Television
The only broadcast TV station based in Waterloo Region is CKCO-DT, which has called itself CTV Southwestern Ontario since 2005 and is now known as CTV Kitchener. It is located in Kitchener and is owned by CTVglobemedia. The region is also served by Rogers TV, a community channel based in Kitchener available only to Rogers Cable subscribers. It provides local talk shows and coverage of special events and local hockey games.
Stations and rebroadcasters located in the immediate vicinity of Waterloo Region include:
- CIII-DT (Global) Channel 6.1
- CKCO-DT (CTV) Channel 13.1
- CICO-DT-28 (TVOntario)Channel 28.1
Waterloo Region received CBC and Radio-Canada from rebroadcasters of Toronto's CBLT and CBLFT, respectively, until the CBC shut down all of its analog rebroadcasters in 2012. Those stations are now piped in via Rogers Cable.
Although other networks / systems such as Citytv and CTV Two are not readily available over the air, stations from adjacent markets for most such services are available on the basic service of Rogers Cable.
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