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TVtropolis is a Canadian
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 English language
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 cable television
Cable television

Cable television is a system of providing television to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through fixed optical fibers or coaxial cables as opposed to the over-the-air method used in traditional television broadcasting in which a television antenna is required....
 specialty channel
Specialty channel

A specialty channel is a television channel which consists of programming focused on a single type or targeted at a specific demographic.The number of specialty channels has greatly increased during the 1990s and 2000s while the previously common concept of countries having just a few TV stations addressing all interest groups and demogra...
 owned by Canwest Media Inc. and Rogers Media
Rogers Media

Rogers Media Inc is a subsidiary of Rogers Communications, which owns Canada's largest publishing company, Rogers Publishing Limited, which has more than 70 consumer and business publications....
.

opolis' programming consists of various classic scripted series from the 1980s and 1990s, many of which they are most noted for their sitcoms and comedy programs including Seinfeld
Seinfeld

Seinfeld is an Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning Television in the United States Situation comedy that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, lasting nine seasons, and is now in Broadcast syndication....
 and Frasier
Frasier

Frasier is an American situation comedy broadcast on National Broadcasting Company for eleven seasons, from September 16, 1993 to May 13, 2004....
. It also broadcasts various current game show
Game show

A game show is a type of television program in which members of the public or celebrity, sometimes as part of a team, play a game which involves answering questions or solving problems for money and/or prizes....
s and reality tv
Reality television

Reality television is a genre of television programming which presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors....
 series and television pop culture programs including Inside the Box
Inside the Box

Inside the Box is a game show which debuted in 2006 on the Canadian cable network TVtropolis, hosted by actor/comedian Sam Kalilieh. In the United States, Program Partners, a division of Sony Pictures Television, has been television syndication Inside the Box to local stations since fall 2008, as an optional replacement or companion p...
 and FANatical
FANatical

Fanatical is a Canadian half-hour documentary television series produced by Peace Point Entertainment Group and currently airs on TVtropolis and DejaView....
.

The channel operates two time shifted feeds: East (Eastern Time
North American Eastern Time Zone

The Eastern Time Zone of the Western Hemisphere falls mostly along the east coast of North America and the west coast of South America. Its time offset is -5 hrs GMT or UTC-5 during standard time and UTC-4 during daylight saving time....
) and West (Pacific Time
Pacific Time Zone

The Pacific Time Zone observes standard time by subtracting eight hours from Coordinated Universal Time . The clock time in this zone is based on the mean solar time of the 120th meridian west of the Greenwich Observatory....
).

channel was launched as Prime on October 17, 1997.






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TVtropolis is a Canadian
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 English language
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 cable television
Cable television

Cable television is a system of providing television to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through fixed optical fibers or coaxial cables as opposed to the over-the-air method used in traditional television broadcasting in which a television antenna is required....
 specialty channel
Specialty channel

A specialty channel is a television channel which consists of programming focused on a single type or targeted at a specific demographic.The number of specialty channels has greatly increased during the 1990s and 2000s while the previously common concept of countries having just a few TV stations addressing all interest groups and demogra...
 owned by Canwest Media Inc. and Rogers Media
Rogers Media

Rogers Media Inc is a subsidiary of Rogers Communications, which owns Canada's largest publishing company, Rogers Publishing Limited, which has more than 70 consumer and business publications....
.

Programming

TVtropolis' programming consists of various classic scripted series from the 1980s and 1990s, many of which they are most noted for their sitcoms and comedy programs including Seinfeld
Seinfeld

Seinfeld is an Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning Television in the United States Situation comedy that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, lasting nine seasons, and is now in Broadcast syndication....
 and Frasier
Frasier

Frasier is an American situation comedy broadcast on National Broadcasting Company for eleven seasons, from September 16, 1993 to May 13, 2004....
. It also broadcasts various current game show
Game show

A game show is a type of television program in which members of the public or celebrity, sometimes as part of a team, play a game which involves answering questions or solving problems for money and/or prizes....
s and reality tv
Reality television

Reality television is a genre of television programming which presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors....
 series and television pop culture programs including Inside the Box
Inside the Box

Inside the Box is a game show which debuted in 2006 on the Canadian cable network TVtropolis, hosted by actor/comedian Sam Kalilieh. In the United States, Program Partners, a division of Sony Pictures Television, has been television syndication Inside the Box to local stations since fall 2008, as an optional replacement or companion p...
 and FANatical
FANatical

Fanatical is a Canadian half-hour documentary television series produced by Peace Point Entertainment Group and currently airs on TVtropolis and DejaView....
.

