CKXT (SUN TV)
Toronto, Ontario
Channel 52 / Cable 15 / CKXT-DT 66
Owner	TVA/Sun Media (as of Dec. 2, 2004)
Slogan	Fun to watch
Founded	2003
Signal Radius	27 kW
Callsign Meanings	CKX (call sign of the first television station owned by CKXT's original owners, Craig Media) Toronto

CKXT is a broadcast television station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada which uses the on-air brand of Sun TV. The station began broadcasting on September 19, 2003, on channel 52. The station also has a rebroadcast transmitter in Hamilton on channel 45. The station was known as Toronto 1 until August 29, 2005,. Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Template:Hide = Motto: Template:Unhide = Diversity Our Strength Image:Toronto, Ontario Location. ... TVA is a private commercial French-language television network in Quebec. ... Sun Media Corporation is the owner of several widely read Canadian tabloid newspapers. ... 2003 (MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... CKX is a television station in Brandon, Manitoba affiliated with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. ... Craig Media Inc. ... Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and video signals (programs) to a number of recipients (listeners or viewers) that belong to a large group. ... A television station is a type of broadcast station that broadcasts both audio and video to television receivers in a particular area. ... Template:Hide = Motto: Template:Unhide = Diversity Our Strength Image:Toronto, Ontario Location. ... September 19 is the 262nd day of the year (263rd in leap years). ... 2003 (MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the radio frequency. ... Motto: Together Aspire - Together Achieve Area: 1,117. ... August 29 is the 241st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (242nd in leap years), with 124 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Sun TV is currently owned by TVA and Sun Media, both subsidiaries of Quebecor, and bought as part of the takeover of Craig Media Inc. by CHUM Limited. CHUM was required, due to CRTC competition regulations, to divest itself of the station, owing to its already strong presence in the Toronto television market. The deal was completed on December 2, 2004; Quebecor gave CHUM $46 million (CAD) and Sun Media's 29.9% share in CablePulse24 for CKXT. TVA is a private commercial French-language television network in Quebec. ... Sun Media Corporation is the owner of several widely read Canadian tabloid newspapers. ... Quebecor (written without an accent on the first e, even in French) is a Quebec-based company with two main spheres of activity: Quebecor World is the largest commercial printing company in the world, with 39 000 employees around the world. ... Craig Media Inc. ... The famous ChumCity Building on the corner of Queen and John in Toronto. ... The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC, in French Conseil de la radiodiffusion et des télécommunications canadiennes) was established in 1968 by the Canadian Parliament to replace the Board of Broadcast Governors. ... December 2 is the 336th day (337th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Canadian dollar, CAD or C$, is the unit of currency of Canada. ... CablePulse 24 is a 24-hour Canadian television channel which broadcasts local and international news for the Toronto, Ontario television market, by cable and direct broadcast satellite in southern Ontario. ...

Craig Media Inc. was awarded a license for Toronto 1 by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission on April 8, 2002 in a non-unanimous and somewhat controversial decision. Torstar was widely deemed the frontrunner for the licence, but its proposed schedule, which many called an "innovative" locally-oriented proposal, was found to be unviable by most commissioners. (Alliance Atlantis and CanWest Global were also applicants.) Additionally, several existing broadcasters were opposed to any new broadcasters being licensed in the Toronto area, due to the unstable economic climate. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC, in French Conseil de la radiodiffusion et des télécommunications canadiennes) was established in 1968 by the Canadian Parliament to replace the Board of Broadcast Governors. ... April 8 is the 98th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (99th in leap years). ... 2002 (MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Torstar Corporation is an independently owned Canadian publishing company. ... Alliance Atlantis Alliance Atlantis is a Toronto-based media company. ... CanWest Global Communications Corp. ...

This also marked the first time that Craig Media had been granted a license to compete directly with a station owned by CHUM Limited, which meant that CHUM lost sales revenues from the broadcast rights it had contracted to Craig's A-Channel stations. CHUM retaliated by applying for broadcast licenses in Calgary, Alberta and Edmonton, Alberta, two markets it had previously avoided so as not to compete directly with Craig. The CRTC ended up denying CHUM's applications. Template:Hide = Motto: Template:Unhide = Heart of the new west City of Calgary, Alberta, Canadas Location. ... Template:Hide = Motto: Template:Unhide = Industry Integrity Progress Image:Abedm. ...

