Channel Lime

Channel Lime
Channel Lime is a Canadian-pay channel ran by Corus Entertainment. The channel was launched on June 20th, 1999, and is aimed mainly at children and young teenagers between ages 7 and 14. Its programming consists of original first-run television series, theatrical movies, and acquired programming.

As of September 2018, Channel Lime is available to 96.4 million households in Canada.

Development
After launching Treehouse TV on November 1st 1997, Canadian Multi-Mass media group, Corus Entertainment wanted to launch yet another channel in the alliance of YTV and Teletoon. On Janurary 3rd, 1998, the name of the new channel was revealed to be Channel Lime, which was named after Lamese Patterson's Netflix account, FineLime. The "Fine" part has been removed however and was replaced with "The Lime Channel". However, on August 15th 1998, the new channel had it's name changed to Channel Lime. To most executives, this seemed much simpler.

1999-2005
Channel Lime was launched June 20th, 1999 with Majorie Fowler as the channel's head of broadcasting. The first acquired program, SpongeBob SquarePants was the first ever show to premiere on this new Channel. Channel Lime's owners have been signing new partnerships and later added original programming to the new channel. In late 2001, Majorie was fired due to airing a very controversial episode of Arthur, one of Channel Lime's programming. She was now being replaced by Michel Fournier. In late 2003, news had spread about Fowler being found deceased in their apartment in Hollywood Hills.

2005-2009
In Early 2005, Channel Lime went through a rebrand, in which bumpers and idents were done by Little Airplane Productions and Primal Screen, Primal Screen whom at the time was also working on american pay channel, PBS Kids Sprout. In Mid-2005, Channel Lime lost 3 of its preschool oriented programming due to low viewer ratings and higher ratings on sister network, Treehouse TV, and the original networks it came from. These programs were, Dora the Explorer, Barney and Friends, and Caillou. The latter three were moved to sister network Treehouse TV. After that change, the new preschool block, which was later changed into a channel to compete against other canadian preschool channels, Lime Junior was introduced. Lime Junior had aired weekday mornings from 6:00 AM to 12:00 PM. This new block was oriented to ages 18 months to 8 years old. The new block also gained new hosts whom were animated by companies Bunko Studios and Little Airplane Productions. These hosts were, Penelope O' Possum, Junior A. Bear, and Bree the Bird. They had aired simultaneously on Lime Junior until Janurary 2007, when executives came to a final decision that Penelope and Junior and Bree's segments will be aired seperately alternating with each other every week, which later turned into every other month. It is now very rare to find segments that had Penelope and Junior & Bree crossing-over in each other's universes. Some have been found in either HD (HQ) and VHS Quality, thanks to Channel Lime media archivists, and most are in camera-rip quality with sometimes terrible quality which had sometimes been live recordings uploaded years afterwards. On November 1st, 2007, 10 years after the Treehouse channel was launched, Lime Junior was soaring in ratings that the block had shut down and turned into a 24-hour channel. In December, 2008 Michel Fournier had retired from the head broadcasting of the channel and was replaced by Ryan Case. 2 weeks later, news had spread about Fournier's death.

2009-present
On March 1st, 2009, Primal Screen had left the duoship of Little Airplane Productions branding. Primal Screen and Little Airplane's branding duo for Channel Lime's bumpers, promos, and idents were now done by Sesame Workshop, HiT Entertainment, Trace Pictures, Cargo Collective, and Little Airplane Productions. Sesame Workshop, HiT Entertainment, Trace Pictures, Cargo Collective also work on American-pay channel PBS Kids Sprout, Sesame Workshop and HiT Entertainment are also founders of the Sprout channel alongside NBCUniversal (formerly Comcast) and PBS. On June 20th, 2009, the channel had celebrated it's 10th anniversary with the return of some old programming from previous years. 10 years later, on the 20th anniversary in 2019, Channel Lime celebrated with a week of show marathons leading up to the big day, with movies and TV Specials of old and new programming.