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Line 13: === Canada === {{Main\|BBC Kids (Canadian TV channel)}} The BBC Kids brand was first introduced in ~~Candida~~Canada with the launch of the [[BBC Kids (Canadian TV channel)\|BBC Kids]] channel on November 5, 2001. It was described as a specialty television service devoted to educational and entertaining programming for children and youth (ages 2-17). Most of the channel's programming was from the UK.<ref>{{cite web \|date=November 24, 2000 \|title=Decision CRTC 2000-493 \|url=http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2000/DB2000-493.htm \|publisher=[[Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission]]}}</ref> The channel was a [[joint venture]] between [[Alliance Atlantis]] and [[BBC Worldwide]], the BBC's overseas operating arm.<ref>{{cite web \|date=March 9, 2001 \|title=Dates set for BBC Canada and BBC Kids launches \|url=http://www.c21media.net/archives/8590 \|publisher=C21 Media}}</ref><ref>{{cite press release \|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/bbcworldwide/worldwidestories/pressreleases/2002/07_july/annual_results_highlights.shtml \|title=BBC Worldwide Annual Review 2001/2 – Highlights \|publisher=BBC \|date=July 17, 2002}}</ref> Control was eventually transferred to [[Knowledge Network\|Knowledge Network Corporation]], a [[Crown corporations of Canada\|Crown corporation]] of the [[Government of British Columbia]] with BBC Worldwide retaining its existing interest.<ref>{{cite web \|date=January 17, 2011 \|title=BBC Worldwide Partners with Knowledge Network to Operate BBC Kids \|url=http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/issues/story.aspx?aid=1000399678 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120722040823/http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/news/bbc-worldwide-partners-with-knowledge-network-to-operate-bbc-kids/1000399678/ \|archive-date=July 22, 2012 \|access-date=January 17, 2011 \|work=Broadcaster Magazine}}</ref> On October 2, 2018, a joint statement from [[Knowledge Network]] and BBC announced the channel would cease operations at the stroke of midnight on December 31, 2018. The channel's license was revoked by the CRTC on January 10, 2019 at the request of Knowledge.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Government of Canada \|first=Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) \|date=January 10, 2019 \|title=BBC Kids – Revocation of licence \|url=https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2019/2019-5.htm \|website=crtc.gc.ca}}</ref>

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