Mystery TV

Mystery TV
Mystery TV logo
Launched	September 7, 2001
Owned by	Shaw Media
Picture format	480i (SDTV)
Country	Canada
Broadcast area	National
Website	Mystery TV
Availability
Satellite
Bell TV	Channel 638
Shaw Direct	Channel 595
Cable
Available on many Canadian cable systems	Check local listings
IPTV
Bell Aliant TV	Channel 558
Bell Fibe TV	Channel 638
MTS	Channel 243
Optik TV	Channel 180
SaskTel	Channel 85

Mystery TV is a Canadian English language Category A specialty channel which presents movies and television series of the mystery and suspense genres. Mystery TV It was owned by Groupe TVA and Shaw Media until April 25, 2012, when CRTC approved Shaw Media to acquisitive all the right of Mystery TV and its sister channel: The Cave.

History

Mystery TV was licensed as 13^th Street by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) on November 24, 2000 to Canwest (45.05%), Groupe TVA (45.05%) and Rogers Communications (9.9%). Before the channel's launch, both Canwest and Groupe TVA acquired Rogers' shares in the service equally. The channel was launched as Mystery on September 7, 2001. (TVA, Canwest and Rogers also owned the same shares of its French counterpart, Mystère, which would become wholly owned by TVA before launch.)

On October 27, 2010, Shaw Communications completed its acquisition of Canwest, giving it control of Canwest's 50% interest in Mystery TV.^[1]

Original logo (2001–2007)

On December 22, 2011, Groupe TVA announced its intentions to sell its share of The Cave and Mystery TV to Shaw Communications, giving Shaw full control of these two channels.^[2] The deal is approved by the CRTC on April 25, 2012.^[3]

Noted series

• Cold Squad
• Combat Hospital
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
• Haven
• Hawaii Five-0
• Highlander
• House
• Las Vegas
• Law and Order
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
• NCIS
• NCIS: Los Angeles
• Rookie Blue
• Southland
• To Serve and Protect

• Note: series list is current as of April 2012.

References

External links

• Mystery TV
• Original CRTC broadcast decision

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