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53-568: CIVT-DT (channel 32) is a television station in Vancouver, British Columbia , Canada, serving as the West Coast flagship of the CTV Television Network . It is owned and operated by network parent Bell Media alongside Victoria -based CTV 2 station CIVI-DT (channel 53). CIVT-DT's studios are located at 969 Robson Street (alternatively known as 750 Burrard Street , the former site of

106-834: A Edward R. Murrow Award for overall excellence in a large market from the U.S. Radio Television Digital News Association , doing so in 2016. As part of a round of cuts across Bell Media in June 2023, co-owned CIVI-DT (channel 53) in Victoria ceased presenting its own local newscasts, which were replaced with a single half-hour 4:30 p.m. newscast (repeated at 6:00 and 11:00 p.m.) on weekdays, anchored from Vancouver. CTV Vancouver's weekend evening and weekday noon newscasts were canceled in another round of cuts in February 2024. CIVT's digital signal began broadcasting in 2005. CIVT shut down its analogue signal, over UHF channel 32, on August 31, 2011,

159-566: A barter in some cases. Fairchild Media Group The Fairchild Group is a Canadian business conglomerate headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia , Canada. Fairchild Group operates various media properties under the Fairchild Media Group name. Fairchild currently operates the Cantonese channel Fairchild TV , Cantonese & Mandarin radio network Fairchild Radio , and Mandarin channel Talentvision . Fairchild Group

212-519: A talk show hosted by Vicki Gabereau and the police procedural drama Cold Squad . Concurrently with the launch of CIVT, Baton Broadcasting acquired the CTV network. This purchase, plus an ownership change at longtime CTV affiliate CHAN-TV that saw it become owned by the Global Television Network , led to a major television realignment in 2001 under which CIVT became the new CTV station for

265-421: A July 1996 column, Robert Mason Lee of The Globe and Mail noted that BCTV had the "dangerous arrogance of a local-news gorilla", called CBUT's news product "wholesome" but noted that the local CBC station "has neither the money nor the authority to produce local television", and labeled CKVU as "deplorable", "paving the road to hell", and "cheap and undeserving of Vancouver". There was also a decided sentiment in

318-771: A Toronto talk-show host allegedly because of his questions during an interview perceived as critical of the Chinese government's stance on the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests . Fairchild Group operates Fairchild Films International Limited , a motion picture production company that creates Chinese language films for international audiences. The company has produced one film, Paper Moon Affair, in 2005. All retail operations are in British Columbia other than Oomomo and St Germain Bakery (British Columbia and Ontario): Hutchison Imports has its own brand – "Menji". Menji products are fast becoming

371-456: A clone of Citytv where original Canadian shows were consigned to "schedule ghettos" in less-viewed dayparts, and a disillusioned Duke noted that "everything they do locally is noisy pursuit of raucous trivia". Overall station ratings showed little growth from the audience VTV drew at its launch. However, other programs were receiving praise. Despite ratings that trailed even the CBC, a longtime laggard for

424-415: A much shorter wavelength, and thus requires a shorter antenna, but also higher power. North American stations can go up to 5000 kW ERP for video and 500 kW audio, or 1000 kW digital. Low channels travel further than high ones at the same power, but UHF does not suffer from as much electromagnetic interference and background "noise" as VHF, making it much more desirable for TV. Despite this, in

477-535: A multilingual station focused on ethnic communities in the region. While population growth had largely followed the CRTC's projections from that time, the growth in the television station industry had not. The three existing major stations in Vancouver— CBC station CBUT-TV , CHAN-TV (known as BCTV), and CKVU-TV—were coming under increasing scrutiny as being not adequately reflective of an increasingly diverse community. In

530-676: A noon newscast was also added at that time. After the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, portions of CTV's set in the International Broadcast Centre were repurposed to refresh CIVT's newsroom. On December 7, 2010, Bill Good and Pamela Martin announced their resignation as anchors of the 6 p.m. newscast; they cited the decision not to make another long-term commitment in the form of a contract renewal at their ages, with Good cutting back to his radio show on CKNW . Mike Killeen and Tamara Taggart were announced as their replacements

