CTV Television Network
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CTV Inc. (Bell Media) | |
Key people | Wade Oosterman President, Bell Media Karine Moses Senior Vice-President, Content Development and News Wendy Freeman Vice-President, CTV News |
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Sister channels | |
History | |
Launched | October 1, 1961 |
Founder | Spence Caldwell |
Former names | Canadian Television Network (CTN) (pre-launch name) |
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Website | ctv |
The CTV Television Network, commonly known as CTV, is a
Bell Media also operates additional CTV-branded properties, including the 24-hour national cable news network
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 the term "Canadian".[2][3]
History
Formation
In 1958, Prime Minister
The nine winners, in order of their first sign-on, were:
- CFCN-TV Calgary (September 9, 1960)
- CHAN-TV Vancouver (October 31, 1960)
- CJAY-TV Winnipeg (November 12, 1960)
- CFTO-TV Toronto (December 31, 1960)
- CJCH-TV Halifax (January 1, 1961)
- CFCF-TV Montreal (English; January 20, 1961)
- CFTM-TV Montreal (French; February 19, 1961)
- CJOH-TV Ottawa (March 12, 1961)
- CBXT Edmonton (October 1, 1961)
The first eight stations were privately owned; 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,
However, the ITO faced opposition from Spence Caldwell, 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 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.[8]
That fall, the Caldwell group (now named 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, the BBG granted a licence to CTN, conditional on securing the affiliation of six of the eight ITO stations.[3]
Baton's opposition to the CTN reversed in early 1961, soon after CFTO won the broadcast rights to the
Early years
The network finally launched as the CTV Television Network on October 1, 1961.[14][15][nb 1] 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.[2]
The CTV network's first night on-air began with Harry Rasky's promotional documentary on the new network. That was followed by a fall season preview program.[14]
CTV's initial 1961–1962 season began with the following programs, five of which were Canadian productions:[14]
- The Andy Griffith Show (United States, CBS)
- Checkmate (United States, CBS)
- Cross Canada Barndance (Canada)
- BBC)
- The Rifleman (United States, ABC)
- Showdown (Canada)
- Sing Along With Mitch (United States, NBC)
- Take a Chance, a quiz show by Roy Ward Dickson adapted from radio (Canada)
- Top Cat (United States, ABC)
- Twenty Questions(Canada)
- West Coast (Canada)
- Whiplash (Australia, ATN-7)
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 the rest of the country on tape delay.[15] 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 the ITO, not CTV.[21] In many cases, CTV found itself competing with its own stations for the rights to programming.
Reorganization and expansion
Caldwell's departure in 1965
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 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 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.[24] (Robertson served as the network's main anchorman until 2011). Its weekly newsmagazine series, W5, has been a fixture on the network since 1966,[25] 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
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 the early 1980s through the mid-1990s despite the presence of CFCF; the CJOH rebroadcaster reaches the western portion of the Montreal area.
Conflict and consolidation
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
In 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,[27] 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, 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.[28] 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 the network. CHAN owner
After several years of contentious negotiations between the eight remaining owner-affiliates, by late 1992 they had reached an agreement to recapitalize the network, and provide a path for a single company to eventually take control.[32] 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 the number of active voting members to seven.[33][a] 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.[35]
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 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 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 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,
Bell Canada era
In 2000, typical of the
CTV has legally been a "television service" in the eyes of the CRTC since 2000, when it allowed its network licence to expire.[36] 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).[37][38]
CTV lost significant coverage in
Meanwhile, in 2002, CJON-TV (known as "NTV") in St. John's dropped its 38-year CTV affiliation after 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 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 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
In July 2006, CTV parent Bell Globemedia announced plans to acquire CHUM Limited, itself 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 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; 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 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.[39][40] 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.[41]
On May 20, 2015,
Programming
The network's programming consists mainly of hit American series (such as
CTV also regularly produces and airs Canadian-made television movies, often based on stories from Canadian news or Canadian history, under the banners CTV Signature Series or CTV Movie.
