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100-482: The venue hosted CBC Television 's Hockey Day in Canada in 2003, and a White Stripes concert in 2007. The arena was also site to four professional wrestling events, featuring WWE superstars Christian and Gail Kim , as well as Tracy Brooks , Robert Roode and Rhino in 2008. The surface of the arena had become unusable (for ice) after a portion the floor sank in 2006, however, on August 18, 2009, $ 2.2 million

200-475: A must-carry station on cable and satellite television providers, and live streamed on its CBC Gem video platform. Almost all of the CBC's programming is produced in Canada. Although CBC Television is supported by public funding , commercial advertising revenue supplements the network (in contrast to CBC Radio and public broadcasters from several other countries, which are commercial-free.). CBC Television provides

300-581: A "television service" in the eyes of the CRTC since 2000, when it allowed its network licence to expire. CBC, Radio-Canada , TVA and Aboriginal Peoples Television Network are the only official television networks in Canada (CTV was issued a separate network licence in 2001 to continue to provide programming to CHFD Thunder Bay, CJBN Kenora, and CITL Lloydminster). CTV lost significant coverage in British Columbia and Newfoundland and Labrador at

400-498: A complete 24-hour network schedule of news, sports, entertainment, and children's programming; in most cases, it feeds the same programming at the exact local times nationwide, except to the Newfoundland Time Zone , where programs air 30 minutes "late". On October 9, 2006, at 6:00  a.m., the network switched to a 24-hour schedule, becoming one of the last major English-language broadcasters to transition to such

500-408: A decade. In 2002, CBC Television and CBC News Network became the first broadcasters in Canada that are required to provide closed captioning for all of their programming. On those networks, only outside commercials need not be captioned, though most of them are aired with captions. All shows, bumpers, billboards, promos and other internal programming must be captioned. The requirement stems from

600-574: A different Canadian hockey venue. Other than hockey, CBC Sports properties included Toronto Raptors basketball, Toronto FC soccer, and various other amateur and professional events. The telecast of the Olympics including the Summer and Winter Olympic Games on Canadian television on CBC's broadcast started in 1956. It has the rights to broadcast the Olympic Games until 2024. It was also

700-428: A different time than the network, or were not broadcast on the station at all. Most private affiliates generally opted out of CBC's afternoon schedule and Thursday night arts programming. Private affiliates carried the 10 p.m. broadcast of The National as a core part of the CBC schedule, but generally omitted the 11 p.m. repeat (which is no longer broadcast). Most private affiliates produce their own local newscasts for

800-541: A duration of at least 35 minutes. Some of the private affiliates later began adding CBC's overnight programming to their schedules since the network began broadcasting 24 hours a day in October 2006. Following the disaffiliation of the last privately owned CBC affiliate CKSA-DT in Lloydminster on August 31, 2016, no more private stations operate as CBC affiliates, as many such stations have been purchased either by

900-657: A former CBC executive and one of the unsuccessful applicants for the Toronto licence, who had first approached the BBG in April 1960 to pitch a second-station network proposal of his own. Under his plan, at least 51% of the shares of the network would be owned by various prominent Bay Street investors who had previously backed his Toronto station bid; only 49% would be reserved for the network's affiliates to purchase, if they wished. The BBG – and particularly its chair Andrew Stewart (who at

1000-657: A former partner in CTV (via ATV), and at that point one of Canada's largest broadcasters. While CTVglobemedia kept CHUM's radio stations along with the A-Channel television stations and most of CHUM's specialty channels, the Citytv stations were sold off to Rogers as required by the conditions the CRTC placed upon CTV when approving the CHUM purchase. Bell Globemedia was renamed CTVglobemedia on January 1, 2007. In March 2009, CTV became

1100-1622: A full Global station, adopting a schedule similar to nearby Global station CKND-DT in Winnipeg. The move left CITL-DT in Lloydminster as the sole remaining CTV affiliate not owned by the network until 2014. It was announced in June 2014, that CKPR-DT in Thunder Bay, Ontario would change affiliations from CBC to CTV on September 1, 2014, resulting in Thunder Bay having a CTV affiliate again. On May 20, 2015, Corus Entertainment announced an agreement with Bell Media to switch its three CBC affiliates in Ontario to CTV: CHEX-DT Peterborough , CHEX-TV-2 Oshawa , and CKWS-DT Kingston . The affiliation switch went into effect on August 31, 2015. The network's programming consists mainly of hit American series (such as The Amazing Race , The Big Bang Theory , Blue Bloods , Castle , CSI , The Good Doctor , Grey's Anatomy , The Mentalist , The Michael J. Fox Show , Unforgettable and The X Factor ), but it has also had success with Canadian-made shows such as Due South , Power Play , Degrassi: The Next Generation , Corner Gas , Instant Star , The Eleventh Hour , Flashpoint , The Listener , Canadian Idol , MasterChef Canada and The Amazing Race Canada . CTV also regularly produces and airs Canadian-made television movies, often based on stories from Canadian news or Canadian history, under

