CHEK-TV

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CHEK-TV
Victoria, British Columbia
Branding	CH
Slogan	"Closer to you"
Channels	6 (VHF)/Cable 6 analog, 43 (UHF) (Not on air) digital
Translators	CHEK-TV-1 13 Sooke CHEK-TV-2 11 River Jordan CHEK-TV-3 11 Port Alberni CHEK-TV-5 13 Campbell River CHWM-TV-1 18 Whistler CKUP-TV-1 9 Ucluelet
Affiliations	CH
Owner	CanWest Global
Founded	1956
Call letters meaning	CHE(C)K
Former callsigns	CKTV (Prior to Launch)
Former affiliations	1956–1963: CBC 1963–1981: CBC/CTV 1981–2001: CTV
Website	CH Vancouver Island

CHEK-TV is a television station in Victoria, British Columbia. Broadcasting to Vancouver Island, the station is a member of the CH television system, owned by CanWest Global. It broadcasts on channel 6.

Contents 1 History 2 Current anchors and reporters 2.1 Anchors 2.2 Weather 2.3 Sports 2.4 Reporters 3 Alumni (partial list) 4 Locally produced programs formerly aired on CHEK (partial list) 5 Station Presentation 5.1 Previous Logos 5.2 As CHEK-TV 5.3 As CH Vancouver Island 6 Previously aired US programs 7 Videotape Format 8 See also 9 External links

[edit] History

CHEK was British Columbia's first private television station, signing on the air as a CBC affiliate on December 1, 1956 (the station was to have used the call letters CKTV, but changed to the present calls prior to launch). The station was originally owned by David Armstrong, who already owned local radio station CKDA. The station began to air some CTV programs in 1963, and became a full-time CTV affiliate on January 5, 1981, when Vancouver CBC station CBUT launched repeater stations at Sooke and Mount McDonald. It was the only local television station on Vancouver Island before CHUM Limited's CIVI (The New VI) launched in October 2001.

In 1963, CHEK was purchased by local businessman Frank Griffiths, who also owned CHAN-TV (BCTV) in Vancouver. For the first few years following CHAN's purchase of the station, CHEK's schedule consisted primarily of simulcasts of CHAN programming and some of CBUT's CBC network shows, in addition to airing local productions and syndicated programs not aired on CHAN, before starting to time-shift network shows sometime in the late-1960s/early-1970s; also, during most of the dual affiliation era, CHEK would air CBC programs in the afternoon and in prime-time while running CTV shows like University of the Air and Canada AM in the morning (simulcast with CHAN), but starting around the 1978-79 season, gradually began adding more CTV shows in prime-time (time-shifted from CHAN) until the disaffiliation from CBC in 1981. At one stage, CHEK used the same flower logo as CHAN, but later reverted back to its own logo. In 1984, CHEK moved from its original studios in Saanich to its present location at 780 Kings Road, a studio which was to have been used by a proposed Victoria CBC Television station (which ultimately never went to air due to lack of funding).

Prior to 2001, CHEK also simulcast CHAN's News Hour and broadcast many of the same programs on a time-shifted basis; as with CHAN this was a mixture of CTV network programming and WIC-owned programming (usually drawn from the schedule of CHCH Hamilton), although the WIC programming usually differed from that aired on CHAN. When Baton Broadcasting's CIVT came on the air, CHEK was one of three stations broadcasting CTV programming, the other two being BCTV and CIVT. For a year or so prior to disaffiliation, after BCTV strengthened its own morning newscast, CHEK was the only station in B.C. airing Canada AM.

When the Vancouver affiliation switch occurred in 2001, CHEK became a CH station. It rebranded as CH Vancouver Island, and took on a schedule similar to CH Hamilton. CHEK airs 15-20 hours of news programs a week, and often programs usually shown on CHAN that were moved to accommodate their news programming. It also took Sports Page from former Global O&O CKVU, but the program continued to be produced at CHAN until its cancellation in September 2005.

In 2004, news anchor Hudson Mack left the station after 19 years, and joined CIVI as its news director on September 1. He became CIVI's 5pm news anchor on October 11. As a result, Sophie Lui returned from CHAN-TV and joined CIVT's former Victoria bureau chief Ed Watson as the pair became the station's main anchors.

CHEK celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2006; as part of the celebrations, it aired vignettes of station promos from the pre-CH era during commercial breaks. Another short vignette was also introduced consisting of CHEK's logos and station IDs through the years, from their first in 1956 to the CH logo it presently uses; this may be an indication that, as with CH flagship station CHCH in Hamilton, CHEK will drop the CH brand sometime in the near future and return to using its call letters on-air, a reversal of the current trend for TV networks and systems in Canada to use generic branding for its owned stations.

