- This is about the defunct television system owned by Baton Broadcasting. For the history of Baton Broadcasting itself, see Bell Media.
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| Type | Defunct broadcast television system |
|---|---|
| Country | Canada |
| Availability | Semi-national; urban areas of Ontario and Saskatchewan |
| Headquarters | Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Owner | Baton Broadcasting |
Launch date | October 1994 (merger of STN and ONT) |
| Dissolved | January 1998 (merged into CTV) |
| Affiliation(s) | CTV Television Network |
The Baton Broadcast System[1] (/ˈbeɪtɒn/ BAY-ton), also known as BBS, was a Canadian system of television stations located in Ontario and Saskatchewan, owned by Baton Broadcasting. BBS was the successor to two provincial systems also owned by Baton, the Saskatchewan Television Network (STN) and Ontario Network Television (ONT).
During the 1990s, BBS and its predecessors served as a complementary programming service to the CTV Television Network, to which most (but not all) of the system's stations were already affiliated. Shortly after Baton's acquisition of CTV in 1997 and the contemporaneous sale of Baton's independent stations (later re-acquired by Bell and currently part of the parallel CTV 2 system), the BBS brand was eliminated, and the system's operations were merged into the CTV network.