CITL-DT
CITL-DT is a Canadian television station, broadcasting in Lloydminster. It is an affiliate of CTV, and as of 2011 is the only CTV station not owned and operated by the network itself.
The station is operated as a twinstick with the city's CBC affiliate, CKSA. The stations were acquired by Newcap Broadcasting in 2005 from their former owner, Midwest Television.
As of 2011, CITL now clears the vast majority of the CTV schedule, including all of primetime, and is currently the only CTV station in Western Canada to air Canada AM (with all CTV O&Os between Vancouver and Winnipeg airing local CTV Morning Live programs instead). However, the station breaks away from the network late-night schedule after The Daily Show to carry The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (both from CTV Two). CITL's carriage of CTV daytime programming has remained inconsistent at times; presently, it pre-empts The View for the paid religious program 100 Huntley Street.
Until the mid-to-late 2000s, CITL also carried some Global programming alongside CTV shows; however, this was discontinued at some point after Global Edmonton was made available on basic cable in Lloydminster. Nonetheless the station sometimes carries other non-Global lifestyle programming from the library of Global's parent company Shaw Media.
CITL's newscasts air at 6 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. weekdays, and 6 p.m. on weekends.
Prior to the August 31, 2011, digital transition, CITL had rebroadcast transmitters in Wainwright, Provost, Bonnyville, Meadow Lake and Alcot Trail. The station's main transmitter was required to participate in the digital transition, but Newcap also decided to shut its other transmitters, other than Alcot Lake's, on the same date, though there was no requirement to shut down or convert any of these other transmitters to digital.
The station had attempted to add a rebroadcaster in Fort McMurray in 2006,[1] but this was subsequently withdrawn. The application had been surprising since a CTV-owned station, CFRN-TV, had already served the area on cable with some separate news programming and commercials since 1990 from CFRN's repeater in Ashmont.[2]
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