E! (Canadian TV channel)
| E! Entertainment Television | |
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| E! logo | |
| Launched | September 10, 1999 |
| Owned by | Bell Media |
| Picture format | 480i (SDTV) |
| Slogan | Everything Entertainment! |
| Country | Canada |
| Broadcast area | National |
| Headquarters | Toronto, Ontario |
| Formerly called | Star! (1999-2010) |
| Website | E! Canada |
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| Satellite | |
| Bell TV | Channel 621 |
| Shaw Direct | Channel 527 |
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| Available on most Canadian cable systems | Check local listings, channels may vary |
| IPTV | |
| Bell Aliant TV | Channel 212 |
| Bell Fibe TV | Channel 621 |
| MTS | Channel 113 |
| Optik TV | Channel 148 |
| SaskTel | Channel 76 |
E! Entertainment Television (simply referred to as E!) (formerly Star!) is a Canadian English language Category A specialty channel which is owned and operated by Bell Media. E! is devoted to entertainment programming including entertainment news, film, television, celebrities, and fashion. NBCUniversal licenses the Canadian E! brand but does not hold any ownership in this channel.
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[edit] History
The channel was licensed in 1996 by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission and was launched on September 10, 1999 as Star! under its original ownership of CHUM Limited. On June 22, 2007, CTVglobemedia gained full control of Star! as a result of a takeover of CHUM Limited. That fall, Star!'s daily entertainment news program Star! Daily was cancelled and replaced with its CTV-produced competitor, eTalk.
The channel broadcast programming from the equivalent American cable network E! until 2007, when that network licensed their name to Global's secondary broadcast CH television system and transferred their programming to that service, which became known as E!. Although the terrestrial version of E! Canada ceased operations in 2009, Canwest is believed to have retained Canadian rights to E! (U.S.) programming (despite not airing it on any of its channels), preventing these series from returning to Star!. Instead, the channel's schedule in these years consisted mostly of second-run talk shows and entertainment news shows repeated from CTV and CTV Two (formerly A-Channel), including FashionTelevision, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and TMZ.
On November 1, 2010, CTVglobemedia announced it had signed a multi-year and multi-platform deal with Comcast, to bring the E! brand back to Canada. Under the agreement, Star! was re-launched as a Canadian version of E! Entertainment Television on November 29, 2010.[1]
Ownership changed hands once again, when on April 1, 2011, Bell Canada gained full control of E! as a result of a takeover of CTVglobemedia, with the latter company becoming known as Bell Media.
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| 1999–2004 | 2004–2010 | 2010–present |
[edit] References
- ^ CTV and Comcast International Media Group Partner to Bring E!, World's Top Entertainment Brand, Back To Canada CTVglobemedia press release, November 1, 2010.
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Coordinates: 43°38′59″N 79°23′25″W / 43.649701°N 79.390233°W
