CKWS-TV

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CKWS

Kingston, Ontario
Branding	CKWS-TV
Channels	11 (VHF) analog, 69 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	CBC
Owner	Corus Entertainment
Founded	December 18, 1954
Call letters meaning	Kingston Whig-Standard
Former affiliations	none
Website	CKWS

CKWS is an affiliate of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Kingston, Ontario, providing coverage to Eastern Ontario from Campbellford to Morrisburg and from Perth to Oswego, New York in the United States.

CKWS is available on many cable systems throughout Eastern Ontario and Northern/Central New York. Its Channel 11 transmitter is located on Wolfe Island, south of Kingston. The tower height is 1000 ft. (304.8 meters), and the effective radiated power is 325,000 watts. There are also UHF transmitters in Brighton (Channel 66), Spencerville (Channel 26) and Port Elmsley (Smiths Falls/Perth) on Channel 36.

CKWS is owned by Corus Entertainment and its studios and offices are located at 170 Queen Street in downtown Kingston. CKWS has been a CBC affiliate since its inception in late 1954. It was originally a joint venture between Roy Thomson and the Kingston Whig-Standard newspaper. The station has been sold three times: to the Kanatec Corporation, bought by Power Corporation in 1977 and to Corus in 1999.

Many children across the country were exposed to CKWS programming in the late 1970s and 1980s by the Harrigan series - a particularly innocent and low budget show about a leprechaun, starring Barry Dale. Shelagh Rogers of CBC Radio fame started out presenting the weather for the station's newscasts.

Until the arrival of CJOH's Deseronto repeater on channel 6 in 1972 and cable television in Kingston in 1973, CKWS had very much a captive audience, as the only other station routinely available over-the-air was Watertown, New York's WWNY.

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Broadcast television in the Watertown / Kingston market (Nielsen US DMA #176)

American stations WWNY 7 (CBS) - WPBS 16 / WNPI 18 (PBS) - WNYF 28 (FOX) - WWTI 50 (ABC)
Canadian stations CIII 2 (Global) - CJOH 6 (CTV) - CKWS 11 (CBC) - CBLFT 32 (SRC) - CICO 38 (TVO)
Local cable television channels News 10 Now - "WBWT" 14 (The CW) - Time Warner Sports 26 - Rogers Sportsnet East
Defunct television channels WLOT 66/46 (UPN/A1)
Significantly Viewed Out-of-Market Broadcast Stations Reception may vary by geographical location WSTM 3 (NBC, Syracuse) - CBOT 4 (CBC, Ottawa) - WPTZ 5 (NBC, Plattsburgh) - CJOH 13/8 (CTV, Ottawa / Cornwall)

CBC stations in the province of Ontario

CKPR 2 (Thunder Bay) - CBOT 4 (Ottawa) - CBLT 5 (Toronto) - CBWAT 8 (Kenora)¹ - CBET 9 (Windsor) - CKWS 11 (Kingston) - CHEX 12 (Peterborough) - CHEX-2 22 (Durham Region)
¹CBWAT serves as a satellite of CBC O&O CBWT, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Note: Stations in bold text are CBC owned-and-operated stations.
See also: CTV, Global, SRC and Other stations in Ontario