VRT Canvas

VRT CANVAS

Lastest logo used from 2023-present
Country	Belgium
Broadcast area	National, also distributed in: Luxembourg Netherlands
Programming
Picture format	1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed)
Ownership
Owner	VRT
Sister channels	VRT 1 Ketnet
History
Launched	1 December 1997
Former names	BRT TV2 (1977–1991) BRTN TV2 (1991–1997) Canvas (1997–2023)
Links
Website	www.canvas.be
Availability
Terrestrial
Norkring (FTA DVB-T2)	Channel 2 (SD)
Digitenne (Netherlands)	Channel 15 (HD)
Streaming media
Ziggo GO (Netherlands)	ZiggoGO.tv (Europe only)
Belgacom TV Overal	Watch live (HD, Belgium only)
VRT MAX	Watch Live (Belgium only)

VRT CANVAS is a Belgian television channel of the Flemish public broadcasting organisation Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroeporganisatie (VRT). Specialising in both original and adaptations from western Europe and North America, the channel offers: in-depth news and current affairs, non-mainstream entertainment, documentaries, arthouse films, other cultural programming, and most recently additional children's programming.

The channel, launched in December 1997, is part of VRT's second network (VRT 2), which also carries occasional sports programming under the Sporza branding. The current network director of VRT 2 is Bart De Poot. Until 2012, VRT Canvas timeshared with the children's channel Ketnet between 7 am and 8 pm; Ketnet has thus moved to its own channel and Canvas became a standalone channel.

Prior to the launch of OP12, VRT Canvas broadcast from 8pm until around midnight to 1 am each evening. Since October 27, 2018, Ketnet Junior airs on Canvas every afternoon between 2 and 7 pm (Sunday until 6 pm), along with morning broadcasts on Ketnet.

After the rebranding of VRT 1, Canvas rebranded as VRT CANVAS on the 4th September 2023.

Programming

Belgian

• Terzake
• VRT NWS Journaal

International

• 1992
• Afterlife
• Agatha Christie's Poirot
• The Americans
• Bancroft
• Below the Surface
• The Black Donnellys
• Blue Murder
• Borgen
• Bron/Broen
• Carnivàle
• Carrie and Barry
• Chef!
• Dark Heart
• DCI Banks
• Desperate Housewives
• Dynasties
• Earthflight
• Endeavour
• Episodes
• Extras
• Forbrydelsen
• The Handmaid's Tale
• Hidden
• Hotel Babylon
• Informer
• Inspector George Gently
• Inspector Morse
• The IT Crowd
• Jack Taylor
• Lewis
• Live from Abbey Road
• Luther
• Midnattssol
• Murder in Mind
• My Brilliant Friend
• Nature's Microworlds
• The Newsroom
• The Office
• Okkupert
• Psi Factor
• Pushing Daisies
• Sherlock
• Silent Witness
• Taggart
• Top Gear
• A Touch of Frost
• True Blood
• Wallander
• Whitechapel

Logos and identities

• 
  Used from 1997 to 2008
• 
  Used from 2008 to 2015
• 
  Used from 2015 to 2020
• 
  Used from 2020 to 2023

See also

• VRT 1
• BRTN TV2
• Ketnet
• List of television channels in Belgium
• Sporza
• Terzake

External links

• Official website (in Dutch)