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CTV Atlantic (formerly known as ATV) is a system of four television stations in the Canadian Maritimes, owned and operated by the CTV Television Network, a division of CTVglobemedia.
The CTV Atlantic stations are:
All four stations refer to themselves on air as CTV, not by their call letters, and have common local programming for the most part, but are otherwise considered separate stations by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC).
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CTV Atlantic (formerly known as ATV) is a system of four television stations in the Canadian Maritimes, owned and operated by the CTV Television Network, a division of CTVglobemedia.
The CTV Atlantic stations are:
All four stations refer to themselves on air as CTV, not by their call letters, and have common local programming for the most part, but are otherwise considered separate stations by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). Station information and history is discussed in each station's own article.
History
CJCH was a charter CTV affiliate when it started in 1961. CJCB and CKCW were established as Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) stations in 1954. CKCW affiliated with CTV in 1969, adding sister station CKLT the same year, and CJCB affiliated with CTV in 1972. Between 1969 and 1976, CKCW's relay stations in Northern New Brunswick (Campbellton, Upsalquitch Lake and Newcastle, plus three relay stations in Quebec) carried a combined CBC/CTV schedule, becoming full relays of CKCW after CHSJ Saint John, the CBC affiliate in New Brunswick, established their own relays in the area.
CHUM Limited, a Toronto broadcaster, bought CJCH in 1970, CJCB in 1971 and CKCW and CKLT in 1972 and merged them into the ATV system. In 1997, as part of a group deal, the ATV stations were sold to CTV.
Although each station originally produced its own news and local programming in the beginning, they too were merged in the early 1980s. A side effect of this is that the newscast often includes stories about things like local politics that can be of little interest to viewers in other parts of the region, and a common complaint among residents of both New Brunswick and Nova Scotia is that CTV News focuses too much on the other province. However, CTV Atlantic has had some of the highest ratings of any local newscasts in Canada, although its presence and viewing audience is somewhat less in Prince Edward Island mainly as a result of competition from a local CBC station which provides the province's only PEI-specific newscast.
On October 11, 2005, ATV was renamed "CTV Atlantic". Most other CTV owned-and-operated stations had been renamed the prior week.
Programming
CTV Atlantic produces approximately 26 hours of local programming each week.
- Live at 5 is CTV Atlantic's flagship early evening news magazine program.
- CTV News airs weekdays at 12:00 p.m. (on A Atlantic), 6:00 p.m., and 11:30 p.m. and on weekends at 6:00 p.m. The flagship weekday 6:00 p.m. newscast was formally known as the ATV Evening News while the 11:30 p.m. newscast was formally known as ATV News Nightside
Currently, news programs such as CTV News and Live at 5 are produced at CJCH's Robie Street studio in Halifax.
Personalities
Current
- Steve Murphy, anchor of CTV News 12:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. weekday editions, former co-host of Live at 5
- Bruce Frisko, co-host of Live at 5 and anchor of CTV News 11:30 p.m. weekday editions
- Starr Dobson, co-host of Live at 5
- Paul Hollingsworth, anchor of CTV News 6:00 p.m. weekend editions
Former
- Dave Wright, anchor of the ATV Evening News
- Bruce Graham, anchor of the ATV Evening News
- Nancy Regan, co-host of Live at 5
- Paul Menier, sports announcer for Live at 5
Images
Slogans
- mid 1970s: "Family Television for the Maritimes"
- mid 1980s: "Enjoy!"
- late 1980s: "Nowhere Else but ATV"
- late 1980s: "There's Nowhere Else!"
- late 1980s-early 1990s: "Part of Your Life"
- 2003-05: "Maritime Television"
- 2006-present: "The Maritimes are Watching"
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