Programming
CLTV focuses primarily on 24-hour rolling news coverage, with broadcasts structured into a traditional wheel format of news, traffic and transit reports, weather forecasts, sports, and entertainment and feature reports. The wheel format is subject to interruption due to breaking news events within the city or significant national events. Live news broadcasts on the channel begin daily at 4 a.m. and run in blocks of varying lengths until 11 p.m., with an additional half-hour news broadcast at 2 a.m.
Other programs featured on CLTV include:
- Politics Tonight, a nightly political discussion program hosted by WGN-TV political editor Paul Lisnek, airing Monday through Friday evenings;
- Midwest Outdoors, a syndicated weekly hunting and fishing series;
- Rebroadcasts of WGN-TV newscasts including that station's two-hour midday (repeating at 1 p.m. each weekday), weekend morning (repeating at 7 a.m. on Saturdays and Sundays) and 9 p.m. newscasts (repeats at 11 p.m. nightly) and bi-weekly public affairs programs Adelante, Chicago and People to People;
- WGN-TV has produced special live half-hour editions of its 9 p.m. newscast for CLTV on an occasional basis since July 8, 2010, during instances in which WGN-TV telecasts an NBA, NHL or Major League Baseball event being held on the West Coast that is scheduled for a 9 p.m. CT start time locally (an additional half-hour newscast airs live on WGN-TV following the game, which is simulcast on WGN America, depending on the sports telecast's national clearance on the superstation feed);
- Weekend rebroadcasts of non-news programs produced for WGN-TV including food and cultural program Chicago's Best, and lifestyle programs Living Healthy Chicago and Bring It Home;
- Limited paid programming during early overnight periods
Some sports programming is also featured on the channel including:
- Chicago Rush Arena Football League telecasts
- Telecasts of select DePaul University college basketball games
In addition, the channel has been used as an overflow feed for Comcast SportsNet Chicago (branded technically as CSN+ in order to alleviate sports overflows with CSN Chicago's properties). CLTV was also used during the existence of SportsChannel and Fox Sports Net Chicago as the overflow feeds of those channels before the launch of CSN Chicago. By the second quarter of 2010, Comcast's Chicago systems transitioned to digital-only transmission of its channel lineup (requiring a digital converter box or CableCard-compliant receiver to receive programming), thus on all provider except those operated by Comcast, the CSN+ feed would likely have its own channel slot. A gametime-only CSN+ high definition feed is also used on Comcast systems, with cable system tutorials filling the remainder of the network's schedule, while other systems substitute other programming in the interim.
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