CKTV-DT, virtual and VHF digital channel 12, branded on-air as ICI Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, is an Ici Radio-Canada Télé owned-and-operated station

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to Saguenay,

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, Canada and serving the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region. The station is owned by the

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(known in French as ''Société Radio-Canada''). CKTV-DT's studios are located on Rue des Saguenéens in the former city of

Chicoutimi Chicoutimi () is the most populous borough (arrondissement) of the city of Saguenay in Quebec, Canada. It is situated at the confluence of the Saguenay and Chicoutimi rivers. During the 20th century, it became the main administrative and com ...

adjacent the

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shopping centre, and its transmitter is located atop Mount Valin. On

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, the station is available on

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channel 2 and in high definition on digital channel 602.

History

The station first aired on December 1, 1955 as CKRS-TV. It was originally owned by Radio Saguenay along with CKRS radio. It joined Radio-Canada's

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network on October 28, 1957. Radio Saguenay sold off its radio station in 1981, but kept CKRS-TV until selling it to Cogeco on November 24, 1998. Cogeco adopted the current callsign the following year, on March 26, 1999. Shortly thereafter, Cogeco acquired control of

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, to which Cogeco contributed its existing local stations. Radio-Canada took editorial control of the station's news programming in 2002. In September 2007, Radio-Canada announced that it would not renew its affiliation agreement with its three Cogeco-owned affiliates — CKTV, CKTM in

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and CKSH in

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— after their then-current agreement expired in August 2008. An application to directly acquire the stations was filed by Radio-Canada on April 25, 2008, concurrently with Cogeco's proposed sale of TQS to

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. The transaction was approved by the CRTC on June 26, 2008. Prior to the 2002 municipal amalgamations, the station's city of license was

Jonquière Jonquière (; ; 2021 population: 60,250) is a borough (arrondissement) of the city of Saguenay in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada. It is located on the Saguenay River, near the borough of Chicoutimi. History Jonquièr ...

, which is now a borough of Saguenay. Prior to 2010, the station's studios were based there alongside former sister station CFRS-TV, while its transmitter has been retained atop Mount Valin. Soon after Radio-Canada bought the station, the network announced its plans to increase local programming and to move CKTV to an integrated production centre in the new Chicoutimi studios adjacent the

shopping centre, alongside its radio sisters, CBJ-FM and CBJX-FM. CKTV was previously rebroadcast on CKTV-TV-1 channel 27 in St-Fulgence; however, this translator ceased operations by November 2011.

Other uses

During the 1980s, CKTV was also a brand name used by CTV affiliate

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. CKTV was also originally assigned as the call sign for a station in

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, which changed its call sign to

CHEK-TV CHEK-DT (channel 6) is an independent television station in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, serving Vancouver Island and Greater Vancouver. The station is owned by the CHEK Media Group, a consortium made up of station employees and local in ...

before it signed on in 1956.

References

External links

ICI Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cktv-Dt KTV-DT KTV-DT Television channels and stations established in 1955 1955 establishments in Quebec