583-465: A promise that the smaller CHUM and Craig station groups could not match. The decision was met with mixed reception in the entertainment community; Baton's large commitment to Canadian programming won praise from the production industry, but others had generally backed the CHUM application, and several people wished the CRTC had awarded multiple stations. Construction and planning for CIVT began immediately after

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636-425: A significant amount of program shuffling between BCTV and VTV for various series to which CTV held the rights. On September 1, 2001, CIVT-TV became "BC CTV", adopting a format and philosophy more in line with the rest of the CTV network and a name that seemed intended to be similar to BCTV. As part of the CTV switch, in lieu of chasing younger viewers, the station would focus more squarely on adults 25–54. Typifying

689-481: A talk show hosted by former local CBC radio personality Vicki Gabereau , and several weekly news and political satire programs, including former CBC Radio staple Double Exposure . Vancouver Breakfast , hosted by Aamer Haleem, Linda Freeman, and radio DJ Ted Schredd, featured a set adorned with chairs and props shaped like strawberries, bacon, and eggs; Alex Strachan of The Vancouver Sun called it "an alarm clock that wouldn't stop ringing". The 6 p.m. Vancouver Live

742-425: A variety of ways to generate revenue from television commercials . They may be an independent station or part of a broadcasting network , or some other structure. They can produce some or all of their programs or buy some broadcast syndication programming for or all of it from other stations or independent production companies. Many stations have some sort of television studio , which on major-network stations

795-496: Is non-commercial educational (NCE) and considered public broadcasting . To avoid concentration of media ownership of television stations, government regulations in most countries generally limit the ownership of television stations by television networks or other media operators, but these regulations vary considerably. Some countries have set up nationwide television networks, in which individual television stations act as mere repeaters of nationwide programs . In those countries,

848-796: Is also involved in film production, real estate development, retail, telecommunications and wholesale trade. The Fairchild Media Group acquired the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) broadcasting licence from Chinavision Canada and Cathay TV in 1993 to form Fairchild TV and Talentvision respectively. Later on, it formed Fairchild Radio with stations in Vancouver , Calgary and Toronto . It has an investment portfolio over US$ 350 million. The company's corporate headquarters are located in Vancouver, British Columbia with separate regional offices in Richmond Hill, Ontario and Calgary, Alberta. The Fairchild Group

901-470: Is broadcast via terrestrial radio waves. A group of television stations with common ownership or affiliation are known as a TV network and an individual station within the network is referred to as O&O or affiliate , respectively. Because television station signals use the electromagnetic spectrum, which in the past has been a common, scarce resource, governments often claim authority to regulate them. Broadcast television systems standards vary around

954-819: Is mostly owned by Hong Kong-born Canadian businessman Thomas Fung Wing Fat ( 馮永發 ). However, the Hong Kong -based media company TVB has a minor stake of 20 percent. Fairchild Group operates four national ethnic television channels that cater to both Cantonese & Mandarin speaking audiences- Fairchild TV , Fairchild TV 2 HD & Talentvision . Hong Kong broadcaster TVB owns a minority stake (20%) in both channels. Fairchild TV and Talentvision currently consists of four feeds: Fairchild Group operates four multicultural radio stations & shares programming on another station. All stations feature programming for both Cantonese- & Mandarin-speaking audiences: In October 2019, Fairchild Radio gained public attention when it fired

1007-792: Is often used for newscasts or other local programming . There is usually a news department , where journalists gather information. There is also a section where electronic news-gathering (ENG) operations are based, receiving remote broadcasts via remote pickup unit or satellite TV . Outside broadcasting vans, production trucks , or SUVs with electronic field production (EFP) equipment are sent out with reporters , who may also bring back news stories on video tape rather than sending them back live . To keep pace with technology United States television stations have been replacing operators with broadcast automation systems to increase profits in recent years. Some stations (known as repeaters or translators ) only simulcast another, usually

1060-608: The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) in August 1995 and January 1996, respectively, to launch new television stations in the Vancouver–Victoria market. In line with the commission's usual practice, the CRTC issued a general call for applications in March 1996, with a public hearing that September. In all, five applications were considered: The commission's decision, released on January 31, 1997, approved only

1113-541: The Vancouver Public Library 's central branch) at the intersection of Robson Street and Burrard Street in downtown Vancouver , which also houses the British Columbia operations of the CTV network itself, including the CTV National News Vancouver bureau. The station's transmitter is located atop Mount Seymour in the district municipality of North Vancouver . CIVT went on the air in 1997 as

