Country | Canada |
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Broadcast area | Nationwide |
Headquarters | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Programming | |
Picture format | 1080i (HDTV) (downscaled to letterboxed 480i for the SDTV feed) |
Ownership | |
Owner | Rogers Sports & Media (Branding licensed from NBCUniversal / Comcast) |
History | |
Launched | September 7, 2001 |
Closed | August 31, 2017 |
Former names | TechTV (2001–04) G4techTV (2004–09) |
G4 was a Canadian English-language specialty television channel owned by Rogers Media. The name was licensed from NBCUniversal, whose parent company Comcast formerly owned a minority stake in the channel. Based on the U.S subscription networks TechTV and G4, the channel was originally focused on technology-themed programming.[1]