CFCN-DT
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| City of license | Calgary, Alberta |
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| Branding | CTV Calgary |
| Channels | Digital: 29 (UHF) Virtual: 4.1 (PSIP) |
| Translators | see below |
| Affiliations | CTV |
| Owner | Bell Media |
| First air date | September 9, 1960 |
| Sister station(s) | CTV Two Alberta |
| Former callsigns | CFCN-TV (1960-2011) |
| Former channel number(s) | 4 (Analog, VHF, 1960-2011) 36 (Digital, UHF, 2009-2011) |
| Former affiliations | independent (1960-1961) |
| Transmitter power | 220 kW |
| Height | 206.1 m |
| Transmitter coordinates | 51°3′34″N 114°10′13″W / 51.05944°N 114.17028°W |
| Website | CTV Calgary |
CFCN-DT (also known as CTV Calgary) is a Canadian television station, broadcasting in Calgary, Alberta. Owned and operated by Bell Media, it is a part of the CTV Television Network. The station also operates a semi-satellite in Lethbridge.
CFCN airs the full CTV schedule in Mountain Time. However, some programs air three hours after they air on flagship CFTO-TV in Toronto, largely because most southern Alberta cable systems carry the television stations from Spokane, Washington (in the Pacific Time Zone).
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[edit] History
CFCN signed on September 9, 1960; owned by the Love family along with CFCN-AM 1060 (now CKMX). It was the first independent television station in Canada. It became a charter member of the Canadian Television Network, now CTV, on October 8, 1961. In 1967, Maclean-Hunter bought the CFCN stations.
In 1968, CFCN opened its semi-satellite in Lethbridge, leasing tower space from CJLH-TV (now CISA-TV).
One of CFCN's locally produced shows,The Buck Shot Show, began in 1967. For the next thirty years, Ron Barge was a comforting and familiar figure to Calgary children. Every noon hour, he appeared on television wearing a battered cowboy hat and shirt alongside his sidekicks, Benny the Bear and Clyde the Owl. Three generations of kids grew up with Buckshot, Benny the Bear and Clyde the Owl. Local police officers, firefighters and paramedics visited the show and taught kids how to be safe. A humorous song that was popular on the show was "16 Chickens and Tambourine" by Roy Acuff. It can be heard on YouTube. His birthday wishes to local children with their name on the screen was the highlight of many a child in the 1970s and 1980s.
During the 1970s, former (then future) Alberta premier Ralph Klein was a reporter for CFCN before going into politics and heading north to Edmonton.
When cable companies opened in Calgary, the station broadcast on channel 5. This was unusual in the fact that CTV broadcast on cable channel 3. In 1995, CFCN began broadcasting on channel 3 to integrate with the national CTV channel and to accommodate future channels.
Maclean-Hunter merged with Rogers Communications in 1994. Rogers sold CFCN to Baton Broadcasting in 1996. CFCN was the next-to-last major acquisition for Baton before it bought majority control of CTV in 1997.
By 2001, CFCN-TV operated the following transmitters: CFCN-TV-1 Drumheller, CFCN-TV-2 Banff, CFCN-TV-3 Brooks, CFCN-TV-6 Drumheller, CFCN-TV-13 Pigeon Mountain, CFCN-TV-14 Canmore (Harvie Heights) and CFCN-TV-16 Oyen.
On November 25, 2005, CFCN-TV-5 Lethbridge was given approval to make some technical changes to CFCN-TV-8 at Medicine Hat. Effective radiated power would be reduced from 6,700 watts to an average ERP of 5,800 watts, the antenna height would be raised and the transmitter site would change.
[edit] News operation
On July 22, 2010, anchor Barb Higgins announced that she would be leaving CFCN after 21 years anchoring the 6 p.m. newscast, to concentrate on the election for mayor of Calgary.[1] On October 12, 2010, it was announced that Global National's Tara Nelson will be her replacement. Higgins' co-anchor, Darrel Janz, will leave the anchor desk on weekdays, after 37 years at that position and become a reporter for CFCN, making Nelson the sole-anchor for the 6 p.m. newscast; Janz will continue to anchor the Weekend 6 p.m. newscasts.[2] That same week, weekend 6 pm anchor Tara Robinson left the station.
[edit] News/station presentation
[edit] Newscast titles
- Channel 5 News (early 1990s; reference to then-position on channel 5 on area cable providers)
- Channel 3 News (mid 1990s–1998; reference to then-position on channel 3 on area cable providers)
- CFCN News (1998–2005)
- CTV News (2005–present)[3]
This film, television or video-related list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it with reliably sourced additions.[edit] News team
Anchors
- Elissa Carpenter - CTV Morning Live - weekday mornings at 5:30 a.m. (rotating/interim)
- Camilla Di Giuseppe - weeknights at 11:30 p.m.; also reporter
- Jefferson Humphreys - CTV Morning Live - weekday mornings at 5:30 a.m.
