History NetworkDecay / TotalAbandonment

** [[UsefulNotes/CanadianMultichannelNetworks MTV Canada]] began as a channel known as [=talktv=], which [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin aired talk shows]] (mostly reran from sister broadcast network Creator/{{CTV}}, but including live shows such as ''The Chatroom'' as well). In 2006, the channel re-launched as MTV, but had to get creative to work around requirements for Canadian content, and the genres of programming it was required to air (it could ''definitely'' not air music programming due to then-CRTC rules, which prohibited direct competition with channels such as Creator/MuchMusic), leading it to be skewed more towards talk and lifestyle programming, and aired MTV's current reality programming. As the CRTC eased its rules in the mid-2010s and Bell cut back on original studio programming on its specialty channels, most of its lineup is now primarily scripted reruns.

* Belgian Network [=VT4=] (now known as [[UsefulNotes/FlemishTVStations VIER]]). In the 1990's it used to be a DarkerAndEdgier channel that aired through a U-Turn Construction from London and pretended to be illegal because they found a way not to obey to Belgian law, aiming for the "unserved audience", which is also known as the young adult demographic, but due to the fact that the network never attracted a big audience, they started to decline more and more and ended up mainly broadcasting erotic content and not much else. Thankfully in 2002 the network completely changed (mainly thanks to the new leading CEO who became the leader in 2001 and wanted to break with its negative image), decided to obey to the Belgian law by putting its headquarters in Brussels and now mainly aims at young families (such as ''Peking Express''). That being said, when the channel changed its name to VIER in 2012 they also introduced more Flemish shows in their programming and less redubbed programming.

* [[UsefulNotes/GermanTVStations German cable network]] "Das Vierte" started as a classic movie channel owned by Creator/{{NBC}}; its name translated to "The Fourth [Channel]", a name clearly trying to ride off the identities of the major public television outlets "Das Erste" (ARD, The First), "Das Zweite" (ZDF, "The Second"), and "Die dritten" ("The thirds" or "third programmes", regional channels operated by the member broadcasters of ARD) -- aspiring to be the most prominent private channel. Unfortunately, their aspirations didn't go so well, and it ended up aspiring to be a German version of Creator/IonTelevision instead: it began losing advertisers (and in turn, money), forcing it to give up most of its broadcast day to home shopping, infomercials, and PhoneInGameShows. What little primetime programming it had left was usually just a movie followed by an hour of ''Series/GhostHunters''. Even funnier was the fact that TV listings magazines ''still gave this channel full listings''. Think about it: your favorite channel only gets primetime listings, yet you can still learn about what infomercials will air on Das Vierte today. The channel went through several owners before being acquired by Creator/{{Disney}} in 2012. They later announced that it would re-launch Creator/DisneyChannel Germany as a basic cable network using Das Vierte's channel allotment in January 2014, which finally put this train wreck out of its misery.

* Creator/BellMedia's lesser-viewed and barely-promoted cable channels are a nasty case of this. Fashion Television Channel was named after the aforementioned Creator/{{Citytv}} program. After the show's cancellation, the channel's connection became InNameOnly. By the time of its closure, [=FTC=] was a dumping ground for lifestyle, reality, and drama programs. It also served as a rerun farm for shows that aired on the now-defunct M3. The only remotely fashion-related program on the channel was ''Celebrity Style Story'' (a Cancon filler also used on the Canadian version of E!), and it, ironically, didn't even carry reruns of its namesake. Even worse, the network's continued existence was simply a license to print money: the CRTC listed it as having ''no'' staff of its own, and it previously had a Category A license which mandated that it be offered by the digital tiers of all television providers. [[WinsByDoingAbsolutelyNothing Hence, Bell made more money using it as a rerun farm to pad out cable theme pack bundles, than actually making real investments in it]]. Book Television was in the same boat, and other than airing reruns of MTV programs, [=MTV2=] Canada is an afterthought. Both Fashion and Book Television were closed in February 2021 after their licenses were revoked.[[/folder]]

A grand {{irony}} to all of this is that Pat Robertson was one of the MoralGuardians (he passed on earlier in June of this year) who objected to the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' series, yet the network was a long-time owner of the US broadcasting rights to the ''Film/HarryPotter'' films and aired ''Potter'' marathons constantly until losing the rights to NBC. ''The 700 Club'' (required in the original contract with Pat Robertson) and a Sunday morning/late night {{Infomercial}} block filled with megachurch pastors were the only things left hinting at ABC Family's roots as a religious channel, and even then they were buried at 11:00 PM with a {{content warning|s}} containing an unequivocal "does not reflect the views of ABC Family" due to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Robertson_controversies Robertson's laundry list of controversial statements and positions]].[[note]]To name just one example, he agreed with Jerry Falwell's statement that the USA's immorality invited the events of 9/11 '''the week of'''.[[/note]] They weren't even mentioned at all on the channel's website; you'll have to go to the CBN website for that. The only reason the network retained the religious programming block is that they were contractually obligated to - during the original sale of the network, a clause was put into the sale contract requiring not only that the CBN programming block be retained permanently, but that putting the same clause protecting the CBN block would need to be included in any future sales or transfers of the network.

