X-Treme Sports was a Canadian

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 owned by Canwest Media Inc., a division of Canwest Global Communications. X-Treme Sports aired a variety of programming primarily related to extreme sports including live and taped-delayed sports events, extreme sports lifestyle and culture series, and more.

History

On November 24, 2000 Global Television Network Inc., a subsidiary of Canwest, was granted approval by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to launch a a national English-language Category 2 specialty television service called Extreme Sports, described as "featuring the best of "off-beat" sports programming that will give Canadians the opportunity to live vicariously through the ultimate high associated with such extreme pastimes as high altitude sky diving, cliff diving, white water rafting, and mountain climbing."

The channel launched on September 7, 2001 as X-Treme Sports.

In September 2008, Canwest announced the closure of X-Treme Sports set for October 9 of that year. Canwest cited growth potential, profitability and warranting investment for its reasons to discontinue the service.