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'''Sports:''' Jeff King, Stacy Ross, Keith Wells |
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'''Reporters:''' Jonathan Bartlett, Veronica Cooper, Kim Emerson, Kendall Hanson, Dana Hutchings, Bruce Kirkpatrick, Kristen Robinson, Skye Ryan |
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== Previous Logos == |
== Previous Logos == |
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Revision as of 03:09, 19 March 2006
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CHEK-TV, Victoria (on Vancouver Island), British Columbia is a member of the CH television system, owned by CanWest Global, broadcasting on channel 6.
CHEK was British Columbia's first private television station, signing on the air as a CBC affiliate on December 1, 1956. The station began to air some CTV programs in 1963, and became a full-time CTV affiliate on January 5, 1981, when Vancouver CBC station CBUT launched repeater stations at Sooke and Mount McDonald. It was the only local television station on Vancouver Island before CHUM Limited's CIVI (The New VI) launched in October 2001.
In 1963, CHEK was purchased by local businessman Frank Griffiths, who also owned CHAN-TV (BCTV) in Vancouver. At one stage, CHEK used the same flower logo as CHAN, but later reverted back to their own logo.
Prior to 2001, CHEK also simulcast CHAN's News Hour and broadcast many of the same programs on a timeshifted basis; as with CHAN this was a mixture of CTV network programming and WIC-owned programming (usually drawn from the schedule of CHCH Hamilton), although the WIC programming usually differed from that aired on CHAN. When Baton Broadcasting's CIVT came on the air, CHEK was one of three stations broadcasting CTV programming, the other two being BCTV and CIVT. For a year or so prior to disaffiliation, after BCTV strengthened its own morning newscast, CHEK was the only station in B.C. airing Canada AM.
When the Vancouver affiliation switch occurred in 2001, CHEK became CH Vancouver Island, taking on a schedule similar to CH Hamilton, and becoming a CH affliate. CHEK airs 15-20 hours of news programs, and often programs usually shown on CHAN that were moved to accommodate their news programming. It also took Sports Page from former Global affiliate CKVU, but the program continued to be produced at CHAN until its cancellation in September 2005.
In 2004, news anchor Hudson Mack left the station after 19 years, and joined CIVI as their news director on September 1. He became CIVI's 5pm news anchor on October 11. As a result, Sophie Lui returned from Global BC and joined CIVT's former Victoria bureau chief Ed Watson as the pair became the station's main anchors.
Current Anchors/Reporters
Anchors: Murray Langdon (CH News at Noon), Sophie Lui (CH News at Five), Ed Watson (CH News at Six), Jennifer Crosby (CH News at Eleven), Philip Campbell (CH News Weekend)
Weather: Ed Bain, Gordie Tupper
Sports: Jeff King, Stacy Ross, Keith Wells
Reporters: Jonathan Bartlett, Veronica Cooper, Kim Emerson, Kendall Hanson, Dana Hutchings, Bruce Kirkpatrick, Kristen Robinson, Skye Ryan, Dean Stoltz
Previous Logos
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A logo taken from a print ad
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The first CHEK-TV logo with a check-mark in it
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This logo was from when BCTV owners purchased CHEK and began to use BCTV's logo at the station
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From the days when it was known as "CHEK 6 Island Television"
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From the mid 1990s to August 1997. The logo resembles a check board.
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The last CHEK-TV logo (August 1997 to August 2001), before they became CH Victoria/Vancouver Island
Transmitters
| CITY | CALL SIGN | CHANNEL | POWER (kW) |
| Victoria (Saturna Island) | CHEK-TV | 6 | 100 |
| Sooke | CHEK-TV-1 | 13 | 0.01 |
| River Jordan | CHEK-TV-2 | 11 | 0.009 |
| Port Alberni | CHEK-TV-3 | 11 | 0.01 |
| Campbell River | CHEK-TV-5 | 13 | 3 |
| Whistler | CHWM-TV-1 | 18 | 0.001 |
| Ucluelet | CKUP-TV-1 | 9 | 0.005 |
Sourced from Nelson Media
Previously aired US programs
- Late Show with David Letterman, weekdays 4:30pm (August 1995 to August 1999}
Videotape Format
Just like CHAN-TV, CHEK also uses Betacam SP tapes for all its programming and non-live parts of its news broadcast called CH News.