Programming
For its first ten years as a CTV O&O, CIVT was the only such station not to carry The Oprah Winfrey Show, due to historical factors. In the 1990s, almost all CTV stations acquired local rights to Oprah, as well as Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! – however, the local rights were always held by individual stations, not the network. This meant that the B.C. rights, acquired by BCTV, did not revert to the network when that station disaffiliated from CTV. BCTV (rebranded as Global BC) would keep Oprah on its lineup until the program ended in 2011. During this period, CIVT used a number of stopgap measures to fill this hole in its schedule, eventually resorting to airing The Ellen DeGeneres Show (now a national CTV program) in the 4:00 p.m. timeslot instead.
Similarly, Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! did not air on CIVT during the years that most other CTV O&Os carried the programs; the Vancouver-area rights to both series have changed hands several times since 2001 and are currently held by the independent Victoria-based station CHEK. CIVT was left out of that rotation, making it the only English-language, non-religious station in the market not to have carried the two game shows, despite the series' long association with CTV elsewhere.
CIVT now generally conforms to the standard CTV network schedule, aside from timeslot variances in the daytime schedule in order to maximize simultaneous substitution opportunities with Seattle stations. Since the 2011-12 season, this has been with three exceptions: The Bold and the Beautiful and the daytime repeat of etalk now air on CTV Two Victoria, in order to accommodate a new lunch-hour newscast on CIVT (along with an existing 5:00 p.m. newscast which most other CTV stations do not produce). Meanwhile, Canada AM was replaced with a new local morning show (CTV Morning Live), as with other CTV O&Os in western Canada.
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