| City of license | Winnipeg, Manitoba |
|---|---|
| Branding | CTV Winnipeg |
| Channels | Digital: 7 (VHF) Virtual: 7.1 (PSIP) |
| Translators | see below |
| Affiliations | CTV |
| Owner | Bell Media |
| First air date | November 12, 1960 |
| Call letters' meaning | taken from its former sister radio station |
| Sister station(s) | CFRW, CFWM-FM, CHIQ-FM |
| Former callsigns | CJAY-TV (1960–1973) CKY-TV (1973-2011) |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 7 (VHF, 1960-2011) |
| Former affiliations | independent (1960-1961) |
| Transmitter power | 24 kW |
| Height | 280.8 m |
| Website | CTV Winnipeg |
CKY-DT (also commonly known as CTV Winnipeg) is a television station based in Winnipeg, Manitoba and owned by Bell Media. It is part of the CTV Television Network.
CKY was also the call sign of two Winnipeg radio stations. CKY (AM) was founded in 1923 by Manitoba Government Telephones. In 1948 the station was purchased by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation which changed its call letters to CBW. In 1949 the CKY call letters were reassigned to a new AM station in Winnipeg, owned by Moffat Broadcasting Ltd., which also founded CJAY-TV in 1960 and CKY-FM in 1962.
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As Manitoba is in the Central Time Zone, CKY generally abides by the U.S. practice of airing primetime programming simultaneously with its counterparts in the Eastern Time Zone, meaning one hour "earlier" in terms of local time than Eastern Time stations (e.g. "8, 7 Central"). This is primarily to maintain simultaneous substitution rights with the American network affiliates aired on cable in Winnipeg. However, the station's daytime and late-night schedule is otherwise generally the same as other CTV stations in terms of local airtimes, such as local news from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m., and CTV National News at 11:00 p.m. To accommodate both practices, programs that air in the 7:00 p.m. hour on most CTV stations, such as etalk and repeats of The Big Bang Theory, are generally moved to the 10:00 p.m. hour on CKY.
Prior to CTV's purchase of the station in 2001, this shifting of primetime programming normally extended to the 7:00 ET / 6:00 CT hour on Sundays, which continues to be the practice of American broadcast networks. This meant a local newscast would air at 5:30, followed by primetime, then an extra local newscast at 10:00 p.m. Since 2001, CKY has usually aired local news at 6:00 seven nights a week, including Sundays, regardless of the station's ability to simsub at that hour (and the "pre-empted" program would instead air later in the evening, usually 10:00 p.m.).
The station is also among a handful of CTV stations not to clear Live with Kelly, currently substituting a second run of Anderson in the 9:00 a.m. timeslot instead. This appears to be for simsub reasons: Live is not carried by any of the U.S. network affiliates available in Winnipeg, which are split between Minneapolis and Grand Forks, North Dakota (Live does air in both of those markets, but not on any of the stations carried locally). Meanwhile, WCCO-TV Minneapolis carries Anderson in the morning instead of CTV's preferred afternoon timeslot.Apparently CKY-DT is simsiubbing Anderson also at the 9:00 AM Hour
In January 1960, the Board of Broadcast Governors (BBG) held public hearings in Winnipeg in response to three applications which had been submitted to operate a commercial Channel 7 television station in the city. These applications were presented by R. S. Misener and Associates, a group associated with radio stations CKY Winnipeg, CFAM Altona and CKSB St. Boniface; Perimeter Television Broadcasters Ltd., a group associated with Winnipeg radio station CJOB; and the Red River Television Association, a group associated with the Winnipeg Free Press newspaper and radio station CKRC.[1]
The Misener application was subsequently approved by the BBG, and CKY was founded as independent station CJAY on November 12, 1960, joining CTV upon the network's launch on October 1, 1961. On June 1, 1973, the station's call sign was changed to CKY-TV to match Moffat's AM and FM stations, making it one of the only two Canadian TV stations, the other being the now-defunct CKX-TV, with three-letter call signs (incidentally, from 2007 to 2009, both stations were owned by the same company for the only time following CTVglobemedia's buyout of CHUM Limited). The CJAY calls are now used on a Calgary rock station now owned by Astral Media. In 1992, Moffat sold CKY-AM and CKY-FM (subsequently CITI) to Rogers Communications while maintaining ownership of the television station.
