Cooking Channel (Canadian TV channel)

Cooking Channel

Country	Canada
Broadcast area	Nationwide
Headquarters	Toronto, Ontario
Programming
Language(s)	English
Picture format	1080i HDTV (downscaled to letterboxed 480i for the SDTV feed)
Ownership
Owner	Corus Entertainment (80.2%) Warner Bros. Discovery (19.8%)
Sister channels	ABC Spark Adult Swim CMT DTour Food Network (soon to be Flavour Network) HGTV (soon to be Home Network) Lifetime Magnolia Network OWN (2016-2024) Slice W Network
History
Launched	September 7, 2001; 23 years ago (2001-09-07)
Closed	December 31, 2024; 2 days' time (December 31, 2024)
Former names	SexTV: The Channel (2001–2010) W Movies (2010–2016)
Links
Website	cookingchannel.ca

Cooking Channel is a soon-to-be-defunct Canadian English language discretionary specialty channel majority-owned by Corus Entertainment. Dedicated to programming related to food and cooking, it serves as a spin-off of Food Network.

The channel was launched in 2001 as SexTV: The Channel under the ownership of CHUM Limited named after the program of the same name aired on Citytv. The channel was acquired in 2006 when Bell Globemedia acquired the assets of CHUM which was completed in 2007 while the Citytv stations were sold to Rogers Media. Corus acquired the channel in 2010 and relaunched it as W Movies, a spin-off of W Network focused on films targeting women. On December 12, 2016, the channel relaunched under its final name; following the relaunch, Scripps Networks Interactive took a minority interest in the channel.

The channel will be discontinued on all TV providers nationwide at 12:00 a.m. Eastern time on January 1, 2025, due to Rogers Sports & Media taking over the Canadian rights to all Warner Bros. Discovery lifestyle and factual networks beginning that same day.