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CFTK-TV
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| Brand | CTV 2 Terrace (primary) CFTK TV (secondary) |
| City of License | Terrace, British Columbia |
| Market | Terrace and Prince Rupert, British Columbia |
| Channel | analog 3, digital 35 (not on air) |
| Network Affiliation | Current: CTV 2
Historic: CBC (1962–2016) |
| Founded | November 1, 1962 |
| Company | Bell Media |
| President | Randy Lennox |
| Current Popular Non-Network Shows |
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CFTK-TV is a Canadian local station in Terrace, British Columbia. It is owned by Bell Media and is affiliated with CTV 2. It broadcasts on analog channel 3, with a digital channel allocation of 35 (not yet on the air).
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History
CFTK-TV first went on the air, along with Prince Rupert repeater CFTK-TV-1, on November 1, 1962. It was originally owned by Skeena Broadcasters (the parent company of co-owned Terrace radio station CFTK), which was itself founded and owned by engineer Fred Weber. It had been a CBC affiliate from its inception.
In 1971, Weber began TK Cablevision to carry the CFTK-TV signal via cable to other areas of British Columbia's North Coast region, including Kitimat, Hazelton and the Bulkley Valley. CFTK had a captive audience in the North Coast area until 1975, when new channels became available in the region via cable with the addition of Vancouver CTV affiliate CHAN-TV and a channel carrying a mixed schedule of programs from two Seattle stations, PBS station KCTS during daytime hours and CBS affiliate KIRO-TV outside of the KCTS schedule. In 1987, CFTK parent Skeena Broadcasters was reorganized as the Okanagan Skeena Group.
Telemedia purchased the Okanagan Skeena Group and its stations, including CFTK, in 1999. CFTK, which had aired mostly CBC programming in its early years outside of locally-produced shows, reduced the amount of CBC shows it aired in later years to add some syndicated programming. In 2002, CFTK and co-owned Dawson Creek station CJDC-TV joined with Jim Pattison-owned Prince George station CKPG-TV to form a regional mini-system called Great West Television, allowing the three stations to air common syndicated programming sourced from CHUM Television's NewNet system alongside the CBC programs and local shows.
CFTK founder Fred Weber died on May 7, 2002 in West Vancouver, British Columbia at age 80. Later that year, Standard Radio acquired the western and Ontario operations of Telemedia, including the CFTK radio and TV stations. When CBC Television went to a 24-hour broadcast schedule in October 2006, CFTK dropped all syndicated programming it had been carrying in recent years in favor of carrying the expanded CBC schedule, with only local news left outside of CBC programming on the station. In 2007, Astral Media purchased CFTK and the other operations of Standard Radio.
On March 16, 2012, Astral Media announced that they had agreed to a bid by Bell Media to buy the company and its broadcasting assets, including CFTK-TV, for C$3.38 billion, pending approval by the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission.[1] On October 18, 2012, the CRTC announced that it had rejected the Bell bid to buy Astral Media due to concerns about concentration of media ownership and the availability of diverse programming under Bell's control, thereby keeping ownership of CFTK, along with co-owned CJDC and Astral's radio properties, in Astral's hands.[2] On March 4, 2013, Canada's Competition Bureau approved a new, modified bid by Bell to acquire the Astral properties (including CFTK), providing that Bell then divested itself of several of Astral's radio stations and cable networks and that Bell did not impose restrictive bundling requirements on cable and satellite distributors wishing to carry The Movie Network or its French-language counterpart, Super Écran (both Astral-owned multiplex movie channels).[3] The new bid was approved by the CRTC on June 27, 2013. [4]
On October 28, 2015, the CRTC announced that CFTK parent company Bell Media had applied to disaffiliate CFTK and sister station CJDC from CBC Television on February 22, 2016, at which point both stations became owned-and-operated stations of Bell's CTV 2 system. Bell and the CBC had agreed to an early end to the affiliation agreement of both stations (which required regulatory approval from the CRTC) on October 5.[5][6] With CFTK's switch to CTV 2, Vancouver CBC station CBUT-DT is now available on cable in the North Coast area to provide CBC service to the region. On October 4, 2017, Bell Media applied to the CRTC for a repeater of CFTK to broadcast in Smithers, British Columbia. The new CFTK retransmitter, named CFTK-TV-2, is a reactivation of a transmitter formerly owned by the CBC, CBCY-TV-2, which formerly rebroadcast CBUT until it was shut down on July 31, 2012 due to budget cuts by the CBC. The CRTC approved the application for CFTK-TV-2 on December 12, 2017.[7]
Current Prime-Time Schedule
Note: Schedule is subject to change due to live sports coverage and special programming.
| Day | 7:00 | 7:30 | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 | 11:00 | 11:30 |
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| Monday | The Big Bang Theory | eTalk | The Voice | Criminal Minds | CFTK News | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (11:35) | ||||
| Tuesday | Pandora | Seinfeld | The Goldbergs | |||||||
| Wednesday | The Goldbergs | The Big Bang Theory | ||||||||
| Thursday | The Big Bang Theory | Outmatched | ||||||||
| Friday | CTV Movie | TBA | ||||||||
| Saturday | Holmes on Homes | Mighty Trains | Flashpoint | W5 | Week in Review | Corner Gas | ||||
| Sunday | Corner Gas | Corner Gas | American Idol | Flashpoint | Just for Laughs: All Access | |||||
References
- ↑ Bell buys Astral Media for radio, TV content
- ↑ CRTC spikes BCE-Astral deal at the Globe and Mail
- ↑ Competition Bureau OK's BCE-Astral deal, with conditions at CBC.ca
- ↑ CRTC approves Bell-Astral merger at CBC.ca
- ↑ CRTC Application 2015-1227-8
- ↑ CRTC Application 2015-1226-0
- ↑ Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2017-443
