Since I never watch Food or HGTV, I will ignore these channels also.

Bye Bye Corus! Nobody's going to be watching your clone crap. People will stick with the original.
 

I wonder how this will look at the viewer level. Will HGTV and Food just rebrand at 6AM [seems to be when these things take place] and just maintain dial positions that they have now on BDUs?
Will Rogers versions of these channels be net new and if so where will they go? I am sure in Rogers land, and probably Shaw now there will be some channel swapping or changing out but what about the rest?

I enjoy watching cooking shows from time to time.  I have even watched Rogers long running L'Art Di Cucanare with chef Gianni Ceschia.  The show is in Italian, and I don't speak the lingo but still watch it.  Love Italian cuisine!

The Food Network seems to have too many competition shows, and Bobby Flay is getting tired and is featured too much on the network in my opinion.  Let's see what Flavour Network is all about.  Maybe they will feature more actual cooking shows like the Food Network use to.  The reality cooking competitions are getting a bit boring and too staged.  Flavour Network could also get into a little lifestyle, with healthy cooking, and budget meals.  Something that Food doesn't do. 

Corus definitely has a solid library of their own popular Canadian productions to float their channels for a while. The question would be whether they'd be able to afford to continue creating that content moving forward.

Radiowiz wrote:

RadioAaron wrote:

Corus definitely has a solid library of their own popular Canadian productions to float their channels for a while. The question would be whether they'd be able to afford to continue creating that content moving forward.

Bang on! I think for the short run they will work with what they have and take it from there.

Both of you are correct! This is the current plan / thinking going forward. 

The majority of the library for HGTV and Food Network was successful on the Specialty Channels for their first runs, and many of these titles from the library have been airing on Global for a second window (typically 4 or 5 years later/delayed).

 

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RadioActive wrote:

It's totally baffling to me why anyone would want to watch a station dedicated to cooking and eating, but it's a popular station in North America. I just have no idea why. I cannot think of anything more boring. 

Not boring at all. My wife and I have been watching it regularly (but not exclusively) for years. If you are into food and food preparation, it is both fun and interesting to watch. There are too many reality and competition shows on now, but the actual cooking shows are great and educational to someone who is cooking challenged (me - not my wife).
 

Shorty Wave wrote:

Radiowiz wrote:

Bye Bye Corus! Nobody's going to be watching your clone crap. People will stick with the original.
 

 
Hardly. Rogers isn’t that good at producing original non-scripted programming, have you not watched Citytv or OMNI? They will have to produce a certain amount of programming here in Canada, like all broadcasters and Rogers will really have to up their game if they’re going to attempt to match Corus’ production quality, which I can’t see them doing any time soon, or at all.

Corus doesn’t produce that programming; it’s farmed out to independent production companies. Rogers can use the same teams if they want.

Having said that, Rogers’ focus will be streaming/on-demand, so they won’t need nearly as much original content.

RadioAaron wrote:

Shorty Wave wrote:

Radiowiz wrote:

Bye Bye Corus! Nobody's going to be watching your clone crap. People will stick with the original.
 

 
Hardly. Rogers isn’t that good at producing original non-scripted programming, have you not watched Citytv or OMNI? They will have to produce a certain amount of programming here in Canada, like all broadcasters and Rogers will really have to up their game if they’re going to attempt to match Corus’ production quality, which I can’t see them doing any time soon, or at all.

Corus doesn’t produce that programming; it’s farmed out to independent production companies. Rogers can use the same teams if they want.

Having said that, Rogers’ focus will be streaming/on-demand, so they won’t need nearly as much original content.

 
Actually RadioAaron, you’re partially correct however, the independent production companies deal with a production executive at Corus for each project. These production execs do the initial deal, determine payment and more importantly, they screen the projects and “give notes” to the producers regarding content etc. They used to have quite a few of them for their various streams - lifestyle, children and drama.

Binson Echorec wrote:

I rather like the channel names and can't believe both were available for use.

 
I agree Binson Echorec, they’re to the point and snappy, plus easy to remember!

The new logos:

Leslieville Bill wrote:

Thing is with specialty channels is they have celebrities. People watch the Food Network to see Bobby Flay, Anna Olsen and Ted Allen. It will be tough for Corus's knockoffs to complete.

True, but Corus have their own well known celebrities like Scott McGillivrey, Bryan and Sarah Baeumler, Pamela Anderson, Jonathan and Drew Scott (Property Brothers) and a few more that are very familiar to the audience. Some more detail on the two new networks from Bill Brioux at brioux.tv...https://brioux.tv/blog/2024/09/19/corus-fights-back-with-rebrands-home-and-flavour/ 

That is surprising the Property Brothers don't show up since they had their start with Corus.  But also surprised that Gordon Ramsay will be on the Flavour Network with a couple of new shows.
https://www.corusent.com/media-centre/press-releases/corus-introduces-flavour-network-and-home-network/