CIVI-DT

CIVI-DT

Southwest British Columbia
City of license	Victoria, British Columbia
Branding	CTV Two Vancouver Island (general) CTV News (local news)
Slogan	Your Island News
Channels	Digital: 23 (UHF) Virtual: 23.1 (PSIP)
Translators	CIVI-DT-2 17 Vancouver Virtual: 17.1 (PSIP)
Affiliations	CTV Two
Owner	Bell Media
First air date	October 1, 2001
Call letters' meaning	C I Vancouver Island
Sister station(s)	CIVT-DT, CFAX, CHBE-FM
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 53 (UHF, 2001-2011)
Transmitter power	CIVI-TV: 1.5 kilowatts CIVI-DT-2: 35 kilowatts
Height	CIVI-TV: 99.6 metres CIVI-DT-2: 634.3 metres
Transmitter coordinates	CIVI-TV: 48°25′30″N 123°20′13″W / 48.425°N 123.33694°W / 48.425; -123.33694 CIVI-TV-2: 49°21′16″N 122°57′30″W / 49.35444°N 122.95833°W / 49.35444; -122.95833 (CIVI-TV-2)
Website	CTV Two Vancouver Island

CIVI-DT, also known as CTV Two Vancouver Island, is a television station based in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Currently owned by Bell Media, the station serves the Vancouver Island area, and operates as part of the CTV Two system. It is seen on cable channel 12 on most cable systems in southwestern BC.

History

At the end of the 1990s, CHUM Limited only owned over-the-air television stations in Ontario. Similarly, Craig Media only had stations in the Canadian Prairies. Both companies looked to expand their national presence, and both submitted a bid when the CRTC issued a call for applications for a new TV licence in Victoria. CHUM was awarded the licence in 2000, and CIVI was launched on October 4, 2001 as CHUM's first original station to be part of the NewNet system.

Logo used while as The New VI. Used from 2001-2005.

Known on the air as The New VI, the station started off with much pomp and circumstance. It boasted a large lineup of personalities, including former British Columbia New Democratic Party cabinet minister Moe Sihota. The station's news anchors walked around the studio instead of sitting behind a desk, mimicking the format used at sister station Citytv Toronto and other NewNet outlets. However, the station struggled to compete against CHEK-TV, a station which had essentially held a monopoly over the television industry on Vancouver Island for more than four decades. Gradually, personalities from the original roster were replaced by new faces, and some were let go without replacements.

The station received a boost in 2004, when longtime CHEK-TV anchor Hudson Mack joined the station as its new chief anchor and news director. Changes were introduced to the station's newscasts such as introducing a desk, and they appear to have been effective: though still ranking behind CHEK-TV, the ratings gap between the two has been narrowed.

Since Mack's arrival, the station has been honoured with a number of industry awards. In 2006 it received three Edward R. Murrow Awards from Radio-Television News Directors Association International, for Best Newscast, Best Investigative Reporting and an Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Sports Reporting. It was the second straight year the station won Murrows for its newscast and investigative reporting. In 2005 the station won eight industry awards, including two Edward R. Murrow Awards from RTNDA International, for Best Newscast and Best Investigative Reporting; and top news honours from the BC Association of Broadcasters.

As A-Channel Victoria

The station was renamed A-Channel on August 2, 2005, along with the rest of the NewNet system. The station would likely have been named A-Channel at its launch had Craig Media won the licence in 2000.

Logo used while as A-Channel, used from 2005-2008.

The station's studio building in Victoria, and used to be nicknamed "Pandora's Box" for its location at the corner of Broad Street and Pandora Avenue

On July 12, 2006, CTVglobemedia (formerly Bell Globemedia) announced plans to purchase CHUM Limited, with the intention of divesting the A-Channel stations.^[1] On that same day it was also announced that the A-Channel Morning show would be discontinued, although this decision was supposedly unrelated to the takeover by CTVglobemedia and the morning show has returned to the schedule of CIVI as of fall 2007.

Rogers Communications announced a deal to buy A-Channel on April 9, 2007;^[2] however, given the conditions of approval for the sale of CHUM on June 8, 2007,^[3] Rogers acquired Citytv instead, and CTV kept A-Channel.^[4] CTVglobemedia became the official owner of CIVI effective June 22, 2007.

As A Vancouver Island

Logo for A Vancouver Island (2008-2011)

The station was renamed A on August 11, 2008 along with the rest of the A-Channel system as well as Atlantic Canada's ASN. As a result, CIVI's newscasts were rebranded as A News on that same date although the station's employees had been using that name couple of months prior to the relaunch, and the station began producing its morning show (under the name A Morning) on September 8, 2008, but was later cancelled as of March 4, 2009 due to economic issues. CIVI's morning show has since been replaced with a simulcast of the morning show on CTVglobemedia's radio station in Victoria, CFAX 1070.^[5][6][7]

CTV Two Vancouver Island

As part of Bell Media's rebranding of A television stations announced on May 30, 2011, CIVI became CTV Two on August 29, 2011. ^[8] As a result, CIVI's newscasts were rebranded CTV News on that same date.

News operation

Currently, CIVI produces a total of 13½ hours of local newscasts each week (with 2½ hours on weekdays and a half-hour on Saturdays and Sundays); unlike most CTV Two owned-and-operated stations, the station does not carry an 11:30 p.m. newscast on weekend evenings, though it does carry a half-hour 6 p.m. newscast on Saturdays and Sunday evenings.

