CITL-DT (channel 4) is a
CTV-affiliated
television station
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in
Lloydminster
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, a city located on the border of the
Canadian provinces of
Alberta
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and
Saskatchewan
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. It is owned by
Stingray Radio alongside
Citytv
Citytv is a Canadian television network owned by the Rogers Sports & Media subsidiary of Rogers Communications. The licence of the original Citytv station, granted the callsign of CITY-TV by the CRTC on November 25, 1971 to Cable Television Ass ...
affiliate
CKSA-DT
CKSA-DT (channel 2) is a Citytv-affiliated television station in Lloydminster, a city located on the border of the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. It is owned by Stingray Radio alongside CTV affiliate CITL-DT (channel 4). Both ...
(channel 2). Both stations share studios at 50 Street and 51 Avenue on the Alberta side of Lloydminster, while CITL-DT's transmitter is located near
Highway 17 and Township Road 512, near the Saskatchewan provincial line.
History
The station first signed on the air on July 28, 1976, and has been a CTV affiliate since its sign-on. CITL, along with their sister station CKSA, were acquired by
Newcap Broadcasting
Stingray Radio (formerly Newcap Radio) is a Canadian radio broadcasting conglomerate owned by Stingray Group. It owns and operates 101 radio stations in Canada—making it the second-largest radio conglomerate in Canada behind Bell Media. It also ...
in 2005 from their former owner, Midwest Television.
Prior to the August 31, 2011 digital transition, CITL had rebroadcast transmitters in
Wainwright,
Provost,
Bonnyville
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The community derives its name from Fat ...
,
Meadow Lake and
Alcot Trail. The station's main transmitter was required to participate in the digital transition, but Newcap also decided to shut its other transmitters, other than Alcot Lake's, on the same date, though there was no requirement to shut down or convert any of these other transmitters to digital.
The station had attempted to add a rebroadcaster in
Fort McMurray
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in 2006, but this was subsequently withdrawn. The application had been surprising since a CTV-owned station,
CFRN-TV
CFRN-DT (channel 3) is a television station in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, part of the CTV Television Network. It is owned and operated by network parent Bell Media alongside cable-exclusive CTV 2 Alberta. The two outlets share studios with siste ...
, had already served the area on cable with some separate news programming and commercials since 1990 from CFRN's repeater in
Ashmont.
CITL along with CKSA are two of the last remaining Canadian stations that continue to sign off overnight, along with
Omni Television
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stations and others.
Programming
As of October 18, 2018, CITL clears the vast majority of the CTV schedule, and is currently the only CTV station in Western Canada to air the network's national morning shows (formerly ''
Canada AM
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''; currently ''
Your Morning
''Your Morning'' is a Canadian breakfast television program that is broadcast on CTV and CTV News Channel. It debuted on August 22, 2016 and airs live from 6-9 a.m. in the Eastern Time Zone and simulcast elsewhere in Canada according to local sc ...
'') on a
tape delay in the 6–9 a.m. time slot (with all CTV
owned-and-operated station
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s between
Vancouver
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and
Winnipeg
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airing local ''
CTV Morning Live
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'' programs instead). The station carries the entirety of CTV's prime time lineup. Previously, the station preempted
stripped
Stripped may refer to:
Music
* "Stripped" (song), by Depeche Mode, 1986
* ''Stripped'' (Christina Aguilera album) or the title song, 2002
* ''Stripped'' (Daniel Ash album), 2014
* ''Stripped'' (Macy Gray album), 2016
* ''Stripped'' (Pretty Ma ...
broadcasts of ''
etalk'' and/or repeats of ''
The Big Bang Theory
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'' on certain nights with local programming. Additionally, CITL preempts CTV's ''
The View'' in favor of ''
100 Huntley Street'', a
brokered religious program which is also commonly aired by Global stations, as well as the weekend's network repeats of the previous night's late edition of
TSN's ''
SportsCentre'' for ''Eat Street'' and
infomercial
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s and Sunday's ''
Question Period
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''. CITL also breaks away from the network late-night schedule at about 2:12 a.m. (after ''
Conan'') on weeknights, and earlier on weekends, to sign off, as CITL, along with sister CKSA, have the Canadian national anthem "
O Canada
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" played during the sign-off.
Until the mid-to-late 2000s, CITL also carried some Global programming alongside CTV shows; however, this was discontinued at some point after
Global Edmonton
CITV-DT (channel 13) is a television station in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, part of the Global Television Network. The station is owned and operated by network parent Corus Entertainment, and maintains studios on Allard Way Northwest in the Pl ...
was made available on basic cable in Lloydminster. Nonetheless the station sometimes carries various Canadian-made programs from the library of Global's parent company
Corus Entertainment
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, though this is generally restricted to older programming (or at least older seasons) not currently airing on the Global network schedule.
CITL airs ''Prime Time Local News'' from 5–7 p.m., and ''Late Local News'' at 11:30 p.m. on weeknights; there is no local news on weekends. The 5 p.m. hour of ''Prime Time Local News'' is simulcast on CKSA. In addition, unlike CKSA where it simulcasts newscasts from Global Edmonton, CITL does not simulcast any newscasts from CTV Edmonton or any other CTV station. Reruns of ''
Chopped Canada
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'' airs at noon, in place of any local newscast, or the noon hour newscast from CTV Edmonton.
CITL and CKSA previously aired ''Newcap News'' until August 31, 2018. On September 4, 2018, the newscasts were reformatted from a traditional newscast to a news magazine, and was re-branded as ''Prime Time Local News''.
Former transmitters
Until August 31, 2011, CITL-DT also operated the first four transmitters listed below. According to Industry Canada's TV database, as of August 2012, the station no longer has a broadcast licence for the last transmitter noted.
Therefore, the station no longer has any rebroadcasting transmitters.
References
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Television channels and stations established in 1976
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