CKNC-TV

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CKNC is a former Canadian television station, which broadcast in Sudbury, Ontario from 1971 to 2002. It was a private affiliate of CBC Television, through Northern Ontario's MCTV television system.

CKNC was established on October 4, 1971 by J. Conrad Lavigne, the owner of CFCL in Timmins. On the same day, the existing television station in Sudbury, CKSO, switched affiliation to CTV and adopted the new call letters CICI.

Until 1980, CICI and CKNC aggressively competed with each other for advertising dollars, leaving both in a precarious financial position due to the Sudbury market's relatively small size. In 1980, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission approved the merger of the two stations, along with their co-owned stations in North Bay and Timmins, into the MCTV twinstick.

In 1990, the stations were acquired by Baton Broadcasting. Baton subsequently sold CKNC to the CBC in 2002. The station is now a semi-satellite of CBLT in Toronto, with the callsign CBLT-6.

CKNC was also the original callsign, in the 1920s and 1930s, of a radio station in Toronto that now uses the callsign CJBC.

v • d • e Broadcast television in Ontario Metropolitan Markets Toronto • Ottawa Central Ontario Barrie: CKVR 3 (A-Channel) • Oshawa: CHEX-2 22 (CBC) • Peterborough: CHEX 12 (CBC) Southwestern Ontario Kitchener: CKCO 13 (CTV) • Leamington: CFTV 34 (IND) • London: CFPL 10 (A-Channel) • Paris: CIII 6 (Global) • Wheatley: CHWI 16 (A-Channel) • Windsor: CBET 9 (CBC) • CBEFT 54 (SRC) • TVCogeco • Wingham: CKNX 8 (A-Channel) Eastern Ontario Kingston: CKWS 11 (CBC) • TVCogeco Kingston Northeastern Ontario Greater Sudbury: CICI 5 (CTV) • Persona 10 News • North Bay: CKNY 10 (CTV) • TVCogeco North Bay • Sault Ste. Marie: CHBX 2 (CTV) • ShawTV 10 • Timmins: CITO 3 (CTV) • Persona 3 News Northwestern Ontario Kenora: CBWFT-7 2 (SRC) • CBWAT 8 (CBC) • CJBN 13 (CTV) • Shaw TV • Thunder Bay: CHFD 4 (CTV) • CKPR 2 (CBC) Defunct CJSS 8 Cornwall (CBC) • CHNB 4 North Bay (CBC) • CJIC 5 Sault Ste. Marie (CBC) • CKNC 9 Sudbury (CBC) • CFCL 6 Timmins (CBC) Other Leafs TV • Ontario Parliament Network • CP24 • Sportsnet Ontario • TVOntario • TFO • Fairchild Television (Toronto feed) • List of television stations in Ontario

v • d • e CBC television stations in Canada CBC owned-and-operated stations CBAT Fredericton • CBCT Charlottetown • CBET Windsor • CBHT Halifax • CBKT Regina • CBKST Saskatoon • CBLT Toronto • CBMT Montreal • CBNT St. John's • CBOT Ottawa • CBRT Calgary • CBUT Vancouver • CBWT Winnipeg • CBXT Edmonton • CFFB Iqaluit • CFWH Whitehorse • CFYK Yellowknife • CHAK Inuvik 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 CBNLT Labrador City • CBYT Corner Brook • CFCL Timmins • CFKL Schefferville • CFLA Goose Bay • CHAB Moose Jaw • CHNB North Bay • CJFB Swift Current • CJIC Sault Ste. Marie • CJSS Cornwall • CKBI Prince Albert • CKNC Sudbury • CKOS Yorkton See also SRC TV stations