CTV Two Atlantic - Programming

Programming

ASN also devoted a significant amount of its daytime schedule to educational programming provided by provincial education departments and by local universities. This programming through universities was through of the Distance University Education via Television (DUET) service offered by ASN in partnership with participating universities in Atlantic Canada to university students. Some of the university programs offered through DUET included business administration and gerontology. ASN provided 16 hours of educational programming each weekend from 6:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and ten hours every Monday to Friday morning from 4:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. (In the early years, some TVOntario programs were carried on ASN, such as Polka Dot Door, Today's Special and Fast Forward.) In September 1992, ASN launched a local version of Citytv's Breakfast Television, moving educational programs to the weekend and to overnight hours. By 1997, as specialty television began to grow in popularity, Atlantic Pulse gave way to a short-lived cut-back version called ATV Headline News. ATV Headline News only lasted until early 1998 when ASN's news programming was fully integrated into the ATV (now CTV Atlantic) news operation.

While ATV aired some United States syndicated programming that was shown on Citytv in Toronto (e.g., Friends and Seinfeld repeats), ASN aired programs associated with CTV in the rest of the country, such as Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy! and Camilla Scott. ASN was also the original home of The Oprah Winfrey Show until it moved to ATV in 1992 (and in Newfoundland and Labrador, to NTV). Both Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! are currently broadcast by CBC Television as of 2011, but will move to CHCH effective September 2012. For a time in the early 1990s, ASN's slogan was "Your Main Attraction".

Since 1997, ASN's local programming has been cut back significantly. At its peak, Breakfast Television aired for two and a half hours daily; it now airs for two hours, broadcasting from 7 a.m. until 9 a.m. Also, while ASN still carried a noon newscast and an early-morning rebroadcast of CTV's Live at 5, both are branded as CTV News programs. In mid-October 2005, ASN stopped carrying a late newscast, due to the additional CTV programming noted below.

Despite the then-pending CTVglobemedia/CHUM merger, CHUM content was actually lowered during the 2006-07 season compared to previous years, with other series from the CTV library—including repeats, "shelf" series like What About Brian, programming from MTV, and time shifted CTV programming for simsub purposes—making up the balance. The format of the channel's signature morning show Breakfast Television and its logo still somewhat resemble the format and branding used by the Citytv stations.

Currently, CTV Two Atlantic carries a late local newscast (a rebroadcast of CTV Atlantic's late news at midnight), previously the rebroadcast was taken off the schedule in 2005 but has been brought back; as well as the aforementioned CTV News at Noon. CTV Two Atlantic's morning program also retained the name Breakfast Television instead of A Morning during the A era. The show subsequently dropped the name when the station was rebranded as CTV Two and became known as CTV Morning Live.

The joint ownership of ATV and ASN was approved in 1983 without any restrictions on duplicated programming or news coverage between the two channels. This has been grandfathered into the CRTC's current policy, which has required most newer large-market "twinsticks" to maintain separate programming and news content on both component stations.