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CKNY-TV
CKNY-DT (channel 10) is a television station in North Bay, Ontario, Canada, part of the CTV Television Network. Owned and operated by network parent Bell Media, the station maintains a transmitter adjacent to Ski Hill Road (southwest of Highway 534) in Nipissing. CKNY-DT is part of the CTV Northern Ontario sub-system. It essentially operates as a ''de facto'' semi-satellite of CICI-TV in Sudbury, running the same programming as that station at all times (except for certain commercials and regional news inserts during its newscasts). CKNY-TV's studios were located on Oak and Wyld Streets (near the shoreline of Lake Nipissing) in downtown North Bay, and were closed in 2020. History CKNY was originally launched by local businessmen Gerry Alger and Gerry Stanton in 1955, as a CBC affiliate with the callsign CKGN. The station was subsequently acquired by The Thomson Corporation in 1960, and recalled as CFCH. In 1970, Thomson reached a deal to sell the station to Bushnell Communi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CICI-TV
CICI-TV ( analogue channel 5) is a television station in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, part of the CTV Television Network. The station is owned and operated by network parent Bell Media, and has studios on Frood Road (near Lasalle Boulevard) in Sudbury; its transmitter is located near Huron Street. CICI-TV is the flagship station of the network's CTV Northern Ontario sub-system. CICI produces all of the CTV Northern Ontario stations' local programming, except for some local news inserts in the system's newscasts. History The station was launched on October 25, 1953 by Sudbury businessmen George Miller, Jim Cooper and Bill Plaunt.C.M. Wallace and Ashley Thomson, ''Sudbury: Rail Town to Regional Capital''. Dundurn Press, 1993. . It was the first privately owned television station to launch in Canada, and only the fourth television station overall after CBC Television's owned-and-operated stations (CBLT in Toronto, CBMT in Montreal and CBOT in Ottawa). Its original call sign was CKSO ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |