YTV

YTV (rumoured to stand for "Youth Television" at its founding, though their website denied this) is a Canadian specialty cable channel focusing on animated and live-action programs for school-age children and younger teenagers. Initially launched on September 1, 1988 by Rogers Commmunications, it was leveraged by then-rival Canadian cable producer Shaw between 1995–1998. In 1999, Shaw's media assets were spun off into Corus Entertainment, which owns the channel to this day.

In the late 1990s, YTV co-produced (and served as Canadian primary broadcaster for) the Beast Wars Beasties and Beast Machines cartoons, even maintaining a web page for the former series.

External Links

• Current YTV Website
• A Mid-Season 2 look at the Beasties page, courtesy of the Internet Archive