| City of license | Regina, Saskatchewan |
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| Branding | CTV Regina |
| Slogan | Your World at Home |
| Channels | Digital: 8 (VHF) Virtual: 2.1 (PSIP) |
| Translators | see below |
| Affiliations | CTV |
| Owner | Bell Media |
| First air date | July 28, 1954 |
| Call letters' meaning | CKCK (originally assigned to radio station in 1922) |
| Former callsigns | CKCK-TV (1954-2011) |
| Former channel number(s) | 2 (Analog, 1954-2011) |
| Former affiliations | CBC (1954-1969) CBS (1954-?) |
| Transmitter power | 23 kW |
| Height | 187.2 m |
| Website | CTV Regina |
CKCK-DT, VHF channel 8 (PSIP 2.1), is a CTV owned and operated television station based in Regina, Saskatchewan. Originally signing on in 1954, CKCK was the first privately owned television station in Western Canada.
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CKCK signed on in 1954. It was originally owned by the Sifton family, which also owned the Regina Leader-Post and CKCK Radio. It was originally a CBC Television affiliate. Shortly after signing on, it took a secondary affiliation with the American CBS network.[1]
It joined CTV in 1969 when CHAB-TV in Moose Jaw and its Regina semi-satellite, CHRE-TV, were purchased by the CBC. As a result of this deal, CHRE was recalled CBKRT and became the main station; it is now CBKT.
In 1977, it was sold to Harvard Developments, owned by Regina's Hill family. In 1985, a 90 percent stake would be sold (the remaining 10 percent would soon follow) to Baton Broadcasting, bringing it under common ownership with Saskatchewan's other CTV affiliates, CFQC Saskatoon, CICC/CKOS Yorkton, and CIPA/CKBI Prince Albert. Today, it operates as a CTV owned-and-operated station, part of CTVglobemedia. Local programming today is limited primarily to the station's popular newscasts.
From the 1970s through the late 1980s, CKCK identified itself as "CKTV", but its official call letters remained CKCK-TV. During this period, though, the station did acquire the CKTV calls for its Fort Qu'appelle retransmitter. That station is now CKCK-TV7, and "CKTV" is currently the official call sign for a Radio-Canada affiliate in Saguenay, Quebec.
Nevertheless, while the station identifies itself only as CTV, many people in southern Saskatchewan still know it as CKTV or CK.
In December 2008, CTVglobemedia applied to the CRTC to operate an HD signal of CKCK-TV which would be delivered as a "satellite-to-cable" feed. The move would allow CKCK to operate a HD signal which could substituted in place of American HD signals on local cable services, without actually operating an over-the-air DTV transmitter. The CRTC has yet to rule on this application.
CKCK-DT began transmitting over-the-air in Regina on channel 8 at 12:05 AM on Wednesday, August 31st, 2011. Using PSIP Virtual channel 2.1 is displayed. Its HD signal is now offered on Bell TV via channel 1106 as of September 12, 2011.
| Station | City of licence | Channel | ERP | HAAT | Transmitter Coordinates |
| CKCK-TV-1 | Colgate | 12 (VHF) | 84.8 kW | 162.2 m | |
| CKCK-TV-2 | Willow Bunch | 6 (VHF) | 52.7 kW | 263.4 m | |
| CKCK-TV-7* | Fort Qu'Appelle | 7 (VHF) | 0.241 kW | 26.2 m | |
| CKMC-TV | Swift Current | 12 (VHF) | 100 kW | 167.3 m | |
| CKMC-TV-1 | Golden Prairie | 10 (VHF) | 229 kW | 168.8 m | |
| CKMJ-TV | Moose Jaw | 7 (VHF) | 98 kW | 234.1 m |
* The Fort Qu'Appelle transmitter was among a long list of CTV rebroadcasters nationwide to have 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.[2] 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.[3]
Currently, CKCK-DT broadcasts a total of 14½ hours of local newscasts each week (with 2½ hours on weekdays and one hour each on Saturdays and Sundays).
On October 31, 2011, CKCK debuted a three-hour morning newscast under the title CTV Morning Live, which airs on weekdays from 6-9 a.m.; other morning newscasts under the Morning Live banner will be or have already been launched on CTV owned-and-operated stations across western and central Canada as part of a benefits package that was included as a condition of the sale of the CTV network to Bell Canada.[4]
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