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I have made this as part of worldbuilding for something I am planning to work on called Reklama Robot (広告労働者). It’s essentially a story about a warlock in an alternate timeline in which Canada split itself into three; Nunavut (North Canada), the Socialist Republic of Western Canada (take a guess), and the Republic of Canada (Eastern Canada).

Here is the logo for the Science Fiction & Fantasy Programme Service for Western Canada, known on-screen as SPeK (pronounced as ‘speck’).
SPeK launched on July 7th, 1997, at 7:00pm Pacific; four months before its East Canada equivalent SPACE. The first thing it showed was a subtitled version of the 1972 Soviet science fiction film Solaris followed by the Tarasov-animated short Contract. The channel airs science fiction, speculation, science fact, and fantasy programming, mostly borrowed from SPACE, Canal Z, and SaiFai. The channel used to occasionally air horror programming until SHADÖ launched on September 9th, 2001. The most popular show on the channel was the East Canadian-German science fiction TV series LEXX, which has been on the schedule since 1998. The other popular show on SPeK was Mystery Science Theatre 3000, a show that aired on SaiFai in the USSA but never aired on SPACE.

As I said before, most of the channel’s programming is borrowed from SPACE, Canal Z, and SaiFai. There was extraordinarily little Western Canadian content on the channel’s schedule, excluding their interstitials. This is funny because the channel is 50% owned by the Science Fiction/Fantasy Society of Western Canada, while CHUM Limited (who owns SPACE) and Astral Media (who owns Canal Z) own 10% of it and USA Networks (who owns SaiFai) owns the remaining 30%. Many SF/F Society members, most of them employees of SPeK, filed complaints to the Media Communications Authority (WESTCOM) about this issue. So far, WESTCOM has given SPeK a scolding at best.

HINT: Guess which specialty channel this logo is based off from.

Description

I have made this as part of worldbuilding for something I am planning to work on called Reklama Robot (広告労働者). It’s essentially a story about a warlock in an alternate timeline in which Canada split itself into three; Nunavut (North Canada), the Socialist Republic of Western Canada (take a guess), and the Republic of Canada (Eastern Canada).

Here is the logo for the Science Fiction & Fantasy Programme Service for Western Canada, known on-screen as SPeK (pronounced as ‘speck’).
SPeK launched on July 7th, 1997, at 7:00pm Pacific; four months before its East Canada equivalent SPACE. The first thing it showed was a subtitled version of the 1972 Soviet science fiction film Solaris followed by the Tarasov-animated short Contract. The channel airs science fiction, speculation, science fact, and fantasy programming, mostly borrowed from SPACE, Canal Z, and SaiFai. The channel used to occasionally air horror programming until SHADÖ launched on September 9th, 2001. The most popular show on the channel was the East Canadian-German science fiction TV series LEXX, which has been on the schedule since 1998. The other popular show on SPeK was Mystery Science Theatre 3000, a show that aired on SaiFai in the USSA but never aired on SPACE.

As I said before, most of the channel’s programming is borrowed from SPACE, Canal Z, and SaiFai. There was extraordinarily little Western Canadian content on the channel’s schedule, excluding their interstitials. This is funny because the channel is 50% owned by the Science Fiction/Fantasy Society of Western Canada, while CHUM Limited (who owns SPACE) and Astral Media (who owns Canal Z) own 10% of it and USA Networks (who owns SaiFai) owns the remaining 30%. Many SF/F Society members, most of them employees of SPeK, filed complaints to the Media Communications Authority (WESTCOM) about this issue. So far, WESTCOM has given SPeK a scolding at best.

HINT: Guess which specialty channel this logo is based off from.