Teletoon Retro
| Teletoon Retro | |
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Final logo 2013-2015
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| Launched | October 1, 2007 |
| Closed | September 1, 2015 |
| Owned by | Corus Entertainment |
| Picture format |
1080i (HDTV) 480i (SDTV) |
| Slogan | Forever Fun |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
| Broadcast area | National |
| Headquarters | Toronto, Ontario |
| Replaced by | Disney Channel and Cartoon Network |
| Sister channel(s) | |
Teletoon Retro was a Canadian English-language Category B specialty channel owned by Corus Entertainment that was based on the former Teletoon programming block. The service was dedicated to broadcasting classic animated television programs as well as some live-action series.
Along with Télétoon Rétro, it was available in over nine million Canadian households as of 2013; together they had the most subscribers among the digital Canadian specialty channels.
Teletoon Retro was shut down on September 1, 2015, with either Cartoon Network or Disney Channel inheriting the network's channel allotments and CRTC license.
Teletoon Retro began as a programming block on Teletoon. On November 24, 2000, Teletoon Canada was given approval by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to launch a national English language category 2 specialty channel named Teletoon Retro. The channel never made it to air.
Plans to launch the channel arose again in 2005, when on October 25, Teletoon Canada was given approval again to launch Teletoon Retro. The channel was launched at 6:00 PM EST on October 1, 2007 with its first program being The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show. To coincide with the channel's launch, Teletoon briefly relaunched the Retro programming block. A French language counterpart, titled Télétoon Rétro, which had been given approval to be launched at the same time as Teletoon Retro, was launched on September 4, 2008.
On March 4, 2013, Corus Entertainment announced that it would acquire Astral Media's 50% ownership interest in Teletoon Canada (owner of Teletoon, Télétoon, Teletoon Retro, Télétoon Rétro, and Cartoon Network). The purchase was in relation to Bell Media's pending takeover of Astral (which had earlier been rejected by the CRTC in October 2012, but was restructured to allow the sale of certain Astral Media properties in order to allow the purchase to clear regulatory hurdles). Corus's purchase was cleared by the Competition Bureau two weeks later on March 18.
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