CKY-TV
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- This article is about the television station. For other uses, see CKY (disambiguation).
| CKY (CTV) | ||
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| Winnipeg, Manitoba | ||
| Channel 7 / Cable 5 | ||
| Owner | Bell Globemedia | |
| Founded | 1960 | |
| Signal Radius | 316 kW (total) | |
| Former Callsigns | CJAY (1960-1973) | |
| CTV Network | ||
| CICC (Yorkton) | CKY (Winnipeg) | CJBN (Kenora) |
CKY is a television station based in Winnipeg, Manitoba and owned by Bell Globemedia. 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.
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 Moffatt sold CKY-AM and CKY-FM (subsequently CITI) to Rogers Communications while maintaining ownership of the television station. In 2001, when Moffat Broadcasting Ltd was purchased by Shaw Cablesystems, and because it was not interested in CKY or its sister cable station, WTN, CKY was purchased by Bell Globemedia, while WTN was purchased by Corus Entertainment, moved to Toronto, and became W Network. Now a CTV O&O station, promos on CKY became similar to the other CTV O&O stations.
CKY was founded as independent station CJAY on November 12, 1960, joining CTV upon the network's launch on October 1, 1961. It airs the main CTV schedule at the same time as CFTO in Toronto, Ontario. In the summer of 2005 the station's studios will move to a new facility near Winnipeg's MTS Centre.
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External link
- CKY (http://cky.ctv.ca/)Template:Canada-bcast-stub