News/station presentation

Newscast titles

• VILand News (2001–2004)^[9]
• VI News (2004-2005)
• A-Channel News (2005–2008)
• A News (2008–2011)^[10]
• Vancouver Island Report (2005–present; 6:30 p.m. newscast)^[11]
• CTV News (2011–present)

Station slogans

• Your Island News (2010–present)

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On-air staff^[12]

Anchors

• Cheryl Bloxham - weeknights at 11 p.m.
• Andrew Johnson - weekends at 6 p.m.
• Hudson Mack - weeknights at 5, 6, and 6:30 (Vancouver Island Report); also news director

Weather

• Astrid Braunschmidt - weather anchor; weeknights at 5, 6, 6:30 (Vancouver Island Report) and 11 p.m.

Sports team

• Mira Laurence - sports anchor; weeknights at 5, 6 and 6:30 (Vancouver Island Report)
• Jordan Cunningham - sports anchor; weeknights at 11 p.m.

Reporters

• Stephen Andrew - general assignment and legislative reporter; also fill-in anchor
• Steve Colterman - Nanaimo videographer
• Erin Glazier - general assignment reporter; also videographer and fill-in sports anchor
• Chandler Grieve - Nanaimo videographer
• Louise Hartland - general assignment reporter
• Andrew Johnson - general assignment reporter; also fill-in anchor
• Gord Kurbis - Comox Valley videographer
• Adam Sawatsky - entertainment reporter
• Bruce Williams - community relations manager

Former on-air staff

• Laura Acton - community relations manager
• Jonathan Bartlett - mid-island bureau chief/reporter/videojournalist
• Meribeth Burton - general assignment reporter
• April Butler-Parry - reporter
• Klaudia Ceglarz - weekend anchor (now at CHBC-TV)
• Maggie Cox (now host of Real Estate 101 on KVOS and active realtor in West Vancouver)
• Diane Dakers - entertainment reporter
• Susan Edgell - evening anchor (now at CFJC-TV)
• Tara Fedun - reporter (now with CBC Television)
• Cheekwan Ho - videographer
• Shachi Kurl (now with B.C. Director of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business)
• Tasha Larson: anchor
• Tony Latimer - weathercaster
• Alex Lee - entertainment reporter (now with CHHR-FM)
• Bill Macfarlane - reporter
• Trina Maus - reporter
• Howard Markson - reporter
• Moira McLean - legislative reporter
• Briony Penn - environment reporter
• Jason Pires - sports anchor (now at sister station CIVT-TV)
• Marvin Piuti - weekend weathercaster
• Pia Shandel - political commentator (now at SHAW TV 4 in Vancouver)
• Brent Shearer (now with at sister station CIVT-TV)
• Kathryn Shimbashi - financial reporter
• Moe Sihota - political commentator, now the President of the B.C. NDP
• Drew Snider - traffic reporter, now at TransLink
• Mary Ruth Snyder - videographer
• Norman Spector - political commentator
• Richard Tomborello - videographer
• Erick Thompson - general assignment reporter/substitute anchor
• David Wiwchar - Alberni / West Coast videographer (now with CJAV-FM in Port Alberni)

Digital television and high definition

Broadcasting in Digital	Yes
Programs HD	Yes
News HD	No
PSIP functioning properly	Yes

Ever since the analog television shutdown and digital conversion, which took place on August 31, 2011,^[13] CIVI-TV has been broadcasting in digital on channel number 23 at an ERP of 1.5 kW. However, through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display CIVI-TV's virtual channel as 53.1.

Its HD signal can now be seen on the Bell TV satellite provider via channel 1154 as of September 21, 2011. ^[14]

References

1. ^ "Bell Globemedia makes $1.7B bid for CHUM". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 2006-07-12. http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2006/07/12/chum-bell.html. Retrieved 2006-07-12. 
2. ^ "CRTC expected to OK Rogers' $137.5M buy of CTVglobemedia TV channels". Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News. 2007-04-09. http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/technology_rogers_ctvglobemedia. Retrieved 2007-04-09. ^{[dead link]}
3. ^ "CRTC tells CTVglobemedia to sell 5 Citytv stations". cbc.ca via Yahoo! Canada News. 2007-06-08. http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/08062007/3/canada-crtc-tells-ctvglobemedia-sell-5-citytv-stations.html. Retrieved 2007-06-08. ^{[dead link]}
4. ^ "CTV expected to rebrand A Channel". Friends of Canadian Broadcasting. 2006-06-13. http://www.friends.ca/News/Friends_News/archives/articles06130703.asp. Retrieved 2006-07-05. 
5. ^ Morning TV show back on airwaves
6. ^ CNW Group | CTV INC. | Double Vision: Fall 2008 Schedules Announced for CTV and "A"
7. ^ A Victoria website confirming 'A' Morning debut September 8th
8. ^ Bell Media’s /A\ Network to Become “CTV Two” This Fall Bell Media press release, May 30, 2011
9. ^ VILand News at 11 PM - 2001 Opening
10. ^ /A\ News at 5 - Open August 18, 2011
11. ^ CTV News: Vancouver Island Report - Opening August 29, 2011
12. ^ Personalities
13. ^ http://www.ic.gc.ca/epic/site/oca-bc.nsf/en/ca02336e.html
14. ^ CTV Two Vancouver/Victoria Now Available in HD on Bell Satellite TV Bell Media press release, retrieved September 26, 2011,

External links

• CTV Two Vancouver Island
• Canadian Communications Foundation - CIVI-TV History
• Query the REC's Canadian station database for CIVI-TV
• Query TV Fool's coverage map for CIVI