| City of license | Moncton, New Brunswick |
|---|---|
| Branding | CTV Atlantic |
| Channels | Digital: 29 (UHF) Virtual: .1 (PSIP) |
| Translators | see below |
| Affiliations | CTV |
| Owner | Bell Media |
| First air date | November 30, 1954 |
| Former callsigns | CKCW-TV (1954-2011) |
| Former channel number(s) | 2 (Analog, 1954-2011) |
| Former affiliations | CBC (1954-1969) |
| Transmitter power | 390 kW |
| Height | 304.4 m |
| Website | CTV Atlantic |
CKCW-DT is a Canadian television station, broadcasting in Moncton, New Brunswick. It is an owned and operated station of CTV Television Network, through the CTV Atlantic regional system in the Canadian Maritimes.
CKCW also operates a full-time satellite, CKLT-DT in Saint John; that station is reckoned as a CKCW rebroadcaster even though it is separately licenced. Together, they serve as the CTV outlet for both New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island (by way of a repeater in Charlottetown).
The station first went on the air in 1954 and was founded by Fred A. Lynds and his company, Moncton Broadcasting. It was originally the CBC Television affiliate for southern New Brunswick. CKCW was part of a regional network of stations called the Lionel Television System. Its mascot was called Lionel the Lobster.
On September 21, 1969, as part of a complex realignment of television affiliations in the Maritimes, Saint John's original station, CHSJ-TV (now CBAT-TV) set up a translator in Moncton, enabling CKCW-TV to switch to CTV. CKCW then built a full-time satellite in Saint John, CKLT. However, since CHSJ-TV needed time to build rebroadcasters in the northern part of the province, CKCW's rebroadcasters in Campbellton, Upsalquitch and Newcastle continued to air CBC programming until 1976.
The two stations were bought by CHUM Limited and merged into the Atlantic Television System, forerunner of CTV Atlantic, in 1972.
Although for many years the station continued to air local programming, since the mid-1990s it has been a semi-satellite of CTV Atlantic flagship CJCH-DT in Halifax, Nova Scotia, except for local news inserts and some commercials.
In addition to CKLT-TV, the station operates a number of rebroadcast transmitters:
| Station | City of licence | Channel | ERP | HAAT | Transmitter Coordinates |
| CKCW-DT-1 | Charlottetown, PEI | 8 (VHF) Virtual: 8.1 (PSIP) |
9.6 kW | 150.3 m | |
| CKCW-TV-2* | St. Edward, PEI | 5 (VHF) | 1.1 kW | 103.9 m | |
| CKAM-TV* | Upsalquitch | 12 (VHF) | 230 kW | 424.9 m | |
| CKAM-TV-1 | Newcastle | 10 (VHF) | 0.009 kW | NA | |
| CKAM-TV-2 | Chatham | 10 (VHF) | 0.009 kW | NA | |
| CKAM-TV-3 | Blackville | 9 (VHF) | 0.009 kW | NA | |
| CKAM-TV-4 | Doaktown | 10 (VHF) | 0.009 kW | NA | |
| CKCD-TV* | Campbellton | 7 (VHF) | 1.8 kW | 245.9 m |
* These and a long list of CTV rebroadcasters nationwide were to shut down on or before August 31, 2009, as part of a political dispute with Canadian authorities on paid retransmission consent requirements for cable television operators.[1] A subsequent change in ownership assigned full control of CTV Globemedia to Bell Canada Enterprises; as of 2011, these transmitters remain in normal licensed broadcast operation.[2]
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