50-412: CKCO may refer to: CKCO-DT , a television station (channel 13) licensed to Kitchener, Ontario, Canada CIWW , a radio station (1310 AM) licensed to Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, which held the call sign CKCO from 1922 to 1949 [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about radio and/or television stations with
100-572: A bureau in Windsor at the corner of Park Street and Victoria Avenue, on the ground floor of the Victoria Park Place apartments. This bureau was shut down in 1994, shortly after the launch of independent station /semi- BBS affiliate CHWI. The spot was abandoned for several years, still showing the faded "CKCO-TV 42" banners atop its storefront for a few years (it is now home to a convenience store ). News veterans who had their start at
150-418: A corporate reorganization in 1970 placed the stations directly under the ownership of Electrohome, which also acquired control of CKCO when Canadian broadcasting laws required domestic ownership of stations, ending the involvement of American-owned Famous Players, which at the time was owned by Paramount Pictures ' parent company Gulf + Western (the latter was acquired by the original Viacom ). CKCO would become
200-509: A limited amount of local programming in addition to its local newscasts. CKCO presently broadcasts church services each Sunday morning at 10 a.m. from two Kitchener area churches: St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church and St. Peters Lutheran Church, which are alternated each week. CKCO serves as the flagship station for CTV's broadcasts of the Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest parade, which is held each Thanksgiving Day in
250-467: A political dispute with Canadian authorities on paid fee-for-carriage requirements for cable television operators. A subsequent change in ownership assigned full control of CTVglobemedia to Bell Media ; as a result, CKCO-TV-2 remained in normal licensed broadcast operation. In February 2014, CKCO-TV-2 was shut down as a result of a power failure combined with a property dispute with a neighbouring landowner, which blocked service vans from driving up to
300-721: A practice that began in 1967 with the emergence of colour television and continued until 1989. On August 18, 2012, the Saturday edition of CTV News at Six was expanded to one hour replacing The Beat . On April 20, 2014, the Sunday edition of CTV News at Six was also expanded to an hour replacing the long-running show Provincewide . From January 2017, local news was presented in 16:9 SD. On September 18, 2017, CTV Kitchener launched its own edition of CTV News at Five . Bell Media initially announced that high-definition production of CTV News Kitchener would commence on September 25. However,
350-484: A sister company headed by Freston under the Viacom name. The split was approved by Viacom's board on June 14, 2005, and took effect on December 31. The second iterations of CBS Corporation and Viacom began trading on January 3, 2006. On August 13, 2019, CBS and Viacom officially announced their re-merger deal ; the combined company would be called ViacomCBS, with Bob Bakish as president and CEO and Shari Redstone as
400-693: Is a television station in Kitchener, Ontario , Canada, part of the CTV Television Network . It is owned and operated by network parent Bell Media alongside London -based CTV 2 station CFPL-DT (channel 10), although the two stations maintain separate operations. CKCO-DT's studios are located on King Street West in Kitchener (across from the Grand River Hospital and Ion rapid transit light rail station adjacent to
450-506: Is provided in these areas by sister station CFTO). Programming on CKCO-TV-3 was originally the same as the main CKCO signal, except for local inserts during newscasts and local commercials. In 2009, it was announced that CKCO-TV-3 was scheduled to cease producing distinct local programming by August 31 of that year, but expected to continue operations as a rebroadcaster. As of September 2009, CKCO-TV-3 ceased airing alternate local programming for
500-549: The Blockbuster Video chain in 1994. The acquisition of Paramount Communications on July 7, 1994, made Viacom one of the world's largest entertainment companies. Also in 1993, WTXX entered into a part-time local marketing agreement with Viacom's NBC station WVIT . The Paramount and Blockbuster acquisitions gave Viacom access to large television holdings: An archive of programming controlled by Aaron Spelling 's company which included, along with his own productions ,
