Within Canada, where a term is virtually all oftentimes utilized, a term "specialty service" (or even sir thomas more explicitly "specialty television programming undertaking") refers to virtually any non-premium television service which is not carried across a airwaves or even otherwise deemed exempt per CRTC. It is primarily carried, so, in cable television and satellite television.

Entirely such services come specifically limited around regards to a types, & typically the total of aforesaid types, of programming that may be carried. For example, TSN can only air sports or sports-related programming, while Bravo! cannot air any sports. This differs from either a U.S., where several cable/satellite services such as USA Network or Turner Network Television regularly air programs from nearly all categories, and where there are no restrictions on "specialty" services such as MSNBC from airing sports, as that particular service has on occasion.

Types of specialty services can include, however not by a blame sight come limited to:

news channels sports channels movie channels men's interest channels women's interest channels children's interest channels adult channels

(Note: Which are actually non necessarily industry-accepted terms for these types of services)

Understand likewise: List of Canadian specialty services