Oxygen (Canadian TV channel)
| Country | Canada |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Nationwide |
| Headquarters | 299 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario |
| Programming | |
| Language(s) | English |
| Picture format | 1080i (HDTV) 480i (SDTV) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Bell Media |
| Sister channels | CTV CTV 2 CTV Comedy Channel CTV Drama Channel CTV Life Channel CTV Nature Channel CTV Sci-Fi Channel CTV Speed Channel CTV Wild Channel USA Network CLT (2001–2010) Canal D (French language) Investigation (French language) |
| History | |
| Launched | September 7, 2001 |
| Replaced | Court TV (American feed) |
| Former names | Court TV Canada (2001–2010) Investigation Discovery (2010–2025) |
| Links | |
| Website | Oxygen |
Oxygen (branded as Oxygen True Crime) is a Canadian discretionary service owned by Bell Media. Based on the American cable network of the same name, the channel focuses on true crime programming, including original productions and imports from its American counterpart.
The channel was launched on September 7, 2001, as a Canadian version of Court TV, by Learning and Skills Television of Alberta Ltd., which was then owned by CHUM Limited, although the American Court TV channel became available in Canada through cable and satellite providers as a foreign channel approved by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission in 1997. CHUM was acquired by CTVglobemedia in 2007.
Two years after its American counterpart was relaunched as TruTV, Court TV was relaunched as Investigation Discovery on August 30, 2010, as part of a licensing arrangement between CTVglobemedia and Discovery Communications. On January 1, 2025, after Bell lost its rights to Warner Bros. Discovery factual and lifestyle brands to Rogers Sports & Media, the channel relaunched as Oxygen as part of a licensing agreement with NBCUniversal, maintaining its true crime format. Rogers concurrently launched a new iteration of ID the same day.