550-648: The Dayton , San Francisco , Nashville and Seattle metropolitan areas. Several of these were originally independent systems that CBS acquired in the 1960s. The division was known as Viacom Cablevision until the early 1990s, when it was renamed to Viacom Cable . By 1995, Viacom Cable had about 1.1 million subscribers. Viacom sold the division to TCI in 1995. Viacom's cable assets are now part of Comcast . In March 2005, Viacom announced that it would split into two companies – one would contain Viacom's "slow-growth" assets;
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#1732797275864600-484: The Guelph area, avoiding direct competition with its sister CTV Two stations in other parts of southwestern Ontario for local news coverage. In early April 2012, presumably to end any confusion about its mandate, the station changed its on-air branding to "CTV Kitchener". Before CKCO was a CTV owned-and-operated station, the station produced considerably more local non-news programming: The station continues to produce
650-581: The Waterloo border), and its transmitter is located at Baden Tower between Snyders Road East and Highway 7 in Baden , just west of the Kitchener city limits. The station first signed on the air at 6 p.m. on March 1, 1954. Its signal transmitted from the Baden Tower (a transmitter on Baden Hill ), near Baden , just west of Kitchener. The transmitter has become one of the most identifiable landmarks in
700-488: The parent company of CBS, the former Westinghouse Electric Corporation , which had been renamed CBS Corporation in 1997. Viacom was split into the second incarnations of CBS Corporation and Viacom — both remained under National Amusements ownership — in 2005; the split was structured with the second CBS Corporation being the original Viacom's legal successor , and the second Viacom being an entirely new company. The two companies eventually re-merged in 2019, leading to
750-880: The 1970s and 1980s, and also distributed syndicated television programs. The company went under Sumner Redstone 's control in 1987 through his cinema chain company National Amusements . At the time of its split, Viacom's assets included the CBS and UPN broadcast networks, the Paramount Pictures film and television studio, local radio station operator CBS Radio , cable channels such as MTV , Nickelodeon , Comedy Central , BET and Showtime , outdoor media operator Viacom Outdoor , television production and distribution firm King World Productions , and book publisher Simon & Schuster . It also owned its IP holding subsidiary Viacom International and brand licensor Westinghouse Licensing Corporation . In 2000, Viacom acquired
800-470: The Famous Players theatre chain (now owned by Cineplex Entertainment ) and businessman Carl Arthur Pollock , president of the family-owned television manufacturer Electrohome , although his broadcast holdings – which also included radio stations CFCA-FM and CKKW – were operated by a separate company. At one time, CKCO was owned by CAP Communications, whose name was taken from Pollock's initials;
850-540: The Flintstones , as well as other children's programs at the station. Oopsy the Clown, a children's performer portrayed by St. Thomas native Bob McNea (1929–2005), moved to CKCO after appearing for several years on Detroit NBC affiliate WWJ-TV (now WDIV-TV ), where he served as Detroit's " Bozo the Clown ". During the 1970s, it was found that the cartoons seen on Bozo were too violent and WWJ executives offered Bob
900-791: The Redstone family maintained 71-percent voting control of the company through National Amusements' holdings of Viacom's stock. In 2002, Viacom's MTV Networks International bought independently run Dutch music video channel TMF , which at the time was broadcasting in Belgium and the Netherlands . In June 2004, MTVNI bought VIVA Media AG , the German equivalent to MTV. The same month, plans were announced to dispose of Viacom's interest in Blockbuster later that year by means of an exchange offer;
950-539: The Sarnia and Chatham area and became a direct simulcast of CKCO-DT. On July 30, 2019, Bell Media was granted permission to close down CKCO-TV-3 as part of Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2019-268. This transmitter was shut down on May 2, 2020. Prior to 1999, the station also broadcast on channel 11 to Muskoka and Parry Sound from the CKCO-TV-4 transmitter at Dwight , near Huntsville . This transmitter first signed on
1000-588: The Twin Cities. CKCO-DT presently broadcasts 15 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with three hours each weekday). Prior to 1998, when Baton Broadcasting rebranded all the CTV stations identically, CKCO's newscast was called CKCO Action News . In the past, the station's newscasts were branded as Scan NewsHour and Ontario Report . The station operates a news bureau in Chatham, Ontario , and also had
