september 7 2001 owned by stingray digital picture format 480i sdtv country canada broadcast area national headquarters toronto ontario formerly called muchloud 2001 2016 sister channel s stingray vibe stingray retro stingray juicebox website loud.stingray.com availability satellite shaw direct channel 227 586 cable available on many canadian cable systems check local listings iptv mts channel 313 optik tv channel 253 sasktel channel 152 stingray loud is a canadian english language category b specialty channel owned by stingray digital . the channel broadcasts rock modern rock alternative punk and heavy metal music programming primarily in the form of music videos with other programming including concerts and interviews . history edit logo used from 2001 to 2012 . logo used from 2012 to 2016 . in november 2000 chum limited was granted approval from the canadian radio television and telecommunications commission crtc to launch muchloud described as a national english language category 2 music video specialty television service dedicated exclusively to alternative hard rock metal and punk music or alternative music related programming . 1 the channel was launched on september 7 2001 as muchloud 2 fashioned after the former muchmusic original program loud . in july 2006 bell globemedia later called ctvglobemedia announced that it would purchase chum for an estimated 1.7 billion cad included in the sale was muchloud . 3 the sale was subject to crtc approval and was approved in june 2007 4 with the transaction completed on june 22 2007 . while the channel from its inception had always been an ad supported service on august 31 2009 commercial advertising was dropped from the music video portion of the channel s schedule . the only remaining commercials existed in programs such as concerts or other special programming . 5 on september 10 2010 bce inc. a minority shareholder in ctvglobemedia announced that it planned to acquire 100 % interest in ctvglobemedia for a total debt and equity transaction cost of 3.2 billion cad . 6 the deal which required crtc approval was approved on march 7 2011 7 and closed on april 1 of that year on which ctvglobemedia was rebranded bell media . 8 on june 21 2016 it was announced that stingray digital would acquire muchvibe muchloud muchretro and juicebox from bell media 9 at a price tag later revealed to be 4 million for all four channels . 10 the deal for muchloud would later close on august 15 2016 with muchloud rebranded as stingray loud on august 12 2016 . 11 references edit decision crtc 2000 520 crtc 2000 12 14 the history of chum globe and mail article 2006 06 12 bell globemedia acquires chum ; fasken martineau ; 2006 07 12 broadcasting decision crtc 2007 165 ; crtc ; 2007 06 08 more music videos as muchvibe muchloud muchmoreretro and punchmuch go commercial free channel canada 2009 08 26 bell canada 2010 09 10 . bell to acquire 100 % of canada s no. 1 media company ctv . cnw group . retrieved 2010 09 10 . crtc approves bce s purchase of ctvglobemedia bell completes acquisition of ctv launches bell media business unit cnw 2011 04 01 stingray grows its channel portfolio with the acquisition of four 4 bell media music video channels stingray press release 2016 06 21 stingray digital looks to bolster profits through international expansion globe and mail 08 03 16 stingray announces closing of its acquisition of three 3 bell media specialty television channels market wired press release 08 15 16 external links edit stingray loud v t e music television channels in canada music and entertainment aux cmt much musiqueplus vintage tv 24 7 music videos stingray juicebox stingray loud stingray retro stingray vibe third language atn b4u music atn mastiii atn mh 1 atn sony mix greek music channel melody hits rotana clip rotana mousica schlager tv multilingual stingray music audio only foreign afrotainment music ary musik channel v ritmoson latino defunct bpm tv cooltv edge tv m3 max trax video italia this article about television in canada is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title stingray loud & oldid 744497857 categories stingray digitalmusic video networks in canadatelevision channels and stations established in 2001canadian digital cable television networksenglish language television stations in canadacanadian television stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran ais edit links this page was last modified on 15 october 2016 at 16 42 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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