CIVT-TV
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| CIVT-TV | |
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| Vancouver, British Columbia | |
| Branding | CTV British Columbia |
| Slogan | Your Home. Your News. |
| Channels | Analog: 32 (UHF) Digital: 33 (UHF) |
| Affiliations | CTV |
| Owner | CTVglobemedia CTV Television Inc. |
| Founded | September 22, 1997 |
| Call letters’ meaning | C I Vancouver Television |
| Former callsigns | none |
| Former affiliations | Independent (1997-2001) |
| Transmitter Power | 2 MW (analog) 0.9 kW (digital) |
| Height | 740.3 m |
| Website | ctvbc.ca |
CIVT-TV (also known as CTV British Columbia, CTV Vancouver or CTV 9) is a television station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Owned by CTVglobemedia, it is part of the CTV Television Network. It broadcasts on UHF channel 32, and is seen on cable channel 9 in most areas.
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[edit] Station details
The station's studios are located at the former site of the Vancouver Public Library, on Robson Street and Burrard Street. The station broadcasts a 2 MW terrestrial signal on UHF channel 32 from a transmitter on Mount Seymour, making it the only CTV network station to broadcast on UHF only.
It is the only CTV station in British Columbia, and in the Pacific Standard Time zone. However, the station's UHF terrestrial signal only reaches Vancouver and Victoria, as well as neighbouring Whatcom County, Washington. Accordingly the station relies exclusively on cable and satellite distribution to reach the rest of British Columbia, making it something of a "weak link" in the CTV network, including where a Mountain Standard Time station may be available. Given the high penetration of cable and satellite, the station has no plans to set up any additional transmitters.
Although the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission technically requires Canadian TV stations to identify themselves over the air by their call letters, this rule is rarely enforced, and most Canadian TV stations identify themselves by their brand name rather than their call letters. On-air, CIVT identifies itself simply as "CTV". Where a channel reference is warranted, it uses "Channel 9" - its primary cable channel number on most cable systems in southwestern British Columbia.
For historical reasons, CIVT is the only CTV-owned station not to air The Oprah Winfrey Show, and it is one of two not to air Jeopardy! (the other is CFCF). The local rights to both programs had belonged to CHAN (BCTV) for several years prior and did not revert to CTV when that station disaffiliated. CHAN has kept Oprah as a Global station, however the Vancouver-area rights to Jeopardy! have subsequently passed to CHEK, CHNM, CIVI, and CKVU. (The latter difference will likely be resolved in fall 2008, when CBC Television, including CBUT locally, acquires the national rights to Jeopardy!.[1]) CIVT presently airs next-day repeats of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report (Friends and Frasier on Monday) in place of Oprah, and Access Hollywood in place of Jeopardy!.
The studios also house the CTV News Vancouver bureau, and are likely to be the broadcast headquarters for CTV's coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics, held in Vancouver and Whistler.
[edit] History
After receiving applications from Rogers Communications and CanWest Global Communications for new stations in the Vancouver/Victoria market in August 1995 and January 1996 respectively, the CRTC issued a general call for applications in March 1996, with a public hearing that September. In all, five applications were considered:
- Rogers proposed a multicultural station similar to its CFMT in Toronto, purportedly to replace an existing regional specialty channel, Talentvision;
- CanWest proposed a new station in Victoria, in parallel to its existing Vancouver station CKVU, in an attempt to gain parity with WIC's dual ownership of BCTV and CHEK in the market;
- The Baton/Electrohome Alliance, CHUM Limited, and Craig Broadcast Systems each proposed a new, independent local station focused on Vancouver.
The commission's decision, released January 31, 1997, approved the Baton application and denied the others. The prospective Rogers station was denied largely because it would have replaced some of Talentvision's existing ethnic programming with U.S. syndicated fare. It also appeared that the application was purely speculative, as Talentvision's existing owners indicated they had no intention to vacate their licence. As for CanWest, the commission determined that the existing BCTV/CHEK twinstick did not justify licensing a new station to a company already serving the market.
