The Cave is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 English language

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 Category A specialty channel

Specialty channel

A specialty channel can be a commercial broadcasting or non-commercial television channel which consists of television programming focused on a single genre, subject or targeted television market at a specific demographic....

 dedicated to airing lifestyle and entertainment programming aimed at men. It is currently owned by Groupe TVA

Quebecor Media Inc.

Quebecor Media Inc. is a Canadian media company. Quebecor Inc. owns the controlling interest with 54.72% while CDP Capital d’Amérique Investissements Inc. owns the remaining 45.28%...

 and Shaw Media

Shaw Media

Shaw Media is the television broadcasting division of Shaw Communications. Shaw Media owns the Global Television Network, which broadcasts via 11 television stations, as well as various specialty channels including HGTV Canada, Showcase, Food Network Canada, and History Television.Despite also...

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History

Licensed as Men TV by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) on November 24, 2000; it was launched as mentv on September 7, 2001.

Despite Canwest's minority interest in the service, Canwest was the managing partner for the channel from its inception until September 2008, when managing operations were handed over to Groupe TVA.

Mentv was renamed The Cave on August 2, 2010.

On October 27, 2010, Shaw Communications

Shaw Communications

Shaw Communications is Canada's largest telecommunications company that provides telephone, Canada's fastest Internet and television services as well as broadcasting and soon Wifi. Shaw is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta...

 completed its acquisition of Canwest, giving it control of Canwest's 49% interest in The Cave.

Noted series

• Auto Mundial
• Body Fuel
• City Commando
• Dream Car Garage
  Dream Car Garage
  Dream Car Garage is a weekly television show produced by Westward Wind Productions. The series is produced in Halton Hills, Ontario. Its hosts are Tom Hnatiw, an ex-racecar driver and commentator, and Peter Klutt, car enthusiast and the owner of Legendary Motorcar ltd...
  
  
• Four Wheeler TV
• It Only Hurts When I Laugh
  It Only Hurts When I Laugh (TV series)
  It Only Hurts When I Laugh is an American television series that premiered on TruTV on October 22, 2009. This program showcases hilarious painstaking moments caught on tape...
  
  
• Motorsport Mundial
• Soccer Shrines
  Soccer Shrines
  Soccer Shrines is a 13-part Canadian television documentary series about the most famous soccer stadiums in the world and their fans. Produced by Best Boy Entertainment, Soccer Shrines originally aired on GolTV in Fall 2010...
  
  
• The Casino Rama Grill Room
• Whose Line Is It Anyway?
  Whose Line Is It Anyway? (U.S. TV series)
  Whose Line is it Anyway? is a comedy improv show hosted by Drew Carey on ABC that ran from August 5, 1998 to September 4, 2004, and subsequently on ABC Family since 2005...
  
  
• World's Most Amazing Videos
  World's Most Amazing Videos
  World's Most Amazing Videos is a reality television series, similar to Real TV and Maximum Exposure. Like these shows, it showcases accidents, disasters, police chases and other extraordinary events that are caught on video camera. Although it is similar in content to Maximum Exposure, it takes a...
  
  

• Note: Series list is current as of March 2011.