1050-519: The acquisition was finalized. On October 3, 2005, CKCO ceased identifying by its call letters, adopting the local brand "CTV Southwestern Ontario", with its newscasts rebranding from CKCO News to CTV News . The local brand reflected the fact that, at that time, the station provided some coverage of news in areas southwest of Waterloo Region . While it remains the CTV main-network station for all of Southwestern Ontario, CKCO has since refocused its news-gathering resources exclusively on Waterloo Region and
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#17327972758641100-552: The air on February 25, 1976. In 1999, that transmitter began relaying the signal of CKNY-TV in North Bay ; it has since become a rebroadcaster of Sudbury 's CICI . Channel still on the air as a full-time repeater of another station. *Currently being sold to other owners pending approval of the CRTC. Viacom (1952%E2%80%932005) The original phase of Viacom Inc. (derived from "Video & Audio Communications")
1150-513: The area. Originally, like all privately owned television stations in Canada from 1953 to 1959, CKCO was an affiliate of the CBC ; it became an affiliate of CTV in 1963. The station increased its transmitter power in the early 1960s to reach London , from which Kitchener then received CBC affiliate programs on CFPL-TV . CKCO was originally owned by Central Ontario Television, a consortium that included
1200-463: The company had set up its own division Viacom Pictures, to produce its feature films for television, most notably Showtime . Sumner Redstone , via his theater chain operator National Amusements , acquired a controlling interest in Viacom on June 10, 1987. Redstone made a string of large acquisitions in the early 1990s, announcing plans to merge with Paramount Communications (formerly Gulf+Western ), parent of Paramount Pictures , in 1993, and buying
1250-828: The company purchased WHNB-TV in New Britain, Connecticut , changing its call letters to WVIT . Two years later Viacom added the Sonderling Broadcasting chain, giving it radio stations in New York City , Washington, D.C. , Houston , and San Francisco , and one television station, WAST (now WNYT ) in Albany, New York . In 1983 Viacom purchased KSLA in Shreveport, Louisiana , and WHEC-TV in Rochester, New York , in separate transactions. This
1300-447: The core cable business and the company would ride herd on diverse enterprises as Viacom's pay-per-view venture, Viewer's Choice, Satellite Direct, Inc. and SMA TV, and handle strategic planning and new business development for Viacom Networks Group, and would develop merchandising, licensing and home video business around the two Viacom subsidiaries it was currently operating, Showtime-The Movie Channel, Inc. and MTV Networks . In 1989,
1350-499: The division was incorporated as Viacom , and spun off on January 1, 1971, amid new FCC rules forbidding television networks from owning syndication companies (the rules were later repealed). Viacom expanded its activities throughout the decade with a launch of a production unit, and later acquired the rights to various features from various studios. In addition to CBS TV series syndication rights, Viacom also held cable systems with 90,000 cable subscribers, at that time
1400-623: The first station in Canada to provide closed captioning for all of its local newscasts, in 1988. In the 1990s, Baton Broadcasting had owned competing local stations in southwestern Ontario (CFPL-TV in London, CHWI-TV in Windsor, CKNX-TV in Wingham ). A deal between Electrohome and Baton in 1996 resulted in each company owning 50% of these stations, as well as CKCO-TV, among other Canadian stations. The following year, another deal gave Baton control over CKCO-TV, while CHUM Limited took control over
1450-468: The formation of ViacomCBS, now known as Paramount Global . Viacom originated on March 16, 1952 — when CBS founded its broadcast syndication division, CBS Television Film Sales . It renamed as CBS Films in October 1958. On December 1, 1967, it again renamed as CBS Enterprises Inc. . On July 6, 1970, it announced that CBS Enterprises would be spun out from its parent company, and the same month
1500-428: The joint venture. Around the same time, Viacom bought MTV Networks , which owned MTV , VH-1 , and Nickelodeon . This led to Viacom becoming a mass media company rather than simply a distribution company, and completed in 1986. In 1987, Viacom sought to expand its horizons by launching the new Viacom Network Enterprises division, which was led by Ronald C. Bernard, in order to develop and exploit properties outside of