- Darrel Janz - weekends at 6 p.m.
- Jocelyn Laidlaw - weekdays at noon, and weeknights at 5 p.m.
- Tara Nelson - weeknights at 6 p.m.
- Amanda Singroy - weekends at 6 and 11:30 p.m.; also weeknight reporter
- Aisling Tomei - CTV Morning Live - weekday mornings at 5:30 a.m. - On maternity leave
- Ian White - weekdays at noon, and weeknights at 5:30 p.m.
Weather team
- David Spence (CMOS-endorsed weathercaster) - lead meteorologist; weeknights at 5, 5:30, 6 and 11:30 p.m.
- Steve Rothfels - weather specialist; weekends at 6 and 11:30 p.m.
- Vickie Chase - weather specialist; weekdays at noon
- Todd Gallant - weather specialist; CTV Morning Live - weekday mornings at 5:30 a.m.
Sports team
- Glenn Campbell - sports director; weeknights at 6 p.m.
- Heath Brown - sports anchor; weeknights at 11:30 p.m., also sports reporter
- Lisa Bowes - sports anchor; weekends at 6 and 11:30 p.m., also sports reporter
Traffic
- Pearl Tsang - CTV Morning Live - weekday mornings at 5:30 a.m.
Lethbridge staff
- Kaella Carr - Senior Reporter/Fill-in Anchor [4]
- Darrell Romuld - news and sports reporter; also videographer
- Dory Rossiter - Skywatch Weather specialist; weeknights at 6 and 11:30 p.m., and host/producer of In Touch; also feature reporter
- Jacquie Scantlebury - anchor/reporter; also producer
- Terry Vogt - news director; also general assignment reporter
Reporters
- Stephanie Brennan - "CTV Morning Live" general assignment reporter
- Bridget Brown - general assignment reporter
- Chris Epp - political reporter
- Kari Eyles - general assignment reporter
- Kevin Fleming - photojournalist
- Lane Fraser - general assignment reporter
- Sue French - general assignment reporter
- Kevin Green - photojournalist
- Andrea MacLean - "CTV Morning Live" social media reporter
- Shelly Makrugin - general assignment reporter; also fill-in anchor and news producer
- Bill Marks - Crime Watch reporter
- Karen Owen - Medical Watch reporter
- Sage Pullen - "CTV Morning Live" general assignment reporter
- Kevin Rich - general assignment reporter
- Cynthia Roebuck - "CTV Morning Live" general assignment reporter
- Lea Williams-Doherty - Consumer Watch reporter
Former on-air Staff
- Jane Carrigan (now at Global BC)
- Chris Gailus (now at Global BC)
- Barb Higgins (left to run for Mayor in 2010 municipal election)
- Ken "Noodles" Newans (retired; inducted in Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum in 2011)
- Russ Peake (retired; inducted in Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum in 1984)
- Ryan Sang (now with Global Toronto CIII-TV)
- Heidi Sparks (Public Relations Specialist at SAIT Polytechnic)
- Tony Tighe (now at Global Calgary)
[edit] Analog-to-digital transition
On January 8, 2009, CFCN-DT signed on.
CFCN-DT is now broadcasting from its post-transition channel number, 29. However, through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display CFCN-DT's virtual channel as 4.1.
CFCN-DT-5 Lethbridge went on-air shortly after midnight on August 31, 2011; digital television receivers there display CFCN-DT-5's virtual channel as 13.1.
[edit] Transmitters
1These 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.[5] 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.[6] The list also indicated that CFCN-TV-7 Bassano would also shut down; however this transmitter is in fact operated by the Bassano TV Association, so it is not clear whether this transmitter would have closed down.[7]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "CTV Calgary- Barb Higgins running for mayor - CTV News". Calgary.ctv.ca. 2010-07-28. http://calgary.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20100728/CGY_Barb_Mayor_100728/20100728/?hub=CalgaryHome. Retrieved 2010-08-08.
- ^ CTV Calgary: "Tara Nelson joins CTV Calgary", October 12, 2010.
- ^ CTV Calgary Noon Open
- ^ http://twitter.com/#!/CTVKaellaCarr
- ^ CTV list of transmitters to be shut down
- ^ http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/com100/2011/r110727.htm
- ^ Public Notice CRTC 1993-27
[edit] External links
- CTV Calgary
- Canadian Communications Foundation - CFCN-TV History
- Canadian Communications Foundation - CFCN-TV-5 History
- Query the REC's Canadian station database for CFCN-TV
- Query TV Fool's coverage map for CFCN
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