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Alboma · 2012-03-06, 02:50 AM

This is my first time posting here and hopefully this is the right place. I will also contact my provider Shaw later. It is about Food Network Canada. It's been awhile that they switch the format to mostly competition reality TV, and with very few teaching shows left. Mom feels not happy that she learns nothing from watching those shows. Recipes exist from Food Network web site, but it'll be more enjoyable to watch someone teaching on TV. I feel the same way, so I post my thought on their forum. From there I learn about Cooking Channel, but it's currently not available in Canada. It's like a spinoff of Food Network, but they have more teaching shows. I'm wondering when Canada will have this channel?

classicsat · 2012-03-06, 09:31 AM

Quite some time.

First, the providers have to learn there is such a channel, and there is such a demand for it.

Then they have to seek CRTC approval to include that station in the approved channels list, then the providers have to carry it.

Or one of the media companies (likely Shaw, through their franchise of Scripps channels/content), will apply to make a Cooking channel, and if approvd begin that, and recycle content they already own on it.

Tridus · 2012-03-06, 12:49 PM

A lot of the cooking shows are still around at different times. If you've got access to a PVR, it's worth having it record the shows you want so you can watch them at other times.

timlocke · 2012-03-06, 02:47 PM

It is a shame that they waste a perfectly good prime time house with Iron Chef when they could have some useful shows as Alboma suggests.
the original Japanese Iron Chef was great fun but the current one...not so much.

57 · 2012-03-06, 03:16 PM

I record several cooking shows each week:

Best Recipes Ever - Daily CBC
Jacques Pepin - PBS Saturdays
Lidia - PBS Saturdays
Cooks Country (and its twin on just before or just after) - PBS Saturdays.
Others - PBS Saturdays

The PBS ones may not be on during pledge times, so they may be back in a week or so.

Alboma · 2012-03-06, 03:50 PM

Yeah, I agree that weekday mornings and afternoons are still ok as there are some teaching shows. For evenings it's completely different. There are Iron Chef America, Top Chef Canada, Chopped, etc. which basically cover the time slots. However shows about visiting restaurants and tasting their food are ok to me. I think it's the competition part that got Mom and me slightly annoyed. We do sit down and watch those competition shows sometimes. However we feel we cannot learn how they make the dishes, i.e. no recipe, but to see who are the winners in the end. Good entertainment, but no learning value.

From what I learn it's how it's for Food Network now. Just wish there are more teaching shows like the old days. Let's hope one day Cooking Channel Canada is happening.

tomas · 2012-09-18, 04:44 PM

I find it that there is more and more cooking segments on general talk shows mornings and afternoons on many regular channels not specialty. Seems like this is an easy way to grab viewers into watching something cook.

2012-03-06, 02:50 AM	#1
Alboma Rookie Join Date: Mar 2012 Posts: 3	Cooking Channel? This is my first time posting here and hopefully this is the right place. I will also contact my provider Shaw later. It is about Food Network Canada. It's been awhile that they switch the format to mostly competition reality TV, and with very few teaching shows left. Mom feels not happy that she learns nothing from watching those shows. Recipes exist from Food Network web site, but it'll be more enjoyable to watch someone teaching on TV. I feel the same way, so I post my thought on their forum. From there I learn about Cooking Channel, but it's currently not available in Canada. It's like a spinoff of Food Network, but they have more teaching shows. I'm wondering when Canada will have this channel?

2012-03-06, 03:16 PM	#5
57 Moderator Join Date: May 2002 Location: Toronto, Rogers, 8300HD, eHDD, Panasonic TCP65S1, Denon AVR4310Ci; 8300HD, eHDD & Sony KDL40W3000 Posts: 50,293	I record several cooking shows each week: Best Recipes Ever - Daily CBC Jacques Pepin - PBS Saturdays Lidia - PBS Saturdays Cooks Country (and its twin on just before or just after) - PBS Saturdays. Others - PBS Saturdays The PBS ones may not be on during pledge times, so they may be back in a week or so. __________________ 57's Home Theatre (Latest equipment & photos) 57's Optimization Services (Home Theatre Optimization)

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2012-03-06, 09:31 AM	#2
classicsat Veteran Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Kincardine ON. Posts: 3,941	Quite some time. First, the providers have to learn there is such a channel, and there is such a demand for it. Then they have to seek CRTC approval to include that station in the approved channels list, then the providers have to carry it. Or one of the media companies (likely Shaw, through their franchise of Scripps channels/content), will apply to make a Cooking channel, and if approvd begin that, and recycle content they already own on it.

2012-03-06, 12:49 PM	#3
Tridus Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Fredericton, NB Posts: 564	A lot of the cooking shows are still around at different times. If you've got access to a PVR, it's worth having it record the shows you want so you can watch them at other times.

2012-03-06, 02:47 PM	#4
timlocke Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Guelph Posts: 549	It is a shame that they waste a perfectly good prime time house with Iron Chef when they could have some useful shows as Alboma suggests. the original Japanese Iron Chef was great fun but the current one...not so much.

2012-03-06, 03:50 PM	#6
Alboma Rookie Join Date: Mar 2012 Posts: 3	Yeah, I agree that weekday mornings and afternoons are still ok as there are some teaching shows. For evenings it's completely different. There are Iron Chef America, Top Chef Canada, Chopped, etc. which basically cover the time slots. However shows about visiting restaurants and tasting their food are ok to me. I think it's the competition part that got Mom and me slightly annoyed. We do sit down and watch those competition shows sometimes. However we feel we cannot learn how they make the dishes, i.e. no recipe, but to see who are the winners in the end. Good entertainment, but no learning value. From what I learn it's how it's for Food Network now. Just wish there are more teaching shows like the old days. Let's hope one day Cooking Channel Canada is happening.

2012-09-18, 04:44 PM	#7
tomas Rookie Join Date: Sep 2012 Posts: 6	I find it that there is more and more cooking segments on general talk shows mornings and afternoons on many regular channels not specialty. Seems like this is an easy way to grab viewers into watching something cook.