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CTV is Canada's largest privately-owned English language television network. Officially, the letters "CTV" have not historically stood for anything, but it is obvious to most viewers, especially because of one of the network's recent promotional campaigns, that they can be understood to stand for "Canadian Television".
CTV was founded in 1961 after a federal enquiry decided the CBC should not have a monopoly on television broadcasting in Canada. The original network management immediately ran into financial trouble, and in 1964 the original eight affiliates decided to buy the network and run it as a co-operative. The network expanded to cover almost all of Canada within fifteen years of its founding.
CTV made a name for itself in news coverage when they convinced star Canadian Broadcasting Corporation news anchor Lloyd Robertson to switch networks in 1976. The network also has the country's longest-running national morning news show, Canada AM. Its weekly newsmagazine series, W5 has been a fixture on the network since 1966, predating the similar American program 60 Minutes by two years.
In 1991, CTV became a regular business, where ownership was determined by how much of the country each affiliate served. This paved the way for Baton Broadcasting, original owner of the network's Toronto affiliate to take control of the network by buying up affiliate stations during the 1990sCenturies: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s 2040s Years: Events and trends Computers, technology Explosive growth of the Internet; decrease in the cost of computers and other techn. In 19971997 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year of the Reef''. Events January January 3 NBC's Today Show Bryant Gumbel signs off for the last time January 8 Mister Rogers receives a star on t, Baton gained effective control of the network, and now owns almost all CTV-affiliated stations. Only the stations in Thunder Bay, OntarioThunder Bay (48° 23N, 89° 15W, time zone EST) is a city in Thunder Bay District, Northwestern Ontario, Canada. It is the second largest city in Northern Ontario ( 2001 population 109,016; CMA 121,986). The city takes its name from the immense bay at the h, Kenora, OntarioKenora ( 2001 population 15,838) is a city situated on the Lake of the Woods in northwestern Ontario, Canada close to the Manitoba border, about 200km east of Winnipeg. It was originally settled because of gold found in the area. In 1836 a fur-trading pos and Lloydminster, Alberta/SaskatchewanLloydminster is a Canadian city which has the unusual geographic distinction of straddling a provincial border. According to the 2001 census, the total population of the city was 20,988, of which 7,840 (37. 4%) lived in Saskatchewan while 13,148 (62. are owned by other companies.
CJONCJON is a privately-owned television station in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It uses the on-air brand NTV which stands for Newfoundland Television''. Although the station was previously affiliated with the CTV Television Network, it now in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador was formerly a CTV affiliate. It no longer airs CTV programming in prime time, but continues to purchase broadcast rights to CTV's newscasts.In 2000, BCE Inc. acquired both CTV and the Globe and Mail newspaper, combining them into a media division known as Bell Globemedia. Bell Globemedia also owns a minority share in the French-language network TQS, which broadcasts in Quebec.
CTV has attracted some controversy in recent years, with significant local news cutbacks in its smaller-market stations. The four Maritime stations, known collectively as ATV, and the four Northern Ontario stations, known collectively as MCTV, each had their local news production cut back to one centrally-produced single newscast for each region, with only brief inserts for news of strictly local interest. This was a controversial move in all of the affected communities, especially in Northern Ontario where MCTV's newscasts were the only locally-oriented television news programs in those markets.
The network's programming consists mainly of hit American series (such as ER, The West Wing, Law & Order and CSI), but they have also had success with Canadian-made shows such as Due South, Power Play, Corner Gas, The Eleventh Hour and Canadian Idol. CTV also regularly produces and airs Canadian-made television movies, often based on stories from Canadian news or Canadian history, under the banner CTV Signature Series.
As well, in recent years, CTV has purchased Canadian broadcast rights to a number of American cable series, such as The Sopranos, Nip/Tuck, Punk'd and The Osbournes. In many cases, CTV has been the only conventional broadcast network in the world to air these series in prime time.
In late 2003, CTV started broadcasting select American programmes in Widescreen HDTV. CTV produces Degrassi: The Next Generation in 16:9.
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