Aura (French Canadian TV channel)



Aura is an upcoming Canadian French-language discretionary service, set to launch in October 2023. The license application for a French-language channel was filed by Corus Entertainment under its YTV 2 division on April 5th, 2023. The application was approved on April 17th, 2023.

The new channel would mark YTV 2's first entry into the French-language market since the sell-off of both its previous French-language counterpart and its sister channel Cartoon Network Quebec. It also would mark the second time an Aura-branded channel has been launched in the region, after the first English-language Canadian feed of Aura, which shut down the year prior.

History
In March 2023, YTV 2 hinted that it would rebrand to a re-launch of Aura in June 2024. The channel filed an application to launch a French-language equivalent (also named Aura) a month later.

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Programming
Starting with the launch of the channel and the subsequent rebranding of YTV 2 to an English-language feed of Aura, most YTV 2/Aura Canada original series would be aired on both the English and French channels in both English and French; however, some original programming would only appear on the English feed due to licensing.

Acquired from YTV 2/Aura Canada

 * Card Masters (Les maîtres des cartes)
 * Cottonsweet (moved from Télétoon)
 * Islands of Wakfu (Îles de Wakfu) (moved from Télétoon)
 * Morning Variety (Variété du matin)
 * Point Flash!!
 * Redakai: Enter the Storm (Redakai: Entrez dans la tempête) (moved from Télétoon)
 * Road to Infinity (La route de l'infini)
 * Road to Infinity Remix (La route de l'infini Remix)
 * Robot Warriors (Guerriers robots)
 * Robot Warriors NX (Guerriers robots NX)
 * Time Force (Force de Temps) (moved from Télétoon)
 * Uh Oh!

Other acquired programming

 * Baseball Team 106 (Équipe de baseball 106)
 * Gokujō!! Mecha Mote Iinchō (Le meilleur!! La très populaire présidente)
 * Happy Happy Clover
 * Kiratto Pri Chan
 * Mars Street
 * Monster Coins (Pièces de monnaie monstre)
 * Ninjala
 * PuniRunes! (Amis câlins en peluche)
 * Science Squadron (Escadron scientifique)

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 * Cardrise Showdown (L'épreuve de force de Cardrise)
 * GeGeGe no Kitarō (2007) (Le Kitaro barbu de Gegege)
 * It Came from the Internet (Cela vient de l'Internet)
 * Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (Fille magique Nanoha lyrique)
 * Sellout Corp (Vente Société)
 * Yowamushi Pedal: Limit Break (Pédale Faible: Rupture de Limite)