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1200-494: A handful of British programs, and a few American films and off-network repeats. Since this change, the CBC has sometimes struggled to maintain ratings comparable to those it achieved before 1995, although it has seen somewhat of a ratings resurgence in recent years. In the 2007–08 season, popular series such as Little Mosque on the Prairie and The Border helped the network achieve its strongest ratings performance in over half

1300-500: A human rights complaint filed by deaf lawyer Henry Vlug, which was settled in 2002. The CBC's flagship newscast, The National , airs Sunday through Fridays at 10:00 p.m. local time (except in Newfoundland , where it airs at 10:30 p.m.) and Saturdays at 6:00 p.m. EST. Until October 2006, CBC owned-and-operated stations aired a second broadcast of the program at 11:00 p.m.; This later broadcast included only

1400-424: A multi-year agreement with Viacom , expanding on past programming agreements between the two channels. Canadian users attempting to visit Comedy Central websites are redirected to The Comedy Network's website, and vice versa for American users. The Canadian channel kept its own brand name, but the agreement is otherwise very similar to the earlier CTV/Viacom deal for MTV Canada . Historically, CTV Sports existed as

1500-472: A programming agreement with the CBC, in which the station would continue to provide CBC programming in Thunder Bay for a period of five years. On March 16, 2012, Astral Media announced the sale of its assets to Bell Media , owners of CTV and CTV Two , for $ 3.38 billion with CFTK and CJDC included in the acquisition. Both stations subsequently became CTV Two stations. CBC television stations in Nunavut ,

1600-468: A retransmitter of its nearest O&O station to ensure that CBC service is continued. However, due to an agreement between CHBC and CFJC-TV in Kamloops , CFJC also disaffiliated from the CBC on February 27, 2006, but no retransmitters were installed in the licence area. Former private CBC affiliates CKPG-TV Prince George and CHAT-TV Medicine Hat disaffiliated on August 31, 2008, and joined E!, but

1700-430: A schedule. Most CBC-owned stations previously signed off the air during the early morning hours (typically from 1:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m.). Instead of the infomercials aired by most private stations, or a simulcast of CBC News Network in the style of BBC One 's nightly simulcast of BBC News Channel , the CBC uses the time to air repeats, including local news, primetime series, films and other programming from

1800-413: A single local newscast on weekend evenings (comprising a supper hour broadcast on Saturdays and a late evening newscast on Sundays). Weekly newsmagazine The Fifth Estate is also a CBC mainstay, as are documentary series such as Doc Zone . One of the most popular shows on CBC Television is the weekly Saturday night broadcast of NHL hockey games, Hockey Night in Canada . It has been televised by

1900-527: A stand-alone division; with CTV's purchase of cable network TSN in 2001, TSN has assumed responsibility for all sports output on CTV since. In early 2005, CTV was part of the consortium that won the Canadian broadcast rights to Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics hosted by Canada itself and the London 2012 Summer Olympics . CBC had consistently won Olympic broadcast rights from the 1996 Summer Olympics through to

2000-535: A standard call letter naming convention, in that the first two letters are "CB" (an ITU prefix in the CA-CE block allocated not to Canada (whose block is CF-CK), but to Chile) and the last letter is "T". Only the third letter varies from market to market; however, that letter is typically the same as the third letter of the CBC Radio One and CBC Radio 2 stations in the same market. An exception to this rule are

2100-608: Is a Canadian English-language broadcast television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation , the national public broadcaster . The network began operations on September 6, 1952, with its main studios at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre in Toronto. Its French-language counterpart is Ici Radio-Canada Télé . CBC Television is available throughout Canada on over-the-air television stations in urban centres, and as

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2200-404: Is available in free ad-supported and premium versions, with the latter including advertising-free video on-demand, access to CBC News Network, and access to premium content that is exclusive to subscribers. At launch, the CBC announced plans to add at least 50 Canadian films to Gem per-year, and announced a partnership with Telefilm Canada to stream a selection of featured Canadian films on

2300-545: Is now a division of the Bell Media subsidiary of BCE. It is Canada's largest privately or commercially owned network consisting of 22 owned-and-operated stations nationwide and two privately owned affiliates, and has consistently been placed as Canada's top- rated network in total viewers and in key demographics since 2002, after several years trailing the rival Global Television Network in key markets. Bell Media also operates additional CTV-branded properties, including

2400-475: The 1080i to 720p resolution format. In August 2012, after the CBC shut down all of their remaining analogue transmitters, CBC television (as well as CBC News Network ) began broadcasting all programming solely in the 16:9 aspect ratio and began letterboxing its widescreen feed for standard definition viewers just as Ici Radio-Canada Télé has done since September 2007. All CBC television stations, including those in major cities, are owned and operated by