The remaining applications were all determined to be high-calibre, however the deciding factor in favour of Baton/Electrohome was a commitment to air new Vancouver-produced programming across Baton's and Electrohome's stations, a promise that the smaller CHUM and Craig station groups could not match.[2]
The station, CIVT, first went on the air as Vancouver Television or VTV on September 22, 1997. However, by the end of 1997, Baton Broadcasting had bought out Electrohome's broadcasting operations, and gained full control of both the Vancouver station and the CTV network. It soon became an open secret that CIVT would become Vancouver's CTV station at the first opportunity. BCTV and CHEK had a long-term affiliation agreement with CTV, covering 40 hours of programming per week, which would not expire until September 2000; due to complications surrounding the breakup of WIC, this was later extended by an additional year.
[edit] Programming
Upon launch, VTV took over the BC rights to Baton Broadcast System (BBS) programming, some of which was previously aired by BCTV; however, with the Baton/CTV merger nearing completion by this point, the "BBS" brand was not used locally. By early 1998 these series had in effect become part of CTV's national schedule; VTV would cover up the CTV bug at the lower-right corner of the screen with its own logo.
To fill in the gaps, and because CHUM did not have a station in the market at that point, VTV also carried some series and movies sourced from Toronto's CITY-TV through the end of the 1999-2000 season. As well, some CTV-owned series that did not air nationally due to low expectations and/or scheduling constraints aired instead on VTV (two notable examples were the first episodes of Ally McBeal and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, both upgraded to national status by midseason). Previously-cancelled Canadian dramas that had already aired on the main network were sometimes aired to fulfill Canadian content obligations.
On September 1, 2001, as part of a major network shuffle in southwestern BC's television market, CIVT became a full CTV network station, and has not deviated significantly from the national schedule since then.
[edit] News
VTV's news operation started out similar to that of CITY-TV, with a morning television show (VTV Breakfast) and evening newscasts (Vancouver Live) where the anchors stood up and moved throughout the studio. The Toronto station's founder, Moses Znaimer, went so far as to claim that his former protégé, Baton chief executive Ivan Fecan, had stolen CITY's format outright for VTV.[3] A noon newscast only lasted for several months after the launch. Around 1999, VTV began moving towards a more conventional news operation, and renamed its newscasts to simply VTV News.
Upon becoming a full network station in fall 2001, CIVT adopted the name BC CTV. This caused some confusion among viewers with BCTV, the leading newscast in the region which has since changed its name to Global BC. Given CTV's desire to steal market share from BCTV, there was some speculation that the confusion was deliberate.
On July 1, 2002, CIVT stopped using the BC CTV ID on-air, and began to identify itself only as CTV, following the lead of several other CTV-owned stations (such as CKCK and CFQC). The name CTV 9 is often used to refer to CIVT informally, but is hardly ever used on-air.
In March 2004, CIVT became the first station in Western Canada to operate a full-time news helicopter, nicknamed "Chopper 9".
In 2005, digital signal CIVT-DT, sometimes known as CTV HD West, became operational.
In January 2008, Canada AM Western Edition started to be produced at the CIVT studios and in June 2008, Canada AM Western Edition was cancelled.[1]
[edit] Newscasts
CIVT's newscasts are shown at the following times:
[edit] Weekdays
- 5 p.m. - 6 p.m.: CTV News at 5 with Coleen Christie
- 6 p.m. - 7 p.m.: CTV News at 6 with Bill Good and Pamela Martin
- 11:30 p.m. - 12:05 a.m.: CTV News at 11:30 with Jina You (Mon-Tues) and Renu Bakshi (Wed-Fri) (temporary anchors as former anchor Mi-Jung Lee left to anchor the western edition of Canada AM which has now been cancelled).
[edit] Weekends
- 6 p.m. - 7 p.m.: CTV News at 6 with Keri Adams
- 11:30 p.m. - 12:05 a.m.: CTV News at 11:30 with Jina You on Saturdays, Keri Adams on Sundays
[edit] News staff
[edit] Senior news management
- Tom Haberstroh, General Manager
- Margo Harper, News Director
- Les Staff, Executive Producer
- Ethan Faber, Assignment Editor
- Charles Wright, Senior Director [2]
- Joan Marshall, Senior Producer
[edit] Anchors
- Bill Good
- Pamela Martin
- Mi-Jung Lee
- Keri Adams
- Coleen Christie
- Renu Bakshi
- Heron Hanuman
- Dag Sharman
- Jina You
[edit] General reporters
- Mike Killeen - CTV News 2010 Olympic Reporter*
- Keri Adams*
- St. John Alexander
- Jim Beatty - Victoria bureau
- Janet Dirks
- Kate Gajdosik - Chopper 9 reporter
- Jina You*
- Julia Foy - Fraser Valley bureau
- David Kincaid - Chopper 9 Reporter
- Lisa Rossington
- Michele Brunoro - Fraser Valley bureau
- Renu Bakshi*
- Dag Sharman
- Dave Pinton
- Maria Weisgarber
- Stephen Smart
- Sarah Galashan - Whistler bureau
- Kent Molgat - Okanagan Bureau
*Also substitute anchor.
