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==Canada==

In Canada, historically local television stations produced a significant volume of local programming, including newscasts, locally or regionally oriented talk shows, and variety entertainment programs such as ''[[Tiny Talent Time]]'' or ''[[Homegrown Cafe]]''; a few stations, such as [[CHCH-DT|CHCH-TV]] in [[Hamilton, Ontario|Hamilton]], [[Ontario]] and [[CJOH]] in [[Ottawa]], also distributed some of their local programming more widely through [[television syndication]], most notably CHCH's ''[[Hilarious House of Frightenstein]]'' and CJOH's ''[[You Can't Do That Onon Television]]'', both of which were broadcast across both Canada and the [[United States]].

With the cross-national [[consolidation of media ownership|consolidation]] of Canadian media ownership in the 1990s and 2000s, network-affiliated stations now rarely produce much more than their own local or regional newscasts, although some stations may continue to produce a small amount of additional local programming. Independent stations may produce more local programming, although such stations are now rare in the Canadian media landscape.