CTV Comedy Channel

CTV Comedy Channel (often shortened to CTV Comedy) is a Canadian <a href="/facts/English-language/tpkxGt7b">English-language</a> <a href="/facts/Discretionary_service/vAzKguah">discretionary</a> <a href="/facts/Specialty_channel/e1gzlAAo">specialty channel</a> owned by <a href="/facts/BCE_Inc./9e35klmj">BCE Inc.</a> subsidiary <a href="/facts/Bell_Media/HNMJwyqt">Bell Media</a> which focuses primarily on <a href="/facts/Comedy/6eaRmCRX">comedy</a> programming and operates two time-shifted feeds, running on <a href="/facts/Eastern_Time_Zone/jP4S8j1V">Eastern</a> and <a href="/facts/Pacific_Time_Zone/v04MPIjz">Pacific Time Zone</a> schedules.
The channel first launched on October 17, 1997 as The Comedy Network by a consortium of Baton Broadcasting, <a href="/facts/Shaw_Communications/SsAuo6KK">Shaw Communications</a>, <a href="/facts/Astral_Media/rIp8sVuA">Astral Media</a> and Les Films Rozon. Through various acquisitions over the years, the network is solely owned by Bell since 2001.
CTV Comedy Channel originally sourced most of its programming from the U.S.-based cable network <a href="/facts/Comedy_Central/U7I96eLA">Comedy Central</a>. In the years since the channel's inception, and with the eventual shuttering of its <a href="/facts/Comedy_Gold_(TV_channel)/raBXx1I9">sister channel</a> in 2019, the network would move some of its programming from the latter to sister channel <a href="/facts/Much_(TV_channel)/Pj16NTlx">Much</a> before rebranding to its current name on September 12, 2019.

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CTV Comedy Channel