The channel operates two time shifted feeds: East (Eastern Time
North American Eastern Time Zone

The Eastern Time Zone of the Western Hemisphere falls mostly along the east coast of North America and the west coast of South America. Its time offset is -5 hrs GMT or UTC-5 during standard time and UTC-4 during daylight saving time....
) and West (Pacific Time
Pacific Time Zone

The Pacific Time Zone observes standard time by subtracting eight hours from Coordinated Universal Time . The clock time in this zone is based on the mean solar time of the 120th meridian west of the Greenwich Observatory....
).

History

The channel was launched as Prime on October 17, 1997. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) licensed Prime in 1996 as a specialty television service directed mainly towards men and women 50 years of age or older. However, the channel did not explicitly market itself as a channel for the "baby boomer
Baby boomer

Baby boomer is a term used to describe a person who was born during the demographic Post-World War II baby boom. Many analysts now believe that two distinct cultural generations were born during this baby boom; the older generation is often called the Baby Boom Generation and the younger generation is often called Generation Jones....
" generation, preferring instead to position itself as a general entertainment television channel. Prime's slogan, on-air and in advertising, was "Canada's Entertainment Network".

Prime's schedule reflected a mix of general interest television, including home improvement and design series, along with classic television series such as The Golden Girls
The Golden Girls

The Golden Girls is an United States situation comedy that originally aired on NBC from September 14, 1985, to May 9, 1992. Starring Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan and Estelle Getty, the show centers on four older women sharing a Miami, Florida home....
, M*A*S*H
M*A*S*H (TV series)

M*A*S*H is an United States television series developed by Larry Gelbart, adapted from the 1970 in film feature film MASH . The series is a medical drama/black comedy that was produced by 20th Television Fox for CBS....
, All in the Family
All in the Family

All in the Family is an United States situation comedy that was originally broadcast on the CBS television network from January 12, 1971 to April 8, 1979....
, The Cosby Show
The Cosby Show

The Cosby Show is an United States television program situation comedy starring Bill Cosby, first airing on September 20, 1984 and running for eight seasons on the NBC television network, until April 30, 1992....
, and Newhart
Newhart

Newhart is a television situation comedy starring comedian Bob Newhart and actress Mary Frann as an author and his wife who owned and operated a historic inn located in a small Vermont rural town that was populated by eccentric characters....
. It also hosted repeat showings of Global
Global Television Network

Global Television Network is a Canadian English language privately owned television network. It is owned by Canwest Media Inc., a division of Canwest which is headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba....
 and CH series, including The Apprentice, The Restaurant
The Restaurant

The Restaurant was a reality television series that aired on NBC in 2003, with a second season broadcasting in 2004. The series had encore presentations on CNBC and Bravo ....
, The Price Is Right
The Price Is Right

The Price Is Right is an United States television game show that is currently owned by the FremantleMedia subsidiary of the RTL Group. It was originally created by Bob Stewart for Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions in the United States in 1956, and was significantly revamped by them in 1972....
, Entertainment Tonight Canada
Entertainment Tonight Canada

Entertainment Tonight Canada is a Canada entertainment newsmagazine series, launched on September 12, 2005 on Global Television Network. The program is patterned after the United States series Entertainment Tonight, and collaborates closely with its American parent....
, and Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition , is an Emmy Award winning reality television series providing home renovations for deserving families, hosted by Ty Pennington....
.

With the launch of the cable channel DejaView
DejaView

DejaView is a Canada English language Category 2 specialty channel digital cable specialty channel owned by CanWest MediaWorks Inc.; a division of Canwest....
 (also owned by Canwest) showing similar programming to Prime (1960s, 1970s and 1980s programming), the channel's focus shifted to its current format of shows from the late 1980s and beyond. On June 1, 2006, Prime was renamed TVtropolis.

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