Editing Baton Broadcast System (section)

{{short description|Canadian television system}}
{{about|the defunct television system owned by Baton Broadcasting|the history of Baton Broadcasting itself|Bell Media#Baton Broadcasting}}
{{Infobox broadcasting network |
network_name = Baton Broadcast System |
network_logo = [[Image:Baton Broadcast System (logo).svg|220px|BBS logo]] |
country      = Canada |
network_type = Defunct [[Terrestrial television|broadcast]] [[television system]] |
available    = Semi-national; urban areas of [[Ontario]] and [[Saskatchewan]] |
owner        = [[Baton Broadcasting]]|
affiliation  = [[CTV Television Network]]|
key_people   = |
launch_date  = {{start date and age|1994|10|}} (merger of STN and ONT)|
closure_date = {{end date and age|1998|01}} (merged into CTV) |
founder      = |
brand        = |
|headquarters=[[Regina, Saskatchewan|Regina]], [[Saskatchewan]], Canada<br>[[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], Canada}}
The '''Baton Broadcast System'''<ref>Referred to by some sources as the '''Baton Broadcasting System'''. The parent company was indeed Baton Broadcasting Inc., but the correct meaning of the second "B" was "Broadcast" as indicated in Canadian trademark reg. no. [http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/app/cipo/trademarks/search/viewTrademark.do?language=eng&fileNumber=0725475&extension=0&startingDocumentIndexOnPage=1 TMA446418] and others.</ref> ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|b|eɪ|t|ɒ|n}} {{respell|BAY|ton}}), also known as '''BBS''', was a [[Television in Canada|Canadian]] [[television system|system]] of [[television station]]s located in [[Ontario]] and [[Saskatchewan]], owned by [[Baton Broadcasting]]. BBS was the successor to two provincial systems also owned by Baton, the '''Saskatchewan Television Network''' (STN) and '''Ontario Network Television''' (ONT).

During the 1990s, BBS and its predecessors served as a complementary programming service to the [[CTV Television Network]], to which most (but not all) of the system's stations were already affiliated. Shortly after Baton's acquisition of CTV in 1997 and the contemporaneous sale of Baton's independent stations (later re-acquired by Bell and currently part of the parallel [[CTV 2]] system), the BBS brand was eliminated, and the system's operations were merged into the CTV network.