Edmonton, Alberta Canada |
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Branding | CTV Edmonton (general) CTV News Edmonton (newscasts) |
Slogan | Is Your News Now |
Channels |
Digital: 12 (VHF) Virtual: 3.1 () |
Translators | see below |
Affiliations | CTV |
Owner | Bell Media |
First air date | October 25, 1954 |
Call letters' meaning | C F Rice & Nielsen |
Sister station(s) | CFCN-DT, CTV Two Alberta, CFBR-FM, CFMG-FM, CFRN (AM) |
Former callsigns | CFRN-TV (1954–2011) |
Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 3 (VHF, 1954–2011) |
Former affiliations | CBC (1954-1961) |
Transmitter power | 25 kW |
Height | 228.1 m |
Transmitter coordinates | 53°22′57″N 113°12′59″W / 53.38250°N 113.21639°W |
Website | CTV Edmonton |
CFRN-DT, virtual channel 3 (VHF digital channel 12), is a CTV owned-and-operated television station located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The station is owned by Bell Media, and is sister to CTV Two owned-and-operated cable channel CTV Two Alberta. Both television properties share studios (joined alongside sister radio station CFRN 1260 AM) located at 18520 Stony Plain Road in Edmonton, CFRN's transmitter is located near Highway 21, southeast of Sherwood Park.
This station can also be seen on Shaw Cable channel 2, and in high definition on digital channel 210 and on Telus Optik TV channel 612. On Shaw Direct, the channel is available on 318 (Classic) or 020 (Advanced), and in high definition on channel 013 (Classic) or 513 (Advanced). This station is also available on Bell TV channel 239 and in high definition on channel 1121.
The station first signed on at 3:00 p.m. on October 25, 1954, on VHF channel 3 with 27,400 watts of power, and one live camera presentation from the transmitter room; CFRN-TV was Alberta's second television station and the province's second CBC Television affiliate. The station broadcasts, along with CTV Two, 104.9 Virgin Radio, TSN 1260 AM and 100.3 The Bear at Stony Plain Road in West Edmonton and was founded by Dr. G.R.A. "Dick" Rice’s Sunwapta Broadcasting Ltd. (Sunwapta is the Stony Indian word meaning “radiating waves”). Rice was a pioneer Edmonton broadcaster involved in putting CJCA, the city's first radio station, on the air in 1922; Rice died at the age of 92 on February 25, 1992.