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| MCTV (CTV) | ||
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| Slogan: "News for the North" | ||
| Northern Ontario | ||
| CICI-TV Sudbury Channel 5 / Cable 4 | ||
| CKNY-TV North Bay Channel 10 / Cable 9 | ||
| CITO-TV Timmins Channel 3 / Cable 4 | ||
| CHBX-TV Sault Ste. Marie Channel 2 / Cable 11 | ||
| Owner | Bell Globemedia | |
| CICI Founded | 1953 | |
| CICI Joined CTV | 1971 | |
| Signal Radius | All of Northeastern Ontario and part of Central Ontario | |
| Callsign Meaning | Mid-Canada TeleVision | |
| Former Affiliations | CBC 1953-1971 | |
| CTV Television Network | ||
| CHFD (Thunder Bay) | CJOH (Ottawa) | |
MCTV is a system of four television stations in Northern Ontario, Canada, affiliated with the CTV Television Network.
The MCTV stations are:
All four stations refer to themselves on air as MCTV, not by their CXXX call letters.
MCTV was created in 1980 when Cambrian Broadcasting, which owned the CTV affiliates in Sudbury, North Bay and Timmins, merged with Mid-Canada Television, which owned the CBC affiliates in the same cities and CHRO in Pembroke. This twinstick structure was permitted by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission because these were small markets, unable to support two commercial stations competing for advertising dollars.
MCTV's CBC affiliates had the call letters CKNC in Sudbury, CHNB in North Bay, CFCL in Timmins and CJIC in Sault Ste. Marie.
CICI-TV was Canada's first privately owned television station, going on the air as CKSO-TV on channel 5 in 1953. Prior to this, all television stations in Canada were owned and operated by the CBC. It was originally an affiliate of the CBC, and switched to CTV and was recalled as CICI in 1971 when CKNC was established. It continues to be the flagship of MCTV.
CKNY-TV in North Bay was established as CKGN-TV in 1956, broadcasting over channel 10. The tower and studios were located at Callander, a village just south of North Bay in the District of Parry Sound. CKGN later became CFCY. CHNB-TV was established in 1972, at which time CFCY was recalled as CKNY and was affiliated with CTV.
MCTV was acquired by Baton Broadcasting in 1990. Baton also acquired the Huron Broadcasting twinstick in Sault Ste. Marie the same year, and converted those stations to the MCTV branding. The Sault stations were not owned by MCTV prior to Baton's purchase of the two station groups.
Baton eventually became the sole corporate proprietor of CTV, and sold CHRO to CHUM Limited in 1998.
MCTV's CBC-affiliated stations were sold in 2002 to the CBC, which converted them to retransmitters of CBLT, Toronto's CBC-owned station. All four stations surrendered their old call letters, and now have the call letters CBLT followed by a number to denote their status as rebroadcasters.
In the same year, CTV merged the news production facilities of the MCTV stations into a single regional newscast, with only short inserts for each city's local coverage. The regional newscast is produced at CICI. This created extensive controversy, with many public interest groups across Canada raising concerns about the disappearance of local news coverage in small markets.
Master control for the MCTV stations is now operated at CTV facilities in Toronto.
2001 - News for the North
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