CIIT-TV
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Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada |
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| Branding | Hope TV |
| Slogan | The Nation's Faith Station |
| Channels |
Digital: 35 (UHF) Virtual: 35.1 () |
| Affiliations | Religious independent |
| Owner |
ZoomerMedia (Christian Channel Inc.) |
| First air date | February 6, 2006 |
| Call letters' meaning | CI ManIToba |
| Former callsigns | CIIT-TV (2006–2011) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 35 (UHF, 2006–2011) |
| Former affiliations |
Omni Television (2006–2008) Independent (July–September 2008) Joytv (September 2008–September 2013) |
| Transmitter power | 6 kW |
| Height | 240.0 m |
| Transmitter coordinates | 49°45′19″N 97°7′52″W / 49.75528°N 97.13111°W |
| Website | Hope TV |
CIIT-DT, UHF channel 35, is a religious television station located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The station is owned by ZoomerMedia. CIIT's studios are located on Osborne Street and Wardlaw Avenue in Downtown Winnipeg, and its transmitter is located near Courchaine Road (near Manitoba Provincial Road 200) in southern Winnipeg.
This station can also be seen on Shaw Cable and MTS TV channel 11, Telus Optik TV channel 875 and on Bell TV channel 591.
In February 2002, Trinity Television Inc. was granted a licence for a religious television station in Winnipeg. The station was set to be launched in September 2004 as "NowTV", to be the second station using that brand, previously used on Trinity's Vancouver station, CHNU-TV. However, the station did not launch on that date.
In 2004, before that station's launch, Rogers Communications bought Trinity Television and took control of CIIT's licence. Under Rogers control, the station was set to be launched again on November 14, 2005 as the fourth Omni Television station, it was later set back again and launched on February 6, 2006 as "Omni 11". The use of channel 35 marks CIIT as Winnipeg's first ever UHF station.
On September 28, 2007, Rogers' CRTC application to acquire the Citytv stations, including CHMI in Winnipeg, was approved. As a condition of this approval, Rogers had to sell CIIT and CHNU in Vancouver, in order to comply with CRTC restrictions on owning multiple stations in the same language in the same market. Rogers had a one-year grace period to find new owners for both stations.
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