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Canadian G4 Channel Stops Broadcast in September
posted on by Rai Kelly
Television provider Shaw announced on June 30 that the Canadian G4 television channel will stop broadcasting on September 1. Rogers Cable, another television provider, has confirmed on Twitter that the channel is shutting down.
According to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), the channel lost 35% of its subscribers in 2015.
The American G4 channel was also shut down at the end of 2014. Originally, NBCUniversal was going to rebrand the channel as Esquire, an upscale men's network, but the Style Network was rebranded instead.
The channel launched in 2002. G4 previously ran anime programming such as Ultraviolet: Code 044; Viper's Creed; the Iron Man, Wolverine, X-Men, and Blade anime adaptations; RahXephon; Cromartie High School; and Colorful.
[Via I Miss Bionix]
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