News programming consists of the nightly
As well, in recent years,[when?] 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 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 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
Sports programming
Historically, CTV Sports existed as 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 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 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,[44] 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 high-definition and digital transition
CTV carries its high-definition feed broadcasting at 1080i. The following CTV stations are available in HD on digital terrestrial television (DTT):
Station | City | Pre-transition digital terrestrial channel |
DTT launch date |
Post-transition DTT channel |
BDU Carriage launch date |
Notes |
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CFTO-DT | Toronto | 40 (9.1) | 2005 | 40 (9.1) | November 19, 2003 | Nationally on satellite |
CIVT-DT | Vancouver | 33 (32.1) | 2006 | 32 (32.1) | June 1, 2004 | Nationally on Bell TV |
CFCN-DT | Calgary | 36 (4.1) | January 8, 2009 | 29 (4.1) | Shaw: January 8, 2009 | Also available on Bell TV |
CFCF-DT | Montreal | 51 (12.1) | January 28, 2011 | 12 (12.1) | Vidéotron: December 1, 2009 | Also available on Bell TV |
CJOH-DT | Ottawa | ─ | 2011 | 13 (13.1) | Vidéotron: December 1, 2009 | |
CFRN-DT | Edmonton | ─ | 2011 | 47 (3.1) | Telus TV: February 2011 | Also available on Bell TV |
CKCO-DT | Kitchener | ─ | September 1, 2011 | 13 (13.1) | Rogers: September 2011 | Also available on Bell TV |
CKY-DT | Winnipeg | ─ | September 1, 2011 | 7 (7.1) | MTS: January 2010 | Also available on Bell TV |
CJCH-DT | Halifax | ─ | September 1, 2011 | 48 (5.1) | Eastlink: May 12, 2011 | Also available on Bell TV |
On November 19, 2003, CTV launched an HD simulcast of its Toronto station CFTO-DT, with the free-to-air feed launching in 2005. CTV has since launched HD simulcasts of CIVT-DT Vancouver on June 1, 2004 (the terrestrial feed followed suit in 2006), CFCN-DT Calgary on January 8, 2009, CFCF-DT Montreal on December 1, 2009 (the free-to-air feed followed suit on January 28, 2011), CJOH-DT Ottawa on December 1, 2009 (BDU only), CFRN-DT Edmonton in January 2011, CKY-DT Winnipeg in February 2011, and CJCH-DT Halifax on May 11, 2011.
Local newscasts in high definition
On May 12, 2009, Toronto's CFTO-DT became the first station in the CTV network to broadcast its local newscasts in high definition (the first station in Canada to broadcast its local newscasts in high definition was fellow Toronto station CITY-DT). CTV-owned CIVT-DT in Vancouver followed, becoming the second station in the CTV network to broadcast its local newscasts in high definition as of November 23, 2009. CFCN-DT in Calgary began broadcasting its local newscasts in HD in October 2011, while CFRN-DT in Edmonton upgraded its local news production to HD in October 2012.
CTV stations
CTV owned-and-operated stations
As of mid-October 2005, all CTV-owned and operated stations have adopted a single on-air brand of "CTV", rather than use their official callsigns or channel numbers on-air (although some stations, most notably CIVT, promote their cable channel number). When further differentiation is needed, for example during regional programming, the city or region they serve (for example, "CTV Ottawa" or "CTV British Columbia") may be used as well. Under CRTC regulations, however, the callsign is still the station's legal name.
Note:
- 1) Italicized channel numbers indicate a digital channel allocated for future use by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.
