CFSK-DT
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Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada |
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| Branding | Global Saskatoon (general) Global News (newscasts) |
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Digital: 42 (UHF) Virtual: 4.1 () |
| Affiliations | Global |
| Owner | Corus Entertainment |
| First air date | September 6, 1987 |
| Call letters' meaning | CF SasKatoon (city) or CF SasKatchewan (province) |
| Former callsigns | CFSK-TV (1987–2011) |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 4 (VHF, 1987–2011) |
| Former affiliations | independent (1987–1990) |
| Transmitter power | 30 kW |
| Height | 200.5 m |
| Transmitter coordinates | 52°10′28″N 106°26′5″W / 52.17444°N 106.43472°W |
| Website | Global Saskatoon |
CFSK-DT, virtual channel 4.1 (UHF digital channel 42), is a Global owned-and-operated television station located in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. The station is owned by Corus Entertainment. CFSK's studios are located on Robin Crescent on the northwest side of Saskatoon, and its transmitter is located on Agra and Settlers Ridge Roads (near Highway 41), northeast of Saskatoon.
This station can also be seen on Shaw Cable (corporate sister through parent company Shaw Communications) channel 3, Bell TV channel 236 and in high definition on digital channel 211.
The station first signed on the air on September 6, 1987, under the ownership of Canwest. CFSK and its sister station in Regina, CFRE-TV, were initially branded as "STV" (short for "Saskatchewan Television"). It joined the Canwest Global System in 1990. At the time that STV went on the air, it was Saskatoon's third locally based over-the-air television station, joining a market that included CTV's CFQC and the then-operational CBC affiliate, CBKST. However, technically it was Saskatoon's second fully licensed station; CBKST was licensed as a rebroadcaster of Regina's CBKT.
Canwest discontinued the STV branding, along with all other individual local station brandings in 1997, when the Global Television Network brand was expanded to all of Canwest's stations. One of STV's major broadcasts in its early years was the children's program Size Small Island (that show was originally broadcast on sister station CKND-TV in Winnipeg), which was syndicated around the world (the show's host, Helen Lumby, officially launched the mini-network's first broadcast in Saskatoon in 1987). Since the closure of CBKST in 2012, CFSK is one of only two over-the-air broadcast stations originating from Saskatoon.
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