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| Country | Canada |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Nationwide |
| Headquarters | Toronto,Ontario |
| Programming | |
| Picture format | 1080iHDTV (downscaled toletterboxed480i for theSDTV feed) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Corus Entertainment (Mystery Partnership)[a] |
| Sister channels | History History2 Lifetime Showcase Adult Swim DejaView MovieTime W Network CMT |
| History | |
| Launched | September 7, 2001; 24 years ago (2001-09-07) |
| Former names | Mystery (2001–2007) Mystery TV (2007–2014) |
| Links | |
| Website | Crime + Investigation Canada |
Crime & Investigation (stylized asCrime + Investigation) is aCanadianEnglish languagediscretionaryspecialty channel owned byCorus Entertainment. It is a licensed version ofA&E Networks'U.S. channel of the same name, and airs off-network reruns ofpolice procedural dramas from the libraries ofGlobal andShowcase, andtrue crime programming from the libraries of A&E Networks andPeacock.
The network was originally launched on September 7, 2001 asMystery under a joint partnership betweenCanwest,Rogers Media andGroupe TVA, that is devoted to police drama to thrillers, suspense and reality programming. Through mulitiple ownership changes over the years, this channel was relaunched to its current name in 2014.
The channel was licensed as13th Street by theCanadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) on November 24, 2000, to Canwest (45.05%),Groupe TVA (45.05%) andRogers Communications (9.9%). Before the channel's launch, both Canwest and Groupe TVA acquired Rogers' shares in the service equally. The channel was described as "a national English-language Category 1 specialty television service devoted to mystery and suspense programming. The service will nurture and encourage short form Canadian mysteries. It will provide a wide assortment of genre-specific programs including movies, television series, short films and documentaries that will focus exclusively on the delivery of entertaining programming on suspense, espionage and classic mysteries."[1]
The channel was launched asMystery on September 7, 2001. TVA, Canwest and Rogers also owned the same shares of its French counterpart,Mystère, which would become wholly owned by TVA before launch. The channel was rebranded asMystery TV in 2007, though the channel was still referred to as "Mystery" on-air.
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On October 27, 2010,Shaw Communications completed its acquisition of Canwest, giving it control of Canwest's 50% interest in Mystery TV.[2] On December 22, 2011, Groupe TVA announced its intentions to sell its share of Mystery TV andThe Cave to Shaw Communications, giving Shaw full control of these two channels.[3] The deal was approved by the CRTC on April 25, 2012.[4]
In June 2014, Shaw Media announced that Mystery TV, along with sister networkTwist TV, would be rebranded as Canadian versions ofCrime & Investigation andFYI, respectively, under a licensing agreement withA&E Networks.[5] They were the fourth and fifth networks to be rebranded afterHistory Television,Showcase Diva andThe Cave were rebranded as Canadian versions ofHistory,Lifetime andH2 respectively in 2012.[6] It launched on November 3, 2014.[7][8]