CKNY-DT
kW | |
HAAT | 192 m (630 ft) |
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Transmitter coordinates | 46°3′47″N 79°26′7″W / 46.06306°N 79.43528°W |
Links | |
Website | CTV Northern Ontario |
CKNY-DT (channel 10) is a
CKNY-DT is part of the
History
CKNY was originally launched by local businessmen Gerry Alger and Gerry Stanton in 1955, as a
In 1970, Thomson reached a deal to sell the station to Bushnell Communications of Ottawa, although the transaction was never completed.[1] Around the same time, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) rejected all of the applicants in the first round of license hearings to extend CTV service to Sudbury, the largest market in the region; because the North Bay and Timmins markets were deemed too small to support competing television stations, the commission directed Cambrian Broadcasting of Sudbury and J. Conrad Lavigne of Timmins to collaborate on an alternative plan in which all three cities would receive CTV service without losing CBC.[2] Effectively, the decision declared all three cities to be a single television market, and prevented new television companies from entering and potentially upsetting the balance.[2]
In the first revised plan, Cambrian's
For a number of years in the 1960s and '70s, CFCH/CKNY operated rebroadcast transmitter CJTK-TV in
Throughout the 1970s, CKNY and CHNB aggressively competed with each other for advertising revenue; by 1980, however, the stations ran into exactly the problem the CRTC had been trying to prevent by linking them to Sudbury in the 1970 hearings: they were losing money and very nearly bankrupt.[4] In 1980, the CRTC approved the merger of the two stations, along with their co-owned stations in Sudbury and Timmins, into the MCTV twinstick.[4]
In 1990, the stations were acquired by Baton Broadcasting. Baton subsequently became the sole corporate owner of CTV, and sold CHNB to the CBC in 2002.
In 1999, CKNY began rebroadcasting on channel 11 in
Since the acquisition of CTV by Bell Canada, CKNY has gradually downsized its local operations, with all newscasts across the CTV Northern Ontario system (formerly MCTV) centralized out of Sudbury; as of 2020, the station only had three local employees (two reporters and a cameraman). In May 2020, CKNY closed its local studio on Oak Street, with the remaining employees now working remotely.[7]
Just after midnight on October 30, 2020, CKNY-TV turned off its analogue signal and signed on its digital signal on channel 12.[8][9]
References
- ^ "Timmins showman at CRTC". The Globe and Mail, June 18, 1970.
- ^ a b "CRTC proposes CBC-CTV partnership for alternative Northern Ontario service". The Globe and Mail, March 6, 1970.
- ^ a b "Rebroadcast programs: CRTC grants Sudbury licences". The Globe and Mail, August 6, 1970.
- ^ a b "CRTC approves amalgamation of Northern Ontario TV firms". The Globe and Mail, February 29, 1980.
- ^ Decision CRTC 99–163
- ^ Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2005–57
- ^ "CTV closes its North Bay location". SooToday.com. Retrieved June 2, 2020.
- ^ "Upcoming Signal Frequency Update Changes Viewer Access to CTV2 Barrie and CTV North Bay, Effective October 30, 2020". The Lede. Bell Media. October 26, 2020. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
- ^ CTV (2020) - Last analog transmission in North Bay, YouTube, October 30, 2020
External links
- CTV Northern Ontario
- CKNY-DT at The History of Canadian Broadcasting by the Canadian Communications Foundation
- CKNY-DT in the REC Canadian station database