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MTV2 is a Canadian English language Category A cable and satellite specialty channel. Similar to its American counterpart, MTV2 is a lifestyle and general entertainment channel aimed at youth and teen audiences. The channel is owned by Bell Media, with the name and branding used under an agreement with the Viacom Media Networks division of Viacom. ==History== On November 24, 2000, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) announced the licensees of the new, much-sought after, Category 1 digital services. Craig Media, in partnership with TD Capital Group Ltd, was granted a licence for a youth lifestyle service known as ''Connect''.〔(CRTC Decision 2000-462 )〕 One of the licence's conditions was that the channel could not devote more than 10% of its schedule to the airing of music videos and music programming, in order to avoid direct competition with MuchMusic, owned at the time by CHUM Limited. Nonetheless, in August 2001, Craig Media announced that it had reached an agreement with MTV Networks to license programming and the MTV brand in Canada for the channel,〔(TV Land, MTV and Craig Broadcast Systems to Launch New Canadian Services in September ); PR Newswire; 2001-08-21〕 prompting a pre-launch name change to MTV Canada. Prior to the channel's launch, Craig purchased TD Capital Group's interest in the channel. The channel launched as MTV Canada on October 18, 2001.〔(Channel Introduction: MTV Canada ) Channel Canada 2002-06-30〕 Shortly afterward, Craig sold a minority interest in the service to MTV Networks. MTV Canada aired a mix of Canadian-produced programs (including ''Pepsi Breakout'' and ''MTV Select''), as well as shows from the American MTV channel (such as ''TRL'' and ''The Real World''). CHUM soon filed complaints with the CRTC, arguing that MTV Canada was violating its conditions of licence, exceeding its limit of 10% music videos, becoming a direct competitor to MuchMusic.〔(Chum complaint "an exercise in turf protection" ) Mediacaster Magazine 2002-02-01〕 Craig was later forced to make changes to reduce its percentage of music video and music-related programming. However, these changes were soon rendered moot as Craig was acquired by CHUM Limited on December 1, 2004,〔(CHUM completes $265 million purchase of Craig Media and financing ) Fasken Martineau〕 prompting MTV Networks to exercise its right, due to a clause in its contract, to terminate the licensing agreement with Craig if a change in control were to occur.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=The Globe and Mail )〕 CHUM was required to pay CAD$10 million in licensing fees to MTV Networks for the time remaining in their contract. The contract termination also meant that MTV Networks was no longer able to retain interest the channels. This did not apply to ''TV Land Canada'' (now known as Comedy Gold), which may indicate that Viacom's sale could also be a result of the company's strained relationships with CHUM Limited; CHUM (with Cablevision's Rainbow Media) previously launched ''MuchMusic USA'' (now known as Fuse) to compete against MTV.〔 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「MTV2 (Canada)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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