ATV (Canada)
ATV (short for Atlantic Television) is a system of four television stations in the Canadian Maritimes, affiliated with the CTV Television Network.
The ATV stations are:
CJCH-TV was a founding station of the CTV network when it started in 1961. CHUM, a Toronto broadcaster, bought CJCH, CJCB and CKCW (the latter two of them being original CBC stations that later switched affiliations) in the late 1960s, started CKLT, and merged them into the ATV system in 1972. In 1997 ATV was sold to the CTV network directly.
Although each station originally produced its own news and local programming in the beginning, they too were merged in the early 1980s. A side effect of this is that the newscast often includes stories about things like local politics that can be of little interest to viewers in other parts of the region, and a common complaint among residents of both New Brunswick and Nova Scotia is that ATV News focuses too much on the other province. However, ATV has had some of the highest ratings of any local newscasts in Canada, although its presence and viewing audience is somewhat less in Prince Edward Island mainly as a result of competition from a local CBC station.
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