CKNY-DT (channel 10) is a
television station
A television station is a set of equipment managed by a business, organisation or other entity, such as an amateur television (ATV) operator, that transmits video content and audio content via radio waves directly from a transmitter on the eart ...
in
North Bay, Ontario
North Bay is a city in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. It is the seat of Nipissing District, and takes its name from its position on the shore of Lake Nipissing. North Bay developed as a railroad centre, and its airport was an important military ...
, Canada, part of the
CTV Television Network.
Owned and operated
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by network parent
Bell Media
Bell Media Inc. (French: ) is a Canadian company formed by the amalgamation of several companies.
Establishment (2011–13)
On December 9, 2011, the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan announced the sale of its majority stake in Maple Leaf Sports ...
, 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
CTV Northern Ontario, formerly known as MCTV, is a system of four television stations in Northern Ontario, Canada, owned and operated by the CTV Television Network, a division of Bell Media.
These stations are:
* CICI - Greater Sudbury (flag ...
sub-system
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. It essentially operates as a ''de facto''
semi-satellite
A broadcast relay station, also known as a satellite station, relay transmitter, broadcast translator (U.S.), re-broadcaster (Canada), repeater (two-way radio) or complementary station (Mexico), is a broadcast transmitter which repeats (or tran ...
of
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 Sudb ...
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
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in 1960, and recalled as CFCH.
In 1970, Thomson reached a deal to sell the station to
Bushnell Communications of Ottawa, although the transaction was never completed. Around the same time, the
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) rejected all of the applicants in the first round of license hearings to extend CTV service to
Sudbury, the largest market in the region; because the North Bay and
Timmins
Timmins ( ) is a city in northeastern Ontario, Canada, located on the Mattagami River. The city is the fourth-largest city in the Northeastern Ontario region with a population of 41,145 (2021). The city's economy is based on natural resource ext ...
markets were deemed too small to support competing television stations, the commission directed Cambrian Broadcasting of Sudbury and
J. Conrad Lavigne J. Conrad Lavigne, CM, O.Ont (November 2, 1916 – April 16, 2003) was a pioneering Canadian media proprietor.
Born in Chénéville, Quebec, Lavigne was raised in Cochrane, Ontario. He joined the Canadian Forces in 1942 and fought in World War ...
of Timmins to collaborate on an alternative plan in which all three cities would receive CTV service without losing CBC.
["CRTC proposes CBC-CTV partnership for alternative Northern Ontario service". '']The Globe and Mail
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'', March 6, 1970. Effectively, the decision declared all three cities to be a single television market, and prevented new television companies from entering and potentially upsetting the balance.
[
In the first revised plan, Cambrian's CKSO-TV, which was now slated to become the CTV affiliate, would simply have added a rebroadcaster in North Bay on channel 4, while leaving the ownership status and affiliation of CFCH unchanged.]["Rebroadcast programs: CRTC grants Sudbury licences". '']The Globe and Mail
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'', August 6, 1970. The CRTC rejected this proposal, however, as it did not adequately resolve the commission's concerns about CFCH's financial viability in the face of competition.[ Accordingly, in 1971 the station was directly acquired by Cambrian Broadcasting and became an affiliate of CTV and a semi-satellite of CKSO, while Lavigne's new CBC affiliate, CHNB, went on the air at the same time.
For a number of years in the 1960s and 70s, CFCH/CKNY operated rebroadcast transmitter CJTK-TV in Témiscaming, Quebec on channel 3. It is not known when it was shut down.
Throughout the 1970s, CKNY and CHNB aggressively competed with each other for advertising revenue; by 1980, however, the stations ran into exactly the problem the CRTC had been trying to prevent by linking them to Sudbury in the 1970 hearings: they were losing money and very nearly bankrupt.]["CRTC approves amalgamation of Northern Ontario TV firms". '']The Globe and Mail
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'', February 29, 1980. In 1980, the CRTC approved the merger of the two stations, along with their co-owned stations in Sudbury and Timmins, into the MCTV twinstick
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United States
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.[
In 1990, the stations were acquired by ]Baton Broadcasting
Bell Media Inc. (French: ) is a Canadian company formed by the amalgamation of several companies.
Establishment (2011–13)
On December 9, 2011, the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan announced the sale of its majority stake in Maple Leaf Sports & ...
. Baton subsequently became the sole corporate owner of CTV, and sold CHNB to the CBC in 2002.
In 1999, CKNY began rebroadcasting on channel 11 in Huntsville, Ontario
Huntsville is a town in Muskoka. It is located north of Toronto and south of North Bay. Of the three big Muskoka towns, it is the largest by population (21,147 per 2021 census) and land area (710.64 km2).
Huntsville is located in the ...
(CKNY-TV-11), licensed to Dwight and serving the Muskoka and Parry Sound
Parry Sound is a sound or bay of Georgian Bay on Lake Huron, in Ontario, Canada. It is highly irregularly shaped with many deep bays and islands. Killbear Provincial Park is located on the large peninsula that separates the sound from Georgian B ...
area on a transmitter which previously rebroadcast the programming of CKCO (as CKCO-TV-4). Initially a semi-satellite with a very small amount of local programming, the Huntsville station subsequently lost local programming, and then changed its programming and advertising feed source to CICI.
Since the acquisition of CTV by Bell Canada, CKNY has gradually downsized its local operations, with all newscasts across the CTV Northern Ontario system (formerly MCTV) centralized out of Sudbury; as of 2020, the station only had three local employees (two reporters and a cameraman). In May 2020, CKNY closed its local studio on Oak Street, with the remaining employees now working remotely.
Just after midnight on October 30, 2020, CKNY-TV turned off its analogue signal and signed on its digital signal on channel 12.CTV (2020) - Last analog transmission in North Bay
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, October 30, 2020
References
External links
CTV Northern Ontario
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Television channels and stations established in 1955
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1955 establishments in Ontario