CKNY-TV

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = CKNY
station_
station_slogan = News for the North.
station_branding = CTV Northern Ontario
analog = 10 (VHF)
digital = not yet on air
affiliations = CTV
founded = December 19, 1955
location = North Bay, Ontario
callsign_meaning = none known
former_affiliations = CBC (1955-1971)
owner = CTVglobemedia
homepage = [http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/show/CTVShows/1065552962668_60956580 CTV Northern Ontario]

CKNY (also commonly known as CTV Northern Ontario) is a Canadian television station, broadcasting in North Bay, Ontario. It is an O&O of CTV.

CKNY was originally launched by local businessmen Gerry Alger and Gerry Stanton in 1955, as a CBC affiliate with the callsign CKGN. The station was subsequently acquired by The Thomson Corporation in 1960, and recalled as CFCH.

In 1970, the station was acquired by Cambrian Broadcasting, the owner of CKSO in Sudbury, and adopted the current CKNY callsign. In 1971, Cambrian's stations reaffiliated with CTV, and J. Conrad Lavigne's new CBC affiliate, CHNB, went on the air in North Bay the day of CKNY's affiliation switch. CKNY broadcasted as a semi-satellite of CKSO (later CICI) in Sudbury.

For a number of years in the 1960s and 70s, CFCH/CKNY operated rebroadcast transmitter CJTK-TV in Témiscaming, Quebec on channel 3. It is not known when it was shut down.

Until 1980, CKNY and CHNB aggressively competed with each other for advertising dollars, leaving both in a precarious financial position due to the North Bay market's relatively small size. In 1980, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission approved the merger of the two stations, along with their co-owned stations in Sudbury and Timmins, into the MCTV twinstick.

In 1990, the stations were acquired by Baton Broadcasting. Baton subsequently became the sole corporate owner of CTV, and sold CHNB to the CBC in 2002.

In 1999, CKNY began rebroadcasting on channel 11 in Huntsville, Ontario (CKNY-TV-11), serving the Muskoka and Parry Sound area on a transmitter which previously rebroadcast the programming of CKCO (as CKCO-TV-2). Initially a semi-satellite with a very small amount of local programming, the Huntsville station subsequently lost local programming, and then changed its programming and advertising feed source to CICI.

(CKGN was a former callsign of a television station out of Toronto, Ontario from 1974 to 1984 for Global Television. The call letters now belong to a radio station in Kapuskasing, Ontario, CKGN-FM).

External links

* [http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/show/CTVShows/1065552962668_60956580 CTV Northern Ontario]
*RecnetCanada|CKNY-TV