CFTK-TV ( analogue channel 3) is a

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, Canada, airing

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programming.

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, it is part of the

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. CFTK-TV's studios are located on Lazelle Avenue in Terrace, and its transmitter is located on Thornhill Mountain. The station operates rebroadcast transmitters in

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(CFTK-TV-1, channel 6) and

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(CFTK-TV-2, channel 5).

History

CFTK went on the air for the first time on November 1, 1962.

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acquired CFTK from

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in 2002. Telemedia had owned CFTK since 1999. The station was originally part of a two-station "sub-network" called

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(NTV) since the early 1990s, until 2002, when it was disbanded and re-launched as

(joined by

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). NTV and GWTV's programming consisted of mainly American shows imported and aired on

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's NewNet/A-Channel stations, mixed with CBC's own programming. Great West Television largely ceased to exist in October 2006. With CBC Television going to a 24-hour schedule beginning in October 2006, CFTK-TV dropped all of its syndicated programming and increased the amount of CBC programming in its schedule outside of local news. This, in effect, made CFTK-TV a semi-satellite of

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for the remainder of its CBC affiliation. Astral Media acquired CFTK in the fall of 2007 as part of its acquisition of most of Standard Broadcasting's assets. On March 16, 2012, it was announced

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would be acquiring Astral Media for $3.38 billion. However, the deal was rejected by the

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(CRTC) that fall. Bell submitted a revised takeover proposal in 2013, in which it would sell off a number of assets but keep CFTK. Bell has committed to maintaining the station's current conditions of license, including CBC affiliation, until the end of its license term in 2017. Bell owns two networks of its own, CTV and CTV 2, which compete with CBC. The deal was approved by the

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in March 2013, and by the CRTC in June 2013. On October 28, 2015, the CRTC made public an application by Bell to disaffiliate CFTK from CBC Television effective February 22, 2016, at which point the station is scheduled to begin airing programming from Bell's CTV Two system. Bell and the CBC agreed to an early termination of CFTK's affiliation agreement on October 5. Any TV service providers serving the region and not already carrying a CBC Television

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on their basic services (in this case, CBUT) would have to add one by the disaffiliation date in order to comply with CRTC regulations. It is now available on cable and satellite effective the same day. On October 4, 2017, Bell Media applied for a new transmitter in

to repeat CFTK-TV. The application was approved on December 12, 2017. The transmitter, which broadcasts on channel 5, is a reactivation of a former CBC-owned transmitter, CBCY-TV-2, which rebroadcast CBUT Vancouver until July 31, 2012, when budget cuts forced the closure of the CBC and Radio-Canada's remaining analogue transmitters.CBC/Radio-Canada Speech Transcript: "Speaking notes for Hubert T. Lacroix, President and CEO, CBC/Radio-Canada, regarding measures announced in the context of the Deficit Reduction Action Plan (DRAP)", April 4, 2012.
This repeater was renamed CFTK-TV-2 upon its reactivation.

Newscasts

CFTK newscasts are one hour and air at 6 and 11 p.m. weekdays. A 30-minute news recap called ''Week in Review'' airs on weekends.

References

External links

CFTK-TV
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cftk-Tv FTK-DT Television channels and stations established in 1962 FTK-DT Mass media in Terrace, British Columbia 1962 establishments in British Columbia