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1166-405: The broadcast range , or geographic area, that the station is limited to, allocates the broadcast frequency of the radio spectrum for that station's transmissions, sets limits on what types of television programs can be programmed for broadcast and requires a station to broadcast a minimum amount of certain programs types, such as public affairs messages . Another form of television station

1219-534: The electricity bill and emergency backup generators . In North America , full-power stations on band I (channels 2 to 6) are generally limited to 100 kW analog video ( VSB ) and 10 kW analog audio ( FM ), or 45 kW digital ( 8VSB ) ERP. Stations on band III (channels 7 to 13) can go up by 5 dB to 316 kW video, 31.6 kW audio, or 160 kW digital. Low-VHF stations are often subject to long-distance reception just as with FM. There are no stations on Channel 1 . UHF , by comparison, has

1272-481: The Baton–Electrohome application. The prospective Rogers station was denied largely because it would have replaced some of Talentvision's existing ethnic programming with U.S. syndicated fare. Moreover, Talentvision's existing owner (the company now known as Fairchild Media Group ) indicated there was "no plan to abandon [the current Talentvision licence] at this time". As for CanWest, the commission determined that

1325-482: The Baton–Electrohome bid because he felt it granted the most local control of any of the five original proposals, resigned in October. He claimed the station's advisory board was a legal fiction due to changes in company composition and that he was a "director of hot air". Catherine Murray, a faculty member at Simon Fraser University , also resigned. Analysis of VTV's first year in operation was mixed. Murray criticized VTV as

1378-495: The CTV network through August 1999, and its CEO promised no near-term changes to the station. When VTV first went on the air they were trying to create a streetwise, in-your-face imitation of Citytv, but it was always somebody else trying to get Citytv right for this market. And Baton were the wrong people to do that. Baton's deals for CTV had an impact from the start on VTV. Daryl Duke , an influential Vancouver film director who had previously founded CKVU in 1976 and who had backed

1431-532: The Canadian rights to some programs that CKVU aired in the Vancouver market. The entertainment schedule was rounded out by several CTV cast-off shows. CIVT, branded as Vancouver Television (VTV), began broadcasting on September 22, 1997; the channel had changed from 42 to 32 prior to launch. The station's local programs at launch included a two-hour morning show, Vancouver Breakfast , and Vancouver Live newscasts at noon, 6 p.m., and 11 p.m., as well as Gabereau Live! ,

1484-527: The Maritimes. These deals gave Baton controlling interest in CTV, which had once been structured on a cooperative basis. To complete its ownership, Baton spent $ 42 million to purchase the CTV shares held by WIC (as owner of BCTV, the provincial CTV affiliate) and Moffat Communications, owner of the CTV affiliate in Winnipeg ; in 1998, the company renamed itself CTV Inc. BCTV held a continuing affiliation agreement with

1537-627: The U.S., the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is taking another large portion of this band (channels 52 to 69) away, in contrast to the rest of the world, which has been taking VHF instead. This means that some stations left on VHF are harder to receive after the analog shutdown . Since at least 1974, there are no stations on channel 37 in North America for radio astronomy purposes. Most television stations are commercial broadcasting enterprises which are structured in

1590-641: The Vancouver news audience, Vancouver Live at 6 was named Canada's best newscast by the Radio-Television News Directors Association , and the twelve Gemini Awards nominations for VTV programs exceeded the combined total of some other station groups. Advertisers also welcomed the concomitant increase in inventory brought by the new station. Further, the station obtained the local telecast rights to Vancouver Canucks hockey—which had been held by BCTV for 27 years—along with Vancouver Grizzlies basketball, beginning in 1998. The noon newscast

1643-426: The continued low ratings; Mi-Jung Lee served as his replacement. In 1999, the newscasts were retitled as VTV News , coinciding with a shuffling of the anchor lineup. In 1999, CanWest and Shaw Communications ended a year-long dispute for the assets of Western International Communications, parent of BCTV. In the deal, WIC's television holdings, among them BCTV, were sold to CanWest. CanWest already owned CKVU, and it

