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1992 in Canadian television

This is a list of Canadian television related events from 1992.

List of years in Canadian television
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Date Event
January 8 Puppydog Tales, a British animated series for children narrated by comedienne Victoria Wood starts premiering on Knowledge Network before airing in its homeland, where it will begin airing on September 17 of the same year.
January 26 13th Genie Awards.
1992 Gemini Awards.
The documentary miniseries The Valour and the Horror airs on CBC. Canadian veterans' groups criticize it, and an inquiry is launched by the Senate of Canada.
January 29 The British children's television series Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends begins airing on YTV as a stand alone after airing as a segment on its US spin-off series Shining Time Station (which aired since September 3 1991). This was also the first channel to broadcast Thomas in all provinces and territories in Canada and also the first time to do so. The series will also continue to air on YTV until 1994.
March 26 Well respected television journalist Barbara Frum dies after a battle with leukemia. Many media outlets would pay tribute to her in the days following her death.
March 29 Juno Awards of 1994.
August 15 The hit children's supernatural horror drama Are You Afraid of the Dark? premieres on Nickelodeon in the US on the kids cable channel's SNICK block.
October 5 CPAC replaces CBC Parliamentary Television Network as Canada's political channel.
December 7 The controversial docudrama The Boys of St. Vincent airs on CBC Television. The film caused such a scandal it was temporarily banned from airing in Ontario by the court of appeals, fearing it would prejudice a similar trial.

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Show Station Premiere Date
Bertie the Bat Knowledge Network January 1
Puppydog Tales Knowledge Network January 8
The Big Comfy Couch YTV March 2
The Odyssey CBC Television March 3
The Legend of White Fang Family Channel April 1
Witness CBC Television June 8
Road Movies CBC Television June 29
Bob in a Bottle YTV September 8
Fourth Reading TVOntario October
Catwalk YTV October 1
Friday Night! with Ralph Benmergui CBC Television October 30
CBC Prime Time News November 2
North of 60 December 3
The Boys of St. Vincent December 7

Ending this year

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Show Station Cancelled
The Raccoons CBC Television April 11
The Tommy Hunter Show
The Journal October 30
CODCO Unknown
Acting Crazy Global Unknown (returned in 1994)
Kidstreet Global Unknown
The Next Line Global Unknown
Super Dave Global Unknown

Changes of network affiliation

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Show Moved From Moved To
Johnson and Friends Knowledge Network TVOntario
Neon Rider CTV YTV
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends TVOntario
Maya the Bee Family Channel

Television shows

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1960s

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1970s

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1980s

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1990s

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TV movies

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Networks and services

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Network launches

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Network Type Launch date Notes
Television Northern Canada Over-the-air (Northern Canada)
January 21 Headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba, TVNC (now the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, APTN) provides programming by and targeting Indigeonus peoples in Canada. The network is primarily available over-the-air in the territories of northern Canada, Labrador, and far northern Quebec via four full-power stations (CHTY, CHTG, CKCA, and CHWT), plus a series of low-powered rebroadcasters, but would adopt their current name, and become available nationwide on Cable and satellite television seven years later.

Television stations

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Debuts

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Date Market Station Channel Affiliation Notes/References
January 12 Chateh, Alberta CKCA-TV 13 Television Northern Canada [1]
Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador CHTG-TV 12 [2]
Whitehorse, Yukon CHWT-TV 11 [3]
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories CHTY-TV 11 [4]
Unknown Oshawa, Ontario CHEX-TV-2 22 CBC Television Began as a rebroadcaster of CHEX-TV/Peterborough, Ontario

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "CKCA-DT Station History"[permanent dead link]. Canadian Communications Foundation. Retrieved February 12, 2019.
  2. ^ "CHTG-DT Station History"[permanent dead link]. Canadian Communications Foundation. Retrieved February 12, 2019.
  3. ^ "CHWT-DT Station History"[permanent dead link]. Canadian Communications Foundation. Retrieved February 12, 2019.
  4. ^ "CHTY-DT Station History"[permanent dead link]. Canadian Communications Foundation. Retrieved February 12, 2019.
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