The current Super Channel service was launched in 2007, and is not affiliated with the two pre-existing English-language premium channels which used the name at various times prior to 2001, which were later known as Movie Central (in Western Canada; defunct since March 2016) and The Movie Network (in Eastern Canada; merged with CraveTV and rebranded as Crave in 2018).

Prior to 2016, Super Channel was the first and only general-interest English-language pay television service authorized to operate nationally.

Super Channel is available on nearly all major cable, IPTV and satellite providers including Telus Optik TV, Bell Satellite TV, Shaw Direct, Access Communications, Cogeco, Rogers Cable, Shaw Cable, Eastlink, SaskTel, Westman Communications, Bell MTS, Novus, VMedia, RiverTV, Amazon Channels, Apple TV Channels and other providers.

The Allard family were the original owners of Movie Central, which during their stewardship until 2001 was known as "Superchannel" (rendered as a single word title).

For a time in the 1980s, First Choice (now the Pay TV counterpart to the Crave streaming service) had also used the "Superchannel" name under a co-branding agreement).

[2] Allarco was one of four applicants for new pay television licences that were considered at a public hearing held by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission on October 24, 2005.

[12] Replacing Super Channel 4, Ginx eSports TV Canada launched on May 4, 2017, with a live Canadian edition of The Bridge, a late night talk show.

Super Channel HD is a high definition simulcast feed that broadcasts in the 1080i resolution format.

[citation needed] On September 25, 2023, Allarco launched a standalone subscription service for Roku devices called Super Channel+.

[20] Allarco introduced two free ad-supported streaming television channels in October 2023 as part of Tubi's launch of that service in Canada.