[edit] Current anchors and reporters

[edit] Anchors

• Julie Nolin (CH News at Five)
• Ed Watson (CH News at Six)
• Jennifer Crosby (CH News at Eleven)
• Philip Campbell (CH News at Five and Eleven Weekend)

[edit] Weather

• Ed Bain
• Gordie Tupper

[edit] Sports

• Jeff King
• Stacy Ross
• Keith Wells

[edit] Reporters

• Philip Campbell
• Veronica Cooper
• Kim Emerson
• Kendall Hanson
• Dana Hutchings
• Bruce Kirkpatrick
• Kristen Robinson
• Skye Ryan
• Dean Stoltz
• Mary Griffin

[edit] Alumni (partial list)

• Marisa Adair
• Robin Adair
• Bob Aylward
• Harry Barisoff
• John Barton
• Paul Carson
• Clem Chapple
• Colleen Christie
• Ida Clarkson
• Bert Dodd
• Dawn Draper
• Kristin Eriksen
• Mark Jan Vrem
• Rich Jones
• Jill Krop
• Lara Lauzon
• Sophie Lui
• Catherine MacDonald
• Hudson Mack
• Pamela Martin
• Harry Maunu
• Bruce McAllister
• John Mitchell
• Harvey Oberfeld
• Doris Page
• Bruce Payne
• Michaela Pereira
• Patty Pitts
• Wally Rawcliffe
• Dale Read
• Mike Roberts
• Alex Robertson
• Bev Sinclair
• Zack Spencer
• Andy Stephens
• Judy Tyabji
• Ron Way
• Norma Wick
• Bill Williams
• Joan Wright

[edit] Locally produced programs formerly aired on CHEK (partial list)

• At Eleven (talk)
• Barton & Company (talk)
• BC Business Spotlight (business news)
• Body Moves (exercise)
• Capital Comment (political affairs)
• CH News at Noon (news)
• CHEK Around (lifestyles)
• CHEK at Noon (news & lifestyles)
• Club Six (teen dance show)
• Daily Edition (news)
• Daybreak (variety)
• For The Record (political affairs)
• Foufouli (children)
• GO! Magazine (lifestyles)
• Government Street (political affairs)
• Island Country Garden (gardening)
• Island Places, Island Faces (lifestyles)
• Island Good Morning (talk)
• Island Morning (talk)
• Island News Report (news)
• Island Sports Report (sports highlights)
• Learning for Leisure (educational)
• Maturity: The Golden Years (seniors' issues & lifestyles)
• Mixed Company (current affairs)
• Nanaimo Report (news)
• Shake It Up (teen dance show)
• Sports Page (sports highlights - produced at CHAN)
• Student Forum (student issues)
• Talk Back (current affairs call-in)
• The Ida Clarkson Show (talk)
• The Noon Show (news and talk)
• The Senior Chef (cooking)
• Tyabji (current affairs call-in)
• Vancouver Canucks hockey (sports)
• Vancouver Grizzlies basketball (sports)
• Victoria Scene (arts and entertainment magazine)
• Wake Up (morning newscast)
• What's Cooking (cooking)
• Woman to Woman (women's issues)
• World of Travel (travel)

[edit] Station Presentation

[edit] Previous Logos

CHEK logo in the late 50's.	Joint logo of CHEK (6) and CHAN-TV (8), introduced in 1963 following Frank Griffiths' purchase of both stations and used until 1975.	The CHEK 6 logo in 1978.	CHEK's logo in the late 80's to early 90's.
CHEK logo from about 1990-1991, using the BCTV flower logo and font design to reflect the stations' common ownership.

[edit] As CHEK-TV

Logo from early 60s letterhead.	News Hour Vancouver Island - Used from the 70s.	chek 6 news Used from the late 80s to early 90s.	CHEK-TV ID used from 1997 to 2001. Note the slogan It's here.
CHEK Late News 2001 open.	CHEK News @ 5 open.

[edit] As CH Vancouver Island

CH News Used from 2001 to 2002.	CH ID.	CH News Used from 2002 to 2004.	CH News Used from 2004 to late 2005.
CH News Used from 2005 to present.

[edit] Previously aired US programs

• Late Show with David Letterman, weekdays 4:30pm (August 1995 to August 1999)

[edit] Videotape Format

Just like CHAN-TV, CHEK also uses Betacam SP tapes for all its programming and non-live parts of its news broadcast called CH News.

[edit] See also

• List of programs broadcast by CH

[edit] External links

• CH Vancouver Island
• CHEK-TV history at CCF website

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Broadcast television in the Greater Vancouver market

Vancouver / Victoria stations CBUT 2 (CBC) - CHEK 6 (CH) - CHAN 8 (Global) - CKVU 10 (Citytv) - CFEG 19 (IND/Rel.) - CBUFT 26 (SRC) - CIVT 32 (CTV) - CHNM 42/29 (IND) - CIVI 53/17 (A-Channel) - CHNU 66 (OMNI)

Bellingham, Washington stations (part of the Seattle/Tacoma market) KVOS 12 (IND) - K22HH 22 (TBN) - KBCB 24 (ShopNBC) - KDNB-LP 43 (Daystar)

Local cable television stations Coast Cable 11 (Gibsons) - Fairchild - Knowledge Network - Shaw TV/ictv (Vancouver) - Shaw TV (Nanaimo) - Sportsnet Pacific - Talentvision

Seattle/Tacoma stations available on cable television KOMO 4 (ABC) - KING 5 (NBC) - KIRO 7 (CBS) - KCTS 9 (PBS) - KSTW 11 (The CW) - KCPQ 13 (FOX)

See also: Broadcast Television in the Seattle-Tacoma Market