The following is a list of events affecting Canadian television in 2024. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, cancellations, and channel launches, closures and rebrandings.
| Date | Event | Source | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | Moi et Cie is rebranded as Témoin. | ||
| 25 | Amazon Prime Video announces it has reached a deal with the National Hockey League and Rogers Communications to exclusively carry national Monday night regular season NHL games (in English) during the 2024-25 and 2025-26 seasons. | [3] |
| Date | Event | Source | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Eastlink ends their dispute with Corus Entertainment and re-adds their specialty channels back on some new Theme Packs. While TiVo Stream customers would get all of them, TiVo Classic customers will only be able to access HGTV, Food Network, W Network, Showcase and History. | ||
| 10 | Rogers Sports & Media announces a multi-year agreement with Warner Bros. Discovery, under which it will assume rights to many of its factual and lifestyle television brands beginning January 1, 2025, including most prominently Discovery, Food Network, and HGTV among others, ending their long-term associations with Bell Media and Corus Entertainment specialty channels respectively. Rogers also announced an agreement with NBCUniversal to launch Bravo in Canada beginning on September 1, 2024. Corus and Bell stated that other WBD deals (Cartoon Network and Adult Swim for the former and HBO for the latter) are not affected by these changes. | [4] |
| Date | Event | Source | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | After 25 years of operation, the Oprah Winfrey Network was shut down by Corus Entertainment. The channel's broadcast license was surrendered to the CRTC on October 8. OLN is rebranded and relaunched as Bravo. | ||
| 7 | The Canadian Football League returns to Canadian over-the-air television for the first time in 17 years with a package of Saturday afternoon contests on CTV. | [5] [6] |
| Date | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 30 | Corus Entertainment will rebrand specialty channels HGTV Canada and Food Network Canada as Home Network and Flavour Network. | [8] |
| 31 | MTV Canada will be shut down by Bell Media. WWE Network will be shut down by Rogers Sports & Media, due to Netflix's new deal with the WWE taking place the next day. As comfirmed by the Saskatchewan based TV service provider SaskTel, Cooking Channel and the original Magnolia Network, both owned by Corus Entertainment, are expected to cease broadcasting, as the broadcaster might have been unable to find alternate imported content. |
| Start date | Show | Channel | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 8 | MasterChef Québec | TVA | [9] |
| January 9 | One More Time | CBC | [10] |
| January 10 | Wild Cards | ||
| January 19 | Late Bloomer | Crave | [11] |
| January 21 | Sight Unseen | CTV | [12] |
| January 26 | Ghosting with Luke Hutchie and Matthew Finlan | CBC Gem | [13] |
| February 5 | Timber Titans | Discovery | [14] |
| February 7 | Allegiance | CBC | |
| February 8 | The Great Canadian Pottery Throw Down | [15] | |
| February 22 | Citytv | [16] | |
| March 5 | Treaty Road | APTN | [17] |
| March 8 | Gangnam Project | CBC Kids | [18] |
| March 22 | The Trades | Crave | [19] |
| April 1 | Dylan's Playtime Adventures | CBC Kids | [20] |
| May 7 | Pow Wow Chow | APTN | [21] |
| May 8 | Hop | CBC Kids | [22] |
| May 30 | Geek Girl | Netflix | |
| July 12 | Made for TV with Boman Martinez-Reid | Crave | [23] |
| August 23 | Don't Even | Crave | [24] |
| September 2 | My Haunted Hometown | T+E | [25] |
| September 5 | House of Ali | HGTV | |
| September 8 | Old Enough! Canada | TVO | [26] |
| September 9 | Quel talent! | Noovo | [27] |
| September 20 | Prime Video | [28] | |
| September 24 | Murder in a Small Town | Global | |
| September 27 | So Long, Marianne | Crave | [29] |
| October 2 | Mark McKinney Needs a Hobby | CTV | [30] |
| October 8 | Cottage Life | [31] | |
| October 11 | The Office Movers | Crave | [32] |
| October 14 | Barney's World | Treehouse | |
| October 30 | Anna Comes Home (Le retour d'Anna Brodeur) | Crave | [33] |
| TBA | Bad Trips | Crave | [34] |
| Darcy & Jer: No Refunds | Crave | [35] | |
| Drag Brunch Saved My Life | Crave | [36] | |
| The Last Captains | Discovery | ||
| My Pet Ate What? | Animal Planet | ||
| Novelette Is Trying | OUTtv | [37] | |
| One Day We'll All Be Dead | Crave | [38] | |
| Queen of the Castle | CTV Life | ||
| The Rebuild: Inside the Montreal Canadiens | Crave | ||
| Revival | CTV Sci-Fi | ||
| Shipwreck Kings | Discovery | ||
| Sounds Black | History | [39] | |
| The Sticky | Amazon Prime Video | [40] | |
| Yukon Rescue | History |
| End date | Show | Channel | First aired | Status | Source | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 19 | Transplant | CTV | 2020 | Ended | [41] | |
| March 23 | W5 | 1966 | [42] | |||
| April 2 | Run the Burbs | CBC Television | 2022 | Canceled | [43] | |
| May 3 | CityLine | Citytv | 1984 | Canceled | [44] | |
| May 8 | Big Brother Canada | Global | 2013 | Canceled |
| Start date | Show | Channel | Source | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 24 | Juno Awards of 2024 | [45] | ||
| May 31 | 12th Canadian Screen Awards | [46] | ||
| September 14 | 2024 Canadian Country Music Awards | CTV | ||
| November 17 | 111th Grey Cup | CTV, TSN | ||
| December 8 | 26th Quebec Cinema Awards | Noovo |
| Date | Name | Age | Notes | Sources | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 24 | Bob Cole | 90 | Sportscaster and play-by-play voice for Hockey Night in Canada | [48] | |
| May 15 | Darren Dutchyshen | 57 | Sportscaster and anchor for TSN's SportsCentre | [49] | |
| October 11 | Mike Bullard | 67 | Comedian and host of CTV's Open Mike with Mike Bullard and Global's The Mike Bullard Show | [50] |