CJDC-TV
 
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Dawson Creek, British Columbia Canada |
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| Branding | CJDC-TV CTV Two Dawson Creek |
| Channels |
Analog: 5 (VHF) Digital: allocated 31 (UHF) |
| Affiliations | CTV Two (O&O; 2016-present) |
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Bell Media (Bell Media Radio G.P.) |
| First air date | January 15, 1959 |
| Call letters' meaning | CJ Dawson Creek |
| Sister station(s) | CIVT-DT, CIVI-DT, CFTK-TV |
| Former affiliations | CBC Television (1959-2016) |
| Transmitter power | 9.5 kW |
| Height | 312.7 m |
| Transmitter coordinates | 55°43′44″N 120°26′47″W / 55.72889°N 120.44639°W |
| Website | CJDC-TV |
CJDC-TV is a CTV Two owned-and-operated television station in Dawson Creek, British Columbia, Canada. It broadcasts an analogue signal on VHF channel 5 from a transmitter near 233 Road in Peace River.
Owned by Bell Media, it is part of the Great West Television system, and its studios located on 102 Avenue and 9 Street in Dawson Creek. This station can also be seen on Shaw Cable channel 3.
CJDC first went on the air on January 15, 1959, and was originally owned by Mega Communications, the owner of CJDC radio. It was the Michaud family that introduced radio and television to the BC Peace River region. Henry and Mike Michaud, also known as Mike Laverne, started the station in 1959. Before CJDC-TV went to air Mike Laverne went to Toronto to visit advertising agencies and hire a news editor to run the radio and television news services. Mike was successful in getting some new national ads for CJDC-TV and hired Australian-born Val Wake as the first news editor of the station's newscast. At the start the only visuals used by the newscast were 35mm transparencies.
The station was originally part of a two-station "sub-network" called Northern Television (NTV) since the early 1990s, until 2002, when it was disbanded and re-launched as Great West Television (joined by CKPG-TV). NTV and GWTV's programming consisted of mainly American shows imported and aired on CHUM Limited's NewNet/A-Channel stations, mixed with CBC's own programming. Great West Television itself would later become virtually non-existent in October 2006, when the CBC expanded its programming schedule to 24 hours a day and the GWTV affiliates accordingly dropped all syndicated programming to accommodate the new CBC schedule, leaving only local news as the remaining parts of GWTV.
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