CKPR-DT
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Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada |
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| Branding | CKPR Thunder Bay |
| Slogan | First and Always |
| Channels |
Digital: 2 (VHF) Virtual: 2.1 () |
| Affiliations | CTV |
| Owner |
Dougall Media (Thunder Bay Electronics Ltd) |
| First air date | October 4, 1954 |
| Call letters' meaning | CK Port ARthur |
| Sister station(s) | CHFD-DT |
| Former callsigns | CFPA-TV (1954-1957) CFCJ-TV (1957-1962) CKPR-TV (1962-2011) |
| Former channel number(s) | 2 (Analog, 1954-2011) |
| Former affiliations | CBC Television (1954–2014) |
| Transmitter power | 1.2 kW |
| Height | 366.2 m |
| Transmitter coordinates | 48°31′25″N 89°6′55″W / 48.52361°N 89.11528°W |
| Website | ckprthunderbay |
CKPR-DT is a privately owned television station serving as an affiliate of CTV in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. It broadcasts a high-definition digital signal on VHF channel 2 from a transmitter in Shuniah.
Owned by Dougall Media, it is sister to Global affiliate CHFD-DT and both stations share studios located on Hill and Van Norman Streets in central Thunder Bay. This station can also be seen on Shaw Cable channel 5 and in high definition on digital channel 210. On Shaw Direct, the channel is available in high definition on channel 037 (Classic) or 537 (Advanced).
In June 2014, Dougall Media announced that the station would disaffiliate from CBC Television (with which it was affiliated since its 1954 sign-on) in September to become a CTV affiliate, bringing CTV back to the Thunder Bay market for the first time since sister station CHFD switched its affiliation from CTV to Global in 2010.
CKPR-DT began broadcasting on October 4, 1954 as CFPA-TV. The "PA" stood for Port Arthur, where the station was licensed until it merged with Fort William to form Thunder Bay in 1970. The station was then owned by Ralph H. Parker Ltd along with CFPA radio (AM 1230, now CKTG-FM). Three years later on July 20, 1957, Thunder Bay Electronics, owned by the Dougall family, bought CFPA-TV and changed its callsign letters to CFCJ-TV. They changed again ten years later in 1967, to CKPR-TV.
In 1972, Thunder Bay Electronics launched the CTV affiliate CHFD-TV (which switched to Global in 2010) and thus CKPR-TV and CHFD-TV became one of the first private twinstick stations in Canada.
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