CFTK-TV

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = CFTK-TV
city =
station_
station_slogan =
station_branding = CFTK-TV
analog = 3 (VHF)
digital = "allocated 35 (UHF)"
other_chs = 6 CFTK-TV-1 Prince Rupert
affiliations = CBC
network =
airdate = November 1, 1962
location = Terrace, British Columbia
callsign_meaning = CF Terrace and Kitimat
former_callsigns =
former_channel_numbers =
owner = Astral Media, Inc.
licensee =
sister_stations =
former_affiliations =
effective_radiated_power = CFTK-TV: 13.8 kW
CFTK-TV-1: 2.44 kW
HAAT = CFTK-TV: 453.5 m
CFTK-TV-1: 593.8 m
coordinates = CFTK-TV:
coord|54|31|4|N|128|28|21|W|type:landmark
CFTK-TV-1:
coord|54|17|4|N|130|18|54|W|type:landmark|name=CFTK-TV-1
homepage = [http://www.cftktv.com/ CFTK-TV]

CFTK-TV is a television station in Terrace, British Columbia, broadcasting on channel 3. It is owned by Astral Media and is the CBC Television affiliate in that city. The station also has a repeater in Prince Rupert, broadcasting on Channel 6.

CFTK went on the air for the first time on November 1, 1962. Standard Broadcasting acquired CFTK from Telemedia in 2002. Telemedia had owned CFTK since 1999.

The station was originally part of a two-station "sub-network" called Northern Television (NTV) since the early 1990s, until 2002, when it was disbanded and re-launched as Great West Television (joined by CKPG-TV). NTV and GWTV's programming consisted of mainly American shows imported and aired on CHUM Limited's NewNet/A-Channel stations, mixed with CBC's own programming. Great West Television itself would later become virtually non-existent in October of 2006, for reasons below.

With CBC Television going to a 24-hour schedule beginning in October 2006, CFTK-TV has increased the amount of CBC programming in its schedule, leaving only local news in its schedule and eliminating syndicated shows altogether; this, in effect, has made CFTK-TV into a semi-satellite of Vancouver's CBUT.

CFTK newscasts are 6-7PM, 11PM-12 midnight weekdays. There are no weekend newscasts.

External links

* [http://www.cftktv.com/ CFTK-TV]
* [http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/listings_and_histories/television/histories.php?id=56&historyID=99 Canadian Communications Foundation - CFTK-TV History]
*RecnetCanada|CFTK-TV