1550-478: The largest in the US. In 1976, Viacom launched Showtime , a pay movie channel, with Warner-Amex taking a half-share ownership. The company went into original programming production starting in the late 1970s until the early 1980s with middling results. The company expanded in 1977 to launch a unit for program acquisitions and prime-time network programming. Viacom's first broadcast station acquisition came in 1978 when
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1600-531: The launch date was delayed to October 2, with CTV News at Noon being the first local newscast to be presented in high-definition from the CTV Kitchener studios. CKCO's noon and weekend newscasts were cancelled on February 8, 2024, as part of nationwide programming cuts by Bell Media. As part of Canada's transition to digital television , CKCO flash-cut to digital on August 31, 2011. While originally allocated channel 7 for its digital signal, CKCO-DT
1650-422: The next two years selling off its non-UPN affiliated stations to various owners. In 1997, Viacom exited the broadcast radio business, albeit temporarily, when it sold the majority of its stations to Chancellor Media, a predecessor company of iHeartMedia . On September 7, 1999, Viacom announced their acquisition of CBS Corporation in a $ 35.9 billion deal. In addition to being the largest media merger in history at
1700-495: The offices of president and chief operating officer between Moonves and Freston. Redstone was set to retire in the near future, and a split would be a creative solution to the matter of replacing him. The existing Viacom would become the second CBS Corporation as it was headed by Moonves and kept CBS, Simon & Schuster , and Paramount Network Television (now known as CBS Studios ), among other assets; while MTV Networks, BET Networks, and Paramount Pictures would spin-off to
1750-540: The opportunity to create a new clown show. During a Bozo episode it was announced that Bozo was leaving television to go back and join the circus. He phoned his clown cousin "Oopsy" and during a split screen conversation (with Bob playing both Bozo and Oopsy) Oopsy agreed to replace him. The Oopsy the Clown Show aired for a while on WWJ as McNea decided to move back to Canada and join CKCO-TV. Gary McLaren worked in
1800-774: The other southwestern Ontario stations (which presently operate as owned-and-operated stations of the CTV Two television system ). CTVglobemedia reacquired CFPL, CHWI, and CKNX in 2007 as a result of a takeover of CHUM Limited. In 1998, Baton changed its name to CTV Inc. after becoming the sole owner of CTV, ending the decades of cooperative ownership of the network. In 2000, BCE purchased CTV Inc. and combined it with NetStar Communications and The Globe and Mail into Bell Globemedia. The company changed its name in 2007 to CTVglobemedia after BCE reduced its ownership interest. In September 2010, BCE re-acquired full ownership of CTV Inc., which changed its name once again to Bell Media in 2011 when
1850-519: The other would consist of the company's "high-growth" divisions – under National Amusements' control because of a stagnating stock price. The internal rivalry between CBS chairman Les Moonves and MTV Networks chief executive officer Tom Freston , and the controversy of the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show were also seen as factors. After the departure of Mel Karmazin in 2004, Redstone, who served as chairman and CEO, decided to split
1900-946: The outage, as well as the fact that the transmitter cost six times more to run than the amount taken in. In addition to the Baden tower, CKCO was served in the Sarnia area by rebroadcaster CKCO-TV-3 , on UHF channel 42. This transmitter, actually located at Oil Springs , was established on May 16, 1975, and commenced broadcasts on November 5 of that year. The station was available over-the-air and on cable in extreme eastern and southeastern Michigan in such towns as Port Huron and St. Clair Shores , and appeared in Detroit-area television listings. The station targeted Sarnia, Chatham, and most of Lambton and Kent counties. CKCO continues to be carried in these areas, along with Windsor and Essex County on Cogeco Cable on channel 13 (SD only; HDTV
1950-565: The owners of the Black Entertainment Television (BET) network. As with CBS Cable, it was immediately integrated into MTV Networks, causing some outcry among BET workers in the Washington, D.C., area (where BET was based before the merger). As a result, BET was separated from MTV Networks, into a division known as BET Networks . Although a majority economic interest in Viacom was held by independent shareholders,
2000-526: The pre-1973 ABC and NBC libraries under Worldvision Enterprises and Republic Pictures ; and an expanded group of television stations which merged Viacom's five existing outlets into Paramount's seven-station group . Viacom used some of these stations to launch the UPN network, which started operations in January 1995 as a joint venture with Chris-Craft Industries . Shortly afterward, Viacom/Paramount spent
