The original post: /r/television by /u/Born-NG-1995 on 2025-11-04 04:53:00+00:00.
In the United States, we have already lost two channels: Universal Kids and HBO Family. HBO Family had been on autopilot airing little but movies since its kid’s block shut down, and now HBO Family as a whole is completely dead! Universal Kids had been on autopilot as well since it stopped airing original shows.
Canada has had it even worse! It’s lost a total of eight kid’s channels: Family Channel, WildBrain TV, Family Jr., Télémagino, La Chaîne Disney, and the Canadian versions of Disney XD, Nickelodeon, and Disney Jr.! It has also lost one adult channel in ABC Spark. Even as someone who has never lived in (or even gone to) Canada, seeing Canada lose so many kids’ channels saddens me.
This is particularly bad in the cases of Nickelodeon and Disney XD. Until November 2, 2009, Nickelodeon had been unavailable in Canada, so most Nickelodeon programming would air on YTV, which basically functioned as Canada’s equivalent to Nickelodeon. As of Labor Day of this year, however, not only has Nickelodeon gone back to being unavailable in Canada, but all Nickelodeon programming has been removed from YTV (and its sister channel, Treehouse), meaning that Nickelodeon has basically now become nonexistent in Canada. As for Disney XD, only two channels exist now for it: the original American version (which has now come off autopilot with Armorsaurs), and the Polish version.
The saddest part about those eleven channels is that not one of them was given a replacement. Instead, the channel spaces that they’d occupied all just ceased to exist. What do you have to say about this sad state of affairs?