CKNC-TV: Difference between revisions

{{short description|Former TV station in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada}}

{{Infobox television station

| callsign = CKNC-TV<br>(defunct)

| city = [[Greater Sudbury|Sudbury]], [[Ontario]]

| logo =

| branding = MCTV - CBC

| analog = 9 ([[very high frequency|VHF]])

| digital =

| translators = [[#Transmitters|see below]]

| affiliations = [[CBC Television|CBC]]

| network =

| airdate = {{start date and age|October 8, 1971}}

| last_airdate = {{end date and age|October 27, 2002}}

| location =

| callsign_meaning = '''CK''' '''N'''ickel '''C'''apital

| former_callsigns =

| former_channel_numbers =

| owner = [[J. Conrad Lavigne]] (1971 - 1980)<br>[[Mid-Canada Communications]] (1980 - 1990)<br>[[Baton Broadcasting]]/[[CTVglobemedia|CTV Inc.]] (1990 - 2002)

| licensee =

| sister_stations = [[CICI-TV]]

| former_affiliations =

| erp = 198.1 [[kilowatt|kW]]

| haat = 221 m

| coordinates = {{coord|46|30|2|N|81|1|12|W|type:landmark}}

| homepage =

'''CKNC-TV''' was a television station in [[Greater Sudbury|Sudbury]], [[Ontario]], Canada.<ref>"Sudbury's second English TV outlet begins operations on Monday". ''[[Sudbury Star]]'', October 1, 1971.</ref> The station was in operation from 1971 to 2002 as a private affiliate of [[CBC Television]], and then continued until 2012 as a network-owned [[rebroadcaster]] of the network's [[Toronto]] affiliate [[CBLT]].

CKNC was established on October 8, 1971 by [[J. Conrad Lavigne]], the owner of [[CFCL-TV|CFCL]] in [[Timmins]].<ref name=rebroadcast>"Rebroadcast programs: CRTC grants Sudbury licences". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', August 6, 1970.</ref> On the same day, the existing television station in Sudbury, [[CICI-TV|CKSO]], switched its affiliation to [[CTV Television Network|CTV]].<ref name=rebroadcast/> A [[rebroadcaster]] with the call sign '''CKNC-TV-1''' went to air in [[Elliot Lake]] on the same date. That transmitter was sold to the CBC in 1982, although it continued to air CKNC's signal for the remainder of the station's existence.

[[Image:CKNC_TV_9_Sudbury_1970s.jpg|thumb|right|CKNC-TV 9 logo from the 1970's with its former Frood Road studio address in Sudbury which is now the current home of [[CICI-TV]]/[[CTV Northern Ontario]].]]

Until 1980, CICI and CKNC aggressively competed with each other for advertising dollars, leaving both in a precarious financial position due to the Sudbury market's relatively small size. In 1980, the [[Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission]] approved the merger of the two stations, along with their co-owned stations in [[North Bay, Ontario|North Bay]] and Timmins, into the MCTV [[twinstick]].<ref name=approves>"CRTC approves amalgamation of Northern Ontario TV firms". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', February 29, 1980.</ref>

In 1990, the MCTV stations were acquired by [[Baton Broadcasting System|Baton Broadcasting]],<ref>"CRTC okays acquisitions, but at a price". ''[[Financial Post]]'', October 23, 1990.</ref> which became the sole corporate owner of [[CTV television network|CTV]] in 1997.

In the early 1990s, CKNC-TV decreased its effective radiated power from 168,000 to 115,500 watts; and changing the transmitter location to a new site located approximately 1.5 kilometres to the southwest of the present location. <ref>[https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/1991/pb91-88.htm Public Notice CRTC 1991-88], ''CRTC'', August 23, 1991</ref>

===End of operations===

CTV subsequently sold its four CBC affiliates in Northern Ontario, CKNC, [[CHNB-TV|CHNB]] in North Bay, [[CJIC-TV|CJIC]] in Sault Ste. Marie and [[CFCL-TV|CFCL]] in Timmins directly to the CBC in 2002.<ref>[http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2002/db2002-303.htm CRTC Decision 2002-303]</ref> All four ceased to exist as separate stations on October 27, 2002, becoming rebroadcasters of [[Toronto]]'s [[CBLT-DT|CBLT]], with CKNC's call sign changed to '''CBLT-6'''. These translators would close on July 31, 2012, due to budget cuts affecting the CBC.<ref>[http://cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/media-centre/2012/04/04/ Speaking notes for Hubert T. Lacroix regarding measures announced in the context of the Deficit Reduction Action Plan]</ref><ref>[http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2012/2012-384.htm Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2012-384, July 17, 2012.]</ref>

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'''CKNC''' was also the original callsign, in the 1920s and 1930s, of a radio station in [[Toronto]] that now uses the callsign [[CJBC (AM)|CJBC]]. The CKNC currently belongs to a radio station in [[Simcoe, Ontario]] as [[CKNC-FM]].

* [https://broadcasting-history.ca/television/television-stations/ontario/ontario-northern/cknc-tv/ CKNC-TV] at The History of Canadian Broadcasting by the [[Canadian Communications Foundation]]

[[Category:Defunct television stations in Canada|KNC]]

[[Category:Defunct mass media in Ontario|KNC-TV]]