2500-508: The 2008 Summer Olympics , the 1996 Summer Olympics being held in their main fiction TV series source, the United States. CTV and V (now Noovo and previously TQS) were the primary broadcasters, with TSN , RDS and Sportsnet providing supplementary coverage. CTV promised to broadcast 22 hours per day of event coverage during the 2012 Olympics; regular CTV programming was reallocated to CTV's secondary television system CTV Two during

2600-611: The CBC North stations in Yellowknife , Whitehorse and Iqaluit , whose call signs begin with "CF" due to their historic association with the CBC's Frontier Coverage Package prior to the advent of microwave and satellite broadcasting. Some stations that broadcast from smaller cities were private affiliates of the CBC, that is, stations which are owned by commercial broadcasters but predominantly incorporated CBC programming within their schedules. Such stations generally followed

2700-596: The Canadian Television Network , or CTN) and the ITO faced off in a series of meetings with the BBG. The ITO decided not to follow through with a formal network application, but the stations – particularly Baton, which said it had no interest in participating in CTN and believed it could still be successful without one – continued to indicate various concerns with the viability of Caldwell's proposal. Ultimately,

2800-534: The Live 8 concerts, which was watched by over 10.5 million people – nearly one-third the country's population – at some point during the day; however, the average audience was much lower. According to at least one source, it was the most-watched program by this standard in Canadian history. On June 27, 2007, CTV and The Comedy Network gained exclusive Canadian rights to the entire Comedy Central library of past and current programs on all electronic platforms, under

2900-556: The Northwest Territories and Yukon , branded as CBC North , tailor their programming mostly to the local native population, and broadcast in many native languages such as Inuktitut , Gwichʼin and Dene . From 1994 through July 2005, CBC Television's news programming was aired in the United States on Newsworld International . On September 11, 2001, several American broadcasters without their own news operations, including C-SPAN and Home Shopping Network , carried

3000-447: The 24-hour national cable news network CTV News Channel and the secondary CTV 2 television system . There has never been an official full name corresponding to the initials "CTV"; prior to CTV's launch in 1961, it was given the proposed branding of "Canadian Television Network" (CTN), but that branding was dropped before the network's launch when the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) objected to it, claiming exclusive rights to

3100-571: The BBG granted a licence to CTN, conditional on securing the affiliation of six of the eight ITO stations. Baton's opposition to the CTN reversed in early 1961, soon after CFTO won the broadcast rights to the Canadian Football League Eastern Conference for the 1961 and 1962 seasons. Baton's original plan was to operate a temporary network to distribute the games incorporating CFTO, other independent stations, and CBC affiliates in smaller markets (assuming

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3200-800: The CBC announced it would not add new retransmitters to these areas. Incidentally, CFJC, CKPG and CHAT are all owned by an independent media company, Jim Pattison Group . With the closure of E! and other changes in the media landscape, several former CBC affiliates subsequently joined CTV, Citytv or Global, or closed altogether. According to filings to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) by Thunder Bay Electronics (owner of CBC's Thunder Bay affiliate CKPR-DT ) and Bell Media (owner of CBC affiliates CFTK-TV in Terrace and CJDC-TV in Dawson Creek),

3300-712: The CBC informed them that it would not extend its association with any of its private affiliates beyond August 31, 2011. Incidentally, that was also the date for analogue to digital transition in Canada. Given recent practice and the CBC's decision not to convert any retransmitters to digital, even in markets with populations in the hundreds in thousands, it was not expected that the CBC would open new transmitters to replace its affiliates, and indeed pared back its existing transmitter network to just its digital transmitters in July 2012. However, in March 2011, CKPR announced that it had come to

3400-474: The CBC itself or by Canwest Global or CHUM Limited , respectively becoming E! (a small system owned by Canwest, but separate from its fully national Global Television Network ) or A-Channel (later A, now CTV Two ) stations. One private CBC affiliate, CHBC-TV in Kelowna , joined E! (then known as CH) on February 27, 2006. When a private CBC affiliate reaffiliated with another network, the CBC normally added

3500-683: The CBC itself, with their master control facilities all located at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre in Toronto. CBC owned-and-operated (O&O) stations operate as a mostly seamless national service with few deviations from the main network schedule, although there are some regional differences from time to time. For on-air identification, most CBC stations use the CBC brand rather than their call letters, not identifying themselves specifically until sign-on or sign-off (though some, like Toronto's CBLT , do not ID themselves at all except through PSIP ). All CBC O&O stations have

3600-461: The CBC library. Its French counterpart, ICI Radio-Canada Télé , which continued to sign off every night for several years after that, now broadcasts a simulcast of its sister news network Ici RDI after regular programming ends for the night until the next programming day begins. While historically there has been room for regional differences in the schedule, as there is today (see "Stations", below), for CBC-owned stations, funding has decreased to

3700-517: The CBC opened its own stations or added rebroadcasters of nearby O&O stations. In a unique twist, the original Saskatchewan affiliate, CHAB/CHRE, was bought by the CBC in 1969 (and eventually changed its calls to CBKT , with the Regina station as the main station), allowing Regina's original station, CKCK-TV , to join CTV. Its attempt to expand to the United States ended when Buffalo's three network affiliates threatened legal action, forcing WNYP off

