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Launched	September 4, 2001
Owned by	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Country	Canada
Broadcast area	National
Headquarters	Toronto, Ontario
Replaced	Country Canada (2001-2002) CBC Country Canada (2002-2008)
Website	bold
Availability
Satellite
Bell TV	Channel 641
Shaw Direct	Channel 512
Cable
Available on most Canadian cable systems	Check local listings
IPTV
Available on most IPTV systems	Check local listings

bold is a Canadian English language category 1 digital cable specialty channel owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) that airs a mix of drama, comedy, arts and culture and sports programming.

Contents 1 History 2 Programs 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] History

Licensed as Land and Sea on November 24, 2000 by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) as a joint venture between Corus Entertainment (70%) and the CBC (30%); it was intended as a service dedicated to programs of interest to rural Canadians and their lifestyles. The channel was launched on September 4, 2001 as Country Canada; based on the CBC Television series Country Canada. On November 1, 2002 Corus sold its interest in Country Canada to the CBC and thus changed its logo and its name to CBC Country Canada shortly thereafter.

After the sale, the service began a shift in its programming and continuously promoted itself and its programs as a channel, according to its website, dedicated to "celebrating Canada, its land, people, regions and passions" with less emphasis on rural programming. This shift included an increase in dramatic television series from Canada and Britain that had little to no relation to the rural lifestyle along with amateur sports coverage including alpine skiing, curling, snowboarding, Toronto FC and Canada national team soccer and more. In further continuation with this shift, CBC Country Canada began to no longer promote itself as a rural lifestyle service, rather as a secondary general entertainment service to the CBC.

On March 27, 2008 at 12:01 a.m. EST, CBC Country Canada was rebranded as bold to better reflect the programming direction CBC Country Canada was moving in, and to focus its programming on drama, comedy, the arts and sports rather than an informational service. In scheduling, the CBC would often refer to the channel as CBC Bold.

[edit] Programs

• Bold Concert Series
• CBC Radio 3 Sessions: In Session
• The Comeback
• Funland
• Capital One Grand Slam of Curling on CBC
• Intelligence
• Live From Abbey Road
• The Mind of the Married Man
• MVP
• Respectable
• Sensitive Skin
• Solstrom
• The Tudors

[edit] See also

• List of Canadian television channels

[edit] External links

• bold

v • d • e CBC Television English networks bold • CBC Television • CBC News Network • CBC North • documentary French networks ARTV • RDI • Télévision de Radio-Canada Audio-only channels Galaxie (English/French) Defunct channels CBC Parliamentary Television Network • Newsworld International • Trio Proposed channels CBC-2 • Télé-2