CHMI-TV
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| Portage la Prairie / Winnipeg, Manitoba | |
| Branding | Citytv Winnipeg |
| Slogan | Everywhere. |
| Channels | Analog: 13 (VHF) / Cable 8 |
| Affiliations | Citytv |
| Owner | Rogers Media |
| Founded | May 8, 1986 |
| Call letters’ meaning | C H Manitoba's Independent |
| Former affiliations | Independent (1986-1999) A-Channel (1999-2005) |
| Website | www.citytv.com |
CHMI-TV (also known as Citytv Winnipeg) is a television station licensed to Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Canada, with most of its operations in Winnipeg. It is part of the Citytv system. While CTVglobemedia was slated to acquire CHMI along with other four Citytv stations as part of its purchase of most CHUM operations, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission's (CRTC) decision approving the sale was made conditional on CTV selling the Citytv stations to Rogers Media. The CRTC approved the sale on September 28, 2007. Rogers took control of CHMI effective October 31.
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[edit] History
The station was licensed by the CRTC on May 8, 1986 and went on the air on October 17, 1986[1] where it was originally branded as the Manitoba Television Network or MTN. The station was originally licensed to Portage la Prairie, Manitoba but focused primarily on Winnipeg. Originally, MTN was not allowed to sell advertising in Winnipeg.
MTN was well-known for its Prairie Pulse News (later retitled MTN Pulse News, and then MTN News), MTN Kids Club, and Prime Ticket Movies, the last of which would carry over to the A-Channel system. Its slogan was "Very independent".
In the fall of 1999, Craig Media moved the station to the refurbished former Canadian National Railway Power House at The Forks in Winnipeg and rebranded the station as A-Channel, joining CKEM in Edmonton, Alberta and CKAL in Calgary, Alberta. Technical operations for the station remained in Portage la Prairie.
In 2004, Craig Media announced a deal to sell the A-Channel stations to CHUM Limited. The sale was approved by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission on November 19, 2004, and became official on December 1.
On February 3, 2005 CHUM announced that the A-Channel stations including CHMI will be relaunched as Citytv by that fall, the changes took effect on August 2.
CTVglobemedia announced its takeover of CHUM Limited in July 2006, pending regulatory approval. CTV intended to retain CHMI and the other four Citytv stations. However, CTV stated at the CRTC public hearing for the deal that the rationale to buy the Citytv stations was "weakest" in the case of CHMI; unlike the other Citytv markets, there has never been any sort of twinstick allowed in Winnipeg. CTV subsequently informed the CRTC, on May 7, that it would be prepared to sell CHMI "if the Commission determined this was in the public interest". The CRTC rejected this proposal and ultimately made the takeover conditional on the sale of all Citytv stations to another broadcaster.[2] Days later, it was announced that Rogers Communications would buy the stations of the Citytv system. The transaction was approved by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission on September 28.
On July 12, 2006, the same day as the CTVglobemedia takeover was announced, the local CityNews program was immediately cancelled. It was expected to be replaced with a weekly half-hour newsmagazine called your City starting in January 2007. However, the program has not began airing as of yet. Technical operations for the station have been moved to Calgary CKAL (as of January 2007), Citytv Calgary.[3]
[edit] Former station logos
 MTN logo (1986-1995) |
 MTN logo (1995-1999) |
 A-Channel logo (1999-2005) |
[edit] Current CHMI-TV hosts
- Jon Ljungberg, co-host, Breakfast Television
- Terri Apostle, co-host, Breakfast Television
- Jimmy Mac, Remote Host, Breakfast Television
- Heather Steele, Breakfast Television weather anchor
- Jenna Khan, Laurel Clark and Mark Jardine, Citytv reporters
- Brian Yasui, Breakfast Television news anchor
[edit] Former CHMI-TV hosts
- Lisa Saunders, former co-anchor CityNews @ Six, and CityNews Tonight
- Glen Kirby, former co-anchor CityNews @ Six
- Erin Selby, former co-host of Breakfast Television
- Derek Taylor, former CityNews Tonight sports anchor
- Bill Fortier, former Citytv news reporter and current CTV Edmonton reporter
- Kevin Dunn, host of Bundy's Late Night Revue and puppeteer of Buckley on MTN Kids Club
- Adam Rickner, puppeteer of Beave on Bundy's Late Night Revue and MTN Kids Club
[edit] Retransmitters
- CHMI-2
- CHMI-3 (Dauphin) channel 6
[edit] References
- ^ "Glitches mar MTN debut; viewers give warm welcome", Winnipeg Free Press, October 18, 1986.
- ^ Record of CBC interventions and CTV replies re CHUM acquisition on CRTC website; these commitments are in document marked "Second Reply"
- ^ [1], [2], [3]
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