In August 1992, General Manager Vaughn Tozer hired Jim Wicks, a Canadian-American broadcaster to be the main anchor and managing editor. Tozer and Wicks re-organized the newsroom and the on-air team to help accomplish their goal. Within three ratings periods, the newscast had climbed from 3rd place to 1st place, replacing CBWT's 24 Hours as the highest-rated newscast in Winnipeg. At one point the newscast was advertised on billboards throughout the city as Wicks at 6. The on-air chemistry between Wicks and Sports Director Steve Vogelsang was unique in broadcasting, adding to the popularity of the program. Although the personalities have since changed on several occasions, the station's newscast has remained Manitoba's #1 newscast, increasing its lead in recent years due in part to the demise of CHMI's newscasts and budget cuts at CBWT. Currently, CKY has a monopoly on local newscasts weekdays at noon. As of today, CKY-TV is the oldest private TV station in Manitoba since CKX-TV's demise.
In 2001, Moffat Broadcasting was purchased by Shaw Cablesystems, which was not interested in CKY or its sister cable station, WTN. CKY was purchased by CTVglobemedia, while WTN was purchased by Corus Entertainment, moved to Toronto, and became W Network. Now a CTV owned-and-operated station, promos on CKY became similar to the other CTV O&Os. However, Shaw returned to the TV station business five years later, as they acquired CJBN-TV (a Global affiliate) in nearby Kenora, Ontario.
On May 15, 2006, the station's studios moved to a new facility near Winnipeg's MTS Centre. This move was mostly caused by recent retail developments in the area, which includes the Polo Park Shopping Centre, and the likelihood that CKY's studios were bought off by developers who would use the space for additional retail opportunities. The recent demolition of Winnipeg Arena and the possible development of a new football stadium to replace Canad Inns Stadium would have likely placed the broadcasting facility in an awkward position of being surrounded by retail developments, making their property more valuable. CKY's new studios uses state-of-the-art technology, and virtually nothing was moved from the old studios to the new facility. The existing news set was moved to CFQC, the CTV affiliate in Saskatoon, and some technical equipment was sent to CTV's Quebec City bureau. In addition, the master control of the station was moved to 9 Channel Nine Court, home of flagship CTV station CFTO-TV in Toronto.
Another likely reason for the move is that CKY had more space than it needed. With WTN, 92 CITI FM, and 102 Clear FM moving to new studios in recent years, plus the reduction of local, in-studio programming on CKY-TV since 1991, a new, although smaller, facility suited CKY-TV's needs.
In recent years, CKY has allowed studio space to be rented for third-party productions, including the locally produced film Blue State. The station marked its 50th anniversary in 2010.[2]
CKY-DT began transmitting over-the-air in Winnipeg on channel 46 at midnight on Thursday, September 1st, 2011. Its HD signal is now offered on Bell TV via channel 1091 as of September 12, 2011.
| Station | City of licence | Channel | ERP | HAAT | Transmitter Coordinates |
| CKYA-TV | Fisher Branch | 8 (VHF) | 62 kW | 136.9 m | |
| CKYB-TV | Brandon | 4 (VHF) | 100 kW | 406.9 m | |
| CKYB-TV-1 | McCreary | 13 (VHF) | 0.01 kW | NA | |
| CKYD-TV | Dauphin | 12 (VHF) | 140 kW | 353.9 m | |
| CKYF-TV* | Flin Flon | 13 (VHF) | 2.06 kW | 60 m | |
| CKYP-TV* | The Pas | 12 (VHF) | 2.13 kW | 52.6 m | |
| CKYS-TV* | Snow Lake | 11 (VHF) | 0.008 kW | NA | |
| CKYT-TV* | Thompson | 9 (VHF) | 2.185 kW | 43.3 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.[3] 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.[4]
When CKY-TV launched as CJAY, its broadcast day ran from 5:30 p.m. until around midnight daily. Its local newscasts were originally broadcast from 7:15 to 7:30, and 10:30 to 10:55 weeknights. The early newscast was part of a longer program known as "Panorama 7", which ran from 5:30 to 7:30 and consisted of cartoons and other children's features, a weather report, and news. As of October 3, 2005, the newscasts on CKY are branded as CTV News.
On June 6, 2011, it was announced the longtime CTV Winnipeg personality Sylvia Kuzyk would step down in the fall of 2011, and Colleen Bready was named her replacement. On July 26, 2011, it was announced that CKY-TV will debut a new three-hour weekday morning newscast called CTV Morning Live starting September 26, 2011, and will air from 6-9 a.m. from CTV Winnipeg's studios, the newscast will be anchored by Kris Laudien (formerly of Vancouver's CKVU-TV and Edmonton's CKEM-TV) and current CKY-TV reporter Eleanor Coopsammy. The newscast is part of an expansion of morning newscasts among the CTV owned-and-operated stations across Canada.[5]
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