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MCTV is a system of four television stations in Northern Ontario, Canada, owned by the CTV Television Network. A television station is a type of broadcast station that broadcasts both audio and video to television receivers in a particular area. ...
Northern Ontario is the part of the province of Ontario, Canada, which lies north of Lake Huron, Georgian Bay, the French River and Lake Nipissing. ...
CTV is Canadas largest privately owned English language television network. ...
The MCTV stations are:
All four stations refer to themselves on air as MCTV, not by their call letters. Station information and history is discussed on each station's own page. CICI is a Canadian television station, broadcasting in Greater Sudbury, Ontario. ...
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CKNY is a Canadian television station, broadcasting in North Bay, Ontario. ...
North Bay (46°32′ N 79°46′ W, time zone EST) is a city in Northeastern Ontario, Canada (2001 population 52,771). ...
CITO is a Canadian television station, broadcasting in Timmins, Ontario. ...
Timmins, with a population of 43,686 (2001), is a city in northeastern Ontario, Canada on the Mattagami River. ...
CHBX is a Canadian television station, broadcasting in Sault Ste. ...
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MCTV also formerly owned CBC twinsticks in each city: The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly known by the abbreviation CBC, is Canadas government-owned radio and television broadcaster. ...
A twinstick, in Canadian broadcasting, is an informal term for two television stations, broadcasting in the same market, which are owned by the same company. ...
- CKNC - Sudbury
- CHNB - North Bay
- CFCL - Timmins
- CJIC - Sault Ste. Marie
These stations were also referred to on air as MCTV; the stations were distinguished from each other by use of their network affiliation (ie. "MCTV-CTV" and "MCTV-CBC".) Additionally, MCTV owned CHRO in Pembroke, a market with no other television stations. CHRO used the same logo and programming schedule as MCTV's other stations, and changed affiliation from CBC to CTV during its time in the MCTV group, but it always used its own callsign, rather than MCTV, as its on-air identification. CBLT is the television call sign for the CBCs television station in Toronto, Ontario. ...
CBLT is the television call sign for the CBCs television station in Toronto, Ontario. ...
CFCL-TV was a Canadian television station, which was the CBC Television affiliate in Timmins, Ontario. ...
CJIC, broadcasting on channel 5, was a private affiliate of CBC Television in Sault Ste. ...
CHRO or The New RO is a television station owned by CHUM Limited which serves the national capital region of Ontario. ...
Pembroke (2004 population 14,700 or 23,679 including the immediate surrounding area) is a city on the Ottawa River in the Ottawa Valley in eastern Ontario, Canada. ...
Mid-Canada Television, or MCTV, was created in 1980 when Cambrian Broadcasting, which owned the CTV affiliates in Sudbury, North Bay and Timmins, merged with J. Conrad Lavigne's Mid-Canada Communications, which owned the CBC affiliates. This twinstick structure was permitted by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission because both companies were on the brink of bankruptcy due to their aggressive competition for limited advertising dollars in small markets. 1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...
J. Conrad Lavigne (November 2, 1916-April 16, 2003) was a pioneering Canadian media proprietor. ...
A twinstick, in Canadian broadcasting, is an informal term for two television stations, broadcasting in the same market, which are owned by the same company. ...
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. ...
Bankruptcy is a legally declared inability or impairment of ability of an individual or organization to pay their creditors. ...
CHBX and CJIC were owned by Huron Broadcasting, and remained under different ownership and branding until 1990. 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
MCTV became a division of Northern Cable, the region's cable television provider, and the station owners became shareholders in Northern. In 1986, MCTV also acquired the Mid-Canada Radio Network of stations. Northern Cable was a Canadian cable television provider, which operated from the early 1970s to 1998. ...
Coaxial cable is often used to transmit cable television into the house Cable television or Community Antenna Television (CATV) (often shortened to cable) is a system of providing television, FM radio programming and other services to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted directly to people’s televisions through fixed optical...
1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
In 1990, Northern Cable began divesting itself of its media properties. Pelmorex purchased Mid-Canada Radio, and Baton Broadcasting acquired MCTV. Baton also purchased Huron Broadcasting in 1990, and converted those stations to the MCTV branding. As well, Baton reaffiliated CHRO with CTV. Baton eventually became the sole corporate proprietor of CTV, and sold CHRO to CHUM Limited in 1998. 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Pelmorex Radio Network was a system of Canadian radio stations in Northern Ontario, owned and operated by Pelmorex. ...
The Baton Broadcasting System (BBS) was a Canadian system of television stations located in Ontario and Saskatchewan. ...
The famous ChumCity Building on the corner of Queen and John in Toronto. ...
1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...
Baton retained the CBC twinsticks until 2002, when it sold them to the CBC. Once the deal was finalized in early 2003, the CBC converted them to retransmitters of CBLT, Toronto's CBC-owned station. All four stations surrendered their old call letters. 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Motto: Diversity Our Strength Map of Ontario Counties, Toronto being red Area: 641 sq. ...
In the same year, CTV merged the news production facilities of the MCTV stations into a single regional newscast, with only short inserts for each city's local coverage. The regional newscast is produced at CICI. This created extensive controversy, with many public interest groups across Canada raising concerns about the disappearance of local news coverage in small markets.
Organizations in Sault Ste. Marie, North Bay and Timmins began to call for a boycott of MCTV news, and local companies have created new alternative sources for local news such as SooToday.com and BayToday.ca. This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ...
Today as CTV unify's its Local Brodcast to CTV NEWS from MCTV NEWS, journalists in the North now say CTV NEWS instead of the former MCTV NEWS.
In 2003, MCTV's master control was transferred to CTV facilities in Toronto. 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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- Since 2000 - News for the North
This article is about the year 2000. ...
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