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North Bay, Ontario Canada |
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| Branding |
CTV Northern Ontario CTV News Northern Ontario (newscasts) |
| Slogan | News for the North |
| Channels |
Analog: 10 (VHF) Digital: allocated 38 (UHF) |
| Affiliations | CTV |
| Owner | Bell Media |
| First air date | December 19, 1955 |
| Call letters' meaning | Canada K North BaY |
| Former callsigns | CKGN-TV (1955-1960) CFCH-TV (1960-1970) |
| Former affiliations | CBC Television (1955-1971) |
| Transmitter power | 132.6 kW |
| Height | 185.6 m |
| Transmitter coordinates | 46°3′46″N 79°26′7″W / 46.06278°N 79.43528°W |
| Website | CTV North Bay |
CKNY-TV is the CTV owned-and-operated television station in North Bay, Ontario, Canada. It broadcasts an analogue signal on VHF channel 10 from a transmitter adjacent to Ski Hill Road (southwest of Highway 534) in Nipissing.
Owned by Bell Media, it is part of the network's CTV Northern Ontario sub-system and its studios are located on Oak and Wyld Streets (near the shoreline of Lake Nipissing) in Downtown North Bay. This station can also be seen on Cogeco Cable channel 9 and digital channel 909. Effective November 29, 2012, Bell TV customers will also be able to view CKNY-TV on channel 588.
CKNY was originally launched by local businessmen Gerry Alger and Gerry Stanton in 1955, as a CBC affiliate with the callsign CKGN. The station was subsequently acquired by The Thomson Corporation in 1960, and recalled as CFCH.
In 1970, Thomson reached a deal to sell the station to Bushnell Communications of Ottawa, although the transaction was never completed. Around the same time, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission rejected all of the applicants in the first round of license hearings to extend CTV service to Sudbury, the largest market in the region; because the North Bay and Timmins markets were deemed too small to support competing television stations, the commission directed Cambrian Broadcasting of Sudbury and J. Conrad Lavigne of Timmins to collaborate on an alternative plan in which all three cities would receive CTV service without losing CBC. Effectively, the decision declared all three cities to be a single television market, and prevented new television companies from entering and potentially upsetting the balance.
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