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Bravo!
Launched	January 1, 1995
Owned by	CTV Limited (CTVglobemedia)
Country	Canada
Broadcast area	National
Headquarters	Toronto, Ontario
Website	www.bravo.ca
Availability
Satellite
Bell ExpressVu	Channel 620
Star Choice	Channel 523
Cable
Available on most Canadian cable systems	Check local listings

Bravo! is a Canadian English language cable television specialty channel owned by CTV Limited a division of CTVglobemedia. It concentrates on the arts, including; music, ballet, literature, drama, visual arts, modern dance, opera, architecture. Bravo! also features well-known American series such as NYPD Blue, Law & Order and Sex and the City. It originally used the tagline "NewStyleArtsChannel".

The "Bravo" name is used under licence from NBC Universal, which owns the U.S.-based service Bravo (without the exclamation mark). However, aside from the name and the interview series Inside the Actors Studio, there has been essentially no connection between the two channels since 2001, when the American Bravo network (then under the ownership of Cablevision's Rainbow Media) changed its direction away from focusing on performing arts towards a general programming direction. While both channels do air feature films and drama series, most of Bravo (U.S.)'s recent original programs have been reality series which have little to do with the performing arts, many of which are aired in Canada by competing channels.

In the 1980s, C Channel, a Canadian cultural pay-TV (non-commercial) channel, operated from February 1, 1983 till June 30, 1983. It was licensed as a national service. It went into bankruptcy however, when it did not attract enough cable subscribers willing to pay $16/month for the service.

Several years had passed before there would be another Canadian performing arts network on television, until Bravo! was licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) in June 1994 for CHUM Limited. Bravo! went on-air for the first time on January 1, 1995.

On June 22, 2007, CTVgm gained control of Bravo! as a result of a takeover of CHUM Limited.

Between programs, Bravo! often airs specially commissioned short films by Canadian artists, which may range from comedy to drama to opera to jazz to animation. Many of these also air on Citytv's weekly series Bravo!Fact Presents.

• Arts & Minds
• Live at the Rehearsal Hall
• Bathroom Divas
• Bravo!FACT Presents
• Bravo! Videos
• Godiva's
• In the Mind of...
• On Screen
• Page to Screen
• Scanning the Movies
• TaLkin bLuEs
• The Actors
• The Directors
• The Producers
• What a Circus!
• Literature Alive

Bravo! has also produced a number of notable specials, including a telecast of Canadian rock band Spirit of the West's Open Heart Symphony concert with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.

• CRTC Decision 1994-281 - 1994-2000 Original licence
• CRTC Decision 1998-150 - Permission to increase hourly advertising from 8 to 12 minutes maximum.
• CRTC Decision 2001-231 - 2001-2007 Licence Renewal

• Official Bravo! website