CHEK-TV
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| CHEK-TV | |
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| Victoria, British Columbia | |
| Branding | CHEK News (Local programming only) |
| Slogan | Your Island's Own |
| Channels | Analog: 6 (VHF) |
| 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 | E! (since 2001, known as CH until 2007) |
| Owner | Canwest (Canwest Media Inc.) |
| Founded | December 1, 1956 |
| Call letters’ meaning | CHE(C)K |
| Former callsigns | CKTV (Prior to launch) |
| Former affiliations | CBC (1956-81) CTV (1963-2001, secondary until 1981) |
| Transmitter Power | 100 kW |
| Height | 496.2 m |
| Website | www.cheknews.ca |
CHEK-TV is a television station in Victoria, British Columbia. Broadcasting to all of southwestern British Columbia (including Vancouver), the station is a member of the E! system owned by Canwest. It broadcasts on channel 6.
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[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 September 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.
In 1972, CHEK, which had simulcast CHAN's News Hour since the Griffiths purchase (and would continue to do so until 2001), began producing its own news program, Vancouver Island News Hour, airing at 5:30 p.m. before the CHAN News Hour, and at 11:15 p.m. following CBC's The National until 1981, then at 11:30 p.m. after CTV National News from 1981 until 2001[1]. At one stage, CHEK used the same flower logo as CHAN, but later reverted back to its own logo. On January 8, 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 broadcast many of the same programs as CHAN 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 used up until September 2007.
On September 7, 2007, with the rebranding of the national CH service as E!, local programming adopted the "CHEK News" brand, a partial reversal of the current trend for TV networks and systems in Canada to use generic branding for their owned stations.
[edit] Current anchors and reporters
[edit] Anchors
- Julie Nolin (CHEK News at Five)
- Jennifer Crosby and Scott Fee (CHEK News at Six)
- Scott Fee (CHEK News at Eleven)
- Skye Ryan (CHEK News at Five and Eleven Weekend)
[edit] Weather
- Ed Bain
- Gordie Tupper
[edit] Sports
- Jeff King
- Stacy Ross
- Keith Wells
[edit] Reporters
- John Ackermann
- Ian Black
- Philip Campbell
- Kim Emerson
- Mary Griffin
- Kendall Hanson
- Dana Hutchings
- Bruce Kirkpatrick
- Kristen Robinson
- Skye Ryan
- Dean Stoltz
[edit] Alumni (partial list)
- Marisa Adair
- Robin Adair
- Bob Aylward
- Harry Barisoff
- John Barton
- Paul Carson
- Clem Chapple
- Coleen Christie
- Ida Clarkson
- Veronica Cooper
- Bert Dodd
- Dawn Draper
- Kristin Eriksen
- Mark Jan Vrem
- Rich Jones
- Jill Krop
- Lara Lauzon
- Sophie Lui
- Catherine MacDonald
- Hudson Mack
- Pamela Martin
- Jenny Matechuk
- 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
- Ed Watson
- 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] Previously aired US programs
- Late Show with David Letterman, weekdays 4:30pm (August 1995 to August 1999)
[edit] Videotape Format
CHEK-TV uses shoots on DVC-Pro tapes for all its programming and non-live parts of its CHEK News broadcasts.
[edit] Station Presentation
Over the years, CHEK-TV has seen a great deal of different logos, reflecting different owners, styles, and themes as the years go by.
 Joint logo of CHAN (8) and CHEK-TV (6), introduced following Frank Griffiths' purchase of both stations. This logo was used from 1963 to 1975. |
 CHEK-TV's sixth logo, from 1997 to 2001, under WIC ownership. There was some speculation that the introduction of this checkmark logo (with the slogan "It's Here") was intended to confuse viewers into thinking it was the soon-to-launch VTV.[citation needed] |
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 CHEK-TV's first logo as a CH station, from 2001, under Canwest ownership |
 CHEK-TV's second logo as a CH station, from 2002 |
 CHEK-TV's third logo as CH station, from 2006 |
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ CHEK-TV's last night with CTV on YouTube
[edit] External links
- Official CHEK News Website
- Official E! Website
- CHEK-TV history at CCF website
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