9 Channel Nine Court (alternatively known as the CTV Toronto Studios, CFTO-TV Studios, Glen Warren Studios or Bell Media Agincourt and temporarily known as 9

Dave Devall David Devall (born 1931) is a Canadian retired broadcaster and meteorologist. He served as the chief forecaster at CFTO-TV in Toronto for more than 48 years beginning in 1961, and was recognized as having had the "longest career as a weather for ...

Way)Scarborough renames street in honour of Dave Devall
CTV News Toronto, March 26, 2009 is an office and studio complex owned by

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(formerly CTVglobemedia) in the Agincourt neighbourhood of Scarborough,

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, Canada. The civic address of the complex refers to the over-the-air channel on which CFTO-TV, the building's original tenant, broadcast. It is located at the northwest corner of the intersection of

Highway 401 King's Highway 401, commonly referred to as Highway 401 and also known by its official name as the Macdonald–Cartier Freeway or colloquially referred to as the four-oh-one, is a controlled-access 400-series highway in the Canadian provin ...

and

McCowan Road McCowan can refer to the following: * McCowan Baronets, British baronetcy * Millar McCowan, Scottish confectionery company * McCowan (surname) * McCowan Road, a major thoroughfare in Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ** A local name for York ...

near the

Scarborough City Centre Scarborough City Centre is a commercial district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was the central business district for the former city of Scarborough, which amalgamated with Toronto in 1998. Scarborough City Centre remains one of the central bu ...

History

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started using the studio for

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's local Toronto broadcasts in the mid-1960s; its head offices were located in

Downtown Toronto Downtown Toronto is the main central business district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Located entirely within the district of Old Toronto, it is approximately 16.6 square kilometres in area, bounded by Bloor Street to the northeast and Dupont Str ...

. Original programming included the weekly children's show ''The Professor's Hideaway''."Happy Homes for Adoptable Children"
''Broadcaster'', April 25, 1963, page 90 The station was acquired by CFTO's parent,

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 & ...

, in 1997. It is now home to CTV, its flagship station

CFTO-DT CFTO-DT (channel 9) is a television station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, serving as the flagship station of the CTV Television Network. It is owned and operated by network parent Bell Media alongside Barrie-based CTV 2 outlet CKVR-DT, channel ...

(CTV Toronto), and

The Sports Network The Sports Network (TSN) is a Canadian English language sports specialty channel established by the Labatt Brewing Company in 1984 as part of the first group of Canadian specialty cable channels. Since 2001, it has been majority-owned by comm ...

(TSN). It was previously the headquarters of CTVglobemedia and its predecessors until it was relocated to

299 Queen Street West 299 Queen Street West, also known as Bell Media Queen Street or Bell Media Studios, is the headquarters of the television/radio broadcast hub of Bell Canada's media unit, Bell Media located at the intersection of Queen Street West and John Str ...

in 2008 when it became Bell Media.

Operations

In addition to

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and CFTO, channels based at the Agincourt complex include: * CTV News Channel * TSN *

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, and its offshoot channels including

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among others. The complex also houses the

master control Master control is the technical hub of a broadcast operation common among most over-the-air television stations and television networks. It is distinct from a production control room (PCR) in television studios where the activities such as swi ...

facilities for several other CTV stations in Eastern and Central Canada, specifically: * CJOH-DT Ottawa * CKCO-DT Kitchener *

CFCF-DT CFCF-DT (channel 12) is a television station in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, part of the CTV Television Network. It is owned and operated by network parent Bell Media alongside Noovo flagship CFJP-DT (channel 35). Both stations share studios ...

Montreal *

CKY-DT CKY-DT (channel 7) is a television station in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, part of the CTV Television Network. The station is owned and operated by network parent Bell Media, and maintains studios on Graham Avenue (adjacent to the Canada Life Cen ...

Winnipeg *

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 ...

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had its master control facilities moved here in 2011, housing the following stations: *

CKVR-DT CKVR-DT (channel 3) is a television station in Barrie, Ontario, Canada, serving as the flagship station of the CTV 2 system. It is owned and operated by Bell Media alongside Toronto-based CTV outlet CFTO-DT, channel 9 (although the two st ...