* The Magazine/TVGuide Channel, formerly the Prevue Guide/Prevue Channel. Originally, it was a nice little channel that gave the local TV listings and the weather, along with unobtrusive text ads, using [[http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletext Teletext]]-style graphics set to music from a local radio station. In the late 80s, it added Muzak and dedicated half of the screen to trailers with the rare show (or whatever the cable company wanted to advertise), typically running from an UsefulNotes/{{Amiga}} computer. By 1993, they'd also expanded to a pay-per-view centric sibling called ''Sneak Prevue''. It was later bought by TV Guide, which mutated it into the channel it is today. When TV Guide took over, the listings were further pushed down the screen so as to make more room to show talking heads blabbing about reality shows, awards ceremonies, and whatever [[Music/BritneySpears Britney]] did. When Creator/{{Lionsgate}} acquired the network in 2009, the listings were removed altogether when contractually possible, prompting a few cable companies to drop the channel; although this has since been reversed. Eventually, the tabloid shows went away due to budget cuts, and it became a Lionsgate TV rerun farm. It could be argued that this change was made to compete with Internet channel listings and the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_program_guide electronic program guide]] features available with satellite and digital cable packages (which allow viewers to scroll through the listings at will and select channels from the menu), including ones developed by the same people in charge of Prevue/TV Guide (irony much?); the HD version of the network has no listings whatsoever.

** In September 2013, a number of shows airing on Creator/TheComedyNetwork (including ''Series/DrunkHistory'', ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', and ''Series/{{Conan}}'') moved to Much. At the same time, Much scaled back more of its music programming, adopted the ambiguous slogan of "It's a lot" in its advertising, and officially dropped '''music''' from its name. Similar shifts occurred with sister network [=MuchMore=] when it was re-branded as M3. In July 2014, the bottom fell out. The Much division took the brunt of Bell Media's cuts in that month, with 91 people losing their jobs and most of the network's original programming, including ''Series/VideoOnTrial'' ending abruptly because of them (though an unpopular {{Retool}} didn't help matters either). Beyond filling the schedule with reruns of their weekly countdown show and automated playlists of music videos (which barely require any staff to set up) on the schedule to keep the CRTC satisfied, it didn't look good. At the very least, Much actually did something for their 30th anniversary: airing a "top 100 music videos of all time" countdown, and an half-hour 30th anniversary special (all of which were repeated on each day of the Labour Day weekend).

* Creator/BellMedia's lesser-viewed and barely-promoted cable channels are a nasty case of this. Fashion Television Channel was named after the aforementioned Creator/{{Citytv}} program. Since the show's cancellation, the channel's connection became InNameOnly. By the time of its closure, [=FTC=] was a dumping ground for lifestyle, reality, and drama programs. It also served as a rerun farm for shows that aired on the now-defunct M3. The only remotely fashion-related program on the channel was ''Celebrity Style Story'' (a Cancon filler also used on the Canadian version of E!), and it, ironically, didn't even carry reruns of its namesake. Even worse, the network's continued existence was simply a license to print money: the CRTC listed it as having ''no'' staff of its own, and it previously had a Category A license which mandated that it be offered by the digital tiers of all television providers. [[WinsByDoingAbsolutelyNothing Hence, Bell made more money using it as a rerun farm to pad out cable theme pack bundles, than actually making real investments in it]]. Book Television was in the same boat, and other than airing reruns of MTV programs, [=MTV2=] Canada is an afterthought. Both Fashion and Book Television were closed in February 2021 after their licenses were revoked.[[/folder]]