City of license | Station | Channel TV (RF) |
Year of affiliation |
Owned since |
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Calgary, Alberta | CFCN-DT | 4.1 (29) | 1961 | 1998 |
Edmonton, Alberta | CFRN-DT | 3.1 (12) | 1961 | 1997 |
Halifax , Nova Scotia |
CJCH-DT | 5.1 (48) | 1961 | 1997 |
Kitchener, Ontario | CKCO-DT | 13.1 (13) | 1964 | 1998 |
Lethbridge, Alberta | CFCN-DT | 13.1 (13) | 1968 | 1996 |
Moncton, New Brunswick | CKCW-DT | 29.1 (29) | 1969 | 1997 |
Montreal, Quebec | CFCF-DT | 12.1 (12) | 1961 | 2001 |
North Bay, Ontario | CKNY-DT | 10.1 (12) | 1971 | 1990 |
Ottawa, Ontario | CJOH-DT | 13.1 (13) | 1961 | 1998 |
Prince Albert, Saskatchewan | CIPA-TV | 9 (analog only) | 1987 | 1987 |
Red Deer, Alberta | CFRN-DT | 3.1 (12) | 1973 | 1997 |
Regina, Saskatchewan | CKCK-DT | 2.1 (8) | 1969 | 1997 |
Saint John, New Brunswick | CKLT-DT | 9.1 (9) | 1969 | 1997 |
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan | CFQC-DT | 8.1 (8) | 1971 | 1997 |
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario | CHBX-TV | 2 (analog only) | 1977 | 1990 |
Sudbury, Ontario | CICI-TV | 5 (analog only) | 1971 | 1990 |
Sydney, Nova Scotia | CJCB-DT | 4.1 (25) | 1972 | 1997 |
Timmins, Ontario | CITO-TV | 3 (analog only) | 1971 (as rebroadcaster of CKSO/Sudbury) |
1990 |
Toronto, Ontario | CFTO-DT | 9.1 (8) | 1961 | 1998 |
Vancouver, British Columbia | CIVT-DT | 32.1 (32) | 2001 | 1997 |
Winnipeg, Manitoba | CKY-DT | 7.1 (7) | 1961 | 2001 |
Yorkton, Saskatchewan | CICC-TV | 10 (analog only) | 1971 | 1986 |
Regional affiliates
As CTV does not presently operate as a de jure television network using a CRTC-issued network license, these stations acquire CTV programming from Bell Media by way of program supply agreements, not network affiliation agreements.[45] Although they currently carry the vast majority of CTV programs and generally use a similar schedule to CTV-owned stations, the stations retain all advertising inventory, and have final authority over carriage and scheduling of CTV programming.[45]
City of license/market | Station | Channel TV (RF) |
Year of affiliation |
Owner |
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Lloydminster, Alberta/Saskatchewan | CITL | 4.1 (4) | 1976 | Stingray Group |
Thunder Bay, Ontario | CKPR | 2.1 (2) | 2014 | Dougall Media |
Former affiliates
City of license | Station | Year of affiliation | Year of disaffiliation | Notes |
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Jamestown/Buffalo, New York, United States | WNYP-TV | 1966 | 1969 | Left the network after legal action from TCT owned-and-operated station with the call sign WNYB (but a different license from WNYP-TV).
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Kenora, Ontario | CJBN-TV | 1980 | 2011 | Left the network after its affiliation agreement with Bell Media ended; subsequently owned by Shaw Communications as a Global affiliate; left the air on January 27, 2017. |
Kingston, Ontario | CKWS-DT | 2015 | 2018 | Left the network after its affiliation agreement with Bell Media ended; currently owned by Corus Entertainment as a Global O&O. |
Oshawa, Ontario | CHEX-TV-2 | 2015 | 2018 | Left the network after its affiliation agreement with Bell Media ended; currently owned by Corus Entertainment as a Global O&O. |
Pembroke/Ottawa, Ontario | CHRO-TV | 1991 | 1997 | Swapped by Baton for CHUM Limited's stations in Atlantic Canada; currently owned by Bell Media as a CTV 2 O&O. |
Peterborough, Ontario | CHEX-DT | 2015 | 2018 | Left the network after its affiliation agreement with Bell Media ended; currently owned by Corus Entertainment as a Global O&O. |
Thunder Bay, Ontario | CHFD-DT | 1972 | 2010 | Left the network after an affiliation dispute with CTVglobemedia, became an affiliate of Global; currently operated by Dougall Media as Global affiliate. As noted above, in 2014 Dougall Media readded a CTV affiliation on its other station in the market, CKPR-DT, after disaffiliating that station from CBC Television. |
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador | CJON-DT | 1964 | 2002 (primary) | Left the network after an affiliation dispute with Bell Globemedia, still airs news programming from CTV; currently operated by Stirling Communications International as an independent station. |
Vancouver, British Columbia | CHAN-DT | 1961 (secondary) 1965 (primary) |
2001 | Originally owned by Canwest Global and became a Global O&O; currently owned by Corus Entertainment as a Global O&O.
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Victoria, British Columbia | CHEK-DT | 1963 (secondary) 1981 (primary) |
2001 | Originally owned by WIC, sold to independent station .
|
Special cases
- St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador – CJON-DT (NTV): disaffiliated with CTV in 2002, but still carries CTV's newscasts and specials.
