Could there be anything more ironic than a national business channel deciding to go out of business? That's what officially happened on Friday, when the CRTC granted a request by CHCH owner Channel Zero to have the national cable station's licence revoked. (There was a time when it was speculated that CHCH would go all Bloomberg all the time, but that didn't happen.)

BTV went on the air in November 2015 but never gained much acceptance. For a while it was a staple of CHCH's daytime filler programming, but they've since replaced all of it. 

The existence of this thing has been completely scrubbed from the ownership's current websites but here's how they described it back in 2016.

"Bloomberg TV Canada delivers the best of Bloomberg’s global markets information, essential Canadian business and financial news, and dynamic lifestyle programming to influential Canadian decision-makers.

"With input from 30 journalists in six news bureaus in major markets across Canada, and access to 2,400 journalists reporting from 150 bureaus in 73 countries worldwide – Bloomberg TV Canada becomes the first business and financial information source for Canadians, providing its audience with a critical edge by connecting them to a vital network of information, people and ideas.

"Bloomberg TV Canada broadcasts from the heart of Toronto’s financial district with studios at Brookfield Place and TSX." 

I'm not sure how many jobs are on the line, since the channel leveraged its far more successful Bloomberg cable resources in the U.S. and some of them were already based here working for the American version.

Interestingly, according to a 2015 article in Greg O'Brien's cartt.ca, Channel Zero had hoped to launch a Canadian radio business format using the Bloomberg resources, but they didn't own any stations and could never get anyone who did to partner with to launch the service.