some local events

Ya but it would be nice if it's made to be national!!! They seem to have such a great program lineup that no network has!!!