# 2016 in Canadian television

The following is a list of events affecting Canadian television in 2016. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, cancellations, and channel launches, closures and rebrandings.

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

| Date | Event |
| 13 | Corus Entertainment enters a deal to acquire the assets of Shaw Media, including the Global Television Network. |

#### February

| Date | Event |
| 29 | The Biography Channel, owned by Rogers Media, is rebranded in conjunction with Vice magazine as a Canadian version of Viceland. |

#### March

| Date | Event |
| 13 | The 4th Canadian Screen Awards airs on CBC. |

#### April

| Date | Event |
| 1 | Corus Entertainment completes their acquisition of Shaw Media and adopts a new logo. |
| 10 | Stéphanie St-Jean wins the fourth season of La Voix. |
| 30 | TVA Group closes Argent, a French-language channel which focused on business news and financial information, due to poor profitability. |

#### May

| Date | Event |
| 4 | Bell Media acquires Gusto TV and the Gusto brand from Knight Enterprises. |
| 12 | Nick and Phil Paquette win the fourth season of Big Brother Canada. |

#### June

| Date | Event |
| 3 | After being cancelled the previous day, CTV's morning show Canada AM airs for the last time. Canada AM has aired on CTV since 1972. |
| 14 | Rogers Media files an application with the CRTC to convert OMNI Television, currently a system of four multicultural television stations in major metropolitan cities, into a nationally distributed cable channel. |
| 15 | The CRTC announces a new policy for the provision of local news content on Canadian television stations, now requiring a minimum of just seven hours per week on non-metropolitan stations and creating a new local news fund to assist in paying for that programming. |

#### August

| Date | Event |
| 8-19 | The CTV Television Network airs the first season of Game of Thrones unedited, and with reduced commercial time at 10 p.m. in all markets. This is the first time Game of Thrones has aired on network television in North America. |
| 20 | Following Gord Downie's diagnosis with glioblastoma, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation broadcasts The Tragically Hip: A National Celebration, iconic Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip's August 20 concert at the K-Rock Centre in their hometown of Kingston, as a live cross-platform broadcast on CBC Television, CBC Radio One, CBC Radio 2, CBC Music and YouTube. |
| 22 | Your Morning, the replacement for Canada AM, premieres on CTV stations in Eastern Canada and on the CTV News Channel nationwide. |

#### September

| Date | Event |
| 1 | Bell Media shuts down M3 after nearly 2 decades of operation. The channel was replaced with Gusto across various TV providers. |
| 5 | Peter Mansbridge, the longtime anchor of CBC Television's newscast The National, announces that he will retire in 2017 following the network's special Canada Day broadcast on July 1. |
| 7 | CHCH announces it will resume broadcasting local news on the weekends in the form of two half-hours of news programming at 6pm and 11pm starting October 29, 2016. The station previously aired weekend news until December 2015 when the station's news division filed for bankruptcy. |

## Television programs
### Programs debuting in 2016

Series currently listed here have been announced by their respective networks as scheduled to premiere in 2016. Note that shows may be delayed or cancelled by the network between now and their scheduled air dates.
| Start Date | Show | Channel |
| January | Lost & Found Music Studios | Family Channel |
| January 4 | Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race | Cartoon Network |
| January 8 | Hello Goodbye | CBC Television |
| January 11 | Les Pays d'en haut | Ici Radio-Canada Télé |
| February 7 | Letterkenny | CraveTV, The Comedy Network |
| April 4 | Wynonna Earp | CHCH-DT |
| April 24 | Home to Win | HGTV |
| May 8 | Raising Expectations | Family Channel |
| May 24 | St. Nickel | Unis |
| May 26 | Private Eyes | Global |
| June 14 | Baroness von Sketch Show | CBC Television |
| July 6 | Cheer Squad | ABC Spark |
| July 25 | The Switch | OutTV |
| August 22 | Your Morning | CTV |
| August 28 | Four in the Morning | CBC Television |
| September 4 | Hip-Hop Evolution | HBO Canada |
| September 5 | Tricked | YTV |
| September 5 | Ranger Rob | Treehouse TV |
| September 6 | Dot. | CBC Television |
| September 10 | Snapshots | CBC Television |
| October 2 | This Is High School | CBC Television |
| October 3 | The Goods | CBC Television |
| October 4 | Kim's Convenience | CBC Television |
| October 10 | Shoot the Messenger | CBC Television |
| October 17 | Travelers | Showcase |
| October 27 | Second Jen | City |
| November 1 | Counterfeit Cat | Teletoon |
| November 6 | Frontier | Discovery, CraveTV |
| November 9 | The Beaverton | The Comedy Network |

### Programs ending in 2016

Series currently listed here have been announced by their respective networks as scheduled to premiere in 2016. Note that shows may be delayed or cancelled by the network between now and their scheduled air dates.
| End Date | Show | Channel | Source |
| April 1 | Fugget About It | Adult Swim | |

## Networks and services
### Closures

| Network | Date |
| The Pet Network | May 2 |
| ichannel | August 15 |
| M3 | September 1 |

## Television stations
### Network affiliation changes

| Date | Market | Station | Channel | Old affiliation | New affiliation |
| February 22 | Dawson Creek, British Columbia | CJDC-TV | 5 (analogue) | CBC | CTV 2 |
| February 22 | Terrace, British Columbia | CFTK-TV | 3 (Analogue) | CBC | CTV 2 |
| September 1 | Lloydminster, Alberta-Saskatchewan | CKSA-DT | 2.1 | CBC | Global |