Former logo for CKXT (2003-2005)

The station proved to be a complete disaster for Craig, and the company was soon sold. (See Craig Media Inc.) It was frequently criticized in the Toronto media when it launched, particularly for flashy but vacuous and repetitive local content, and for an uninspired prime time schedule based heavily on movies, much like CHUM's longstanding CITY. Columnist Russell Smith of The Globe and Mail even went so far as to call Toronto 1 a "wretched excuse for a television station." Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Craig Media Inc. ... Prime time is the block of programming on television during the middle of the evening. ... Melbourne, Australia by night For alternate meanings see city (disambiguation) A city is an urban area that is differentiated from a town, village, or hamlet by size, population density, importance, or legal status. ... Russell C. Smith (born 1963 in South Africa) is a Canadian novelist. ... The Globe and Mail is a large Canadian English language national newspaper based in Toronto. ...

On May 19, 2004, Craig announced that 28 Toronto 1 employees, in addition to 9 employees working at CKAL in Calgary, Alberta, were being laid off. In addition, a large portion of Toronto 1's original programming, including weekday morning show Toronto Today and late evening show Last Call, were cancelled. Some of the hosts, such as Wei Chen and Roz Weston, remained with the station in other roles at that point. Craig Media said the cuts were made to "further rationalize its operations and control costs". [1] May 19 is the 139th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (140th in leap years). ... CKAL is a television station owned by CHUM Limited and based in Calgary, Alberta. ... Template:Hide = Motto: Template:Unhide = Heart of the new west City of Calgary, Alberta, Canadas Location. ... The last minutes of Breakfast Television (Toronto) on November 16, 2004 Liza and Kevin in the lobby Liza playing ping-pong with the previous guest (now off screen), while the camera begins to cut to Kevin for a news update Breakfast Television, also known as BT, is a Canadian morning... Wei Chen is a television journalist from Canada. ... Roz Weston is an entertainment reporter for the new ET Canada television show airing on Global. ...

Subsequent to the station's sale to Quebecor, the new management cancelled its evening news program, Toronto Tonight, and announced it would expand its entertainment magazine program The A-List (which would become "Inside Jam!") to one hour in length, airing weeknights from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. The station was officially rebranded "Sun TV" on August 29. A late-night sports talk show, The Grill Room, premiered on September 1. Even before Toronto Tonight concluded June 30, 2005, former Toronto Tonight co-anchor Ben Chin announced he would be moving to Global Television Network as a senior news correspondent; later that summer he decided to enter political life instead as a member of Ontario Premier Dalton McGunity's Communications Team. Fellow Toronto Tonight co-anchor Sarika Sehgal was also let go. In late 2005, Sehgal joined the 24-hour news channel CBC Newsworld as a host. Quebecor (written without an accent on the first e, even in French) is a Quebec-based company with two main spheres of activity: Quebecor World is the largest commercial printing company in the world, with 39 000 employees around the world. ... September 1 is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years). ... June 30 is the 181st day of the year (182nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 184 days remaining, and the last day of June. ... 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ben Chin aka Byun Kyu Chin (born Geneva, Switzerland in 1964) is a Canadian political communications advisor and former television journalist. ... The Global Television Network (more commonly called Global) is a major English-language television network in Canada, owned by CanWest Global Communications. ... Sarika Sehgal (born September 1976) is a Canadian broadcast journalist. ...

Under its current management and branding, the station has met its Canadian content obligations primarily by airing repeats of old CBC Television series such as King of Kensington, The Beachcombers and Side Effects. The nightly entertainment magazine The A-List was also rebranded as Inside Jam!. Canadian content or can-con refers to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission requirements that radio and television broadcasters (including cable TV networks) must air a certain percentage of content that was at least partly written, produced, presented, or otherwise contributed to by persons from Canada. ... Current CBC Television logo. ... King of Kensington was a Canadian television sitcom which aired on the CBC from 1975 to 1980. ... The Beachcombers was a popular Canadian television program broadcast on CBC. The series ran from 1972 to 1989 and is the longest-running dramatic series ever made for Canadian television. ... Side Effects was first aired in February 1994, and was cancelled by the CBC in January 1996. ... Jam! is a Canadian website, which covers entertainment news. ...

External link

• SUN TV
• Quebecor Media