Sun News Network went dark at dawn on Friday following a fruitless search for a buyer.
"I regret to inform you that Sun Media Corporation has made the difficult decision to shut down Sun News. As a result, the channel is now off the air," Julie Tremblay, president and CEO of Sun Media told staff in an internal memo early Friday.
"Over the past few years, every possible effort was made to achieve sufficient market penetration to generate the profits needed to operate a national news channel. Unfortunately, those efforts did not bear fruit because of the numerous roadblocks to carriage that we encountered."
