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G4 FUN FACT:
Before [adult swim] had a presence in Canada (first as a block, then as a channel), [as] programs aired on several Canadian channels, G4 Canada included.
Shows like ATHF and Metalocalypse aired on there as part of the Adult Digital Distraction block, along with...
Before [adult swim] had a presence in Canada (first as a block, then as a channel), [as] programs aired on several Canadian channels, G4 Canada included.
Shows like ATHF and Metalocalypse aired on there as part of the Adult Digital Distraction block, along with...
...the U.S. version of The Office and Web Soup. The block launched on June 9th, 2009, but was shut down in Fall 2011 for the first of two times, after all references of it were taken off the G4 Canada website, due to pressure from the CRTC during the channel's...
license renewal that July. The CRTC stated that G4's "programming is not in compliance with its nature of service definition" and that it detail measures "to ensure that the service is in compliance with its nature of service", referencing how the ADd block...
...and its shows are a complete 180 from the channel's original nature of service as a channel devoted to technology, starting when it was launched as TechTV Canada in 2001 and lasting all the way through its death in August 2017, ergo the reason why viewers saw decade-old...
reruns of Call for Help and The Lab with Leo Laporte on the schedule by that point that may reference out-of-date tech, akin to how 2012 X-Play episodes still aired on the American G4's daily schedule in the daytime hours from April 2013 until New Year's Eve 2014.
But we're getting off track.
The ADd block relaunched in April 2012, airing shows like Eagleheart, Squidbillies and NTSF:SD:SUV::, until the block was shut down AGAIN later that November, leading those shows to be moved to Teletoon at Night...
The ADd block relaunched in April 2012, airing shows like Eagleheart, Squidbillies and NTSF:SD:SUV::, until the block was shut down AGAIN later that November, leading those shows to be moved to Teletoon at Night...
...the [adult swim] block on the Canadian Cartoon Network, and eventually the current Canadian [adult swim] channel.
