Editing Paramount Network (section)

=== Canada ===
In April 1984, while as TNN, the [[Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission]] (CRTC) approved the channel for carriage by Canadian cable and satellite television providers.<ref name=cp-tnnapproved>{{cite news|title=Nashville Network Approved by CRTC|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2194&dat=19840414&id=yboyAAAAIBAJ&pg=3635,1744640|access-date=March 3, 2015|agency=Canadian Press|date=April 14, 1984}}</ref> Following its re-branding as Spike TV, the [[Canadian Association of Broadcasters]] filed a complaint with the CRTC on behalf of [[Canwest|Canwest Global]], demanding the channel be removed from Canadian television providers. The CAB felt that its new general entertainment format would unduly compete with various Canadian-run specialty channels, arguing that there was overlap in its niche and its then-current schedule with [[History2 (Canadian TV channel)|Men TV]] (men's lifestyle), [[CTV Sci-Fi Channel|Space]] (''Star Trek''), sports channels such as [[Sportsnet 360|TheScore]] (WWE), [[FYI (Canadian TV channel)|Discovery Health]] (interstitial segments focusing on men's health, although the network did not air any full-length programs on the topic and mainly focused on generic women's and children's health and pregnancy-related programming at the time), along with the inexplicable naming of [[BNN Bloomberg|Report on Business Television]] and [[T+E|CTV Travel]] for reasons unknown.<ref name=crtc-spikecanada/>

In January 2005, the CRTC dismissed the CAB's complaint, ruling that it provided insufficient evidence that Spike was directly competing with Canadian specialty channels. The CRTC ruled that Spike did not unduly compete with Men TV, since it was licensed as a service that would carry men's lifestyle programming (in contrast to Spike, which the CRTC classified as a [[Generalist channel|general entertainment]] channel targeting males), and that the remaining allegations of overlap with domestic Canadian specialty channels represented only a minority of Spike's overall programming.<ref name=crtc-spikecanada>{{cite web|title=Broadcasting Public Notice CRTC 2005-9|url=http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2005/pb2005-9.htm|website=CRTC|access-date=March 3, 2015}}</ref><ref name=gandm-spikecanada>{{cite news|title=CRTC: Spike TV can stay in Canada|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/crtc-spike-tv-can-stay-in-canada/article1113799/|access-date=March 3, 2015|work=The Globe and Mail}}</ref>

Due to programming rights issues, programs which the channel does not hold rights to air outside of the U.S. are replaced with alternate programs, consisting mainly of reruns of Spike's previous reality programs.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tvpassport.com/tv-listings/stations/paramount-network-canada/3|title=TV Schedule for Paramount Network Canada|website=TV Passport}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ontvtonight.com/ca/guide/listings/channel/69049654/paramount-network-canada-east.html|title=🌐Paramount Network Canada (East) - TV Listings Guide}}</ref> 

In 2022, with Paramount Global prioritizing promotion of the [[Paramount+]] streaming service in the market instead, a number of major providers began dropping the channel, beginning with [[Rogers Communications]] on April 1, 2022, followed by [[Shaw Communications|Shaw Cable]] and [[Shaw Direct]] on August 31, 2023, and [[Eastlink (company)|Eastlink]] on September 15, 2023.{{citation needed|date=June 2024}} The Canadian feed was discontinued on all other providers on January 1, 2024.{{citation needed|date=June 2024}}