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Revision as of 05:01, 13 December 2008

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CKVR-TV, (known on-air as A Barrie/Toronto) is a television station in Barrie, Ontario, Canada. Owned by CTVglobemedia, it is the flagship station of CTVglobemedia's secondary broadcast system, A, with facilities located at 33 Beacon Road in Barrie. Its signal reaches well into parts of the Toronto television market and the station has long been available on cable across Toronto and southern Ontario.

CKVR is famous for its camera overlooking the city of Barrie, Lake Simcoe, and its environs. The camera is situated on the station's broadcast tower. In addition to CKVR-TV's news centre in Barrie, CKVR-TV also has news bureaus in Collingwood, Muskoka and Aurora.

History

The station was founded by Ralph Snelgrove, whose first initial and that of his wife, Valerie, form part of the station's callsign. It had been a longtime privately owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) affiliate since its inception in 1955. On September 1, 1995, CKVR ended its affiliation with the CBC and was rebranded as The New VR, becoming the first television station in CHUM's NewNet system. CKVR has been owned by CHUM since 1969, longer than any of the company's other TV stations.

In February 2005, CHUM announced plans to consolidate the master control departments for CKVR, CFPL, CHRO, CHWI and CKNX at 299 Queen Street West in Toronto, as well as consolidating the traffic and programming departments at CFPL in London, resulting in the loss of approximately nine staff members from CKVR. On June 3, 2005, at approximately 10:00 a.m., the Barrie master control signal came to an end, as the new consolidated master control took to air.

A-Channel

On August 2, 2005, CKVR and the rest of the NewNet stations were rebranded as A-Channel.

On July 12, 2006, CTV owner CTVglobemedia (formerly Bell Globemedia) announced plans to purchase A-Channel owner CHUM Limited for $C1.7 Billion, with plans to divest itself of the A-Channel and Access Alberta stations[1].

On April 9, 2007, Rogers Communications announced the purchase of all of the A-Channel stations (including CKVR), SexTV: The Channel, Access Alberta, Canadian Learning Television and CKX-TV Brandon. The transaction is said to cost $137 million, which will be paid in cash by Rogers.[2]

On June 8, 2007, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) announced its approval of CTVglobemedia's purchase of CHUM Limited, but added a condition that CTVglobemedia must sell off CHUM's Citytv stations to another buyer, while being permitted to keep the A-Channel stations (including CKVR), in effect cancelling the planned sale of A-Channel to Rogers Media. [3]

CTVglobemedia took control of the A-Channel stations and the rest of CHUM Limited's assets on June 22, 2007, excluding the Citytv stations.

On July 26, 2007, CTVglobemedia named Richard Gray the head of news for the A-Channel stations and CKX-TV. Gray will report to the CTVgm corporate group, not CTV News, to preserve independent news presentation and management. Gray will now oversee CKVR and the other news departments; CHRO, CFPL, CKNX, CHWI, CIVI-TV and CKX-TV.[4]

A

On August 11, 2008, CKVR and the rest of the A-Channel stations as well as Atlantic Canada's ASN were rebranded as A. Unofficially, a rebranding campaign began several weeks earlier with CKVR's newscasts, known as A News.

Programming

Currently the station's locally produced programs include:

  • A Morning, 6 a.m.-9 a.m. weekdays - hosted by Jennifer Buchanan and K.C. Colby,
  • A News at 6 (weekdays) - anchored by Lance Chilton and Jayne Pritchard (Mark Roe on sports, Bob McIntyre on weather)
  • A News at 11 (weekdays) - anchored by Lance Chilton and Jayne Pritchard (Mark Roe on sports, Bob McIntyre on weather)
  • A News Weekend Edition - (Saturday & Sunday, 6 p.m.) - anchored by Julia Burke and Chris Lesage (Mark Roe on Sports)
  • A News This Week (Saturday's at 11:00 p.m. - a pre-recorded wrap of the week's top stories)
  • Ontario News This Week (Sunday's at 11:00 p.m. - a pre-recorded wrap of the week's top provincial-related top stories)

Personalities

Anchors
  • Lance Chilton - A News at 6 and 11 (weekdays)
  • Jayne Pritchard - A News at 6 and 11 (weekdays)
  • Julia Burke - A News at 6 (weekends)
  • Chris Lesage - A News at 6 (weekends)
A Morning
  • Jennifer Buchanan - Co-Host, A Morning
  • K.C. Colby - Co-Host, A Morning
  • Sharon Posius - News Anchor, A Morning
  • Rob Cooper - Reporter, A Morning
  • Mike Lane - Producer, A Morning
Weather
  • Bob McIntyre
Sports
  • Katherine Dolan
  • Mark Roe
Reporters
  • Chris Lesage
  • Bridget Brown
  • Julia Burke
  • Jackie Crandles
  • Seanna Shoemaker
  • Roger Klein

Transmitters

The CKVR Television Tower is a landmark visible throughout much of the city of Barrie.

The current CKVR Television Tower is a 304.8-metre (1,000 ft) high guyed mast for FM and TV transmission located at 44°21′00″N 79°41′50″W / 44.35000°N 79.69722°W / 44.35000; -79.69722 in Barrie. It was built in 1978, after a light plane crashed into the smaller incarnation of the tower the previous year.

CKVR previously operated low-power rebroadcast transmitters in the communities of Parry Sound, Huntsville, and Haliburton, on Channels 11, 8, and 5, respectively. The Parry Sound transmitter switched to Channel 12 in the mid-1970s before CKCO-TV opened a rebroadcast transmitter in Huntsville on Channel 11. The Haliburton transmitter was located very close to another CBC affiliate transmitter, CHEX-TV Peterborough, located at Minden and broadcasting on Channel 7. The channel 5 transmitter was shut down when Toronto's CBLT switched from channel 6 to channel 5, and became largely redundant as a result of CKVR's increased transmission tower height in the early 70's. The Huntsville transmitter increased to full power in 1991 to better cover much of Muskoka and Haliburton County, but it was bought by the CBC in 1995 as part of the disaffiliation of CKVR from the CBC, and now rebroadcasts CBLT from Toronto. CKVR kept its Parry Sound transmitter, and CBC established CBLT transmitters in Barrie and Parry Sound at that time, on Channels 16 and 18, respectively.

Digital television and high definition

As of October 2008, CKVR-TV has not yet begun broadcasting in digital.

After the analog television shutdown and digital conversion, which is tentatively scheduled to take place on August 31, 2011 [5], CKVR-TV is required to begin digital broadcasts on its current assigned channel number, 10. However, through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers will display CKVR-TV's virtual channel as 3.1.

Station presentation


References

  1. ^ "Bell Globemedia makes $1.7B bid for CHUM". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 2006-07-12. Retrieved 2006-07-12.
  2. ^ "CRTC expected to OK Rogers' $137.5M buy of CTVglobemedia TV channels". Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News. 2007-04-09. Retrieved 2007-04-09.
  3. ^ "CRTC tells CTVglobemedia to sell 5 Citytv stations". cbc.ca via Yahoo! Canada News. 2007-06-08. Retrieved 2007-06-08.
  4. ^ CTVglobemedia
  5. ^ http://www.ic.gc.ca/epic/site/oca-bc.nsf/en/ca02336e.html
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