The U.S.
Food Network was available in Canada since 1997 and became one of the more popular foreign cable channels available in Canada. This prompted the creation of a Canadian version which would then be able to access ad revenue through commercials under
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) regulations.
Corus Entertainment and
Alliance Atlantis launched the channel on October 9, 2000 at 6:00 a.m. EST. The licence for Food Network Canada was approved by the CRTC in early 2000. The channel was launched in October of that year; on the day of the launch, the U.S. service was removed from the list of foreign channels eligible to be broadcast in Canada. On January 18, 2008, a joint venture between
Canwest and
Goldman Sachs Alternatives known as CW Media bought Alliance Atlantis and gained AAC's interest in Food Network. On October 27, 2010, ownership changed again as
Shaw Communications gained control of Food Network as a result of its acquisition of Canwest and Goldman Sachs' interest in CW Media. A
high definition simulcast launched on October 5, 2011. On March 4, 2013, Corus Entertainment (also controlled by the Shaw family) announced the sale of its 22.58% ownership interest in Food Network to
Shaw Media, in exchange for Shaw's 49% stake in
ABC Spark. The sale closed in April 2013. On April 1, 2016, Shaw Media was subsumed into Corus as part of a corporate reorganization, which reunited Food Network with the active Corus channels. On December 12, 2016, sister brand
Cooking Channel was launched by Corus, using the W Movies license.
Relaunch as Flavour Network On June 7, 2024, Corus announced it had been informed by Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) that the latter would be ending its trademark licensing and program output agreements for some WBD-branded channels at the end of 2024. Three days later,
Rogers Sports & Media announced it had reached an agreement with WBD for Canadian rights to lifestyle brands including Food Network beginning in January 2025. Rogers subsequently announced that it would launch
its own Food Network linear channel on January 1, 2025. Corus stated that it intended to continue operating most of the affected networks under new brands, maintaining their existing original programming while making new content acquisitions to supplant WBD-owned programs. After the changeover, WBD divested its subsidiary stake (through Food Network's operating company, Television Food Network, G.P.) back to Corus. == Programming ==