Station Details
The station's studios are located at 750 Burrard Street, the former site of the Vancouver Public Library's central branch, at the intersection of Robson Street and Burrard Street in Downtown Vancouver. The BC operations of the CTV network itself, including the CTV News Vancouver bureau, are also located at the same facility. It was the only CTV network station to broadcast its primary signal on UHF prior to the digital transition.
CIVT is the only full-fledged CTV station in British Columbia, as well as in the Pacific Standard Time zone. However, the station only has one terrestrial transmitter, and that UHF signal only reaches Vancouver, Victoria, and neighbouring Whatcom County, Washington. Accordingly, the station relies exclusively on cable and satellite distribution to reach the rest of British Columbia, making it something of a weak link in the CTV network. In the Mountain Time Zone portion of British Columbia. CIVT is either carried on a higher channel number or unavailable altogether. Calgary's CFCN is the default CTV station in southeastern British Columbia and has long operated rebroadcasters in this region, while Edmonton's CFRN serves as the default CTV station in the northeastern part of the province.
Although Industry Canada technically requires Canadian TV stations to identify themselves over the air by their call letters, this rule is rarely enforced, and most Canadian TV stations identify themselves by their brand name rather than their call letters. On-air, CIVT identifies itself simply as "CTV". Where a channel reference is warranted, it uses "Channel 9" - its primary cable channel number on most cable systems in southwestern British Columbia.
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