3.4 Program categories
Canadian television production
Exhibit 3-7 Volume of Canadian television production, by category and by language
Source:
Estimates based on data collected from CAVCO.
Note:
Some totals may not sum due to rounding. Includes an estimate of CRTC-certified television production; see Notes on methodology for more information.
Excludes ‘online-first’ audiovisual production; see Box 1 for definitions and statistics.
* Includes data for projects produced in bilingual format and non-official languages, which comprised less than one percent of the total volume of English-language television production between 2015/16 and 2024/25 and cannot be reported on separately due to confidentiality issues arising from low production volume.
** Includes magazine programming and a small amount of programming that was previously allocated to the eucational/instructional category.
Exhibit 3-8 Shares of total volume of Canadian television production, by category and by language
Source:
Estimates based on data collected from CAVCO.
Note:
Some totals may not sum due to rounding. Includes an estimate of CRTC-certified television production; see Notes on methodology for more information.
Excludes ‘online-first’ audiovisual production; see Box 1 for definitions and statistics.
* Includes data for projects produced in bilingual format and non-official languages, which comprised less than one percent of the total volume of English-language television production between 2015/16 and 2024/25 and cannot be reported on separately due to confidentiality issues arising from low production volume.
** Includes magazine programming and a small amount of programming that was previously allocated to the eucational/instructional category.
Exhibit 3-9 Volume of Canadian television production, by category and language
Source:
Estimates based on data collected from CAVCO.
Note:
Some totals may not sum due to rounding. Includes an estimate of CRTC-certified television production; see Notes on methodology for more information.
Excludes ‘online-first’ audiovisual production; see Box 1 for definitions and statistics.
* Includes data for projects produced in bilingual format and non-official languages, which comprised less than one percent of the total volume of English-language television production between 2015/16 and 2024/25 and cannot be reported on separately due to confidentiality issues arising from low production volume.
** Includes magazine programming and a small amount of programming that was previously allocated to the educational/instructional category.
Exhibit 3-10 a) Average budgets, by category (English-language production)
Source:
Estimates based on data collected from CAVCO.
Note:
Excludes an estimate (as used in other exhibits) of CRTC-certified television production. Excludes ‘online-first’ audiovisual production; see Box 1 for definitions and statistics.
* Includes magazine programming and a small amount of programming that was previously allocated to the educational/instructional category.
Exhibit 3-10 b) Average budgets, by category (French-language production)
Source:
Estimates based on data collected from CAVCO.
Note:
Excludes an estimate (as used in other exhibits) of CRTC-certified television production. Excludes ‘online-first’ audiovisual production; see Box 1 for definitions and statistics.
* Includes magazine programming and a small amount of programming that was previously allocated to the educational/instructional category.