Great West Television (GWTV) is a television system in regional British Columbia, made up of the following stations: * CKPG, Prince George (owned by

Jim Pattison Group The Jim Pattison Group is a Canadian conglomerate based in Vancouver. In a recent survey by the Financial Post, the firm was ranked as Canada's 62nd largest company. Jim Pattison, a Vancouver-based entrepreneur, is the chairman, CEO, and sole ...

;

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) *

CJDC CJDC may refer to: * CJDC (AM), a radio station (890 AM) licensed to Dawson Creek, British Columbia, Canada * CJDC-TV, a television station (channel 5) licensed to Dawson Creek, British Columbia, Canada * The Central Jakarta District Court ...

, Dawson Creek (owned by Bell Media; CTV 2 affiliate) *

CFTK CFTK may refer to: * CFTK (AM), a radio station (590 AM) licensed to Terrace, British Columbia, Canada * CFTK-TV CFTK-TV ( analogue channel 3) is a television station in Terrace, British Columbia, Canada, airing CTV 2 programming. Owned and ope ...

, Terrace (owned by Bell Media; CTV 2 affiliate) With the exception of local news and other local programming, the majority of the programming on CJDC and CFTK comes from CTV 2, while CKPG obtains the majority of its programs from the Rogers Communications-owned

. Syndicated programs from CHUM Limited had also been seen on these stations until October 2006, when CBC Television expanded to a 24-hour schedule and the GWTV stations accordingly dropped all syndicated shows from their schedules to accommodate the new CBC schedule. This arrangement was used by CKPG until August 31, 2008, when it switched affiliations to E!. Beginning September 1, 2009, CKPG switched affiliations to Citytv after the E! system ceased operations. On February 22, 2016, CFTK and CJDC disaffiliated from CBC and became CTV 2 owned and operated stations. Great West Television is the successor to a previous mini-network in Northern British Columbia,

Northern Television Northern Television was the name of a regional television system in northern British Columbia, composed of two private CBC Television stations, CFTK-TV and CJDC-TV. History It was also known as "NTV", but should not be confused with CJON-DT, an ...

.CJDC-TV
at Nelson Media via the Internet Archive That sub-system folded in the late 1990s, and was reborn as Great West Television, joined by Jim Pattison Group's CKPG-TV.

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