The following is a list of events affecting Canadian television in 1969. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, cancellations, and channel launches, closures and rebrandings.
| Date | Event | |
|---|---|---|
| May 2 | CKCW-TV Moncton switches networks from CBC to CTV. | |
| Telesat is founded in Ottawa. | ||
| June 20 | Don Messer's Jubilee is cancelled. The cancellation is so controversial it is brought up in the House of Commons. | |
| September 13 | CKCK-TV and CHRE-TV in Regina switch networks as CKCK goes to CTV while CHRE (bought by the CBC and renamed CBKRT, now CBKT-DT) switches to CBC | |
| October 4 | The 1969 Canadian Film Awards. |
| Show | Station | Premiere Date |
|---|---|---|
| Strategy | CBC Television | April 1 |
| It's Our Stuff | June 30 | |
| Strange Paradise | October 20 |
| Show | Station | Cancelled |
|---|---|---|
| Magistrate's Court | CTV | January 20 |
| Perry's Probe | ||
| Rocket Robin Hood | Broadcast syndication | |
| Quentin Durgens, M.P. | CBC Television | February 4 |
| Don Messer's Jubilee | June 20 | |
| Strategy | October 7 | |
| Toby | Unknown |
| Date | Market | Station | Channel | Affiliation | Notes/References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 22 | 6 | ||||
| September 21 | Saint John, New Brunswick | CKLT-TV | 9 | CTV | Satellite of CKCW/Moncton |
| Unknown | (cable-only) | Educational-access independent | Oldest student-run television station in Canada | ||
| Date | Market | Station | Channel | Old affiliation | New affiliation | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2 | 29 | CBC Television | ||||
| September 13 | CKCK-TV | 2 | ||||
| 4 | CTV | |||||