CKY-DT

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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.

Scheduling

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.ApparentlyCKY-DT is simsiubbing Anderson also at the 9:00 AM Hour

History

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.

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.

CKY's former logo (2001-2005). As of October 2005 logos with the stations' callsigns are no longer used on CTV stations; instead they all use the main CTV logo.

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.

Current CKY-TV facilities on Graham Avenue

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.

Digital Television

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.

Transmitters

Station	City of licence	Channel	ERP	HAAT	Transmitter Coordinates
CKYA-TV	Fisher Branch	8 (VHF)	62 kW	136.9 m	51°4′50″N 97°38′57″W
CKYB-TV	Brandon	4 (VHF)	100 kW	406.9 m	49°40′6″N 100°0′41″W
CKYB-TV-1	McCreary	13 (VHF)	0.01 kW	NA	50°40′22″N 99°36′12″W
CKYD-TV	Dauphin	12 (VHF)	140 kW	353.9 m	51°28′14″N 100°43′16″W
CKYF-TV*	Flin Flon	13 (VHF)	2.06 kW	60 m	54°47′16″N 101°50′36″W
CKYP-TV*	The Pas	12 (VHF)	2.13 kW	52.6 m	53°50′9″N 101°15′12″W
CKYS-TV*	Snow Lake	11 (VHF)	0.008 kW	NA	54°52′34″N 100°0′59″W
CKYT-TV*	Thompson	9 (VHF)	2.185 kW	43.3 m	55°43′47″N 97°51′52″W

^* 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. 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.

News operation

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.

News/station presentation

Newscast titles

• Panorama 7 (1960–1978)
• The 18th Hour (1978–1988)
• CKY Newshour (1986–1993)
• Channel 5 Newshour (1993–1998)
• CKY 5 News (1998–2001; "5" refers to channel position on area cable systems)
• CKY News (2001–2005)
• CTV News (2005–present)

News team

Anchors

• Maralee Caruso - weekdays at noon, and weeknights at 6 p.m.
• Eleanor Coopsammy - CTV Morning Live (weekday mornings, 5:30-9 a.m.)
• Kris Laudien - CTV Morning Live (weekday mornings, 5:30-9 a.m.)
• Gord Leclerc - weekdays at noon, and weeknights at 6 p.m.
• Lindsay Warner - weeknights at 11:30 p.m.
• Susan Tymofichuk - weeknights at 11:30 p.m. (on maternity leave)
• Ina Sidhu - weekends at 6 p.m. and 11:30 p.m.

SkyWatch Weather

• Terri Apostle - weather and traffic anchor; CTV Morning Live (weekday mornings, 5:30-9 a.m.)
• Colleen Bready - weather anchor; weekdays at noon, and weeknights at 6 p.m.

Sports team

• Shawn Churchill - sports anchor; weeknights at 6 p.m.
• Kevin Olszewski - sports anchor; weeknights at 11:30 p.m.
• Leah Hextall - sports anchor; weekends at 6 and 11:30 p.m.

Reporters

• Stacey Ashley - Crime Watch reporter
• Caroline Barghout - general assignment reporter
• Jesse Carlson - CTV Morning Live traffic reporter
• Jon Hendricks - general assignment reporter
• Kristin Hursch - CTV Morning Live web reporter
• Jeff Keele - Political Watch reporter
• Rachel Lagace - general assignment reporter
• Deborah Mensah-Bonsu - general assignment reporter
• Karen Rocznik - Consumer Watch Reporter
• Ina Sidhu - general assignment reporter
• Jillian Taylor - general assignment reporter

Former on-air staff

• Sylvia Kuzyk - Anchor/Weather Anchor; served in many positions from 1976-2011
• Marshall Armstrong - reporter and editorial commentator (1970s, 1980s and 1991)
• Ashleigh Banfield - researcher/reporter for the CKY evening news (1988-1989)
• Rod Black - sports anchor (current TSN & CTV sports announcer)
• Jeff Bollenbach - news director (current news director of CICT-TV in Calgary)
• Bob Burns - host of CJAY's Teen Dance Party (deceased
• Nancy Carlson - Weekend Anchor (2011), Now with Global Edmonton
• Robert McGregor - news anchor, producer, director (1990-1999)
• Barbara-Lee Edwards - anchor (1995–2001)
• Bruce Graham - news director and host CKY News
• Stu Fawcett - news director and news anchor of CKY Newshour
• Lee Jameson - anchor of CKY News at Noon and CKY Evening News (1975-1982)
• Bernie Pascall - sports anchor / staff announcer (mid-1960s)
• Kumutha Ramanathan - reporter (now with CP24 in Toronto)
• John Sauder - meteorologist (1995–2007)
• Janet Stewart - co-anchor of CTV News Winnipeg from 2001–November 2006 (now at CBWT in Winnipeg)
• Bob Swarts - former host of children's variety show Archie and His Friends (1965-1986)
• Joey Gregorash - host of "S'Kiddle Bits," a noon hour children's variety television show. It featured in-studio and on-location musical performances and guests from around Manitoba. (late 1980s-early 90s)
• Shelly Swirski - anchor (mid-1980s)
• Ray Torgrud - station announcer and former host of Today's World (deceased)
• Steve Vogelsang - Sports Anchor
• 'Cactus' Jack Wells - sports anchor (?-1974)
• Jordan Witzel - meteorologist - at Global Calgary
• Paul White - co-anchor of CKY News (1970s and 1980s)
• Jim Wicks - anchor and managing editor (1992–1994)
• Clay Young - anchor of CKY News (late 1980s; now with CJOB Radio in Winnipeg, as host and news reader)
• Peter Young - sports anchor (1970s)

External links

• CTV Winnipeg
• Canadian Communications Foundation - CKY-TV History
• CKY-TV in the REC Canadian station database
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