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CKX is a
television station in
Brandon, Manitoba,
Canada, affiliated with
CBC Television. Owned and Operated by CTV Limited a division of
CTVglobemedia, it was the first privately owned television station in Manitoba. It shares its call letters with its former
sister station,
CKX-FM, owned and operated by
Astral Media.
As a private affiliate of the CBC, the station airs most CBC network programming
(CBWT is available on digital cable channel 62 in Brandon), but also airs some
A-Channel programming.
History
The station was founded by John Craig and went on the air on
January 28,
1955, a day which marked
Craig Media's start in television broadcasting.
In February 1959, CKX asked
Manitoba Telecom Services (MTS) to apply to the CBC to extend ther television signals to four additional Manitoba communities —
Dauphin,
Swan River,
The Pas, and
Flin Flon.
For nearly half a century, the station remained under the ownership of Craig Media. In 2004, Craig Media announced a deal to sell its broadcasting assets to
CHUM Limited. The sale was approved by the
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) on
November 19,
2004, and became official on
December 1.
CHUM relaunched the original
Craig Media A-Channel stations as new affilites of Citytv on
August 2 2005, at the same time when the existing
NewNet stations picked up the
A-Channel name. It generally left CKX's programming alone, though the A-Channel logo is occasionally seen during primetime programming.
On January 15, 2007, master control for CKX-TV was moved back from
Portage La Prairie to Brandon.
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Ownership changed hands once again when on
June 22,
2007, CHUM Limited was sold to CTVglobemedia, Originally CTVglobemedia wanted to retain CHUM's Citytv system and sell CKX-TV along with CHUM's A-Channel stations and several speciality channels to
Rogers Communications, however this was denied by the CRTC as CTV was forced to sell CHUM's Citytv stations to another buyer. As such CTV retained CKX along with CHUM's A-Channel stations and all of CHUM's speciality channels and sold CHUM's Citytv stations to Rogers Communications. Richard Gray was named the head of news for CKX-TV and the
A-Channel stations. Gray reports to the CTVgm corporate group, as opposed to CTV News. CKX-TV is CTV's first CBC affiliate since selling off their CBC stations to the CBC in 2002.
News
CKX broadcasts a one hour local program
The Noon Show from 12 noon to 1 p.m. daily while it also broadcasts a one hour evening newscast "CKX News at 6" from 6 to 7 p.m. every weekday. CKX used to air a late-night half-hour newscast from 11 to 11:30 p.m. until the 1990s. CKX news programming generally lags in the ratings behind
CKYB.
Current CKX personalities
Former CKX personalities
Brent Fitzpatrick, evening news anchor.
Leah Hextall, former sports anchor, now with CKY-TV
Ron Thompson former CKX-TV and CHMI-TV meteorologist.
Lewellyn Laycock, former evening news anchor.
Jill Officer, former reporter
Rayla Hamricut, former reporterFurther Information
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