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{{short description|Canadian television system}}
{{About|the defunct Canadian television system|the station currently broadcasting as Joytv|CHNU-DT}}
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{{Infobox television channel
| name = Joytv
| logo = [[Image:Joytvlogo.svg|200px|Joytv logo]]
| country = [[Canada]]
| type = [[Terrestrial television|Broadcast]] [[television system]]
| owner = [[ZoomerMedia]]
| launch_date = September 1, 2008
| closed_date = August 2013
| website = {{URL|https://www.joytv.ca/}}
}}

'''Joytv''' was a [[Television in Canada|Canadian]] television brand owned by [[ZoomerMedia]]. Joytv was formerly a [[television system]] formed in September 2008, comprising two religious independent stations acquired from [[Rogers Media]] by [[S-VOX]]. The stations carried a mixture of multi-faith religious programming, as well as secular, family-oriented entertainment programming.

Joytv was dismantled as a television system in August 2013 by the re-launch of its Winnipeg station, [[CIIT-TV]], as "Hope TV"—a traditional religious station with no secular programming. The Joytv brand and format is still used by sister station [[CHNU-TV]] in [[Fraser Valley Regional District|Fraser Valley]]/[[Vancouver, British Columbia]].

==History==
The Joytv system launched on September 1, 2008, and consisted of two existing television stations, [[CHNU-DT|CHNU-TV]] in [[Fraser Valley Regional District|Fraser Valley, British Columbia]] (also serving [[Vancouver]]) and [[CIIT-DT|CIIT-TV]] in [[Winnipeg, Manitoba]]. Both stations were acquired by S-VOX from [[Rogers Media]] in April 2008.

The stations had previously been branded as part of Rogers' [[Omni Television]] system prior to their purchase by S-VOX. Rogers rebranded CHNU as '''CHNU 10''' in the fall of 2007, because the company's contemporaneous purchase of the multilingual station [[CHNM-DT|CHNM-TV]] meant that the Omni brand would eventually be moved to that station, but retained the Omni brand on CIIT. After the S-VOX purchase was finalized in the summer of 2008, CIIT was briefly rebranded as "CIIT 11" until the Joytv launch.

In June 2009, S-VOX announced it would sell its broadcasting assets, including Joytv, to [[ZoomerMedia]], a company controlled by [[Moses Znaimer]].<ref>[http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/June2009/15/c6600.html VisionTV Board agrees to ZoomerMedia purchase of television properties], VisionTV press release, June 15, 2009</ref> The sale was approved by the [[Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission|CRTC]] on March 30, 2010.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2010/2010-193.htm|title=ARCHIVED - Vision TV - Acquisition of assets - CHNU-TV Fraser Valley and CIIT-TV Winnipeg - Change in effective control - ONE: The Body, Mind and Spirit Channel - Change in effective control Classical Digital, CFZM, CFMZ-FM, CFMZ-DR-1 Toronto, and CFMX-FM Cobourg - Corporate reorganization|date=March 30, 2010}}</ref> ZoomerMedia assumed control of the Joytv system on June 30, 2010.<ref>[http://www.marketwatch.com/story/zoomermedia-limited-completes-acquisitions-and-financing-2010-06-30?reflink=MW_news_stmp ZoomerMedia Limited Completes Acquisitions and Financing]</ref>

The system was dismantled in late August 2013 when CIIT was rebranded as "Hope TV" and all secular programming was dropped from the schedule. The Joytv brand continues to exist on CHNU Vancouver.

==Programming==
{{Main|List of programs broadcast by Joytv}}

==Television stations==
{| class="wikitable unsortable"
!City of licence/market
!Station
!Channel<br>''[[Virtual channel|TV]] ([[Digital terrestrial television|RF]])''
!Notes
|- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"
|-
| [[Fraser Valley]], [[British Columbia]]<br>(serves [[Vancouver]], [[Victoria, British Columbia|Victoria]], [[Penticton]] and [[Kelowna]]).
|| [[CHNU-DT]] || 66.1 (47)||
|-
| [[Winnipeg, Manitoba]] || [[CIIT-DT]] || 35.1 (35)||Until August 2013, now "Hope TV"
|-
|}

==See also==
*[[Yes TV]], a Christian-based religious television system with similarly styled religious and secular programming, with affiliates in the provinces of Ontario and Alberta

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Official website|https://www.joytv.ca/}}

{{Canadian broadcast television}}
{{Religious television in Canada}}

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[[Category:2013 disestablishments in Canada]]
[[Category:Canadian television systems]]
[[Category:Christian mass media in Canada]]
[[Category:Defunct television networks in Canada]]
[[Category:Religious television networks in Canada]]
[[Category:Television channels and stations established in 2008]]
[[Category:Television channels and stations disestablished in 2013]]
[[Category:ZoomerMedia]]


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