History
CKCK signed on in 1954. It was originally owned by the Sifton family, which also owned the Regina Leader-Post and CKCK Radio. It was originally a CBC Television affiliate. Shortly after signing on, it took a secondary affiliation with the American CBS network.
It joined CTV in 1969 when CHAB-TV in Moose Jaw and its Regina semi-satellite, CHRE-TV, were purchased by the CBC. As a result of this deal, CHRE was recalled CBKRT and became the main station; it is now CBKT.
In 1977, it was sold to Harvard Developments, owned by Regina's Hill family. In 1985, a 90 percent stake would be sold (the remaining 10 percent would soon follow) to Baton Broadcasting, bringing it under common ownership with Saskatchewan's other CTV affiliates, CFQC Saskatoon, CICC/CKOS Yorkton, and CIPA/CKBI Prince Albert. Today, it operates as a CTV owned-and-operated station, part of CTVglobemedia. Local programming today is limited primarily to the station's popular newscasts.
From the 1970s through the late 1980s, CKCK identified itself as "CKTV", but its official call letters remained CKCK-TV. During this period, though, the station did acquire the CKTV calls for its Fort Qu'appelle retransmitter. That station is now CKCK-TV7, and "CKTV" is currently the official call sign for a Radio-Canada affiliate in Saguenay, Quebec.
Nevertheless, while the station identifies itself only as CTV, many people in southern Saskatchewan still know it as CKTV or CK.
In December 2008, CTVglobemedia applied to the CRTC to operate an HD signal of CKCK-TV which would be delivered as a "satellite-to-cable" feed. The move would allow CKCK to operate a HD signal which could substituted in place of American HD signals on local cable services, without actually operating an over-the-air DTV transmitter. The CRTC has yet to rule on this application.
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