CIIT-TV (known on air as
Joytv 11) is a Canadian
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based in and licensed to
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,
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. The station is owned by
S-VOXS-VOX Inc. is a Canadian non-profit media organization operating several media outlets focused on faith and spirituality.In June 2009, the company announced it would sell its broadcasting assets to ZoomerMedia, a company controlled by Moses Znaimer...
and is an owned and operated station of the
JoytvJoytv is a privately-held Canadian television system owned by S-VOX. Joytv airs a mix of multi-faith and family-oriented programming in the form of dramas, comedies, news magazines, talk shows and more....
television system. CIIT broadcasts a variety of multi-faith and family-oriented programming.
In June 2009, S-VOX announced it would sell its broadcasting assets to
ZoomerMediaZoomerMedia is a group of Canadian media operations controlled by Moses Znaimer. According to Znaimer, these media outlets primarily target what he calls "zoomers" or "baby boomers with zip", defined as people in their 50s, 60s and 70s who want to remain socially and culturally engaged and active...
, a company controlled by
Moses ZnaimerMoses Znaimer, O.Ont is a co-founder and former head of Citytv, the first independent television station in Toronto, Canada, and the current head of ZoomerMedia.-Early life and career:...
.
In February 2002, Trinity Television Inc.
CIIT-TV (known on air as
Joytv 11) is a Canadian
English languageEnglish is a West Germanic language that developed in England during the Anglo-Saxon era. As a result of the military, economic, scientific, political, and cultural influence of the British Empire during the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries, and of the United States since the mid 20th century,...
television stationA television station is a type of broadcast station that broadcasts video and possibly audio to television receivers in a particular area. Traditionally, TV stations made their broadcasts by sending specially-encoded radio signals over the air, called terrestrial television...
based in and licensed to
WinnipegWinnipeg is the capital and largest city of Manitoba, Canada. It is located near the longitudinal centre of North America, in south central Canada, near the eastern edge of the Canadian Prairies, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers...
,
ManitobaManitoba is a prairie province in Canada and has an area of . Manitoba is bordered by the provinces of Ontario to the east and Saskatchewan to the west, the territory of Nunavut to the north, and the U.S. states of North Dakota and Minnesota to the south...
. The station is owned by
S-VOXS-VOX Inc. is a Canadian non-profit media organization operating several media outlets focused on faith and spirituality.In June 2009, the company announced it would sell its broadcasting assets to ZoomerMedia, a company controlled by Moses Znaimer...
and is an owned and operated station of the
JoytvJoytv is a privately-held Canadian television system owned by S-VOX. Joytv airs a mix of multi-faith and family-oriented programming in the form of dramas, comedies, news magazines, talk shows and more....
television system. CIIT broadcasts a variety of multi-faith and family-oriented programming.
In June 2009, S-VOX announced it would sell its broadcasting assets to
ZoomerMediaZoomerMedia is a group of Canadian media operations controlled by Moses Znaimer. According to Znaimer, these media outlets primarily target what he calls "zoomers" or "baby boomers with zip", defined as people in their 50s, 60s and 70s who want to remain socially and culturally engaged and active...
, a company controlled by
Moses ZnaimerMoses Znaimer, O.Ont is a co-founder and former head of Citytv, the first independent television station in Toronto, Canada, and the current head of ZoomerMedia.-Early life and career:...
.
History
In February 2002, Trinity Television Inc. was granted a licence for a religious television station for Winnipeg. The station was set to be launched in September 2004 as
NOWTV, to be the second station using that brand, previously used on Trinity's
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station,
CHNU-TVCHNU-TV is an English language television station based in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. The station is licensed to the Fraser Valley Region, and also serves Metro Vancouver, Victoria and surrounding areas. CHNU broadcasts on UHF channel 66, and is seen on cable channel 10 in the Lower...
. However, the station did not launch on that date.
In 2004, before that station's launch,
Rogers MediaRogers Media Inc is a subsidiary of Rogers Communications Inc., which owns Canada's largest publishing company, Rogers Publishing Limited, which has more than 70 consumer and business publications. Rogers Media Inc...
bought Trinity Television and took control of CIIT's licence. Under Rogers control, the station was set to be launched again on November 14, 2005 as the fourth
Omni TelevisionOmni Television, corporately styled as OMNI Television, is a Canadian television system owned and operated by Rogers Communications. It consists of the company's conventional television stations which are licensed as multicultural stations...
station, it was later set back again and launched on February 6, 2006 as
OMNI.11. The use of channel 35 marks CIIT as Winnipeg's first-ever
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station.
On September 28, 2007, Rogers' pending Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) application to acquire the
CitytvCitytv is a Canadian English language television system owned and operated by Rogers Communications, and is Canada's largest television system since Canwest's E! closed down on September 1, 2009...
stations, including
CHMICHMI-TV is a television station licensed to Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Canada, with most of its operations in Winnipeg. It is part of the Citytv system...
in Winnipeg, was approved. As a condition of this approval, Rogers must sell CIIT and CHNU in Vancouver, in order to comply with CRTC restrictions on owning multiple stations in the same language, in one market. Rogers had a one year grace period to find new owners for both stations.
On November 6, 2007, Rogers Media announced the sale of CIIT and CHNU to
S-VOXS-VOX Inc. is a Canadian non-profit media organization operating several media outlets focused on faith and spirituality.In June 2009, the company announced it would sell its broadcasting assets to ZoomerMedia, a company controlled by Moses Znaimer...
. The deal was approved by the CRTC on March 31, 2008. The sale was finalized on April 30, 2008 and S-VOX assumed control of the station on June 30 of that year.
Shortly after S-VOX acquired control of the station, In July 2008, CIIT disaffiliated from the Omni
television systemA television system is a Canadian term for a group of television stations which share common ownership, branding, and programming, but are not legally considered a full television network...
and was subsequently rebranded as
CIIT11. S-VOX soon announced that both CIIT and CHNU would rebrand as under a newly created television brand,
Joytv. CIIT was rebranded again on September 1, 2008 using the on-air brand
Joytv 11.
Channel placement
On
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and
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, CIIT airs on channel 11, displacing the longtime previous occupant community access channel
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(the station first used channel 11 in 1986 after a previous move from channel 13; the station was formerly called VPW 11, later Videon Cable 11 on
VideonVideon Cablesystems was a Cable television service in Manitoba, Alberta, and for a short period northwest Ontario, Canada. The origins of Videon date back to October 1959 when original General Manager Claude Boucher applied to the Lakehead Public Utilities Board in Port Arthur, Ontario to provide...
before being taken over by Shaw, and GWC-TV (Greater Winnipeg Cablevision before its Shaw takeover). Shaw has moved their service to channel 9 for their customers. The station is also available on Rogers digital cable for viewers in Ontario.
Digital Television
As of
2009- Events :- Future :- Debuts :Series currently listed here have been announced by their respective networks as scheduled to premiere in 2009...
, CIIT-DT has not signed on the air.
During the
analogue shutdown and digital conversionDigital terrestrial television in Canada, like the United States, Mexico and South Korea, is based on the US ATSC standard.The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission initially decided not to enforce a single date for ending analog broadcasts, opting to let market forces decide...
scheduled for August 31, 2011, CIIT-DT is scheduled to move to CIIT-TV's current analogue channel position, on channel 35, as a result of not many digital stations on the 2-6 band, because of signal problems for stations on the 2-6 band.
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