Angelo's Media Shack

As we say goodbye to 2024 and say hello to 2025 this week, the 1st part of the big Canadian specialty channel shuffle kicks in today, with the Corus versions of HGTV Canada and Food Network Canada rebranding into the Home Network and the Flavour Network, respectively, while the 2nd part of the big shuffle won't kick in until the start of 2025 (more details on the January 1st, 2025 section to come later.) Here's your Top programs for the week of December 30th, 2024 to January 5th, 2025 (subject to change without notice): CONTINUING UNTIL DECEMBER 31ST, 2024 (NEW YEAR'S EVE): 2024 Spengler Cup from Davos, Switzerland on TSN CONTINUING UNTIL JANUARY 5TH, 2025: 2025 IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship from Ottawa, Ontario on TSN, marathons of your favourite shows and movies on select Bell Media specialty channels, Hollywood Suite free preview on most TV providers Monday December 30th, 2024 TV - 8:15pm ET/5:15pm PT - NFL Monday Night Football (Detroit Lions at San Francisco 49...

As many people around the world celebrate the holidays for the next 2 weeks, we've got a ton of holiday specials to come in the next few weeks, including 5 NBA games & a pair of NFL games on Christmas Day (the latter being broadcast on TSN, CTV, and Netflix), and of course, The 2025 World Junior Hockey Championships from Ottawa & the Spengler Cup from Davos, Switzerland, begin on Boxing Day (December 26th), both of these tournaments are televised on TSN! Here's your Top programs for the week of December 23rd to 29th (subject to change without notice): CONTINUING UNTIL DECEMBER 29TH: Hallmark Channel's Countdown to Christmas on W Network and StackTV CONTINUING UNTIL JANUARY 5TH, 2025: Marathons of your favourite shows & movies on select Bell Media specialty channels and the Hollywood Suite free preview on most TV providers Monday December 23rd TV - 8:15pm ET/5:15pm PT - NFL Monday Night Football (New Orleans Saints at Green Bay Packers, LIVE on TSN1/3 and CTV, si...

With less than 2 weeks until the calendar flips to 2025, there's some big changes to the Canadian specialty channel landscape, and that's because Rogers Sports & Media announced a licensing agreement with Warner Bros. Discovery's factual brands back in June, but some providers won't get the new Rogers channels that have WBD programs, including Bell, and a result, Corus Entertainment and Bell Media announced that some channels that had WBD programs will change names between the end of 2024 and the start of 2025! Here's a breakdown of the changes of these specialty channels that are impacted, by company: Bell Media Discovery Channel becomes USA Network, Investigation Discovery becomes Oxygen, Discovery Science becomes CTV Nature, Discovery Velocity becomes CTV Speed, and Animal Planet becomes CTV Wild, all of which will happen on January 1, 2025. In an unrelated move, MTV Canada will close down for good after December 31, 2024, citing "changing audiences...

We're just over a week to go until Christmas Day, and that means most specialty channels are having TV show & movie marathons throughout the holiday season, including the 4 CTV specialty channels (pictured above), and to coincide with these marathons on the 4 CTV specialty channels, they're having a free preview between December 20th, 2024 and January 5th, 2025, on most TV providers! Here's your Top programs for the week of December 16th to the 22nd (subject to change without notice): CONTINUTING UNTIL THE LAST WEEK OF DECEMBER: Hallmark Channel's Countdown to Christmas on W Network and StackTV Monday December 16th TV - 8pm ET/5pm PT - NFL Monday Night Football (Chicago Bears at Minnesota Vikings on TSN3 and CTV, or Atlanta Falcons at Las Vegas Raiders at 8:30pm ET/5:30pm PT on TSN1/5, with both of these games to stream on DAZN), 8pm/8:30pm NT - Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Movie from 2000, CBC), 8pm/9pm AT - Christmas at the Greenbrier (Movie from...

Sorry for not making a Top program list last week due to my computer failing to sign-in after multiple unexpected shutdowns, but we've got entertaining specials throughout the holiday season, including tonight's movie airing on CBC, the 1990 movie Home Alone at 8pm/8:30pm NT! Here's your Top programs for the week of December 9th to 15th (subject to change without notice): CONTINUING UNTIL THE LAST WEEK OF DECEMBER: Hallmark Channel's Countdown to Christmas on W Network and StackTV Monday December 9th TV - 8:15pm ET/5:15pm PT - NFL Monday Night Football (Cincinnati Bengals at Dallas Cowboys, LIVE on TSN1/3 and CTV2, simulcast from ABC), 8pm ET/PT, 7pm CT, 9pm AT/MT - The Voice (1st part of a LIVE season 26 finale, CTV, simulcast from NBC, also streaming the next day on Crave), 8pm/8:30pm NT - Home Alone (Movie from 1990, CBC), 8pm ET/PT, 7pm CT, 9pm MT - Fixing Up Christmas (Movie from 2021, Citytv), 9pm ET/PT - Outlander (NEW EPISODE, W Network, also streaming on StackT...