CITS-TV

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CITS-TV
Hamilton/Burlington, Ontario
Slogan	Television You Can Believe In
Channels	Analog: 36 (UHF) Digital: 35 (UHF)
Translators	CITS-1 ch.32 (Ottawa) CITS-2 ch.14 (London)
Affiliations	CTS
Owner	Crossroads Christian Communications
Founded	September 30, 1998
Transmitter Power	514 kW
Website	ctstv.com

CITS is a Canadian English language religious television station based in Ontario. It is licensed to the city of Hamilton, although its studios are located in Burlington. CITS uses the on-air brand of CTS (Crossroads Television System). CTS transmits on Channel 36 from the CHCH-TV tower at 481 First Road West in Stoney Creek.

Contents 1 Programming 2 History 3 Coverage 4 External links

[edit] Programming

CTS airs programming for family viewing, mostly based on Christian values, including dramas, comedies, mini-series, talk shows and more, although CTS also features shows on political commentary and other religions, including Judaism, Islam, and Sikhism. It is administered by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) Religious Broadcast Regulations and follows a policy of not airing shows containing "coarse language, gratuitous violence or explicit sexual scenes."

[edit] History

On December 4, 1996, the CRTC denied Crossroads Christian Communications a licence for a religious television station in Burlington, Ontario. Two years later on April 2, 1998, they were successful in obtaining a licence for Hamilton, Ontario, beating out Trinity Television Inc. for the licence. On September 30 of that year CTS-TV was launched under its current name. It was supposed to be launched on September 14, but it was pushed back to allow cable companies to make changes to some of their channel designations.

Throughout the years, CITS-TV expanded its coverage across southern Ontario by adding transmitters in London and Ottawa and by securing cable carriage on various cable companies across Ontario and Canada and on satellite. CITS-TV began broadcasting a digital signal on UHF Channel 35 in Hamilton, ON as of January 2008.

[edit] Coverage

CITS-TV can be viewed in these stations on the following cable providers, on the channel(s) shown below:

Station	Network	Ch.	City	ExpressVu	Star Choice	Rogers Cable
						Toronto/ Etobicoke	Scarborough/ Pickering	Ajax/ Whitby/ Oshawa/ Pine Ridge	Newmarket & areas north	Ottawa
CITS-TV	CTS	36	Hamilton	-	355	9	9	9	9	25

Cogeco						VCR Plus
Hamilton/Oakville	Niagara Falls	Barrie	Horseshoe L.	Peterborough	Kawartha Lakes
26	18	29	-	-	-	18

[edit] External links

• Official Site
• Cable and satellite channels
• CRTC Religious Broadcasting Policy

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