CFTK-TV

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CFTK-TV
CFTK-TV logo
Terrace, British Columbia
Branding CFTK-TV
Channels Analog: 3 (VHF)

Digital: 324 Star Choice / 257 Bell ExpressVu
Affiliations CBC, Great West Television
Owner Astral Media
Founded November 1, 1962
Call letters’ meaning C
F
Terrace and Kitimat
Former affiliations NTV (1990s-early 2000s)/ Great West Television
Website www.cftktv.com

CFTK-TV is a television station in Terrace, British Columbia, broadcasting on channel 3. It is owned by Astral Media and is the CBC Television affiliate in that city. The station also has a repeater in Prince Rupert, broadcasting on Channel 6.

CFTK went on the air for the first time on November 1, 1962. Standard Broadcasting acquired CFTK from Telemedia in 2002. Telemedia had owned CFTK since 1999.

The station was originally part of a two-station "sub-network" called Northern Television (NTV) since the early 1990s, until 2002, when it was disbanded and re-launched as Great West Television (joined by CKPG-TV). NTV and GWTV's programming consisted of mainly American shows imported and aired on CHUM Limited's NewNet/A-Channel stations, mixed with CBC's own programming. Great West Television itself would later become virtually non-existent in October of 2006, for reasons below.

With CBC Television going to a 24-hour schedule beginning in October 2006, CFTK-TV has increased the amount of CBC programming in its schedule, leaving only local news in its schedule and eliminating syndicated shows altogether; this, in effect, has made CFTK-TV into a semi-satellite of Vancouver's CBUT.

CFTK newscasts are are 6-7PM, 11PM-12 midnight weekdays. There are no weekend newscasts.

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Broadcast television in British Columbia
Vancouver

CBUT 2 (CBC) • CHAN 8 (Global) • CKVU 10 (Citytv) • CFEG 19 (Religious Ind) • CBUFT 26 (SRC) • CIVT 32 (CTV) • CHNM 42 (Multicultural Ind → OMNI in 2008) • CHNU 66 (Religious Ind → Joytv)
Victoria
Southern BC
Northern BC

Chetwynd: CHET 55 (Ind) • Dawson Creek: CJDC 5 (CBC) • Prince George: CKPG 2 (CBC → E! in 2008) • Terrace: CFTK 3 (CBC) • Valemount : CHVC 7 (Ind)
US stations serving BC
Cable-only
1 Available on over the air retransmitters in certain towns.
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CBC television stations in Canada
CBC owned-and-operated stations
Privately-owned CBC affiliates

CFTK Terrace • CHAT Medicine Hat1 • CHEX Peterborough • CHEX-2 Oshawa • CJDC Dawson Creek • CKPG Prince George1 • CKPR Thunder Bay • CKSA Lloydminster • CKWS Kingston • CKX Brandon
1Plans are to disaffilliate from CBC on August 31, 2008.
Defunct stations
See also
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Astral Media Inc.
Corporate Directors
Normand Beauchamp • Austin Beutel • Paul Bronfman • André Bureau (Chairman) • Jack Cockwell • George Cohon • Paul Godfrey • Stephen Greenberg • Ian Greenberg (President and CEO) • Sidney Greenberg (Vice President) • Sidney Horn • Mila Mulroney • Timothy Price
Broadcast television stations
CFTK (CBC) • CJDC (CBC)
Cable Television/Specialty Channels
Radio networks / brands
Radio Stations
(by call-sign)
AM: CFRB • CFRN • CFTK • CHAM • CHOR • CHTK • CIOR • CISL • CJAD • CJBK • CJDC • CJOR • CKCR • CKFR • CKGR • CKHJ • CKMX • CKOC • CKOR • CKSL • CKTB
FM: CFBR • CFEI • CFIX • CFMG • CHBD • CHEY • CHIK • CHOM • CHRD • CHRE • CHRX • CHSU • CHTZ • CHVR • CIBK • CIBX • CICF • CIGB • CIKI • CIKX • CILK • CIMF • CIMO • CIQM • CITE (Montreal) • CITE (Estrie) • CITF • CJAB • CFQX • CFVM • CFXY • CFZZ • CJAT • CJAY • CJBX • CJCJ • CJDM • CJEZ • CJFM • CJFW • CJMM • CJMV • CJOI • CJMG • CKBC • CKFM • CKKC • CKLH • CKMF • CKMM • CKNL • CKQB • CKRX • CKTF • CKTK • CKTO • CKTY • CKX • CKXA • CKXR • CKZZ
Sirius Canada channels
Other Assets
Astral Media Outdoor (AMO)
See also
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