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Not to be confused with the European TV channel of the same name.

MegaMax is an Canadian young adult's television channel being owned by Corus Entertainment. It features animated shows, anime and live-action shows. It was launched on May 10, 1993. Its flagship show is Letterkenny but it also features television series such as Sailor Moon, Angry Beavers, Regular Show and many more.

It is carried on major cable and satellite providers in Canada (Rogers Cable, Shaw Cable, Cogeco Cable, Telus, SaskTel and EastLink). However, it was broadcast in the USA until October 23, 2010 when the service was taken off DirecTV and other major American cable and satellite providers (though some smaller markets may still carry the channel).

In 2011, Canada's English-language satellite service the Space Channel stopped carrying the channel because of a dispute over MegaMax's content. (This is the same satellite service that carried the USA MegaMax and Space Channel) This angered the local affiliates who didn't want MegaMax to lose more of its advertising revenue. The conflict eventually settled out of court and the service was added back to the service.

MegaMax in the United States
MegaMax was launched on November 15, 1997, and it was carried in the United States by DirecTV from 1997 to 2010. The channel was eventually removed from DirecTV on October 23, 2010. The reason cited for the removal was a dispute between Discovery Communications and MegaMax's producer, Doug Wright Productions. According to the official MegaMax website, Wright filed suit in January 2010 after Discovery allegedly failed to provide a minimum of $1.5 million in funding for the 2010-2011 season.

MegaMax was taken off DirecTV along with six other Discovery Networks channels, including American Heroes Channel, Animal Planet and Discovery HD Theater, when it went off-the-air at 1 AM Eastern Time (11 AM Pacific Time) on September 30, 2012. DirecTV said it could not reach an agreement on its content with Discovery Networks, but this was disputed by Doug Wright Productions. The removal was that the channel showed "adult themed programs which in some cases cross the line of decency". This is not the case for all episodes. It is possible to record, but not watch, MegaMax via one of DirecTV's various on-demand services, such as the recently launched DirecTV Now, if the program has a parental-consent rating that allows it

Programs
See List of programs broadcast by MegaMax (Canada)

Currently, all programming on MegaMax's schedule is animated, although the channel does feature live-action series. In addition to being aired on the digital multicast feed on The Movie Network and Space.

As with its U.S. counterpart, the programming schedule on the English-language feed of MegaMax features a selection of classic cartoons, anime and live-action series, along with a range of other programming. In addition to the movie trailers that air before feature films on The Movie Network and Space, new animated movies are also scheduled at least once per week on the English-language feed of MegaMax.

Blocks
See /Blocks

Animation studio
MegaMax Animation Studios is an animation studio that operates in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Production house
MegaMax Productions, headquartered in Toronto, is a production house in the Asia-Pacific region founded in 1996.