[edit] Sports
- Perry Solkowski (Weekdays at 6:00 p.m.)
- Kathy Kovacs (Weeknights at 11:30 p.m.)
- Jason Pires (Weekends at 6 p.m. and 11:30 p.m.)
- Farhan Lalji
- Alex Blair
[edit] Weather
- Tamara Taggart - CTV News at 5, 6 & 11:30 p.m.
- Marke Driesschen - CTV News Weekend Edition at 6 p.m. and 11:30 p.m.
- Rena Heer
[edit] Consumer reporter
- Chris Olsen
[edit] News photography
- David Alexander - Field Operations Supervisor
[edit] General assignment
- Chris Brinton - Victoria Bureau
- Wade Carpenter
- Shawn Foss - Fraser Valley Bureau
- Susie Golemba
- Ted Huang
- Steve Hughes
- Wayne Hancheruk
- Roman Komm
- Shelly Moore
- Steve Murray
- Gary Rutherford
- Jazz Sanghera
[edit] Chopper 9
- Gary Barndt
- Pete Cline
- Murray Titus
[edit] SNG/MW operations
- Scott Connorton - MW - Fraser Valley Bureau
- Toby Rompf - SNG/MW Editor Photographer
- Gary Tapp - SNG
[edit] ENG news editors
- Ashley Alonzo
- Jeannine Avelino
- Diane Brady
- Kim Bosnick
- James Buck
- Andrei Florut
- Sabrina Gans
- Chardon Labrie
- Tim Latham
- Delores Laszuk
- Vinh Nguyen
- Darian Noel
- Greg Novik
- David Smillie
- Amanda Wilcox
[edit] Past personalities
- Bridgitte Anderson: Anchor, now at CBUT
- Denelle Balfour: Reporter, now with CTV National News
- Ravi Baichwal: Anchor, now at WLS-TV
- Satinder Bindra: Reporter, now at CNN
- Rob Brown: Reporter, now with CTV National News
- Mike Chisholm: Reporter, now at CHAN-TV
- Kate Corcoran: Reporter
- Nicola Crosbie: Weathercaster, now at CITV-TV
- Monika Deol: Anchor
- Jasmin Doobay: Weathercaster and traffic reporter
- Vicki Gabereau: Talk show host
- Kristi Gordon: Weathercaster, now at CHAN-TV
- Claudine Grant
- Aamer Haleem: Breakfast host, now at VH1
- Kimberly Halkett: Anchor, now with Al Jazeera English
- David Jones: Weathercaster, now at CBUT
- Karen Khunkhun: Weathercaster
- Dave Lefebvre: Reporter, now a spokesman for Corrections Canada
- Robert Mason Lee: Talk show host
- Paul Mennier: Anchor, now at CKEM-TV
- Dagmar Midcap: Weathercaster and traffic reporter, now at WGCL-TV
- Chris Nelson: Reporter, now at MuchMusic
- Craig Nielsen: Sports anchor
- Sonja Nordahl: Anchor
- Elisha Odowichuk: Reporter
- Blake Price: Sports anchor
- Katie Rebak: Traffic reporter
- Michelle Simick: Reporter
- Jody Vance: Sports anchor, now at Rogers Sportsnet
- John Vennavally-Rao: Reporter, now with CTV National News
- Ed Watson: Reporter
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Three dramas, two U.S. game shows join CBC, Etan Vlessing, Playback, November 20, 2007
- ^ Decision CRTC 97-39, January 31, 1997
- ^ Susan Gittins, CTV: The Television Wars, Toronto: Stoddart Publishing, 2001 (p. 323).
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