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| List of years in Canadian television |
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This is a list ofCanadian television related events from 1997.
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| February 27 | Renowned children's TV seriesTheodore Tugboat begins its first ever airing in Malaysia onTV2. |
| March 9 | CIHF,CFRE,CKND andCFSK all join theGlobal system. |
| 18th Genie Awards. | |
| Juno Awards of 1997. | |
| June 6 | 1997 Gemini Awards. |
| July 2 | The firstprime time national series to be produced out of Vancouver begins filming:Cold Squad.[1] |
| August 18 | Global purchases theCBC Television affiliateCKMI-TV-1. This purchase allowed Global to officially become a national television network. |
| September 6 | Full coverage of the funeral forPrincess Diana airs on all the main television networks. |
| September 8 | A number of new French television channels launch includingCanal Vie,LCN, andTélétoon. |
| September 15 | Canadian children's educational animated seriesCaillou begins its screening on Canadian television starting off with a French dub on the French language cartoon channelTélétoon. |
| October 17 | A number of new television channels launch includingThe Comedy Network,CTV Newsnet,Home & Garden Television,Outdoor Life Network,Prime,Teletoon, andSpace: The Imagination Station.Black Entertainment Television,The Golf Channel,The Food Network andSpeedvision also became available in Canada andTBS,CNBC andFamily Channel (Canada) were unscrambled. |
| Caillou starts airing in English for the very first time when the series airs onTeletoon, a newly launched English language channel dedicated to cartoons. | |
| November 1 | Treehouse, a preschool oriented channel, launches in Canada. Unlike parent networkYTV, it does not air commercials during programming. |
| Show | Station | Premiere Date |
|---|---|---|
| Le Femme Nikita | CTV | January 13 |
| Ekhaya: A Family Chronicle | CBC Television | February |
| The Hunger | The Movie Network | July 20 |
| Uh Oh! | YTV | August 22 |
| EP Daily | CityTV | September 1 |
| Animal Crackers | Teletoon | September 7 |
| Popular Mechanics for Kids | Global | |
| Caillou | Télétoon | September 15 |
| The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police | YTV | October 3 |
| Pippi Longstocking | Teletoon | October 17 |
| Ned's Newt | ||
| Freaky Stories | YTV | October 24 |
| Skinnamarink TV | CBC Television | October 27 |
| Franklin | Family | November 3 |
| Open Mike with Mike Bullard | The Comedy Network/CBC Television | November 24 |
| The Angry Beavers | YTV | December 26 |
| Riverdale | CBC Television | Unknown |
| Show | Moved from | Moved to |
|---|---|---|
| Happy Ness: Secret of the Loch | YTV | Treehouse TV |
| Caillou | Télétoon | Teletoon |
| Show | Station | Cancelled |
|---|---|---|
| It's Alive! | YTV | January 1 |
| Fred Penner | CBC Television | |
| North of 60 | December 18 | |
| Ready or Not | Global | August 11 |
| Jake and the Kid | August 16 |
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| Date | Market | Station | Channel | Affiliation | Notes/References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 10 | Maskwacis, Alberta | CHOB-TV | 43 | Independent | [2] |
| August 18 | Quebec City, Quebec | CBVE-TV | 18 | CBC Television (O&O) | Full-time repeater ofCBMT/Montréal after its original transmitter became the Quebec City area'sGlobal station |
| September 8 | Montréal,Quebec | CJNT-TV | 62 | Independent | [3] |
| September 18 | Edmonton,Alberta | CKEM-TV | 51 | A-Channel | [4] |
| September 20 | Calgary, Alberta | CKAL-TV | 5 | [5] | |
| September 22 | Vancouver,British Columbia | CIVT-TV | 32 | Independent | [6] |
| October 17 | Toronto, Ontario | Space: The Imagination Station (now CTV Sci-Fi Channel) | CHUM Limited | ||
| Unknown | Toronto,Ontario | Star Ray TV (Pirate TV station) | 15 | Independent | [7] |
| Date | Market | Station | Channel | Old affiliation | New affiliation | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 18 | Quebec City,Quebec | CKMI-TV | 20 | CBC | Global | This station moved to Montreal in 2009, but still retaining the original Quebec City transmitter[8] |
| Unknown | Wheatley/Windsor, Ontario | CHWI-TV | 16 | Independent | NewNet | [9] |
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