3800-401: The CBC schedule, airing a minimum 40 hours per week of network programming. However, they often chose to opt out of some CBC programming in order to air locally produced programs, syndicated series or programs purchased from other broadcasters, such as CTV Two , which do not have a broadcast outlet in the same market. In these cases, the CBC programming being displaced may have been broadcast at

3900-490: The CBC's coverage of the terror attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C. In the days after September 11, C-SPAN carried CBC's nightly newscast, The National , anchored by Peter Mansbridge . C-SPAN has also carried CBC's coverage of major events affecting Canadians. Among them: Several PBS stations also air some CBC programs, especially The Red Green Show , although no CBC programming currently airs on

4000-629: The CCA announced that TSN would obtain exclusive rights to curling broadcasts in Canada as of the 2008–09 season, shutting the CBC out of the championship weekend for the first time in 40-plus years. CBC Sports suffered another major blow when it was announced that after the 2007 season, the CFL regular season games and the Grey Cup would be moving to TSN, ending the CBC's tenure with the CFL. It has been stated that

4100-402: The CFL was not happy with the CBC's lacklustre production during the CBC's 2005 union lock-out, which forced the network to use CBC management to work the behind-the-scenes telecast and use stadium public address announcers in place of their regular announcer crew. On June 23, 2007, the network aired the first game in a two-year deal to broadcast Toronto Blue Jays games; the contract ended at

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4200-485: The Canada–United States border, and have a significant audience in those areas. CTV Television Network The CTV Television Network , commonly known as CTV (an acronym of Canadian Television since the logo ident of 1998), is a Canadian English-language terrestrial television network. Launched in 1961 and acquired by BCE Inc. in 2000, CTV is Canada's largest privately owned television network and

4300-462: The Edmonton station was a CBC O&O, thus CFRN-TV , the existing local station, would lose its CBC affiliation once CBXT signed on. Even before his station was licensed, John W. H. Bassett , the chief executive of the ultimately successful Toronto applicant Baton Aldred Rogers Broadcasting , had expressed interest in participating in the creation of a second television network, "of which we see

4400-446: The ITO's operations regardless of the size of its audience (CFTM, being a French-language station and therefore having little reason to collaborate with the other stations, would soon withdraw from the group; it would later emerge as the flagship of the first private French-language network, TVA ). The ITO soon resolved to apply for a network licence to link these second stations. However, the ITO faced opposition from Spence Caldwell ,

4500-560: The ITO, not CTV. In many cases, CTV found itself competing with its own stations for the rights to programming. Caldwell's departure in 1965 did little to alleviate the situation, and CTV soon found itself on the verge of bankruptcy. In 1966, the network's affiliates (which by this time included CJON-TV in St. John's , CKCO-TV in Kitchener , CHAB-TV/CHRE-TV in Moose Jaw / Regina , and

4600-481: The NHL to Rogers Communications , under a 12-year deal beginning in the 2014–15 NHL season . The CBC concurrently announced a sub-licensing agreement with Rogers, under which it would supply Sportsnet -produced Hockey Night in Canada broadcasts to CBC Television at no charge; all advertising during the broadcasts would be sold by Rogers, but the CBC would be provided with advertising time for its own programs. Officially,

4700-583: The North American PSIP virtual channeling standard. In fall 2007, the CBC upgraded its Toronto facilities, becoming the second fully HD news broadcaster in Canada. The National and all its news programs originating from the same news studio in Toronto (including CBC News: Sunday Night ) are now available in HD. On September 1, 2011, as part of the analogue television shutoff and digital conversion , all CBC over-the-air HD broadcasts switched from

4800-923: The Olympics. On May 22, 2007, it was announced that CTV had acquired the broadcast rights to the National Football League early-afternoon Sunday games, the full NFL playoffs, and the Super Bowl , starting with the 2007 NFL season , effectively ending a lengthy association between the NFL and Global . TSN, a sports channel co-owned with CTV, airs primetime NFL games and produces the CTV broadcasts in tandem with CBS and Fox . CTV carries its high-definition feed broadcasting at 1080i . The following CTV stations are available in HD on digital terrestrial television (DTT): On November 19, 2003, CTV launched an HD simulcast of its Toronto station CFTO-DT, with

4900-432: The Prairie (2007–12), and dramas such as The Tudors (2007–10), Heartland (since 2007) and Intelligence (2006–07). In recent years, British series such as Coronation Street and Doctor Who have been given greater prominence. As noted above, it now carries very little American programming apart from some syndicated daytime shows. In 2006, the CBC announced radical changes to its primetime line-up, including

5000-499: The Toronto station as anchor". Indeed, Baton had already begun quietly contacting the successful applicants in other cities to gauge their interest in forming a cooperative group to share Canadian programming among the stations. This led to the July 1960 formation of the Independent Television Organization (ITO), consisting of the eight newly licensed private stations and CFRN, each having one vote in

