None of the service providers have any control over what broadcasters decide to do with their channels and content. You can change what channels you subscribe to though.
Several months ago Rogers made an agreement with Warner Brothers and NBCUniversal for the Canadian distribution rights to several brands including Discovery, Food Network and HGTV.
From this agreement, Corus loses the rights to use HGTV and Food Network names, so they are rebranding them to Home Network and Flavour Network, which should simply replace the existing channels. Rogers retains the rights to the American content from those networks so only the Canadian content will make it on to the replacement networks.
Bell is going to be rebranding several channels:
- Discovery will be rebranded to USA Network
- Investigation Discovery will rebrand as Oxygen True Crime
- Animal Planet becomes CTV Wild
- Discovery Science becomes CTV Nature
- Discovery Velocity becomes CTV Speed
- Bell Media will no longer be offering the MTV Canada channel after December 31, 2024.
Magnolia Network, and Cooking Channel Canada are scheduled to shut down at the end of this year. Rogers hasn't made any official announcements on whether or not any of the content from those channels will be available on the other channels or platforms that they own.
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