Travel Channel (Canadian TV channel)

Travel Channel (stylized as Trvl Channel since 2018) is a Canadian English language specialty channel and a localized version of the U.S. channel of the same name owned by Corus Entertainment and Warner Bros. Discovery. The channel is dedicated to programming related to travel and leisure around Canada and throughout the world.

The network's programming draws partially from the U.S. version of the channel, but it also carries original, Canadian-produced series, some of which have in turn also been picked up for broadcast by the U.S. network or others internationally, as well as a smaller selection of travel/leisure-related programming acquired from other channels in the United States or the United Kingdom.

The channel was launched on July 1, 2010 as Global Reality Channel under the ownership of as an offshoot of the. It relaunched as Travel Channel on November 1, 2012.

As Global Reality Channel
Canwest Global Communications, the channel's original owner, first attempted to launch a reality TV-based channel in the mid-2000s when the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) granted Canwest approval to launch Reality TV, a channel "devoted exclusively to reality-based programming." However, the channel did not commence operations within the allotted time limit stated by the CRTC and the licence expired.

Determined to launch the channel, Canwest applied to the CRTC (through a joint subsidiary, Canwest Television Limited Partnership) for another reality TV-based channel also called Reality TV that was approved on October 14, 2009. The channel was described, through its nature of service, as "a national, English-language Category 2 specialty programming service devoted exclusively to reality-based programming, including competition-based reality and do-it-yourself makeover programs."

Before the channel was approved by the CRTC, Canwest filed for creditor protection in early October 2009. In February 2010, Shaw Communications announced it was purchasing Canwest's broadcasting assets.

The channel was launched on July 1, 2010 as "Global Reality Channel". On October 27 that year, Shaw finalized its purchase of Canwest, renaming the company Shaw Media, and took control of Global Reality Channel.

As Travel Channel
At the Shaw Media upfronts on May 30, 2012, Shaw Media announced the 2012 fall schedules of all its terrestrial stations and specialty channels; however, Global Reality Channel was not included in the upfronts. The following day, Shaw announced that a Canadian version of the Travel Channel would launch on November 1, 2012, replacing Global Reality Channel.

The Canadian version of the Travel Channel launched on November 1, 2012. Scripps Networks Interactive subsequently acquired a 19.8% interest in the channel.

On April 1, 2016, Shaw Media was subsumed into Corus as part of a corporate reorganization.