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1696-567: The existence of the CHAN/CHEK twinstick did not justify licensing a new station to a company already serving the market. The three proposals for an independent station in Vancouver were all determined to be high-calibre. However, the deciding factor in favour of Baton/Electrohome was a commitment to air new Vancouver-produced programming (which ultimately manifested as, among other programs, Gabereau Live! , The Camilla Scott Show , and Cold Squad ) across all of Baton's and Electrohome's stations,

1749-491: The first new Vancouver TV station in 21 years after the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission selected the application of Baton Broadcasting from among five bids. Originally known as Vancouver Television (VTV), the station was a young-skewing outlet intended to reflect an increasingly multicultural Vancouver and stimulate television production in British Columbia. In addition to local news and arts programming, CIVT produced programs seen nationally, including

1802-477: The growing British Columbia film and television production community that there were no decision-making entities in Vancouver. Producers in British Columbia derided the "$ 1,500 cup of coffee"—the meetings, complete with airfare, that Vancouver creatives had to make with Toronto leaders to get approval for their proposals. The process that led to the launch of CIVT began when Rogers Communications and CanWest Global Communications filed separate applications with

1855-420: The highest point available in the transmission area, such as on a summit , the top of a high skyscraper , or on a tall radio tower . To get a signal from the master control room to the transmitter, a studio/transmitter link (STL) is used. The link can be either by radio or T1 / E1 . A transmitter/studio link (TSL) may also send telemetry back to the station, but this may be embedded in subcarriers of

1908-455: The licence award. In March, Baton secured space in a former public library at Robson and Burrard streets; the space had been planned as an arcade, but the proposal was rejected by Vancouver's city council just days before the CRTC decision. Ivan Fecan , the chief executive of Baton, led much of the early planning effort. Fecan had been the former program head of CBC television and a former protégé of Moses Znaimer , founder of CITY-TV, whose format

1961-400: The local television station has no station identification and, from a consumer's point of view, there is no practical distinction between a network and a station, with only small regional changes in programming, such as local television news . To broadcast its programs, a television station requires operators to operate equipment, a transmitter or radio antenna , which is often located at

2014-419: The main broadcast. Stations which retransmit or simulcast another may simply pick-up that station over-the-air , or via STL or satellite. The license usually specifies which other station it is allowed to carry. VHF stations often have very tall antennas due to their long wavelength , but require much less effective radiated power (ERP), and therefore use much less transmitter power output , also saving on

2067-542: The next day and took over as anchors of the broadcast on January 3, 2011. Taggart—who had been at the station since its launch as VTV—and Killeen were let go as the main CTV News Vancouver at Six anchors in April 2018. Mi-Jung Lee and Scott Roberts were named replacement anchors; Roberts was dismissed in 2022, and Lee became the sole anchor for the 6 p.m. program. CTV Vancouver was the first Canadian television station to win

2120-584: The official date on which Canadian television stations in CRTC-designated mandatory markets transitioned from analogue to digital broadcasts. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 33 to its analogue-era UHF channel 32 for post-transition operations. *Currently being sold to other owners pending approval of the CRTC. Television station The Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow ( TV Station Paul Nipkow ) in Berlin , Germany ,

2173-476: The programmes seen on its owner's flagship station, and have no television studio or production facilities of their own. This is common in developing countries . Low-power stations typically also fall into this category worldwide. Most stations which are not simulcast produce their own station identifications . TV stations may also advertise on or provide weather (or news) services to local radio stations , particularly co-owned sister stations . This may be

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2226-554: The province and the only CTV affiliate on Canada's west coast. In switching to CTV, the station moved toward attracting an older audience. It also improved its news ratings, generally becoming the second-rated station for local news after CHAN. By the mid-1990s, nearly two decades had passed since Vancouver had last received a new television station— CKVU-TV in 1976. A 1977 CRTC study found that, under its projections, Vancouver would need seven additional TV stations by 2001, including three new English-language commercial outlets as well as

2279-617: The rest of the new station's mandate, the newsroom aimed to focus on Vancouver's diversity with an emphasis on the Asian community, which was perceived to be underrepresented by the existing Vancouver television stations. New news bureaus were set up in communities around the Lower Mainland and on Vancouver Island—Victoria, North Vancouver , Burnaby , Port Coquitlam , Surrey , and Richmond —staffed with multilingual reporters. Baton seconded programming executive Susanne Boyce to Vancouver to manage