Other CTV-branded channels
In addition to CTV News Channel, several other spin-offs have been launched under the CTV branding. Former specialty channels that have used the CTV brand (and formerly had ownership stakes by the parent company) include
Following the 2007 acquisition of A-Channel by CTVglobemedia as part of the takeover of CHUM Limited, media analysts had speculated that CTV may potentially extend its market-leading CTV brand to that television network.[citation needed] Bell officially announced on May 30, 2011, that the A-Channel television network would be rebranded as "CTV Two", a change that took effect on August 29, 2011. CTV Two currently consists of four over-the-air O&Os in Ontario and three in British Columbia, as well as regional cable-only channels in Atlantic Canada and Alberta, providing complementary programming which have smaller audiences than those on the mainline CTV network.
In June 2018, Bell Media announced plans to rename four of its existing specialty channels under the CTV branding.
It was also announced that content from CTV, its four genre channels, as well as CTV Movies and CTV Throwback, would be eventually accessible within a unified "super-hub" for streaming video platforms.[50][51] The new CTV app was released in July 2020, subsuming the TV Everywhere apps for the aforementioned channels.[52] It would also subsume the streaming apps for most other Bell Media networks.[53]
Logos
The network's original logo was an oval-shaped letter "C", the inside shaped like a television tube. Contained within the C were the initials "CTV". In 1966, colour programming was ushered in with a new logo, depicting a red circle containing the initial "C", a blue square with a "T", and a green inverted triangle with a "V".[23] This logo has been used, albeit with minor variations along the way ever since. In 1967, the letters "CTV" were rounded and easier to see, with the "base/TV" graphic added later. In 1975, the shapes were brightened.
In 1990, the letters "CTV" were angled and tweaked with any additional designs dropped from it. In 1998, CTV introduced a new "ribbons" identity which lasted until 2018 with various minor adjustments before then. Initially, CTV used the three coloured ribbons and shapes of its logo to represent its different divisions. In the network branding, the red ribbon and circle represented entertainment programming, the blue ribbon and square represented news programming, and the green ribbon and inverted triangle referred to sports programming. For a period, the identity featured bumper idents featuring CTV personalities manipulating the logo's shapes as physical objects. In 2004, the network added colour gradients to the shapes to create a 3D effect. The 3D shapes were then brightened in 2011.
On September 24, 2018, CTV introduced a new logo and branding elements with a flatter "digital" appearance, as well as a new promotional campaign, "Get into it".[54]
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CTV's original logo (1961–1966)
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Original version of CTV's geometrical shape logo (1966–1975)
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The logo in use in the 1970s and 1980s added the colours, still in use today, to the shapes, with the letters being rounded and a white half-square representing a televisionpicture tube(1975–1985)
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The logo in use in the late 1980s adds three diagonal stripes to the geometrical shape logo (1985–1990)
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The version in use from 1990 to 2018 drops any additional designs to the geometrical shape logo with letters being angled and tweaked. In 2004, the network added colour gradients to the shapes to create a 3D effect before brightening the shapes in 2011, although the plain version remained in use in print publications where the colour gradients could not be rendered.
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The 2018 logo switched exclusively to a flat version, with brighter colours and refined letter shapes. (2018–present)
See also
- List of CTV personalities
- Television in Canada
- Media in Canada
- Simultaneous substitution
Footnotes
- ^ There may be some confusion about the network's launch date due to a celebration of "50 years of local news" held by local CTV and A-Channel stations in April 2008,[16][17] particularly as there were a handful of cases where the event was erroneously referred to as a "50th anniversary".[18] Neither the network nor any local CTV-owned station launched in 1958, although some of the stations that later joined CTV launched earlier in the 1950s.[19] The celebration was not timed to any particular anniversary but rather to a CRTC review of regulations for local television stations also held that month.[20]
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- ^ 50yearsofnews.ctv.ca Archived May 30, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ CTV and A-Channel Celebrate Local News Archived April 12, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, CTV press release, April 8, 2008
- ^ "CTV celebrates 50 years of news". CTV.ca. April 15, 2008. Retrieved June 22, 2011.
CTV Anchors from across the country are in Ottawa to celebrate the network's 50th anniversary
- ^ CTV – Local News Matters – Background Archived March 23, 2011, at the Wayback Machine (list of CTV-owned stations that launched in the 1950s)
- ^ CTV – Local News Matters – FAQ Archived June 22, 2010, at the Wayback Machine (makes several references to CRTC review
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External links
- Official website
- CTV News
- History of CTV Television Network – Canadian Communications Foundation
- Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2011-444, Bell Media Inc. – Group-based licence renewals, CRTC, July 27, 2011