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Rogers Television
Type	Subsidiary of Rogers Cable Inc.
Founded	Varies
Headquarters	Ottawa, ON
Key people	Bruce Mathison VP, Television Operations
Industry	Media
Revenue	Non-Profit
Employees	542
Website	www.rogerstelevision.com

Rogers Television is the brand of community channels owned by Rogers Cable, many of which share common programs. Rogers Television broadcasts into the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador and Ontario. Some channels broadcast in both the English and French languages, often on separate channels; see Télévision Rogers for the French version.

The channel was created by the CRTC to allow community's access to television. Historically Rogers Television has been run as a public access local station, where as some stations are still run as public access, most stations are run as community stations where production is done in-house with community involvement, or produced by local production studios that provide their shows to be aired by Rogers Televison.

Rogers Television serves over 2.3 million cable subscribers. Programming on the channels is produced with the assistance of volunteers and community partners and associations, who assist, with the production and content of these programs.

Some programs feature local journalists from radio, print and tv media. The programs are occassionally derivative of mainstream commercial fare with emphasis on the communities the stations are in.

Contents 1 Legal dispute 2 Programming 2.1 National 2.2 New Brunswick 2.3 Newfoundland 2.4 Ontario 3 Trivia 4 Rogers Television stations 4.1 New Brunswick 4.2 Newfoundland and Labrador 4.3 Ontario 5 See also 6 References 7 External links

Rogers Television is being sued for Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms violations and for violating CRTC regulations regarding coverage of candidates in an election.^[1] The case could set a precedent.

This programming was created in response to older CRTC regulations which previously required that cable companies produce local content.^[2] Rogers anually recives applications from the community for new shows, and are reviewed by individual station managers and producers to acess which programs can be produced with given production capibilities, liklyhood of sponsorship, willingness of community involvment, and uniquness of programming as major considerations. And due to CRTC requirements, the majority of the programs are produced in the local region of the station, while others are produced in neighbouring studios.^[3]

• All Rogers Television stations in Newfoundland and Ontario air the movie review series Reel to Real, hosted in Toronto by Richard Crouse and Geoff Pevere.

• New Brunswick systems air Quebec Major Junior Hockey League games, in partnership with EastLink.

• First Local, a soft news show produced in Bathurst, Fredericton, Miramichi, Moncton, and Saint John.

• The local edition of daytime is produced in Saint John.

• On Monday to Wednesday evenings there is an evening talk show in the New Brunswick Market called Trevor Doyle Live.

• Newfoundland systems air home games of the QMJHL's St. John's Fog Devils.

• St. John's-area talk show Out of the Fog.

• In partnership with Rogers property TV Cogeco, Rogers Television in Ontario provides coverage of the Ontario Hockey League

• First Local, a soft news show seen in some Ontario markets.

• The variety show daytime is produced in many Ontario markets.

• 90's comic Tom Green started his career on the Rogers community channel in Ottawa. The Tom Green Show was based in Ottawa between 1993 and 1999.

• Misogynist puppet and former Muchmusic VJ Ed the Sock began on a Rogers station in Toronto.

• Rogers Television in New Brunswick was formerly known as TVNB.

Some programming is also available on the digital Rogers On Demand service.

• Bathurst Channel 10
• Fredericton Channel 10
• Miramichi Channel 10
• Moncton Channel 10
• Saint John Channel 10

• Corner Brook Channel 9
• Gander Channel 9
• Grand Falls-Windsor Channel 9
• St. John's Channel 9

• Brampton Channel 10
• Brantford Channel 20
• Durham Region Channels 10 & 63
• Grey County Channel 53
• Guelph Channel 20
• Kitchener Channel 20
• London Channel 13
• Mississauga Channel 10
• Orangeville Channel 63
• Ottawa Channel 22
• Simcoe County Channels 10 & 53
• St. Thomas Channel 13
• Stratford Channel 20
• Strathroy-Caradoc Channel 13
• Tillsonburg Channel 13
• Toronto Channels 10
• Woodstock Channel 13
• York Region Channels 10 & 63

• Télévision Rogers
• Daytime (variety show)

1. ^ See e.g., website of complainant.
2. ^ See e.g., [http://www.mediacastermagazine.com/issues/PrinterFriendly.asp?story_id=CC116146&id=65381&RType=&PC=&issue=04012002 Cablecaster Magazine]
3. ^ http://www.rogerstelevision.com/option.asp?lid=16&rid=4&tid=11044&ttl=6

• Rogers Television official website
• Rogers' consumer rights website
• Crowe magazine, Barrie's award-winning social justice website