Editing Canadian content (section)

==== Children's programming ====
Canadian studios have had a significant presence in the [[Children's television series|children's television]] market, the domestic studio [[Nelvana]] has had interests in both children's television and publishing, and was acquired by Canadian broadcaster [[Corus Entertainment]] in 2000.<ref name="gandm-nelvanabuy">{{Cite news |last=Damsell |first=Keith |date=2000-09-18 |title=Corus to buy Nelvana for $540-million |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/corus-to-buy-nelvana-for-540-million/article1190841/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160312134444/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/corus-to-buy-nelvana-for-540-million/article1190841/ |archive-date=March 12, 2016 |access-date=March 12, 2016 |work=The Globe and Mail}}</ref> In the 1990s, Nelvana made several major deals for educational programming with U.S. broadcasters such as [[CBS]] and [[PBS Kids]] (taking advantage of [[E/I|new U.S. mandates]] for educational programming), with many of them being adaptations of children's books.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Collins |first=Geneva |date=August 16, 1999 |title=Public TV again turns to Canada for kidvid |url=http://www.current.org/ch/ch915c.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060301170408/http://www.current.org/ch/ch915c.html |archive-date=March 1, 2006 |access-date=June 23, 2006 |website=[[Current.org]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Robertson |first=Virginia |date=September 1, 1998 |title=The CBS Kidshow |url=http://www.kidscreen.com/articles/magazine/19980901/22601.html |access-date=November 21, 2010 |website=KidScreen}}</ref>

The Montreal-based studio [[Cinar|CINAR]] was well known for producing and distributing animated series with tie-ins for the educational market, such as ''[[Arthur (TV series)|Arthur]]—''which was distributed on U.S. [[public television]] by Boston's PBS station [[WGBH-TV|WGBH]]. The company collapsed in 2001 following an [[CINAR scandal|accounting scandal]], and had also faced allegations that it paid American writers to [[Ghostwriter|write for its shows under the names of Canadian citizens]], while continuing to accept Canadian federal tax credits.<ref>{{Cite news |date=April 15, 2004 |title=Cinar co-founder Micheline Charest dies |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/cinar-co-founder-micheline-charest-dies-1.492549 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230117015711/https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/cinar-co-founder-micheline-charest-dies-1.492549 |archive-date=January 17, 2023 |access-date=2021-05-19 |work=CBC News}}</ref> The company was later purchased in 2004 by former Nelvana executives, and renamed Cookie Jar Group. The company was in turn acquired by Halifax-based [[WildBrain|DHX Media]] (now WildBrain) in 2012,<ref name="variety-rename">{{Cite news |last=Kelly |first=Brendan |date=March 28, 2004 |title=CINAR turns into Cookie Jar |url=https://variety.com/2004/scene/markets-festivals/cinar-turns-into-cookie-jar-1117902396/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170314152642/http://variety.com/2004/scene/markets-festivals/cinar-turns-into-cookie-jar-1117902396/ |archive-date=March 14, 2017 |access-date=March 14, 2017 |work=Variety}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite news |last=Sylvain, Matthew |date=October 23, 2012 |title=DHX purchase of Cookie Jar completed |url=https://kidscreen.com/2012/10/23/dhx-purchase-of-cookie-jar-completed/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170713115052/http://kidscreen.com/2012/10/23/dhx-purchase-of-cookie-jar-completed/ |archive-date=July 13, 2017 |access-date=December 26, 2012 |work=KidScreen}}</ref> which made it the largest independent owner of children's television content in the world.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Wong |first=Jessica |date=2017-05-11 |title=When it comes to kids' TV, Canada is king |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/kids-tv-canadian-1.4108354 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170511100309/http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/kids-tv-canadian-1.4108354 |archive-date=May 11, 2017 |access-date=2021-05-19 |work=CBC News}}</ref><ref name="kidscreen-cjg">{{Cite news |last=Sylvain |first=Matthew |date=October 23, 2012 |title=DHX purchase of Cookie Jar completed |url=http://kidscreen.com/2012/10/23/dhx-purchase-of-cookie-jar-completed/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170713115052/http://kidscreen.com/2012/10/23/dhx-purchase-of-cookie-jar-completed/ |archive-date=July 13, 2017 |access-date=December 29, 2012 |work=KidScreen}}</ref><ref name=":2" />