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| Country | Canada |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Nationwide Greenland |
| Headquarters | 299 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Programming | |
| Language(s) | English |
| Picture format | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to letterboxed to 480i for the SDTV feed) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Bell Media (branding licensed from Bloomberg L.P.) |
| Sister channels | CTV News Channel CP24 |
| History | |
| Launched | September 1, 1999 |
| Former names | Report on Business Television (1999–2007) Business News Network (2007–2018) |
| Links | |
| Website | bnnbloomberg |
BNN Bloomberg is a Canadian English language discretionary specialty channel owned by Bell Media with the name licensed from Bloomberg L.P. It broadcasts programming related to business and financial news and analysis. The channel is headquartered at 299 Queen Street West in Downtown Toronto.
BNN was established on September 1, 1999 as Report on Business Television (RoBTV) under a joint venture of Thomson Corporation, the owners of The Globe and Mail newspaper, Western International Communications and Cancom. Canwest, the owners of Global Television Network, acquired WIC in 2000 while Thomson transferred the shares of its channel to Bell Globemedia where it has been solely owned since 2001. The channel was rebranded to Business News Network in 2007 which allowed the The Globe and Mail to regain exclusive rights to the Report on Business brand. After the Thomsons reacquired the Globe paper and Bell Canada regained control of CTVglobemedia (the former Bell Globemedia) in 2011 where it became Bell Media, the channel was relaunched on April 30, 2018 under its current name, under a partnership with U.S. business channel Bloomberg Television.
In addition to BNN producing a large portion of its business day programming in-house, much of the channel's programming was also simulcasted on radio, branded as BNN Bloomberg Radio, formerly by CKOC in Hamilton and CFTE in Vancouver.
As a former Category A service, BNN Bloomberg was required to be carried on the basic service of all digital cable providers across Canada. The channel was, and still is, typically offered optionally at the discretion of providers.