5100-677: The air. CTV made a name for itself in news coverage when it convinced star CBC news anchor Lloyd Robertson to switch networks in 1976. (Robertson served as the network's main anchorman until 2011). Its weekly newsmagazine series, W5 , has been a fixture on the network since 1966, predating the similar American program 60 Minutes by two years. In the 1970s, CTV often bought rights to pop and rock songs to serve as theme music for its programming, rather than commissioning original themes. Most notably, W5 used an instrumental portion of Supertramp 's " Fool's Overture ", Canada AM used an instrumental version of The Moody Blues ' "Ride My See-Saw",

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5200-562: The banners CTV Signature Series or CTV Movie . News programming consists of the nightly CTV National News ; national morning program Your Morning on CTV stations in Eastern Canada; local morning program CTV Morning Live on CTV stations in Western Canada; local newscasts branded as CTV News ; and newsmagazines W-Five and Question Period , which interviews politicians and recaps political events during

5300-647: The beginning of the 21st century, starting with a major television realignment in Vancouver . In 2000, Canwest Global bought the television stations of Western International Communications , which owned long-standing CTV affiliates CHAN in Vancouver and CHEK-TV in Victoria . A year later, after its CTV contract ran out, Canwest made CHAN the Global owned-and-operated station for British Columbia, taking advantage of CHAN's massive network of repeaters that cover 97% of

5400-640: The broadcasts are carried by a CRTC -licensed part-time network operated by Rogers and affiliated with all CBC Television stations. This was required to formally assign responsibility for the broadcasts to Rogers; on-air, the telecasts otherwise use CBC branding and continuity. As a result of funding reductions from the federal government and decreased revenues, in April 2014, the CBC announced it would no longer bid for professional sport broadcasting rights. Among CBC Television's best-known primetime series are comedy series Rick Mercer Report (2004–18), This Hour Has 22 Minutes (since 1993) and Little Mosque on

5500-558: The comedy Sophie from 2008 to 2009. Only The Border and Sophie were renewed for a second season in the fall of 2008. The new series Being Erica (2009–10) and the short-lived Wild Roses (2009) began airing in January 2009. Beginning in 2005, the CBC has contributed production funds for the BBC Wales revival of Doctor Who , for which it received a special credit at the end of each episode. This arrangement continued until

5600-485: The deal, Baton was allowed to vote Electrohome's shares in addition to its own. The following year, Baton acquired Electrohome's share of the joint venture, and separately acquired ATV from CHUM. This gave Baton a 57.2% controlling interest in the network, triggering a put option allowing the remaining affiliates, WIC (which by this time owned both CHAN and CFCF) and Moffat (owner of CKY), to sell their CTV shares to Baton without selling their stations, which they did. Baton

5700-613: The duration of the Caldwell era, yet nonetheless would later claim to have been a "charter member" of the network. The network finally launched as the CTV Television Network on October 1, 1961. The CBC had objected to the network's initial name, apparently claiming it had exclusive rights to the term "Canadian", and therefore the letters "CTV" have no official expanded meaning. The CTV network's first night on-air began with Harry Rasky 's promotional documentary on

5800-526: The early 1980s through the mid-1990s despite the presence of CFCF; the CJOH rebroadcaster reaches the western portion of the Montreal area. CTV's cooperative structure regularly led to conflicts between the network's owner-affiliates. In particular, the owners of CFCF, CJOH, and especially CHAN felt that Baton Broadcasting , owners of flagship CFTO in Toronto, dominated production of network programming. In

5900-432: The end of fourth season, broadcast in 2008. The CBC similarly contributed to the first season of the spin-off series, Torchwood . More recently, the network has also begun picking up Canadian rights to some Australian series, including the drama series Janet King and Love Child , and the comedy-drama series Please Like Me . In 2015, CBC Television premiered Dan and Eugene Levy 's sitcom Schitt's Creek ;

6000-463: The end of the 2008 season, and was not renewed. In August 2007, it was also announced that the CBC would broadcast National Basketball Association games involving the Toronto Raptors , starting with the 2007–08 NBA season , through at least 2009–10; the CBC would carry 10 games for the 2007–08 and 20 games for the 2008–09 and 2009–10 seasons. In November 2013, the CBC lost its rights to

6100-445: The exclusive carrier of Canadian Curling Association events during the 2004–05 season. Due to disappointing results and fan outrage over many draws being carried on CBC Country Canada (now called Cottage Life ), the association tried to cancel its multiyear deal with the CBC signed in 2004. After the CBC threatened legal action, both sides eventually came to an agreement under which early-round rights reverted to TSN . On June 15, 2006,

