S4C Canada

S4C Canada is a Canadian Welsh-language discretionary service television channel owned by Bell Media. It is a Canadian version of the Welsh TV channel of the same name.

History
On November 18, 2005, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) granted Bell Media permission to launch a national Category 2 digital specialty channel tentatively known as Wales' Best, a channel described as being "devoted to Welsh programming".

In July 2006, Bell then reached a deal with the Welsh public body S4C Authority, the owners of S4C, to launch Wales' Best as a Canadian version of S4C, known as S4C Canada.

The channel was launched on January 1, 2008 at 7:00 am EST.

On July 1, 2009, English and French-language versions of the channel were launched at 9:00 am EST.

On February 1, 2013, S4C Documentary, S4C Kids and S4C Parliament debuted.

On November 1, 2019, 2 months following the closure of sister channel Comedy Gold (which was shut down on September 1, following that channel's license being acquired by Wow Unlimited Media), Bell Media announced that S4C Canada and it's sister channels would be shut down on March 31, 2020, due to declining viewership.