Cartoon Network (Canada)

Cartoon Network (formerly Teletoon) is a Canadian English-language discretionary specialty channel owned by Corus Entertainment. Operating under a license named after the American cable network of the same name, it primarily broadcasts animated series aimed at children and teenagers. The channel launched on October 17, 1997 as Teletoon (its name being a portmanteau of "television" and "cartoon"), a bilingual service originally owned by Teletoon Canada, Inc., a consortium of Western International Communications and Astral Media (via their specialty channel Family Channel), Shaw Communications (via its specialty channel YTV), and the animation studios Cinar and Nelvana. With subsequent acquisitions and divestments, Corus became the sole owner of the channel in 2014. The channel aired a mix of domestic productions and imported series, with many of the programs coming from the American channel Cartoon Network, while shows from Nickelodeon aired on sister-network YTV until Nickelodeon's Canada channel closed in September 2025, with Corus's rights to Nickelodeon programming expiring at the same time. In 2012, Teletoon launched a Canadian version of Cartoon Network as a sister network under license from Turner Broadcasting System. In February 2023, Corus announced that Teletoon would rebrand as Cartoon Network on March 27, 2023, with the previous Cartoon Network channel concurrently relaunching under Cartoon Network's sister brand Boomerang. Cartoon Network operates two timeshift feeds running on Eastern and Pacific schedules. Along with its French-language counterpart Télétoon, it was available in over 7.3 million households in Canada in November 2013.