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Fashion Television (officially named Fashion Television Channel) is a Canadian English language Category A specialty channel owned by Bell Media. The channel broadcasts programming related to fashion, modelling, photography, art, architecture and design. The channel is fashioned after the CHUM Television original program, ''FashionTelevision''. ==History== In November 24, 2000, CHUM Limited was granted approval by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to launch ''Fashion Television: The Channel'', described as "a national English-language specialty television service dedicated to fashion, beauty, style, art, architecture, photography and design."〔(Decision CRTC 2000-452 ) CRTC 2000-12-14〕 The channel was launched on September 7, 2001 as ''FashionTelevisionChannel''.〔(The history of CHUM ) Globe and Mail article 2006-06-12〕 In July 2006, Bell Globemedia (later called CTVglobemedia) announced that it would purchase CHUM for an estimated $1.7 billion CAD.〔(Bell Globemedia acquires CHUM ); Fasken Martineau; 2006-07-12〕 The sale was approved by the CRTC in June 2007,〔(Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2007-165 ); CRTC; 2007-06-08〕 and the transaction was completed on June 22, 2007 with the Citytv stations were being sold to Rogers Media on October 31, 2007. BCE (a minority shareholder in CTVglobemedia) announced on September 10, 2010, that it planned to re-acquire 100% interest in CTVglobemedia for a total debt and equity transaction cost of $3.2 billion CAD. The deal which required CRTC approval, was approved on March 7, 2011〔(CRTC approves BCE's purchase of CTVglobemedia )〕 and closed on April 1 of that year, at which time CTVglobemedia was renamed Bell Media.〔(Bell completes acquisition of CTV, launches Bell Media business unit ) CNW 2011-04-01〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fashion Television (TV channel)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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