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'CKY-TV' (also commonly known as 'CTV Winnipeg') is a television station based in Winnipeg, Manitoba and owned by CTVglobemedia. It is part of the CTV Television Network.
CKY was also the call letters 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 television in 1960 and CKY-FM in 1962.

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History

Transmitters

Newscast Titles

Current CKY-TV personalities

Former CKY-TV personalities

External link

History

CKY was founded as independent station CJAY on November 12, 1960, joining CTV upon the network's launch on October 1, 1961. When CJAY launched, 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.
On June 1, 1973, the television station was renamed CKY in order to make its call letters consistent with those of Moffat's AM and FM stations making it one of the only two Canadian TV stations with three-letter call signs. In 1992 Moffat sold CKY-AM and CKY-FM (subsequently CITI) to Rogers Communications while maintaining ownership of the television station.
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 3 ratings periods, the newscast had climbed from 3rd place to 1st place, replacing CBC'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 and late night weekends.
In 2001, when Moffat Broadcasting was purchased by Shaw Cablesystems, and because it 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 & operated station, promos on CKY became similar to the other CTV O&O stations.
As of October 3, 2005, the newscasts on CKY were branded as ''CTV News''.
It airs the main CTV schedule at the same time as CFTO in Toronto, Ontario, with three exceptions. ''Live with Regis and Kelly'' appears nowhere on the schedule (which airs on other CTV stations outside of Saskatchewan and Manitoba) despite the fact that the show would be available to air after ''Canada AM'' at 9:00 a.m. CT, ''eTalk Daily'' airs at 10:30 p.m., while ''Wheel of Fortune'' (which was replaced on the CTV schedule outside of Saskatchewan and Manitoba with ''eTalk Daily'') and ''Jeopardy!'' air between 5:00 and 6:00 p.m..

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.
Another likely reason for the move is that ''CKY'' has more space than it needs. 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''.
CKY's new studios will use state-of-the-art technology, and virtually nothing will be moved from the old studios to the new facility. The existing news set will be moved to CFQC, the CTV affiliate in Saskatoon, and some technical equipment will be sent to CTV's Quebec City bureau.

Transmitters

In addition to the main transmitter, there are six repeaters and two low-power transmitters throughout Manitoba (with their channel and location; none of the digital transmitters are on the air yet)^[1]:

★ CKY-TV (Channel 7, DT 46) - Winnipeg

★ CKYA-TV (Channel 8, DT 45) - Fisher Branch

★ CKYB-TV (Channel 4, DT 50) - Brandon

★ CKYB-TV-1 (low power - Channel 13) - McCreary

★ CKYD-TV (Channel 12, DT 20) - Dauphin

★ CKYF-TV (Channel 13, DT 12) - Flin Flon

★ CKYP-TV (Channel 12, DT 15) - The Pas

★ CKYS-TV (low power - Channel 11) - Snow Lake

★ CKYT-TV (Channel 9, DT 14) - Thompson

Newscast Titles

★ ''Panorama 7'' (1960)

★ ''The 18th Hour'' (1978)

★ ''CKY Newshour'' (1988)

★ ''Channel 5 Newshour'' (1993)

★ ''CKY5 News'' (1998)

★ ''CKY News'' (?)

Current CKY-TV personalities

★ Maralee Caruso & Gord LeClerc (Co-Anchors)

★ Sylvia Kuzyk & John Sauder (Weather)

★ Shawn Churchill, Leah Hextall & Kevin Olszewski (Sports)

★ Kelly Dehn (Crime Watch)

★ Eleanor Coopsammy (Consumer Watch)

Former CKY-TV personalities

★ Bob Burns, former host of CJAY's ''Teen Dance Party''

★ Stu Fawcett, former news director and news anchor of ''CKY Newshour''.

★ Sylvia Kuzyk, CKY weather person 1975-current

★ John Sauder, current CKY weather person

★ Janet Stewart, co-anchor of CTV News Winnipeg from 2001–November, 2006.

★ Bob Swartz, former host of children's variety show ''Archie and His Friends'' (1965–1987)

★ Shelly Swirski, former anchor ''CKY News'' in the mid-1980s.

★ Ray Torgrud, former station announcer and former host of ''Ray Torgrud's World''

★ 'Cactus' Jack Wells, CJAY sports anchor till 1974

★ Paul White, former co-anchor of ''CKY News'' during the 1970s and 1980s.

★ Peter Young, former CKY-TV sports anchor (1970s)

★ Jim Wicks, Anchor and Managing Editor (1992–1994)

★ Steve Vogelsang, Sports Anchor

External link

★ CKY-TV