Canada’s Gusto Worldwide Media had seen two years of consistent growth prior to the Covid-19 lockdown, and the company is one of the first in the province of Ontario to get back up and running with original production again.

Experienced TV producer Chris Knight started Gusto TV as an independent TV channel in Canada in 2013. In 2016, local broadcast group Bell Media licensed the content in Canada and launched a revamped channel backed by a content deal with Knight’s team. Gusto produces all the food programming that appears on the network, such as Watts On The Grill, The Latin Kitchen and One World Kitchen, in-house.

Knight retains ownership of the content outside Canada, which led to international expansion on two fronts in 2018 and 2019: launching the channel on to multiple platforms in multiple territories and distributing the growing library of original culinary content to third-party buyers.