Barrie ** CKVP-DT Pelham * CFPL-DT London * CHWI-DT Wheatley/Windsor * CHRO-DT Pembroke/Ottawa * CTV 2 Atlantic * CTV 2 Alberta In addition the building also serves as the new home for the technical operations of Bell Media's all-sports radio station in Toronto

TSN Radio 1050 CHUM is a Canadian radio station in Toronto, Ontario, broadcasting on 1050 kHz. The station is owned and operated by Bell Media. CHUM's studios are co-located with The Sports Network, TSN at 9 Channel Nine Court in the Agincourt, Toronto, A ...

which launched on April 13, 2011.

TSN, Sportsnet, and the "parking lot"

From 2001 until early 2008, both TSN and its main competitor

Rogers Sportsnet Sportsnet is a Canadian English-language sports specialty channel owned by Rogers Sports & Media. It was established in 1998 as CTV Sportsnet, a joint venture between CTV, Liberty Media, and Rogers Media. CTV parent Bell Globemedia then was r ...

were based at the Agincourt complex. Sportsnet, originally controlled by CTV before the latter's acquisition of TSN in 2000, had been based there since its launch in 1998, but did not move out immediately after TSN moved in. Hence, when on-air hosts, such as Darren Dreger, moved from one channel to the other, it was referred to as "crossing the

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" or, less commonly, "crossing the street". Some at Sportsnet had complained about feeling like "poor country cousins" to CTV and TSN at Agincourt. This peculiarity had been made light of by a couple of notable hosts on Rogers Sportsnet.

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, a radio host on Rogers-owned

The Fan 590 CJCL (590 AM, ''Sportsnet 590 The Fan'') is a Canadian sports radio station in Toronto, Ontario. Owned and operated by Rogers Sports & Media since 2002, CJCL's studios are located at the Rogers Building at Bloor and Jarvis in downtown Toro ...

, had constantly commented on his show Prime Time Sports (a simulcast of his radio show on The Fan 590) that Sportsnet executives throw bottles across the street at the TSN studios. In addition, '' Sportsnet Connected'' anchor Sean McCormick had openly stated on-air that he drives to work with his wife,

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, who anchors '' SportsCentre'' on TSN. This arrangement ended on April 30, 2008, when Rogers Sportsnet moved broadcast operations from the Agincourt complex to a new studio in the Rogers Building, a cluster of buildings in the Mount Pleasant-Jarvis Street area of

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Other Bell Media facilities in Toronto

Alongside 9 Channel Nine Court, several other Bell Media properties are operated from other facilities in the Toronto area: *Several other Bell Media television channels, mainly including those acquired from

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– such as Much,

CTV Comedy Channel CTV Comedy Channel (often shortened to CTV Comedy and formerly known as The Comedy Network) is a Canadian English-language specialty channel owned by Bell Media which focuses primarily on comedy programming. The channel first launched on Octobe ...

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, CTV Life Channel,

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CP24 CP24 is a Canadian English-language specialty news channel owned by Bell Media, a subsidiary of BCE Inc. and operated alongside the Bell-owned CTV Television Network's owned-and-operated television stations CFTO-DT (CTV Toronto) and CKVR-DT ( ...

, BNN Bloomberg,

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and E!, are operated from

, formerly known as the "CHUM-City Building". This location also serves as the current home of CTV's entertainment news program '' etalk'', the corporate head office of

and the CFTO Downtown Toronto news bureau. *Studios for Bell Media's radio channels including

, 104.5 CHUM-FM,

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and 99.9 Virgin Radio are currently located at

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at Richmond and Duncan streets which is adjacent to 299 Queen Street West. There is a bridge walkway that currently joins these two buildings together.

References

External links

CTV Television Network websiteCTV News websiteCTV News Toronto websiteBell Media website
{{Bell Media Bell Media Buildings and structures in Scarborough, Toronto Mass media company headquarters in Canada Television studios in Canada