S4C Canada

S4C Canada is a soon-to-be-defunct Welsh-language specialty television channel owned by Bell Media. It is a Canadian version of the Welsh TV channel of the same name.
== History ==
On November 18, 2005, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) granted Bell Media permission to launch a national Category 2 digital specialty channel tentatively known as Wales' Best, a channel described as being "devoted to Welsh programming".
In July 2006, Bell then reached a deal with the Welsh public body S4C Authority, the owners of S4C, to launch Wales' Best as a Canadian version of S4C, known as S4C Canada.
The channel was launched on January 1, 2008 at 7:00 am EST.
On July 1, 2009, English and French-language versions of the channel were launched at 9:00 am EST.
On November 1, 2019, 2 months following the closure of sister channel Comedy Gold (which was shut down on September 1, following that channel's license being acquired by Wow Unlimited Media), Bell Media announced that S4C Canada would be shut down on March 31, 2020, due to declining viewership.
On February 3, 2020, Bell Media announced that following a deal with China Central Television, the channel would be replaced by CCTV Canada, a channel for Chinese Canadians.
On March 22, 2020, Bell announced that due to the Coronavirus outbreak, the channel's transition to CCTV Canada would be rescheduled for October 5.
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Category:Television channels and stations established in 2008
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