CKY-DT - Scheduling

Scheduling

As Manitoba is in the Central Time Zone, CKY generally abides by the U.S. practice of airing primetime programming simultaneously with its counterparts in the Eastern Time Zone, meaning one hour "earlier" in terms of local time than Eastern Time stations (e.g. "8, 7 Central"). This is primarily to maintain simultaneous substitution rights with the American network affiliates aired on cable in Winnipeg. However, the station's daytime and late-night schedule is otherwise generally the same as other CTV stations in terms of local airtimes, such as local news from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m., and CTV National News at 11:00 p.m. To accommodate both practices, programs that air in the 7:00 p.m. hour on most CTV stations, such as etalk and repeats of The Big Bang Theory, are generally moved to the 10:00 p.m. hour on CKY.

Prior to CTV's purchase of the station in 2001, this shifting of primetime programming normally extended to the 7:00 ET / 6:00 CT hour on Sundays, which continues to be the practice of American broadcast networks. This meant a local newscast would air at 5:30, followed by primetime, then an extra local newscast at 10:00 p.m. Since 2001, CKY has usually aired local news at 6:00 seven nights a week, including Sundays, regardless of the station's ability to simsub at that hour (and the "pre-empted" program would instead air later in the evening, usually 10:00 p.m.).

The station is also among a handful of CTV stations not to clear Live with Kelly, currently substituting a second run of Anderson in the 9:00 a.m. timeslot instead. This appears to be for simsub reasons: Live is not carried by any of the U.S. network affiliates available in Winnipeg, which are split between Minneapolis and Grand Forks, North Dakota (Live does air in both of those markets, but not on any of the stations carried locally). Meanwhile, WCCO-TV Minneapolis carries Anderson in the morning instead of CTV's preferred afternoon timeslot. Apparently, CKY-DT is simsiubbing Anderson also at the 9:00 AM hour.