* Creator/BellMedia's lesser-viewed and barely-promoted cable channels are a nasty case of this. Fashion Television Channel was named after the aforementioned Creator/{{Citytv}} program. Since the show's cancellation, the channel's connection is now InNameOnly. By the time of its closure, [=FTC=] was a dumping ground for lifestyle, reality, and drama programs. It also served as a rerun farm for shows that aired on the now-defunct M3. The only remotely fashion-related program on the channel was ''Celebrity Style Story'' (a Cancon filler also used on the Canadian version of E!), and it, ironically, didn't even carry reruns of its namesake. Even worse, the network's continued existence was simply a license to print money: the CRTC listed it as having ''no'' staff of its own, and it previously had a Category A license which mandated that it be offered by the digital tiers of all television providers. [[WinsByDoingAbsolutelyNothing Hence, Bell made more money using it as a rerun farm to pad out cable theme pack bundles, than actually making real investments in it]]. Book Television was in the same boat, and other than airing reruns of MTV programs, [=MTV2=] Canada is an afterthought. Both Fashion and Book Television were closed in February 2021 after their licenses were revoked.[[/folder]]

* In the less than two years it was around, laSexta 2, the secondary channel of laSexta's group before it merged into Atresmedia, managed to completely change its concept several times. It started out in October 2010 as a container of re-runs of laSexta's own shows (current and older), then in early 2011 it started programming original content such as the political talk show ''Al rojo vivo'' (which within the year was moved to the main channel and has since grown into one of its mainstays)... and by the spring, laSexta 2 had been completely revamped with a bunch of original, exclusive shows such as ''Bares, qué lugares'', ''Carreteras secundarias'' or ''Este es mi barrio''... but in July, all of them were dropped out of the schedule to turn laSexta 2 into a telenovela channel. They were back on air before the end of the month as the 'all-telenovela' thing made the channel's ratings drop. laSexta 2 was replaced with documentary channel Xplora in May 2012.

* Canal Famille was a French-language channel dedicated to showing all-ages programming, that aired live-action shows that were made locally and also imported some from other countries alongside cartoons. When very few new shows were introduced around 2000, the decision was made to rebrand it into Vrak.TV, with the focus shifting to adding more teen-oriented programming and more emphasis on French and American imports, and especially Quebecer productions, but there was still a fair amount of cartoon shows. However, by the 2010s, it was rebranded ''again'' into VRAK, modified the programming to also attract the young adult demographic, gave less emphasis to Quebecer shows, and discarded animated productions entirely.

* Canal Famille was a French-language channel dedicated to showing all-ages programming, that aired live-action shows that were made locally and also imported some from other countries alongside cartoons. When very few new shows were introduced around 2000, the decision was made to rebrand it into Vrak.TV, with the focus shifting to adding more teen-oriented programming and more emphasis on French and American imports, and especially Quebec productions, but there was still a fair amount of cartoon shows. However, by the 2010s, it was rebranded ''again'' into VRAK, modified the programming to also attract the young adult demographic, and discarded animated productions entirely.

!!!Brazil
* After some months in the beginning of the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, a new TV channel was launched in Brazil focused on geeky content, mostly based on anime programming and some gaming and K-drama. Simply called "Loading", the channel tried to create something that themselves called "democracy of entertainment", seeking to do something that free-to-air channels in the country rarely (if never ever) did nowadays: entertainment for everyone (if you don't count telenovelas, some sports or some movie blocks). The channel even tried to create a children's block, something that TV channels there nowadays, believe it or not, [[ValuesDissonance don't have anymore thanks to conservative laws starting on early 2010s that forbid advertisement for children on TV]]. And as you've read before, yes, this was a FTA channel. And yes, at the time, even knowing [[TechnologyMarchesOn the target public for this content is, even for that time, mostly internet-based]], it worked, at least in audience context. However... things become ''[[OhCrap really]]'' bad [[{{irony}} the day after Geek Pride Day in 2021]]. Every then-planned original shows were instantly canceled and ''all'' of the hosts contracted by the channel were fired, with no clear explanation given to them. It was then discovered that the company who gave birth to the channel was completely giving it up and syndicating it back to a televangelist, the same who already was in that syndication before the channel was launched. Before it, the government has been trying to ban the transmission to exist because of allegedly illegal acquisition of signal from another company before, but [[Creator/{{MTV}} this is another history to tell]]. After the massive firings, the channel became a "ghost", with no original programming anymore and not even a fixed schedule. Anime shows with original dubs that have been planned, such as ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'' and ''Anime/SSSSGridman'' had those dubs since [[UnfinishedDub discontinued]], the first one had only the first seven episodes aired dubbed while the second one lacked two episodes to dub and the channel never aired anyone. The channel has been since shut down in that year, and nobody even knows anymore [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes what will even happen with those dubs]].