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| Country | Canada |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | National |
| Headquarters | 9 Channel Nine Court, Scarborough, Ontario |
| Programming | |
| Picture format | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to letterboxed 480i for the SDTV feed) |
| Timeshift service | CTV Comedy Channel East CTV Comedy Channel West |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | BCE Inc. |
| Parent | Bell Media |
| Sister channels | CTV CTV 2 CTV News Channel CTV Drama Channel CTV Life Channel CTV Nature Channel CTV Sci-Fi Channel CTV Speed Channel CTV Wild Channel Much Oxygen USA Network |
| History | |
| Launched | October 17, 1997 |
| Former names | The Comedy Network (1997–2019) |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
CTV Comedy Channel (often shortened to CTV Comedy) is a Canadian English-language discretionary specialty channel owned by BCE Inc. subsidiary Bell Media which focuses primarily on comedy programming and operates two time-shifted feeds, running on Eastern and Pacific Time Zone schedules.
The channel first launched on October 17, 1997 as The Comedy Network by a consortium of Baton Broadcasting, Shaw Communications, 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 Comedy Central. In the years since the channel's inception, and with the eventual shuttering of its sister channel in 2019, the network would move some of its programming from the latter to sister channel Much before rebranding to its current name on September 12, 2019.
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