# 2017 in Canadian television

The following is a list of events affecting Canadian television in 2017. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, cancellations, and channel launches, closures and rebrandings.

## Events
### Notable events
#### February

| Date | Event |
| 5 | The CRTC rejects simultaneous substitution over Super Bowl LI, giving Canadian viewers the ability to view American Super Bowl commercials in real time; the CRTC ruled that the commercials had become an integral part of the game broadcast and that the network had been botching its simsubs over other programs by cutting in and out at the wrong times. Bell Media, which owns the rights to the Super Bowl broadcasts in Canada, vehemently fought against the proposed rule change, which caused its viewership to drop 39% compared to Super Bowl 50. |

#### March

| Date | Event |
| 12 | The 5th Canadian Screen Awards air on CBC. |

#### July

| Date | Event |
| 1 | Peter Mansbridge, the anchor of CBC Television's national newscast The National since 1988, retires following the network's live Canada Day broadcast. |

#### August

| Date | Event |
| 1 | CBC Television announces that Adrienne Arsenault, Rosemary Barton, Andrew Chang and Ian Hanomansing will be the new anchors of The National, starting on November 6. |
| 31 | The digital specialty channel G4 Canada ends operations after just short of sixteen years of operations, with Rogers Media turning in its license for CRTC revocation. It ends four years after the American G4 went off the air, and several months after its intended replacement in United States, Esquire Network also expired. |

#### September

| Date | Event |
| 4 | Jay Onrait and Dan O'Toole return to TSN's SportsCentre after four years in the United States. The pair previously anchored TSN's flagship show from 2003 to 2013. |
| 4 | City stations CKEM Edmonton and CHMI Winnipeg relaunch evening newscasts, under the CityNews brand. The news programs, which air at 6 pm and 11 pm, are the first newscasts on the station since the CTVglobemedia's acquisition of previous owner CHUM Limited. |
| 25 | Satirist Rick Mercer, host of the eponymous Rick Mercer Report, announces that the upcoming season of the Report will be his last. |

#### October

| Date | Event |
| 17 | Bell announces the purchase of French channels Séries+ and Historia. |
| 20 | Following the death of iconic Canadian rock singer Gord Downie on October 17, CTV advances the television premiere of Long Time Running, the documentary film by Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier about the Man Machine Poem Tour of 2016, from its originally planned date of November 19. |

#### December

| Date | Event |
| 26 | Irv Weinstein, an American actor-turned-news anchor who was widely viewed in Southern Ontario through border blaster WKBW-TV and influenced a large number of Southern Ontario comics who would go on to become internationally famous (such as Eugene Levy, Jim Carrey and Mike Myers), dies at the age of 87 following a 21-month battle with ALS. |

## Television programs
### Programs debuting in 2017

Series currently listed here have been announced by their respective networks as scheduled to premiere in 2017. Note that shows may be delayed or cancelled by the network between now and their scheduled air dates.
| Start Date | Show | Channel |
| January 1 | Ransom | Global |
| January 3 | Heavy Rescue: 401 | Discovery |
| January 9 | Lâcher prise | Ici Radio-Canada Télé |
| January 9 | Pure | CBC Television |
| January 10 | Workin' Moms | CBC Television |
| January 25 | Cardinal | CTV |
| January 25 | Mary Kills People | Global |
| February 2 | Nirvanna the Band the Show | Viceland |
| February 17 | True North Calling | CBC Television |
| February 20 | Bellevue | CBC Television |
| March 7 | The Real Housewives of Toronto | Slice |
| March 24 | What Would Sal Do? | CraveTV Super Channel |
| March 26 | Canada: The Story of Us | CBC Television |
| April 10 (web) | Save Me | CBC Television |
| May 6 | Chuck's Choice | YTV |
| July 17 | 21 Thunder | CBC Television |
| August 5 | 3 Amigonauts | YTV |
| September 4 | Worst to First | HGTV |
| September 21 | Bad Blood | City |
| September 25 | Alias Grace | CBC Television |
| November 1 | The Great Canadian Baking Show | CBC Television |
| November 5 | Fubar Age of Computer | City |
| November 7 | Political Blind Date | TVOntario |
| November 23 | The Indian Detective | CTV |
| Unknown | Adulthood (L'Âge adulte) | Ici TOU.TV |
| Unknown | The Neddeaus of Duqesne Island | CBC Comedy |

### Television films and specials

| Start Date | Show | Channel |
| March 2 | The Skin We're In | CBC Television |
| October 20 | Long Time Running | CTV |
| October 22 | Gord Downie's Secret Path in Concert | CBC Television |

## Television stations
### Stations closures

| Date | Market | Station | Channel | Affiliation | Source |
| January 27 | Kenora, Ontario | CJBN-TV | 13 (analog) | Global | |