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HGTV (Home & Garden Television) is a Canadian English language Category A cable and satellite specialty channel that is owned as a joint venture between Shaw Media (which serves as managing partner and owns 80.24% majority control through licensee HGTV Canada, Inc.) and Scripps Networks Interactive (which owns the remaining 19.76%). HGTV broadcasts programs regarding real estate, home and garden design, and renovations. HGTV broadcasts both original Canadian productions and licensed content from other broadcasters. The majority of licensed content is sourced from the flagship HGTV cable channel in the United States (which is wholly owned by the Canadian service's part-owner, Scripps Networks Interactive); however, it also carries programming from other sources such as DIY Network and the BBC. ==History== In September 1996, Your Channel Television Inc., a company majority owned by Atlantis Communications with minority partner E. W. Scripps Company, was granted a television broadcasting licence by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) for a channel called ''HGTV-TV Canada'', described at the time as broadcasting "programming that presents practical, hands-on advice and instruction about homes and gardens. The programming will revolve around five key themes: building and remodelling, decorating and interior design, gardening and landscaping, crafts and hobbies and special interests."〔(Decision CRTC 96-607 ) CRTC 1996-09-04〕 The channel was launched as HGTV on October 17, 1997.〔(Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc. Reports Increased Revenues And Gross Profit for Third Quarter Ended December 31, 1998 ) Alliance Atlantis Communications press release 1998-02-24〕 In June 1998,〔(Merger creates film, TV giant ) Toronto Star 1998-07-22〕 Atlantis Communications announced that it planned to merge with Alliance Communications, another fellow television and film producer and broadcaster, owners of History Television and Showcase at the time,〔(Decision CRTC 99-106 ) 1999-05-20〕 to form a new company called Alliance Atlantis Communications. The CRTC approved the merger in May 1999.〔 On January 18, 2008,〔(Canwest Global receives final CRTC approval for acquisition of Alliance Atlantis ) CNW press release 2008-01-18〕 a joint venture between Canwest and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners known as CW Media〔(Goldman's happy ending at CanWest ) The Globe and Mail 2010-05-03〕 acquired control of HGTV through its purchase of Alliance Atlantis' broadcasting assets, which were placed in a trust in August 2007.〔(CanWest Completes Acquisition of Alliance Atlantis ) Investor Point 2007-08-15〕 On October 27, 2010, the channel's ownership changed again as Shaw Communications gained control of HGTV as a result of its acquisition of Canwest and Goldman Sachs' interest in CW Media.〔(Shaw Communications closes purchase of Canwest TV assets, rebrands as Shaw Media )〕〔(CRTC approves Shaw’s purchase of the Canwest Global television properties )〕 On July 23, 2012, HGTV introduced a new logo similar in resemblance to the one used by its American counterpart since 2010. 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「HGTV (Canada)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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