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'Documentary Channel' is a Canadian English language category 1 digital cable specialty channel owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), the National Film Board of Canada and four other independent producers. Its programming is devoted to featuring documentary films with select feature length films as well.

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History

Licensed as ''The Canadian Documentary Channel'' on November 24, 2000 by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC); it was launched as ''Documentary Channel'' on September 7, 2001 under the majority ownership of Corus Entertainment along with the current owners.
On May 11, 2006, Corus Entertainment annouced that it would be selling its 53% majority stake in the service to the CBC; bringing the CBC's interest to 82% from its former 29%. Corus decided to sell its interest in the service because it stated it wanted to further focus its attention on youth and womens related programming. On June 22, 2007 the CRTC approved the deal and the transaction was completed.

References and notes

1. The 4 independent producers are: Omni Film Productions Inc., Cinenova Productions Inc., Barna-Alper Productions Inc. and Galafilm Inc.

See also

★ List of documentary channels

External links

★ Documentary Channel website