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CFTK-TV

Terrace, British Columbia Canada
Channels	Analog: 3 (VHF) Digital: allocated 35 (UHF)
Branding	CFTK-TV CTV 2 Terrace
Programming
Affiliations	CTV 2 (2016–present)
Ownership
Owner	Bell Media Inc.
Sister stations	CFTK (AM), CJFW-FM, CIVT-DT, CIVI-DT, CJDC-TV
History
First air date	November 1, 1962 (62 years ago) (1962-11-01)
Former affiliations	CBC Television (1962–2016)
Call sign meaning	taken from its sister radio station
Technical information
Licensing authority	CRTC
ERP	13.8 kW
HAAT	453.5 m (1,488 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	54°31′4″N 128°28′21″W / 54.51778°N 128.47250°W / 54.51778; -128.47250
Links
Website	CFTK-TV

CFTK-TV (analogue channel 3) is a television station in Terrace, British Columbia, Canada, airing CTV 2 programming. Owned and operated by Bell Media, it is part of the Great West Television system. CFTK-TV's studios are located on Lazelle Avenue in Terrace, and its transmitter is located on Thornhill Mountain. The station operates rebroadcast transmitters in Prince Rupert (CFTK-TV-1, channel 6) and Smithers (CFTK-TV-2, channel 5).

History

CFTK went on the air for the first time on November 1, 1962. Standard Broadcasting acquired CFTK from Telemedia in 2002. Telemedia had owned CFTK since 1999.

The station was originally part of a two-station "sub-network" called Northern Television (NTV) since the early 1990s, until 2002, when it was disbanded and re-launched as Great West Television (joined by CKPG-TV). NTV and GWTV's programming consisted of mainly American shows imported and aired on CHUM Limited's NewNet/A-Channel stations, mixed with CBC's own programming.

Great West Television largely ceased to exist in October 2006. With CBC Television going to a 24-hour schedule beginning in October 2006, CFTK-TV dropped all of its syndicated programming and increased the amount of CBC programming in its schedule outside of local news. This, in effect, made CFTK-TV a semi-satellite of Vancouver's CBUT for the remainder of its CBC affiliation.

Astral Media acquired CFTK in the fall of 2007 as part of its acquisition of most of Standard Broadcasting's assets.

On March 16, 2012, it was announced Bell Canada would be acquiring Astral Media for $3.38 billion. However, the deal was rejected by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) that fall. Bell submitted a revised takeover proposal in 2013, in which it would sell off a number of assets but keep CFTK. Bell has committed to maintaining the station's current conditions of license, including CBC affiliation, until the end of its license term in 2017. Bell owns two networks of its own, CTV and CTV 2, which compete with CBC. The deal was approved by the Competition Bureau in March 2013, and by the CRTC in June 2013.

On October 28, 2015, the CRTC made public an application by Bell to disaffiliate CFTK from CBC Television effective February 22, 2016, at which point the station is scheduled to begin airing programming from Bell's CTV Two system. Bell and the CBC agreed to an early termination of CFTK's affiliation agreement on October 5. Any TV service providers serving the region and not already carrying a CBC Television owned-and-operated station on their basic services (in this case, CBUT) would have to add one by the disaffiliation date in order to comply with CRTC regulations. It is now available on cable and satellite effective the same day.

On October 4, 2017, Bell Media applied for a new transmitter in Smithers to repeat CFTK-TV. The application was approved on December 12, 2017. The transmitter, which broadcasts on channel 5, is a reactivation of a former CBC-owned transmitter, CBCY-TV-2, which rebroadcast CBUT Vancouver until July 31, 2012, when budget cuts forced the closure of the CBC and Radio-Canada's remaining analogue transmitters. This repeater was renamed CFTK-TV-2 upon its reactivation.

Newscasts

CFTK newscasts are one hour and air at 6 and 11 p.m. weekdays. A 30-minute news recap called Week in Review airs on weekends.

References

1. ARCHIVED – Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2002–91
2. ARCHIVED – Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2007-359
3. "BREAKING NEWS – Astral Enters Agreement to Be Acquired by Bell". Archived from the original on 2015-06-10. Retrieved 2012-03-16.
4. "CRTC kills BCE-Astral merger deal". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 18 October 2012.
5. Supplementary Brief of BCE Inc. and Astral Media Inc.
6. BCE takeover of Astral OK’d by Competition Bureau, The Montreal Gazette (via The Canadian Press), March 4, 2013.
7. "CRTC approves Bell/Astral deal with conditions". Toronto Star. June 27, 2013. Retrieved July 5, 2013.
8. "CRTC approves Bell-Astral merger". CBC News. Retrieved July 5, 2013.
9. Bell Media Radio G.P. (2015-10-28). "CRTC Application 2015-1227-8" (ZIP). Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. Retrieved 2015-10-29.
10. "Broadcast Distribution Regulations (ss. 17(d) and 17(f))". Justice Laws Website. Department of Justice (Canada). 2014-02-28. Retrieved 2014-07-12.
11. "CJDC-TV Dawson Creek and CFTK-TV Terrace – New transmitters in Fort St. John and Smithers". 12 December 2017.
12. CBC/Radio-Canada Speech Transcript: "Speaking notes for Hubert T. Lacroix, President and CEO, CBC/Radio-Canada, regarding measures announced in the context of the Deficit Reduction Action Plan (DRAP)", April 4, 2012. Archived April 7, 2012, at the Wayback Machine

External links

• CFTK-TV
• CFTK-TV at The History of Canadian Broadcasting by the Canadian Communications Foundation
• CFTK-TV in the REC Canadian station database

• Television stations in British Columbia
• Television channels and stations established in 1962
• CTV 2 stations
• Mass media in Terrace, British Columbia
• 1962 establishments in British Columbia