2050-499: The same/similar call signs or branding. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=CKCO&oldid=842732262 " Category : Broadcast call sign disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages CKCO-DT CKCO-DT (channel 13)
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2100-501: The site to make repairs, forcing technicians to walk through fields in snowshoes in cold winter weather. A diesel generator kept the transmitter in operation in the short term, but it would later fail, with the ongoing property dispute blocking efforts to repair that as well. Bell Media applied to surrender its license for CKCO-TV-2 to the CRTC in August 2014, after CKCO received fewer than thirty calls from viewers and advertisers regarding
2150-534: The spinoff of Blockbuster was completed in October. Also in 2002, Viacom acquired the remaining shares of Infinity Broadcasting radio chain, which resulted in Viacom's return to operating radio stations after it originally exited the broadcast radio business in 1997. In April 2003, Viacom acquired the remaining ownership shares of Comedy Central from then- AOL Time Warner , integrating Comedy Central into MTV Networks. From its formation until 1995, Viacom operated several cable television systems generally located in
2200-401: The station include Jeff Hutcheson , Lisa LaFlamme and Ron Johnston. Bill Inkol was a long-time sportscaster not only for the station, but often for CTV's national sports broadcasts. He was also a host of Bowling for Dollars . "Big Al" ("Al" Elwood Jones) was the long-time host of after-school Big Al's Ranch Party , Big Al ' s Talent Showcase , Big Al ' s Cartoon Capers , Big Al and
2250-428: The station's history included local daytime show hosts such as Elaine Cole, Betty Thompson and Johnnie Walters . Thompson was also a long-time host of Romper Room . Bob Bratina hosted Polka Time with Walter Ostanek and replaced "Big Al" as host of Talent Showcase prior to Oopsy the Clown and his talent show Big Top Talent . CKCO was known for many years for the red jackets worn by news anchors on their newscasts,
2300-425: The station's news department for 39 years from 1957 to 1996, spending most of that time in an on-air role, and also hosted Canadian Bandstand in the 1960s and the weekend newsmagazine show Sunday AM . Daiene Vernile anchored and produced the weekly program Provincewide from 1985 until April 2014, making it the longest continuously running, locally produced newsmagazine program in Canada. Other personalities during
2350-632: The time, the purchase effectively reunited Viacom with its former parent, CBS. The merger was completed in May 2000, bringing CBS's cable channels TNN (now Paramount Network ) and Country Music Television (CMT) under Viacom's MTV Networks wing, as well as CBS's production and distribution units Eyemark Entertainment (formerly Group W Productions ) and King World under the main wing. The merger also folded Viacom's broadcast group, now consisting entirely of UPN stations, into CBS's owned-stations division. In 2001, Viacom completed its purchase of BET Holdings,
2400-457: Was an American mass media and entertainment conglomerate based in New York City . It began as CBS Television Film Sales , the broadcast syndication division of the CBS television network in 1952; it was renamed CBS Films in 1958, renamed CBS Enterprises in 1968, renamed Viacom in 1970, and spun off into its own company in 1971. Viacom was a distributor of CBS television series throughout
2450-554: Was established on channel 13 instead in order to avoid interference with the digital signal of Buffalo, New York 's WBBZ-TV . CKCO was also previously seen in the Bruce Peninsula and Georgian Bay region on channel 2 from the CKCO-TV-2 transmitter at Wiarton , which began operation in 1971. CKCO-TV-2 was on a long list of CTV rebroadcasters nationwide that was set to shut down on or before August 31, 2009, as part of
2500-617: Was followed in 1986 with CBS-owned KMOX-TV in St. Louis ; with the purchase, that station's call letters were changed to KMOV . Also in 1983, Viacom reacquired its premium channel Showtime, and later merged it with Warner-Amex's The Movie Channel forming Showtime/The Movie Channel, Inc . Between the late 1980s and the early 1990s, Viacom syndicated several shows produced by Carsey-Werner Productions , namely The Cosby Show , A Different World and Roseanne . In 1985, Viacom acquired Showtime/The Movie Channel, Inc. from Warner-Amex, ending
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