1992 in Canadian television

This is a list of Canadian television related events from 1992.

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Events

Date	Event
January 8	Puppydog Tales, a British animated series for children narrated by comedienne Victoria Wood starts premiering on Knowledge Network before airing in its homeland, where it will begin airing on September 17 of the same year.
January 26	13th Genie Awards.
	1992 Gemini Awards.
	The documentary miniseries The Valour and the Horror airs on CBC. Canadian veterans' groups criticize it, and an inquiry is launched by the Senate of Canada.
January 29	The British children's television series Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends begins airing on YTV as a stand alone after airing as a segment on its US spin-off series Shining Time Station (which aired since September 3 1991). This was also the first channel to broadcast Thomas in all provinces and territories in Canada and also the first time to do so. The series will also continue to air on YTV until 1994.
March 26	Well respected television journalist Barbara Frum dies after a battle with leukemia. Many media outlets would pay tribute to her in the days following her death.
March 29	Juno Awards of 1994.
August 15	The hit children's supernatural horror drama Are You Afraid of the Dark? premieres on Nickelodeon in the US on the kids cable channel's SNICK block.
October 5	CPAC replaces CBC Parliamentary Television Network as Canada's political channel.
December 7	The controversial docudrama The Boys of St. Vincent airs on CBC Television. The film caused such a scandal it was temporarily banned from airing in Ontario by the court of appeals, fearing it would prejudice a similar trial.

Debuts

Show	Station	Premiere Date
Bertie the Bat	Knowledge Network	January 1
Puppydog Tales	Knowledge Network	January 8
The Big Comfy Couch	YTV	March 2
The Odyssey	CBC Television	March 3
The Legend of White Fang	Family Channel	April 1
Witness	CBC Television	June 8
Road Movies	CBC Television	June 29
Bob in a Bottle	YTV	September 8
Fourth Reading	TVOntario	October
Catwalk	YTV	October 1
Friday Night! with Ralph Benmergui	CBC Television	October 30
CBC Prime Time News		November 2
North of 60		December 3
The Boys of St. Vincent		December 7

Ending this year

Show	Station	Cancelled
The Raccoons	CBC Television	April 11
The Tommy Hunter Show
The Journal		October 30
CODCO		Unknown
Acting Crazy	Global	Unknown (returned in 1994)
Kidstreet	Global	Unknown
The Next Line	Global	Unknown
Super Dave	Global	Unknown

Changes of network affiliation

Show	Moved From	Moved To
Johnson and Friends	Knowledge Network	TVOntario
Neon Rider	CTV	YTV
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends	TVOntario
Maya the Bee	Family Channel

Television shows

1950s

• Country Canada (1954–2007)
• Hockey Night in Canada (1952–present)
• The National (1954–present).
• Front Page Challenge (1957–1995)

1960s

• CTV National News (1961–present)
• Land and Sea (1964–present)
• Man Alive (1967–2000)
• Mr. Dressup (1967–1996)
• The Nature of Things (1960–present, scientific documentary series)
• Question Period (1967–present, news program)
• W-FIVE (1966–present, newsmagazine program)

1970s

• Canada AM (1972–present, news program)
• the fifth estate (1975–present, newsmagazine program)
• Marketplace (1972–present, newsmagazine program)
• 100 Huntley Street (1977–present, religious program)

1980s

• Adrienne Clarkson Presents (1988–1999)
• CityLine (1987–present, news program)
• CODCO (1987–1993)
• Fashion File (1989–2009)
• Fred Penner's Place (1985–1997)
• Good Rockin' Tonite (1989–1992)
• Katts and Dog (1988–1993)
• The Kids in the Hall (1989–1994)
• Just For Laughs (1988–present)
• Midday (1985–2000)
• On the Road Again (1987–2007)
• Road to Avonlea (1989–1996)
• Street Legal (1987–1994)
• Under the Umbrella Tree (1986–1993)
• Venture (1985–2007)
• Video Hits (1984–1993)

1990s

• African Skies (1991–1994)
• Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1990–1996)
• E.N.G. (1990–1994)
• Material World (1990–1993)
• Northwood (1991–1994)
• Neon Rider (1990–1995)
• The Red Green Show (1991–2006)

TV movies

• Timothy Findley: Anatomy of a Writer

Networks and services

Network launches

Network	Type	Launch date	Notes
Television Northern Canada	Over-the-air (Northern Canada)	January 21	Headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba, TVNC (now the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, APTN) provides programming by and targeting Indigeonus peoples in Canada. The network is primarily available over-the-air in the territories of northern Canada, Labrador, and far northern Quebec via four full-power stations (CHTY, CHTG, CKCA, and CHWT), plus a series of low-powered rebroadcasters, but would adopt their current name, and become available nationwide on Cable and satellite television seven years later.

Television stations

Debuts

Date	Market	Station	Channel	Affiliation	Notes/References
January 12	Chateh, Alberta	CKCA-TV	13	Television Northern Canada
	Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador	CHTG-TV	12
	Whitehorse, Yukon	CHWT-TV	11
	Yellowknife, Northwest Territories	CHTY-TV	11
Unknown	Oshawa, Ontario	CHEX-TV-2	22	CBC Television	Began as a rebroadcaster of CHEX-TV/Peterborough, Ontario

See also

• 1992 in Canada
• List of Canadian films of 1992

External links

• List of 1992 Canadian television series at IMDb