SUN NEWS LIVE

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Sun News Network (commonly shortened to Sun News) is an English language Category C news and opinion channel owned and operated byQuebecor Media through a partnership between two of its subsidiaries, TVA Group (49% ownership) and Sun Media Corporation (51% ownership).The channel launched on April 18, 2011 in standard and high definition^[3] under a Category 2 (later classified as Category
C) licence granted by theCanadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) in November 2010, after the network aborted a highly publicized attempt for a Category 1 licence (later classified as Category A) that would have given it mandatory access on digital cable and satellite providers across Canada.

Sun News is available on a handful of cable and satellite systems across Canada, with Quebecor seeking wider distribution. The channel was previously simulcast on the former CKXT-DT, an over-the-air station based in Toronto (with repeaters in Southern and Eastern Ontario) that aired general entertainment under the "Sun TV" name before simulcasting Sun News from the network's launch date until Fall 2011, when Quebecor surrendered the CKXT licence.The existence of Sun TV prior to Sun News (and the fact a similar on-screen logo was used for the CKXT venture) has resulted in Sun News sometimes being erroneously referred to as "Sun TV".