Viacom’s Comedy Central has inked a multi-year content deal that gives Canadian broadcaster CTV exclusive broadcast and digital rights to the entire Comedy Central programming lineup, including the animated series South Park, Drawn Together and Lil’ Bush. CTV will be able to program the content across any number of traditional and new-media platforms in Canada, including specialty channel The Comedy Network.
The deal gives CTV access to more than 200 hours of Comedy Central series, including full episodes of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning series The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, The Sarah Silverman Program, Mind of Mencia, RENO 911!, The Showbiz Show with David Spade and and the soon-to-premiere American Body Shop. In addition, CTV retains rights to the network’s complete back catalog of programs.
CTV has exclusive Canadian online and broadband rights to full episodes, clips, shorts, wallpapers, ring-tones and other online content created for Comedy Central programs. Canadian web surfers who access such Comedy Central online destinations as www.comedycentral.com, www.southparkstudios.com, www.jokes.com and www.colbertnation.com, will be re-directed to The Comedy Network’s www.thecomedynetwork.ca.
