9 Channel Nine Court
| 9 Channel Nine Court | |
|---|---|
| Owner | Bell Media |
9 Channel Nine Court (alternatively known as the CTV Toronto Studios, CFTO-TV Studios, Glen Warren Studios or Bell Media Agincourt and temporarily known as 9
History
CTV Television Network started using the studio for CTV News's local Toronto broadcasts in the mid-1960s; its head offices were located in Downtown Toronto. Original programming included the children's show The Professor's Hideaway.[3]
The station was acquired by CFTO's parent,
Operations
In addition to CTV and CFTO, channels based at the Agincourt complex include:
- CTV News Channel
- TSN
- Discovery Channel, and its offshoot channels including Animal Planet among others.
The complex also houses the master control facilities for several other CTV stations in Eastern and Central Canada, specifically:
- CJOH-DT Ottawa
- CKCO-DT Kitchener
- CFCF-DT Montreal
- CKY-DT Winnipeg
- CTV Northern Ontario
CTV 2 had its master control facilities moved here in 2011, housing the following stations:
- CKVR-DT Barrie
- CKVP-DT Pelham
- CFPL-DT London
- CHWI-DT Wheatley/Windsor
- CHRO-DTPembroke/Ottawa
- CTV 2 Atlantic
- CTV 2 Alberta
In addition the building also serves as the new home for the technical operations of Bell Media's all-sports radio station in Toronto CHUM which launched on April 13, 2011.
TSN, Sportsnet, and the "parking lot"
From 2001 until early 2008, both TSN and its main competitor
Hence, when on-air hosts, such as Darren Dreger, moved from one channel to the other, it was referred to as "crossing the parking lot" or, less commonly, "crossing the street". Some at Sportsnet had complained about feeling like "poor country cousins" to CTV and TSN at Agincourt.[4]
This peculiarity had been made light of by a couple of notable hosts on Rogers Sportsnet.
This arrangement ended on April 30, 2008, when Rogers Sportsnet moved broadcast operations from the Agincourt complex to a new studio in the Rogers Building, a cluster of buildings in the Mount Pleasant-Jarvis Street area of downtown Toronto.[4]
Other Bell Media facilities in Toronto
Alongside 9 Channel Nine Court, several other Bell Media properties are operated from other facilities in the Toronto area:
- Several other Bell Media television channels, mainly including those acquired from CHUM Limited– such as Much, CTV Comedy Channel, CTV Drama Channel, CTV Life Channel, MTV2, CP24, BNN Bloomberg, CTV Sci-Fi Channel and E!, are operated from 299 Queen Street West, formerly known as the "CHUM-City Building". This location also serves as the current home of CTV's entertainment news program etalk, the corporate head office of Bell Media and the CFTO Downtown Toronto news bureau.
- Studios for Bell Media's radio stations including CHUM (AM), CHUM-FM, CFRB and CKFM-FM are currently located at 250 Richmond Street West at Richmond and Duncan streets which is adjacent to 299 Queen Street West. There is a bridge walkway that currently joins these two buildings together.
References
- ^ Agenda - Scarborough Community Council, March 26, 2009. Accessed online May 24, 2009.
- ^ Scarborough renames street in honour of Dave Devall, CTV News Toronto, March 26, 2009
- ^ "Happy Homes for Adoptable Children". Broadcaster, April 25, 1963, page 90
- ^ a b "Going Downtown". The Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved March 23, 2007.