CKTV-DT

CKTV-DT
City of license Saguenay, Quebec
Branding Radio-Canada Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean
Slogan Ici comme dans la vie
Channels Analog: 12 (VHF)
Digital: allocated 12 (VHF)
Translators 27 CKTV-TV-1 St-Fulgence
Affiliations Radio-Canada
Owner Société Radio-Canada
First air date December 1, 1955
Former callsigns CKRS-TV (1955-1999)
Transmitter power CKTV-DT: 7.4 kW
CKTV-TV-1: 2.1 kW
Height CKTV-TV: 591.7 m
CKTV-TV-1: -20 m
Transmitter coordinates CKTV-TV:

CKTV-TV-1:
Website Radio-Canada Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean

CKTV-DT is a television station in the Canadian city of Saguenay, Quebec. It is an owned-and-operated station of the Radio-Canada network in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region. The channel broadcasts in ATSC on Channel 12-1 from studios in the former city of Chicoutimi.

The station moved into new studios in 2010, uniting all of CBC/Radio-Canada's staff at 500, rue des Saguenéens in Chicoutimi.

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History

The station first aired on December 1, 1955 as CKRS-TV. It was originally owned by Radio Saguenay along with CKRS radio. It joined Radio-Canada's microwave network on October 28, 1957.

Radio Saguenay sold off its radio station in 1981, but kept CKRS-TV until selling it to Cogeco on November 24, 1998. Cogeco adopted the current callsign the following year, on March 26, 1999. Shortly thereafter, Cogeco acquired control of TQS, to which Cogeco contributed its existing local stations. Radio-Canada took editorial control of the station's news programming in 2002.

In September 2007, Radio-Canada announced that it would not renew its affiliation agreement with its three Cogeco-owned affiliates — CKTV, CKTM in Trois-Rivières and CKSH in Sherbrooke — after their then-current agreement expired in August 2008. An application to directly acquire the stations was filed by Radio-Canada on April 25, 2008, concurrently with Cogeco's proposed sale of TQS to Remstar Corporation.[1] The transaction was approved by the CRTC on June 26, 2008.[2]

Prior to the 2002 municipal amalgamations, the station's city of license was Jonquière, which is now a borough of Saguenay. Prior to 2010, the station's studios were based there alongside former sister station CFRS-TV, while its transmitter has been retained atop Mount Valin.

Now that Radio-Canada owns the station, it intends to increase local programming and to relocate all of its radio and television facilities in the region into an integrated production centre in the former city of Chicoutimi.[3]

Other uses

During the 1980s, CKTV was also a brand name used by CTV affiliate CKCK-TV in Regina, Saskatchewan.

CKTV was also originally assigned as the call sign for a station in Victoria, British Columbia, which changed its call sign to CHEK-TV before it signed on in 1956.

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