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CBC
The CBC (The Canadian Broadcasting Company) is a public broadcaster controlled by the Canadian government and funded by the commercial interest of other Canadian companies. The corporation was launched in 1929 as radio broadcaster ment to combat the influence of American radio stations and launched it's first television stations in 1958. In 1987, the CBC launched Hodge Podge Lodge: a television block targeted towards children. Hodge Podge Lodge went through four rebrands, with the latest being CBC Kids in 2017. The CBC broadcasts also reaches some Caribbean nations and neighboring U.S. states.
Programming on the CBC are mostly natively Canadian, including it's animated series. Since the companies are Canadian based, content owned by Cookie Jar Entertainment and 9 Story Media Group also commonly aired on it's networks. Rights to air Arthur were given to the CBC, originally by Cookie Jar. Arthur aired on the network from 1998 to 2021.[1]
Arthur began airing on CBC's child programming block in 1998, [2]four years after the block rebranded to CBC Playground. The CBC aired seasons 1 - 3 and were later provided with new seasons annually by Cookie Jar Entertainment, who held distribution rights to the show until 2012. Airing rights for the CBC would then be renewed by 9 Story Media Group from 2013 to 2021, who continued the tradition of airing new Arthur episodes yearly. Arthur was dropped from the CBC Kids line-up by 2022, following the cancellation of the show by PBS.
Seasons aired[edit]
- Seasons 1 - 24 (1998 - 2021)
Trivia[edit]
- Arthur is the longest running children's series to air on CBC as of 2025.
- Arthur also aired on Children's BBC, TVO Kids, TeleNinos and Telebimbi, which are all also television networks that operate on Canadian territory.
- Unlike PBS in the U.S., The CBC networks are not free OTA channels and require a cable subscription in order for them to be accessed.
- CBC also aired commercials in-between programming.
- Since the "A Word From Us Kids" segment is exclusive to U.S. and PBS releases, it is not present in CBC airings.
- CBC's news division released a news report on "Mr Ratburn and rhe Special Someone" in 2019, amid the controversy the episode was getting for it's inclusion of a gay wedding.[3]
- Similar to the PBS Kids Video App in the U.S., CBC Kids had an online live video player for it's children's series. The video player page for Arthur was removed around 2022.
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