2332-475: The shift was CIVT securing the services of BCTV news anchors Pamela Martin and Bill Good to anchor the new CTV newscasts. As CIVT had no over-the-air rebroadcasters in the rest of British Columbia, CTV's reach was diminished and Global's expanded. However, the CRTC authorized many cable providers throughout the province to begin carrying CIVT for the first time, ensuring the continuity of CTV programming on cable in areas where CHAN had previously provided it. After

2385-665: The startup of CIVT's non-news programming. Meanwhile, the impending birth of CIVT was already having an impact on the television industry in Canada. When WIC carried out a round of layoffs in April 1997, analysts ascribed the reasoning to the new competition forthcoming in Vancouver. When the licence was awarded, BCTV was buying 18 hours a week of programs from Baton's Baton Broadcast System (BBS) division, consisting of 12 hours of American series and six hours of Canadian productions. These shows, which included Melrose Place , Home Improvement , and Cosby , all moved to CIVT. Baton also owned

2438-637: The switch to CTV, CIVT's early evening newscast supplanted that of CKVU-TV as the second-place program in the market. In 2004, CIVT introduced "Chopper 9", the first full-time news helicopter in Vancouver. In January 2008, CTV began producing a Western Canada edition of Canada AM at the CIVT studios, hosted by Rena Heer ; due to low ratings, it was cancelled in June of that year. Canada AM continued to air until 2011, when CTV's stations in Western Canada launched local morning newscasts known as CTV Morning Live ;

2491-455: The world. Television stations broadcasting over an analog system were typically limited to one television channel , but digital television enables broadcasting via subchannels as well. Television stations usually require a broadcast license from a government agency which sets the requirements and limitations on the station. In the United States, for example, a television license defines

2544-533: Was a major inspiration for the new Vancouver station; in an interview with Maclean's , he described the CIVT format as how City might look "if it was moved from Queen Street to Bloor and Yonge ". Znaimer went so far as to claim that Fecan had stolen CITY's format outright for CIVT. In July, channel 9 was assigned as its designation on Lower Mainland cable systems. Occupancy of the Robson and Burrard studios, which were designed by Vancouver firm James Cheng Architects ,

2597-515: Was co-anchored by former MuchMusic VJ Monika Deol . As construction on CIVT finished and the station began operation, Baton initiated a series of transactions that gave it control of the CTV Television Network , Canada's largest private TV network. In August 1997, Baton bought Electrohome's broadcasting assets in exchange for a 23-percent voting interest. Two months later, the company executed an asset swap with CHUM by which two Ontario stations were sold in exchange for CHUM's CTV-aligned operation in

2650-654: Was dropped, but a 5 p.m. newscast was added. VTV's early years were marked by turmoil and turnover in on-air personalities and management. Deol left within a year to spend more time with her family. In December 1998, management hired an external candidate for news director. This led to several resignations, including that of Jackson, who returned to BCTV; the move was seen as a blow to morale. Some turnover among news reporters and anchors marked promotions; for instance, Satinder Bindra left VTV to join CNN . News anchor Paul Mennier left for A-Channel Edmonton , in part because of disgust with

2703-452: Was expected to have to sell one of CHAN or CKVU by the CRTC. CTV expressed interest in the possibility of acquiring the dominant BCTV. However, CanWest instead announced in February 2000 that it would sell CKVU, the existing Global station. That decision—which set up an affiliation switch to take place in 2001, postponed a year at the CRTC's direction—was immediately understood as making CIVT the new CTV station in British Columbia. It also caused

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2756-402: Was granted with only a week to go until launch, with delays owing to waivers needed to place satellite dishes on the heritage building's roof and a strike of city workers that delayed permitting. For news coverage, Baton had counted on the services of former BCTV news director Cameron Bell in the application phase, and BCTV assignment editor Clive Jackson left after 18 years to join CIVT. As with

2809-674: Was the first regular television service in the world. It was on the air from 22 March 1935, until it was shut down in 1944. The station was named after Paul Gottlieb Nipkow , the inventor of the Nipkow disk . Most often the term "television station" refers to a station which broadcasts structured content to an audience or it refers to the organization that operates the station. A terrestrial television transmission can occur via analog television signals or, more recently, via digital television signals. Television stations are differentiated from cable television or other video providers as their content

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