StackTV

StackTV (stylized in all-caps as STACKTV) is a Canadian subscription video streaming package offered by Corus Entertainment through Amazon Prime Video's Channels marketplace.

The package was announced on June 3, 2019, and launched shortly thereafter for an initial monthly price of $12.99 for Amazon Prime subscribers.[1][2]

The service provides access to most of Corus' English language broadcast and specialty TV channels, including both live linear feeds and on-demand access to their associated programming during Corus' term of licence, and is intended for cord-cutters without a traditional TV service subscription.[2]

Unlike Shomi, an earlier but now-defunct streaming offering which was half-owned by Corus sister company Shaw Communications, there is no service-exclusive programming offered;[3] the programs available are the same ones that cable, satellite, and IP-based TV provider subscribers to Corus' linear channels would already be able to receive through set-top box on-demand services (and, for most of these channels, the Global TV website and app).

Unlike many other streaming services of this type, StackTV is not currently available on a pure standalone basis; customers must be Amazon Prime subscribers, must access programming through the Prime Video website and apps (there is currently no cross-authentication with the Global TV app), and can only be billed for the service by Amazon, not Corus. Despite the subscription fee, on-demand programming may include some advertising, consistent with how Corus programming is offered in the Global app and other on-demand platforms.[2]

Channels currently offered through the service include Corus' over-the-air Global Television Network, as well as eleven cable specialty channels: Slice, Showcase, Teletoon, Treehouse TV, W Network, YTV, and the licensed Canadian versions of Adult Swim, Food Network, HGTV, History, and National Geographic.[1]