BNN Bloomberg
Canadian television channel
BNN Bloomberg is a Canadian English-language discretionary specialty channel owned by Bell Media with the name licensed from Bloomberg L.P. It broadcasts programming related to business and financial news and analysis. The channel is headquartered at 299 Queen Street West in Downtown Toronto.
BNN was established on September 1, 1999, as Report on Business Television (RoBTV) under a joint venture of Thomson Corporation, the owners of The Globe and Mail newspaper, Western International Communications, and Cancom. Canwest, the owners of Global Television Network, acquired WIC in 2000, while Thomson transferred the shares of its channel to Bell Globemedia, where it has been solely owned since 2001. The channel was rebranded to Business News Network in 2007, which allowed The Globe and Mail to regain exclusive rights to the Report on Business brand. After Thomson Corporation reacquired the Globe paper and Bell Canada regained control of CTVglobemedia (the former Bell Globemedia) in 2011, where it became Bell Media, the channel was relaunched on April 30, 2018, under its current name, under a partnership with U.S. business channel Bloomberg Television.
In addition to BNN producing a large portion of its business day programming in-house, much of the channel's programming was also simulcasted on radio, branded as BNN Bloomberg Radio, formerly by CKOC in Hamilton and CFTE in Vancouver.
As a former Category A service, BNN Bloomberg was required to be carried on the basic service of all digital cable providers across Canada. The channel was, and still is, typically offered optionally at the discretion of providers.
History
As Report on Business Television (RoBTV)
The network was licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) in 1996 to a joint venture of Thomson Corporation (50%), Western International Communications (25%), and Cancom (25%).
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