CITL-DT

CITL-DT

Lloydminster, Alberta/Saskatchewan
Branding	CITL Newcap Television
Channels	Digital: 4 (VHF) Virtual: 4.1 (PSIP)
Translators	see below
Affiliations	CTV
Owner	Newcap Broadcasting
First air date	July 28, 1976
Call letters' meaning	C I Television for Lloydminster
Sister station(s)	CKSA-FM, CILR-FM, CKSA-DT
Former callsigns	CITL-TV (1976-2011)
Former channel number(s)	4 (Analog, VHF, 1976-2011)
Transmitter power	9.1 kW
Height	220.6 m
Transmitter coordinates	53°23′48″N 110°0′27″W
Website	CITL

CITL-DT is a privately owned television station serving as an affiliate of CTV in the city of Lloydminster, located on the border of the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. It broadcasts a digital signal on VHF channel 4 from a transmitter located near Highway 17 and Township Road 512, near the Saskatchewan provincial line.

Owned by Newcap Broadcasting, it is sister to CBC Television affiliate CKSA-DT and both stations share studios located on 50 Street and 51 Avenue on the Alberta side of Lloydminster. This station can also be seen on Shaw Cable channel 3.

CITL is currently the only CTV station that is not owned and operated by the network itself.

History

The station first signed on the air on July 28, 1976, and has been a CTV affiliate since its sign-on. CITL, along with twinstick partnet CKSA, were acquired by Newcap Broadcasting in 2005 from their former owner, Midwest Television.

Prior to the August 31, 2011 digital transition, CITL had rebroadcast transmitters in Wainwright, Provost, Bonnyville, Meadow Lake and Alcot Trail. The station's main transmitter was required to participate in the digital transition, but Newcap also decided to shut its other transmitters, other than Alcot Lake's, on the same date, though there was no requirement to shut down or convert any of these other transmitters to digital.

Alternate logo of CITL

The station had attempted to add a rebroadcaster in Fort McMurray in 2006, but this was subsequently withdrawn. The application had been surprising since a CTV-owned station, CFRN-TV, had already served the area on cable with some separate news programming and commercials since 1990 from CFRN's repeater in Ashmont.

Programming

As of 2011, CITL now clears the vast majority of the CTV schedule, and is currently the last CTV station in Western Canada to air Canada AM (with all CTV O&Os between Vancouver and Winnipeg airing local CTV Morning Live programs instead). The station carries the entirety of CTV's primetime lineup, with the exception of stripped repeats of The Big Bang Theory on certain nights which are replaced by local programming. CITL also breaks away from the network late-night schedule after The Daily Show to carry The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (both from CTV Two, despite the availability of CTV Two Alberta in at least part of the station's coverage area), followed by paid programming.

Until the mid-to-late 2000s (decade), CITL also carried some Global programming alongside CTV shows; however, this was discontinued at some point after Global Edmonton was made available on basic cable in Lloydminster. Nonetheless the station sometimes carries various Canadian-made programs from the library of Global's parent company Shaw Media, though this is generally restricted to older programming (or at least older seasons) not currently airing on the Global network schedule. Additionally, CITL pre-empts CTV's The View in favor of 100 Huntley Street, a brokered religious program which is also commonly aired by Global stations.

CITL's newscasts air at 6 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. weekdays, and 6 p.m. on weekends. The station produces three other local programs each week:

• The Gloves are Off (sports discussion) – Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m.
• Around the Region (regional affairs) – Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m.
• Week in Review – Saturdays at 5:00 p.m.

On-air staff

Current on-air staff

Anchors

• Nahreman Issa - weeknights at 6 p.m.; also reporter
• Anna Estanislao - weekends at 6 p.m.; also reporter
• Kahla Buchanan - host of Around the Region

Weather team

• Gerard Lampow - weather anchor; weeknights at 6 p.m., news anchor; weeknights at 11:30 p.m.
• Peter Quinlan - weather anchor; weeknights at 11:30 p.m., also videographer
• Elise Cox - weather anchor; weekends at 6 and 11:30 p.m., also weekday reporter

Sports team

• Moses Woldu - sports director; weeknights at 6 and 11:30 p.m.
• Emmett Murphy - sports anchor; weekends at 6 and 11:30 p.m., also sports reporter

Reporters

• Clayton Brown - Northern videographer
• Matt Choumont - general assignment reporter; also editor
• Michael Gordon - videographer
• Brittany Ring - videographer

Former Transmitters

Until August 31, 2011, CITL-DT also operated the first 4 transmitters listed below. According to Industry Canada's TV database, as of August 2012, the station no longer has a broadcast license for the last transmitter noted. Therefore, the station no longer has any rebroadcasting transmitters.

Former Transmitters

Station	City of licence	Channel	ERP	HAAT	Transmitter Coordinates
CITL-TV-1	Wainwright, AB	6 (VHF)	0.01 kW	NA	52°51′11″N 110°48′6″W
CITL-TV-2	Provost, AB	5 (VHF)	0.01 kW	NA	52°22′10″N 110°10′19″W
CITL-TV-3	Meadow Lake, SK	3 (VHF)	0.01 kW	NA	54°7′16″N 108°27′53″W
CITL-TV-4	Bonnyville, AB	7 (VHF)	0.01 kW	NA	54°11′54″N 110°50′31″W
CITL-TV-10	Alcot Trail, SK	58 (UHF)	0.01 kW	NA	53°53′8″N 108°24′35″W

External links

• CITL
• Canadian Communications Foundation - CITL-TV History
• Query the REC's Canadian station database for CITL-TV
• Query TV Fool's coverage map for CITL