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Teletoon Retro is a defunct Canadian English-language Category B specialty channel owned by Corus Entertainment. A sister network to Teletoon, it specialized in broadcasting classic animated television programs. Along with Télétoon Rétro, it was available in over 9 million Canadian households as of 2013; together they had the most subscribers among the digital Canadian specialty channels. Teletoon Retro was shut down on September 1, 2015, with Cartoon Network inheriting the network's channel allotments and CRTC license. ==History== Teletoon Retro began as a programming block on Teletoon. On November 24, 2000, Teletoon Canada was given approval by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to launch a national English language category 2 specialty channel named Teletoon Retro.〔(Decision CRTC 2000-697 ); CRTC; 2000-12-14〕 The channel never made it to air. Plans to launch the channel arose again in 2005, when on October 25, Teletoon Canada was given approval again to launch Teletoon Retro.〔(Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2005-511 ); CRTC; 2005-10-25〕 The channel was launched at 6:00 PM EST on October 1, 2007 with its first program being ''The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show''. To coincide with the channel's launch, Teletoon briefly relaunched the ''Retro'' programming block.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=TELETOON Launches New Digital Channel "TELETOON Retro" )〕 A French language counterpart, titled Télétoon Rétro, which had been given approval to be launched at the same time as Teletoon Retro, was launched on September 4, 2008.〔(Teletoon Retro launches for francophones ); Media In Canada; 2008-06-12〕 On March 4, 2013, Corus Entertainment announced that it would acquire Astral Media's 50% ownership interest in Teletoon Canada (owner of Teletoon, Télétoon, Teletoon Retro, Télétoon Rétro, and Cartoon Network). The purchase was in relation to Bell Media's pending takeover of Astral (which had earlier been rejected by the CRTC in October 2012, but was restructured to allow the sale of certain Astral Media properties in order to allow the purchase to clear regulatory hurdles).〔(BCE to sell assets to Corus as part of Astral deal ), ''The Globe and Mail'' (via Reuters and The Canadian Press), March 4, 2013.〕 Corus's purchase was cleared by the Competition Bureau two weeks later on March 18. On December 20, 2013, the CRTC approved Corus's full ownership of Teletoon Canada and it was purchased by Corus on January 1, 2014. The channel continues to be owned by Teletoon Canada, now wholly owned by Corus Entertainment under its Corus Kids division. On March 1, 2014, a high definition simulcast of the Teletoon Retro was launched. It was only available on Cogeco and Bell Fibe TV. In August 2015, Teletoon Retro's website announced that the channel would be shut down effective September 1, 2015; some of its programming was moved to the main Teletoon network. While not a direct replacement on some television providers, Teletoon Retro was replaced by either Disney Channel〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.vmedia.ca/blog/changes-kids-channels/ )〕 or Cartoon Network. The transition was legally structured so that Cartoon Network would cease to exist as a separately-licensed service as of September 1, 2015, and henceforth operate under Teletoon Retro's category B license instead.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2015/2015-451.htm )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.crtc.gc.ca/ownership/eng/cht032b.pdf )〕 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「Teletoon Retro」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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