CHWI-TV
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Windsor, Ontario Canada |
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| City | Wheatley, Ontario |
| Branding | CTV Two Windsor (general) CTV News Windsor (newscasts) |
| Slogan | Windsor's News Leader |
| Channels |
Digital: 16 (UHF) Virtual: 16 () |
| Translators | 26 CHWI-DT-60 Windsor Virtual: 26.1 () |
| Affiliations | CTV Two (O&O; 1997–present) |
| Owner | Bell Media |
| First air date | October 19, 1993 |
| Call letters' meaning | CHatham WIndsor |
| Sister station(s) |
TV: CFPL-DT, CKCO-DT Radio: CKWW, CKLW, CIMX-FM, CIDR-FM |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 16 CHWI-TV (UHF, 1993–2011) 60 CHWI-TV-60 Windsor (UHF, 1995–2011) 26 CHWI-TV-60 (UHF, January–August 2011) |
| Former affiliations | Independent (1993–1997) |
| Transmitter power |
CHWI-DT: 3.4 kW CHWI-DT-60: 0.2 kW |
| Height |
CHWI-DT: 168.2 m CHWI-DT-60: 93.8 m |
| Transmitter coordinates |
CHWI-DT: 42°8′30″N 82°26′48″W / 42.14167°N 82.44667°W CHWI-DT-60: 42°18′58″N 83°2′24″W / 42.31611°N 83.04000°W |
| Licensing authority | CRTC |
| Website | windsor.ctvnews.ca |
CHWI-DT, virtual and UHF digital channel 16, is a CTV Two owned-and-operated television station serving Windsor, Ontario, Canada that is licensed to Wheatley. The station is owned by Bell Media. CHWI maintains primary studio facilities located at the Bell Canada Building in downtown Windsor with a secondary office in Chatham, and its transmitter is located on Zion Road (between Concession Line Roads 4 and 5) in Chatham-Kent. This station is also available on Cogeco Cable channel 6 and in high definition on digital channel 803. Unlike certain other Canadian stations in areas adjacent to the United States-Canada border that are carried on cable on the U.S. side of the market, it is not currently available on Comcast in Detroit or Charter Spectrum in the Livonia area.
Baton Broadcasting applied to the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) for a licence to operate an independent television station for the Wheatley area, that would also serve Chatham and Windsor. This application was related to, and directly dependent on, Baton's purchase of CFPL-TV in London and CKNX-TV in Wingham from The Blackburn Group, as their intention was to launch a semi-satellite of CFPL-TV that served Chatham and Windsor. At the time, the only clear signals from Canadian stations were from TVOntario, the CBC and Télévision de Radio-Canada. The station's license application was approved on January 26, 1993, and CHWI-TV first began broadcasting on October 19, 1993. This marked Baton's return to television broadcasting in the region after the CBC had bought out Baton's majority interest in CKLW-TV in Windsor, renaming it CBET, in 1975 (Baton also operated radio stations in Windsor until 1984).
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