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6200-483: The fees for additional CTV programming beyond what CJON claimed it could pay. Newfoundland Broadcasting also did not want to continue to carry CTV's national advertising during these programs. At the start of the 2002–03 season, CJON became an independent station and dropped most CTV programming except for national newscasts; in exchange, it provides news coverage of Newfoundland and Labrador events to CTV. In recent years, all of CTV's non-news programming has disappeared from

6300-482: The first Canadian television network to offer its programming online in high definition . CTV affiliate CHFD in Thunder Bay , Ontario left the network on February 12, 2010, after being unable to reach an agreement on new affiliation terms; CHFD instead became a full-time Global affiliate. CFTO was offered as part of the basic package to Thunder Bay cable subscribers for the duration of the 2010 Winter Olympics ;

6400-456: The following new series to premiere that fall: Many were surprised by these changes to the CBC schedule, which were apparently intended to attract a younger audience to the network; some suggested they might alienate the core CBC viewership. Another note of criticism was made when the network decided to move The National in some time zones to simulcast the American version of The One over

6500-483: The four Northern Ontario stations, known collectively as CTV Northern Ontario (then known as MCTV), each had their local news production cut back in the early 2000s to one single centrally produced newscast for each region, with only brief inserts for news of strictly local interest. This was a controversial move in all of the affected communities, especially in Northern Ontario where MCTV's newscasts were

6600-654: The full network schedule. For a number of years CBC co-produced a news programme, Hemispheres , with Australia's national broadcaster, the ABC ; the program was hosted from Sydney and Vancouver and included reports from both networks' foreign correspondents. It was broadcast in both Canada and Australia and across Asia and the Pacific on the Australia Network . CBC Television stations can be received over-the-air or through cable in many American communities along

6700-660: The game show Definition used Quincy Jones ' " Soul Bossa Nova " and the CTV Movie used the Keith Mansfield instrumental "Statement" from the KPM Musichouse library. For most of its first four decades, CTV did not have what could be considered a main schedule outside of news programming. The differences were enough that Ottawa's CJOH used a rebroadcaster in Cornwall to feed cable systems in Montreal from

6800-420: The main news portion of the program, and excluded the analysis and documentary segment. This second airing was later replaced with other programming, and as of the 2012-13 television season, was replaced on CBC's major market stations by a half-hour late newscast. There is also a short news update, at most, on late Saturday evenings. During hockey season, this update is usually found during the first intermission of

6900-723: The mid-1980s, Baton began a drive to take over CTV by buying as many affiliates as possible. Having already bought CFQC-TV in Saskatoon in 1971, Baton purchased additional stations in Saskatchewan – including CTV affiliates CKCK-TV Regina, CICC-TV Yorkton , and CIPA-TV Prince Albert – in 1986. Baton then purchased CJOH in 1988, followed by the MCTV and Huron Broadcasting stations, which included four CTV affiliates in Northern Ontario , in 1990. One caveat, however,

7000-429: The network attempted to alter its affiliation agreement in a way that Newfoundland Broadcasting found unfair. Since joining CTV, CJON had aired the base network schedule essentially for free since CTV paid it for the airtime. The station then bought additional CTV programming and sold all advertising. However, CTV tried to make CJON pay for the base schedule as well, with no possibility of airtime payments. It also increased

7100-448: The network since 1952. During the NHL lock-out and subsequent cancellation of the 2004–05 hockey season, the CBC instead aired various recent and classic films, branded as Movie Night in Canada , on Saturday nights. Many cultural groups criticized this and suggested the CBC air games from minor hockey leagues; the CBC responded that most such broadcast rights were already held by other groups, but it did base each Movie Night broadcast from

7200-469: The network's first and only U.S. affiliate, WNYP-TV in Jamestown, New York ) sought permission to buy the network and run it as a cooperative. The BBG was initially skeptical of the proposal. Since CFTO was by far the largest and richest station (it was more than double the size of the next-largest station, Montreal's CFCF-TV), the BBG feared that CFTO would dominate CTV if the stations were allowed to buy

7300-408: The network, and provide a path for a single company to eventually take control. The restructuring took effect in January 1993, and CTV converted from a cooperative to a corporation. Seven of the owner-affiliates invested equally, yielding a 14.3% stake in the network for each; however, Newfoundland Broadcasting, owner of CJON, decided not to invest further and effectively relinquished its vote, reducing

7400-635: The network. CHAN owner Western International Communications purchased Selkirk Communications and Allarcom, which together owned several independent stations in Alberta and Ontario. CHUM Limited , owner of the CTV-affiliated ATV system serving the Maritimes, already owned independent station CITY-TV in Toronto, and by this point had begun launching national cable channels like MuchMusic . Even Baton added some stations outside of CTV, with

7500-496: The network. To alleviate these concerns, the affiliates promised that each station owner would have one vote regardless of its audience share. The board readily approved the proposal, and by the start of the 1966–67 season, the stations owned their network. The network also began broadcasting in colour on September 1, 1966. By the mid-1970s, CTV had expanded its footprint across Canada, mostly by twinstick arrangements in smaller cities, and with CBC affiliates switching to CTV once

