CITV-TV

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CITV-TV
CITV-TV's Current Logo
Edmonton, Alberta
Branding Global Edmonton
Slogan Our City. Our News.
Channels Analog: 13 (VHF)
Translators 10 CITV-TV-1 Red Deer
Affiliations Global (secondary 1988-2000, primary since 2000)
Owner Canwest Global Communications Corporation
(Canwest Media, Inc.)
First air date September 1, 1974
Call letters’ meaning Canadian
Independent
TeleVision
Sister station(s) CHCA-TV
Former affiliations independent (1974-2000)
Transmitter Power CITV-TV: 325 kW
CITV-TV-1: 325 kW
Height CITV-TV: 268.2 m
CITV-TV-1: 263.7 m
Transmitter Coordinates CITV-TV:
53°22′57″N 113°12′59″W / 53.3825, -113.21639
CITV-TV-1:
52°16′30″N 113°41′28″W / 52.275, -113.69111 (CITV-TV-1)
Website Global Edmonton

CITV-TV is a television station in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Known on air as "Global Edmonton", the station is owned by Canwest, and is an owned-and-operated station (O&O) of the Global Television Network. It transmits on channel 13 and cable 8 in Edmonton, and is carried on the Bell TV (channel 240) and Star Choice (channel 339) DBS services.

CITV's programming is similar to CICT-TV, the Global O&O in Calgary. CITV's master control is also based out of CICT, along with all the rest of Canwest's television stations. The station carries the full Global network schedule along with 39 hours a week of local news programming.

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Transmission

The station broadcasts over the following over-the-air transmitters:

  • Edmonton (CITV-TV, channel 13/cable 8, with ERP of 325kW; primary transmitter)

CITV is considered as a "superstation" of sorts. Years before digital cable and satellite services began offering "time-shifting" packages of multiple network affiliates, CITV was offered in such locations as Squamish, British Columbia; Prince Albert, Saskatchewan; and St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. It still is offered in some areas of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.

In October 2008, Canwest Media submitted an application to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission for a transitional digital transmitter in Edmonton. It would act as a digital simulcast of CITV-TV (channel 47, ERP of 5.9kW). The hearing for this application will take place in December, 2008. 1

History

The station was launched on September 1, 1974. CITV was originally owned by Allarcom, owned by Dr. Charles Allard, and launched as Independent Television (ITV), a brand used until 2000 when it became part of the Global Television Network. In 1991, Allarcom was purchased by Western International Communications' WIC Television division, which in turn was purchased by Canwest in 1999. It joined the Global Television Network on September 4, 2000, along with fellow Alberta stations CICT and CISA, but had been carrying Global's programming since 1988.

News operation

The station produces 7 hours of news every weekday, and 5 hours on the weekends (a 2-hour Saturday morning show, an hour of news at 6 pm, and 30 minute newscasts at 11 pm on both Saturday and Sunday). Global Edmonton is the most-watched television station for news in Edmonton, with its morning, early evening newscasts beating all other programs competing in the same timeslots.2

The station is also the first in Edmonton to have a helicopter. The helicopter, called Global 1, is shared with CHED (AM) for their traffic reports during the Morning News (5:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.) and the Early News (5:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.). The helicopter is also used frequently for breaking news coverage.

Current personalities

  • Saturday Morning News, 8:00-10:00 a.m.
    • Shane Jones
    • Kevin O'Connell, weather specialist
    • Seanna Collins, on location

Reporters

Past personalities

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Station presentation

ITV logo, used until 1994

ITV logo from 1994 to 2000. (Black and white, typically red)

Global Edmonton's former logo, used from 2000 to 2006

Past slogans

  • "You and ITV" (until 1993 or 1994)
  • "It's Ours" (until 2000)
  • "Global's Got It" (until 2006)

References

  1. ^ CRTC application for CITV's digital transmitter
  2. ^ http://lastlinkontheleft.com/t024a20081spring.html

External links

v • d • e
Broadcast television in Alberta
Calgary

CICT 2 (Global) • CFCN 4 (CTV) • CKAL 5 (Citytv) • CBRT 9 (CBC) • CIAN 13 (Edu/A) • CBRFT 16 (SRC) • CKCS 32 (CTS) • CJCO 38 (Omni) • CHCA-1 44 (E!)
Edmonton

CFRN 3 (CTV) • CBXT 5 (CBC) • CJAL 9 (Edu/A) • CBXFT 11 (SRC) • CITV 13 (Global) • CHCA-2 17 (E!) • CKES 45 (CTS) • CKEM 51 (Citytv) • CJEO 56 (Omni)
Other areas
Cable-only
v • d • e
Global stations in Canada
Owned and operated stations
De facto affliates
Secondary carriers
See also

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