CKNC-TV
 CKNC-TV 9 logo from the 1970s with its former Frood Road studio address in Sudbury which is now the current home of CICI-TV/CTV Northern Ontario. | |
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| Channels | |
| Branding | MCTV CBC |
| Programming | |
| Affiliations | CBC |
| Ownership | |
| Owner |
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| CICI-TV | |
| History | |
First air date | October 8, 1971 |
Last air date |
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Call sign meaning | Nickel Capital |
| Technical information | |
| ERP | 198.1 kW |
| HAAT | 221 m (725 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 46°30′2″N 81°1′12″W / 46.50056°N 81.02000°W |
| Translator(s) | see § Transmitters |
CKNC-TV (channel 9) was a television station in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.[1] The station was in operation from 1971 to 2002 as a private affiliate of CBC Television, and then continued until 2012 as a network-owned rebroadcaster of CBLT in Toronto.
History
[edit]CKNC was established on October 8, 1971 by J. Conrad Lavigne, the owner of CFCL in Timmins.[2] On the same day, the existing television station in Sudbury, CKSO, switched its affiliation to CTV.[2] A rebroadcaster with the call sign CKNC-TV-1 went to air in Elliot Lake on the same date. That transmitter was sold to the CBC in 1982 and changed its callsign to CBEC-TV, although it continued to air CKNC's signal for the remainder of the station's existence.
Until 1980, CICI and CKNC aggressively competed with each other for advertising dollars, leaving both in a precarious financial position due to the Sudbury market's relatively small size. In 1980, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission approved the merger of the two stations, along with their co-owned stations in North Bay and Timmins, into the MCTV twinstick.[3]
In 1990, the MCTV stations were acquired by Baton Broadcasting,[4] which became the sole corporate owner of CTV in 1997.
In the early 1990s, CKNC-TV decreased its effective radiated power from 168,000 to 115,500 watts; and changing the transmitter location to a new site located approximately 1.5 kilometres to the southwest of the present location. [5]
End of operations
[edit]CTV subsequently sold its four CBC affiliates in Northern Ontario, CKNC, CHNB in North Bay, CJIC in Sault Ste. Marie and CFCL in Timmins directly to the CBC in 2002.[6] All four ceased to exist as separate stations on October 27, 2002, becoming rebroadcasters of Toronto's CBLT, with CKNC's call sign changing to CBLT-6. These transmitters would close on July 31, 2012, due to budget cuts affecting the CBC.[7][8]
Transmitters
[edit]| Station | City of licence | Channel | ERP | HAAT | Transmitter coordinates | Notes |
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| CBCE-TV | Little Current | 16 (UHF) | 59.2 kW | 254 m | Decision CRTC 82-303, (Page 5 and 6) April 8, 1982 | |
| CBEC-TV | Elliot Lake | 7 (VHF) | 67.9 kW | 173.5 m | 46°23′16″N 82°37′16″W / 46.38778°N 82.62111°W | 70-211, (Page 211 and 212) August 5, 1970.
Was CKNC-TV-1 until it became CBEC-TV in the 1980s |
Other notes
[edit]CKNC was also the original call sign, in the 1920s and 1930s, of a radio station in Toronto that is now known as CJBC. The CKNC call sign currently belongs to a radio station in Simcoe, Ontario, as CKNC-FM.
References
[edit]- ^ "Sudbury's second English TV outlet begins operations on Monday". Sudbury Star, October 1, 1971.
- ^ a b "Rebroadcast programs: CRTC grants Sudbury licences". The Globe and Mail, August 6, 1970.
- ^ "CRTC approves amalgamation of Northern Ontario TV firms". The Globe and Mail, February 29, 1980.
- ^ "CRTC okays acquisitions, but at a price". Financial Post, October 23, 1990.
- ^ Public Notice CRTC 1991-88, CRTC, August 23, 1991
- ^ "CRTC Decision 2002-303". Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. October 10, 2002.
- ^ "Speaking notes for Hubert T. Lacroix regarding measures announced in the context of the Deficit Reduction Action Plan". CBC/Radio-Canada. April 4, 2012.
- ^ "Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2012-384". Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. July 17, 2012.
External links
[edit]- CRTC Decision 2001-457-6, license renewal for all MCTV stations.
- CKNC-TV at The History of Canadian Broadcasting by the Canadian Communications Foundation