Bell and Corus announced Wednesday an expansion of a multi-year agreement that will see Corus’s networks be distributed on Bell Fibe TV and Bell Satellite TV.
The agreement includes Corus’s new channels Flavour and Home through the media company’s StackTV streaming service, which had previously launched on the Bell Fibe TV app.
“Bell is a firm supporter of independent content providers, like Corus, that deliver compelling content that audiences want,” Payal Gabrani-Bahl, Bell’s senior vice president of consumer and small business, said in a press release. “We’re pleased to offer our Bell Fibe and Satellite TV customers the premier lifestyle networks in Canada, Flavour Network and Home Network, as well as a suite of Corus channels to inform, delight and entertain our customers for years to come.”
The Flavour and Home networks, which launched late last year, include Top Chef Canada, Renovation Resort, House Hunters International, Home Town, Chopped, Beat Bobby Flay, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, and Gordon Ramsay’s Food Stars.
“Ensuring Canadians have access to the best content available is our priority and as such Corus is thrilled to continue working with major distributors, like Bell, to bring viewers unparalleled premium Canadian and international programs including through our newest lifestyle brands Flavour Network and Home Network,” Drew Robinson, Corus’s vice president of content distribution, said in the release.
Bell and Corus are also on one side of a fight against Rogers, which wants to move Flavour and Home, as well as Bell’s USA Network and Oxygen True Crime, off their existing channel slots on Rogers TV. Rogers says the reason for the proposed move is because Corus and Bell used to have the rights to American content in those channel slots, which are now owned by Rogers after it scooped up the rights from Warner Bros. Discovery and NBCUniversal this past summer.
Those channel realignments have not been made because they are tied up in appeals.
