# 2018 in Canadian television

The following is a list of events affecting Canadian television in 2018. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, cancellations, and channel launches, closures and rebrandings.

## Events
### Notable events
#### January

| Date | Event |
| 3 | CBC Television broadcasts Tower of Song: A Memorial Tribute to Leonard Cohen, a tribute concert to Canadian musician Leonard Cohen which took place in November 2017. |
| 23 | Bell Media announces a branding and content agreement with the American television channel Starz, which will see The Movie Network Encore rebrand as a Canadian Starz channel. |

#### March

| Date | Event |
| TBA | Vassy Kapelos, formerly the host of Global's political news series The West Block, moves to CBC News Network as the host of Power & Politics. |
| 11 | The 6th Canadian Screen Awards air on CBC. |
| 31 | Viceland ceases television distribution, after majority owner Rogers Media drops out of the venture. Branding partner Vice Media will take over the channel's Canadian assets, which will be used to produce content for the main vice.com Web site. |

#### April

| Date | Event |
| 11 | After emerging from creditor protection, Canadian pay television multiplex provider Super Channel announces the rebranding of its channels as Super Channel Fuse and Super Channel Heart & Home. |

#### June

| Date | Event |
| 7 | Bell Media announces its intent to launch free VOD services CTV Vault and CTV Movies on the CTV app and website in the Fall, as well as the intent to rebrand The Comedy Network, Space, the original Bravo, and Gusto, respectively, as CTV Comedy, CTV Sci-Fi, CTV Drama, and CTV Life, to align them with the branding of the CTV Television Network. |

#### August

| Date | Event |
| 27 | Corus Entertainment's three stations in Southeastern Ontario, CKWS-DT in Kingston, CHEX-DT in Peterborough, and CHEX-TV-2 in Oshawa, end their program supply agreement with the CTV Television Network after 3 years and become full-time owned-and-operated stations of the Corus-owned Global Television Network. (The three stations, which had been three of the CBC's last private affiliates prior to 2015, had been airing Global's nightly newscast Global National and local variations of its Morning Show since September 2016, following Corus' acquisition of Global's former parent company Shaw Media in April 2016.) |

#### November

| Date | Event |
| 1 | Bell Media rebrands the pay TV service The Movie Network as Crave, aligning it with the branding of its television streaming service Crave. |

#### December

| Date | Event |
| 31 | BBC Kids shuts down on New Years Eve due to ¨Challenging regularity environment for independent channels¨ |

## Television programs
### Programs debuting in 2018

Series currently listed here have been announced by their respective networks as scheduled to premiere in 2018. Note that shows may be delayed or cancelled by the network between now and their scheduled air dates.
| Start Date | Show | Channel |
| January 10 | Burden of Truth | CBC |
| January 10 | The Launch | CTV |
| January 14 | The Weekly with Wendy Mesley | CBC |
| February 2 | Crawford | CBC |
| February 13 | Skindigenous | APTN |
| February 15 (digital) | This Blows | CBC |
| February 26 | Caught | CBC |
| March 1 | Little Dog | CBC |
| March 25 | The Detail | CTV |
| April 2 | Corner Gas Animated | The Comedy Network |
| May 12 | Anaana's Tent | APTN |
| May 15 | Carter | Bravo (original) |
| May 17 | Where to I Do? | Gusto |
| June 4 | ReBoot: The Guardian Code | YTV |
| September 10 | Discussions avec mes parents | Ici Radio-Canada Télé |
| September 11 | First Contact | APTN |
| September 21 | In the Making | CBC |
| November 13 | Future History | APTN |
| November 15 | From the Vaults | CBC |
| Unknown date | Miss Persona | YouTube, Treehouse TV |

### Programs ending in 2018

| Start Date | Show | Channel | Source |
| January 30 | Hard Rock Medical | TVOntario | |

### Television films

| Start Date | Show | Channel | Source |
| September 30 | Believe Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey | Showcase | |
| October 21 | Etthén Heldeli: Caribou Eaters | Citytv | |

## Deaths

| Date | Name | Age | Notability |
| January 8 | Donnelly Rhodes | 80 | Character actor best known for appearances in Soap, Battlestar Galactica, and Da Vinci's Inquest. |
| January 26 | Jacques Languirand | 86 | Radio host, writer and actor (Le Colombier, Le Rebut Global). |
| January 29 | Jay Switzer | 61 | Television executive for Citytv. |
| January 31 | Alf Humphreys | 64 | Actor (The X Files, The Twilight Zone (the 1985 and 2002 revivals), Smallville, Outer Limits and Da Vinci's Inquest). |
| January 31 | Leah LaBelle | 31 | Canadian-born singer who competed on Season 3 of American Idol. |
| February 5 | Manfred Joehnck | 64 | News anchor for CTV News Regina. |
| February 10 | Tina Louise Bomberry | 52 | Mohawk actress best known for her role as Rosie Deela in North of 60 and its three follow-up films. |
| May 13 | Margot Kidder | 69 | Canadian-born actress who was active in Canadian television from the late 1960s through the mid-1970s |
| November 11 | Wayne Maunder | 80 | Canadian-born actor (Custer, Lancer, Chase) |

## Television stations
### Network launches

| Network | Type | Launch date | Notes |
| Natyf TV | Cable | June 14 | French language multicultural channel |

### Network affiliation changes

| Date | Market | Station | Channel | Previous affiliation | New affiliation |
| August 27 | Kingston, Ontario | CKWS-DT | 11.1 | CTV | Global |
| August 27 | Oshawa, Ontario | CHEX-TV-2 | 22 (analog) | CTV | Global |
| August 27 | Peterborough, Ontario | CHEX-DT | 12.1 | CTV | Global |

### Network conversions and rebrandings

| Old network name | New network name | Type | Conversion date | Notes |
| The Movie Network | Crave | | November 1 | |

### Network closures

| Network | Closure date |
| Sundance Channel | March 1 |
| Viceland | March 31 |
| BBC Kids | December 31 |