7600-440: The new network. That was followed by a fall season preview program. CTV's initial 1961–1962 season began with the following programs, five of which were Canadian productions: Other series such as Telepoll and A Kin to Win were introduced later in the inaugural season. At first, flagship CFTO was the only station that carried programming live. During CBC's off-hours, CTV used CBC's microwave system to send programming to

7700-455: The number of active voting members to seven. As part of the restructuring, the stations also agreed to reduce the number of hours of network programming, allowing Baton and WIC to program more of their stations' schedules with their own acquisitions. In 1996, Baton acquired CFCN from Rogers Communications . Significantly, Baton also acquired Rogers' CTV vote. It also started a joint venture with Electrohome , owner of CFRN and CKCO. As part of

7800-542: The only locally oriented news programs in those markets. In 2000, typical of the ownership consolidation trend at the time, BCE Inc. acquired CTV, Netstar Communications , and The Globe and Mail newspaper, combining them into a media division known as Bell Globemedia (BGM). BGM also subsequently acquired a minority share in the French-language network TQS , which broadcasts in Quebec . CTV has legally been

7900-595: The past because of cutbacks to its small-market stations. In the late 1990s, cuts were made to the news staff and productions at CTV's two small-market Saskatchewan stations, CICC-TV in Yorkton and CIPA-TV in Prince Albert . These stations currently simulcast supper-hour and late-night news from CKCK and CFQC respectively, placing local inserts into the newscasts. Similarly, the four Maritime stations, known collectively as CTV Atlantic (then known as ATV), and

8000-449: The point that most of these stations no longer broadcast any significant local programming beyond local newscasts and an edition of the summer regional documentary series Absolutely Canadian . Until 1998, the network carried a variety of American programs in addition to its core Canadian programming, directly competing with private Canadian broadcasters such as CTV and Global . Since then, it has restricted itself to Canadian programs,

8100-792: The profanity, violence and sexual content of Nip/Tuck , The Sopranos and The Osbournes —which, unlike originating broadcaster MTV , CTV aired uncensored. It has broadcast MTV programming live, starting with the MTV's New Year of Music special during New Year's 2005/2006. In late 2003, CTV started broadcasting select American programmes in 16:9 (widescreen) high definition . It later began airing Canadian programs in this format, such as Degrassi . Currently, only CFTO and CIVT have dedicated HD feeds (sometimes marketed as CTV HD East and West respectively), but both are available nationally via cable and satellite, and do not differ otherwise from their analog counterparts. On July 2, 2005, CTV broadcast 20 hours of

8200-647: The province. CTV shifted its programming to CIVT-TV , an independent station it already owned. Unlike CHAN, CIVT has only one transmitter covering the metropolitan areas of Vancouver and Victoria, and has to rely on cable and satellite to reach the rest of the province. CIVT is either carried on a higher channel number or unavailable altogether in the Mountain Time Zone portion of British Columbia, where CTV relies on CFCN-DT or CFRN-DT as its main carriers. Meanwhile, in 2002, CJON-TV (known as "NTV") in St. John's dropped its 38-year CTV affiliation after

8300-456: The public network released its affiliates to carry the game). Although the plan was neither officially rejected or approved, various uncertainties eventually led John Bassett to decide to sign an affiliation agreement with CTN instead to ensure the games would air. Most of the other second stations followed suit, with the exception of CHAN in Vancouver, which agreed to carry several network programs but never officially signed on as an affiliate for

8400-541: The purchase or launch of three independent stations in southwestern Ontario in 1992–93. It also began competing with the network for some program acquisitions in 1992, and in 1994 launched the Baton Broadcast System (BBS) as a parallel programming brand for both its CTV affiliates and independent stations. After several years of contentious negotiations between the eight remaining owner-affiliates, by late 1992 they had reached an agreement to recapitalize

8500-420: The rest of the country on tape delay. Eventually, a second microwave channel opened up, enabling live programming from coast to coast. The Caldwell-led management team immediately ran into financial trouble, and relations between the network and its stations were not smooth at first since CTV had essentially been the product of a forced marriage. For example, most of the rights to American programming rested with

8600-511: The second game of the doubleheader on Hockey Night in Canada . The show also simultaneously broadcasts rolling coverage from CBC News Network from noon to 1 p.m. local time in most time zones (also from 6 to 7 a.m. in regions where a local CBC Radio One morning show is not simulcast instead). In addition to the mentioned late local newscasts, CBC stations in most markets fill early evenings with local news programs , generally from 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., while most stations also air

8700-632: The series began to achieve critical acclaim after it was acquired by the streaming service Netflix , and swept all seven comedy awards at the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards —becoming the first comedy or drama to sweep all seven major awards in their respective genre at the ceremony. CBC Gem is CBC Television's over-the-top streaming platform; it launched in 2018, replacing the existing CBC TV app. The service carries live and on-demand programming from CBC Television, CBC News, and CBC Sports, as well as short- and long-form original programming and acquisitions (including films and television series). The service

