Pokémon in Canada
| YTV | |||
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| Headquarters | File:FlagCanada.PNG Canada | ||
| Launched | September 1, 1988 | ||
| Owned By | Corus Entertainment | ||
YTV is a TV channel owned by Corus Entertainment available nationally in Canada which launched September 1st, 1988. Its headquarters are in Toronto, Ontario. YTV is thought by many to stand for "Youth Television", due to the fact that its original slogan was "The Youth Channel". When asked about this, the channel states "Actually, it's just three letters! Really! Some folks think it means Youth Television, but that's just a coincidence; we just thought the letters looked good together!"
It is the Canadian broadcaster of the Pokémon anime. The channel has aired the anime since September 1998, from the first episode. Also, some movies get aired on weekends during "Moovibot" (formerly "3 Hairy Thumbs Up").
Pokémon schedule
As of September 7, 2009, YTV airs the Pokémon anime 6 times per week. YTV is currently airing Pokémon Diamond & Pearl: Battle Dimension.[1]
| Time (EST) | Day |
|---|---|
| 8:00 AM | Monday |
| 8:00 AM | Tuesday |
| 8:00 AM | Wednesday |
| 8:00 AM | Thursday |
| 8:00 AM | Friday |
| 11:00 AM | Saturday |
History with the anime
When Pokémon debuted in the US, it also debuted on YTV, airing weekdays at 4:00pm Monday - Friday. When The Adventures in the Orange Islands debuted in the US, YTV continued to air Indigo League episodes until EP110 came out. From this point on, YTV aired new episodes every Saturday at noon. Starting with the debut of Following A Maiden's Voyage on Monday, April 7, 2008, Pokémon began to air at 3:30pm Monday-Friday. This continued, and gradually the weekday episodes surpassed the timeline of the Saturday episodes. Canada then got five new episodes per week. The episode that made the weekday afternoon episodes, excluding the Saturday ones, was Buizel Your Way out of This!. Season 10 also airs at 11:30 AM on Saturdays.
On Wednesday, June 18th, 2008, the schedule was changed yet again. The first season of the Diamond & Pearl series had concluded on Tuesday, meaning that Pokémon Diamond & Pearl: Battle Dimension should have started on the 18th. However, this did not happen due to YTV's policy of not airing new seasons until most of the episodes have been dubbed, so YTV instead reran the Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl series again beginning with Following A Maiden's Voyage. Pokémon Diamond & Pearl: Battle Dimension briefly appeared for three weeks, airing on Fridays at 8:00 AM, starting November 7, 2008. At one point, YTV was consistently changing their schedule around from Battle Frontier and Diamond and Pearl at the times of 3:30 PM EST and 8:00 AM EST. On Monday, March 2, 2009, YTV officially started to air Battle Dimension and only aired Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl episodes on Saturdays. On Wednesday, June 3, 2009, YTV aired the last episode of Pokémon Diamond & Pearl: Battle Dimension. Currently, the anime only airs on weekdays at 8:00 AM and Saturdays at 11:00am. Both of these time slots are reruns of the Battle Dimension series, adhering to YTV's episode policy. On Saturday, October 10, 2009, YTV aired episodes of Pokémon Diamond & Pearl: Galactic Battles. On the same day, they aired Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time & Darkness at 12:00 PM, and also Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky - Beyond Time & Darkness at 12:30 PM (just one day after the US airing).
YTV On Demand
In 2005, YTV launched an on demand anime channel simply named YTV Anime On Demand. The channel contains new and old programs, including series that do not air on the normal YTV. The Pokémon anime was also available on this service.
In 2008, YTV renamed its on demand service to Bionix On Demand, which still offers Pokémon in their line-up today.
Trivia
- YTV has never banned an episode of the Pokémon anime, except those banned in Japan.
- A recent Pokémon commercial that aired on YTV featured haikus, meaning YTV is probably aware of the Japanese Diamond and Pearl segment, the Pokémon senryū.
- YTV refrains from airing new episodes until there is a sufficient ammount of episodes to air new episodes (to Canadians) five days a week until the end of the season.
- If YTV gets to the last episode of the season and there is not enough episodes released for the next season, YTV will repeat the current season that they are on from the first episode.
See also
- ↑ For the latest up-to-date Pokémon listings for YTV, see YTV's Pokémon show times list
