Bell Media LLC history

On December 7th 2000, the CRTC approved the acquisition of CTV Inc by a numbered company wholly-owned by BCE Inc.

Launched in Canada in 2001, Animal Planet programming offers an immersive and compelling journey into the animal world.

Launched in January 2004, RDS Info is an RDS speciality channel airing 24/7 and exclusively dedicated to sports.

"When it announced its Astral-Bell hearings on July 10", said BCE, "the CRTC said it would follow the Diversity of Voices policy, issued by the commission in 2008 to guide the evaluation of broadcasting acquisitions.

Since its launch in 2011 in the United States at the inaugural iHeartRadio Music Festival, iHeartRadio had grown to be a leading digital service in the United States and had achieved 80 percent brand awareness.

After a series of CRTC hearings under the umbrella title "Let's Talk TV", the Commission on January 29th 2015 reaffirmed its support for the continued implementation of simultaneous substitution of US programs when the same program was being broadcast by a Canadian rights-holder.

A further condition of the approval being granted was that BCE would be obliged to keep the current 30 CTV network television stations in operation until at least 2017.

On December 19, 2019, the Supreme Court of Canada struck down the CRTC Order (and related Decision) that disallowed simultaneous substitution of the NFL’s annual Super Bowl game, saying that it was not authorized under s.