8800-620: The service ad-free for all users. Children's programming, often marketed as " CBC Kids " and "The Outlet", occupies most of the morning hours on weekdays and much of weekend mornings. On March 5, 2005, CBC Television launched a high definition simulcast of its Toronto ( CBLT-DT ) and Montreal ( CBMT-DT ) stations. Since that time, the network has also launched HD simulcasts in Vancouver ( CBUT-DT ), Ottawa ( CBOT-DT ), Edmonton ( CBXT-DT ), Calgary ( CBRT-DT ), Halifax ( CBHT-DT ), Windsor, ( CBET-DT ), Winnipeg ( CBWT-DT ), and St. John's ( CBNT-DT ). All HD channels map to their analogue positions via

8900-488: The station had otherwise been available only on the digital cable timeshifting package, leaving CTV without a presence on basic cable in the market. On September 10, 2010, BCE Inc. announced it would purchase the remaining shares of CTVglobemedia for $ 1.3 billion (CAD). On April 1, 2011, CTVglobemedia was officially renamed Bell Media. On December 1, 2011, CJBN-TV in Kenora , Ontario dropped all CTV programming and became

9000-486: The station, and since then virtually all primetime programs aired on that station are from rival Global. CTV does not currently have a de facto affiliate in that province, with most Newfoundlanders having to rely on cable and satellite (usually from CTV Atlantic) for its programming. In September 2005, CTV announced an agreement with MTV Networks that saw the launch of MTV Canada . In July 2006, CTV parent Bell Globemedia announced plans to acquire CHUM Limited , itself

9100-440: The summer. This later became a moot point, as The One was taken off the air after two weeks after extremely low American and Canadian ratings, and the newscast resumed its regular schedule. In 2006, daytime programming was also revamped. While there were still repeats of CBC and foreign series, new talk shows such as The Gill Deacon Show (2006–07) and the regional franchise Living (2007–09) were aired. The Gill Deacon Show

9200-561: The term "Canadian". In 1958, Prime Minister John Diefenbaker 's government passed the Broadcasting Act , which established the Board of Broadcast Governors (BBG), a forerunner to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), as the governing body of Canadian broadcasting, effectively ending the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 's (CBC) dual role as regulator and broadcaster. The new board's first act

9300-465: The time also served as the president of the University of Alberta ) – was not in favour of a station-owned network, fearing that any such network would be dominated by Toronto's CFTO. Although it did not immediately approve Caldwell's proposal, it soon set several conditions on such a network that effectively made Caldwell's group the only feasible applicant. That fall, the Caldwell group (now named

9400-464: The week. As well, in recent years, CTV has purchased Canadian broadcast rights to a number of American cable series, such as The Sopranos , Nip/Tuck , Punk'd , The Daily Show , The Colbert Report , and The Osbournes . In many cases, CTV has been one of the few conventional broadcast networks in the world to air these series in prime time, which has attracted some controversy from Canadian media watchdogs and parents groups who object to

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9600-483: Was also announced that Martha Stewart's daytime show would be added to the CBC daytime line-up, with the nighttime Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! following in September 2008 (with a few edits to limit the amount of U.S. advertising). In January 2008, CBC Television launched the drama series The Border (2008–10), MVP (2008) and jPod (2008), the reality series The Week The Women Went (2008–09) and

9700-721: Was cancelled after just seven months, and replaced with another talk show, Steven and Chris from 2008 to 2015 ( Steven and Chris is also shown on the Live Well Network in the United States); Living was cancelled in August 2009. On January 9, 2007, the CBC began airing a highly publicized new series called Little Mosque on the Prairie (2007–12), a comedy about a Muslim family living in rural Saskatchewan . The series garnered strong ratings as well as international media attention, for most of its five-year run. It

9800-399: Was now full owner of the CTV network and immediately began plastering the CTV brand across its stations, even on non-network programming, and dropped its secondary BBS brand. The company changed its name to CTV Inc. in 1998, and eventually acquired two of the final three large-market stations, CKY and CFCF (it replaced the third, CHAN, as discussed below). CTV has attracted some controversy in

9900-427: Was the "one owner, one vote" provision of the cooperative's bylaws. Any acquisition of one station by an existing station owner triggered an automatic redistribution of the acquired station's shares among the other owners. As a result, even though it owned 11 of CTV's 24 affiliates, Baton still had only had one vote out of eight. Around the same time, several CTV owner-affiliates were expanding their holdings outside of

10000-568: Was to take applications for "second" television stations in Halifax , Montreal (in both English and French ), Ottawa , Toronto , Winnipeg , Calgary , Edmonton , and Vancouver in response to an outcry for an alternative to the CBC's television service . Calgary and Edmonton were served by privately owned CBC affiliates ; the other six markets by CBC owned-and-operated stations (O&Os). The nine winners, in order of their first sign-on, were: The first eight stations were privately owned;

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