CKNC-TV

Infobox Broadcast
call_letters = CKNC-TV
station_
location =
city = Sudbury, Ontario
station_branding = MCTV-CBC
station_slogan =
analog = 9
digital =
subchannels =
other_chs = CBEC 7 (Elliot Lake)
CBCE 16 (Little Current)
affiliations =
owner = J. Conrad Lavigne (1971-1980)
Mid-Canada Communications (1980-1990)
Baton Broadcasting (1990-1997)
CTV (1997-2002)
licensee =
founded =
airdate = October 4, 1971
ceased broadcasting October 27, 2002
callsign_meaning =
sister_stations =
former_callsigns =
former_channel_numbers =
former_affiliations = CBC Television, BBS (secondary, 1992-1997)
former_locations =
effective_radiated_power = 115.5 kW
HAAT =
class =
facility_id =
coordinates =
homepage =
telephone =

CKNC is a former Canadian television station, which broadcast in Sudbury, Ontario from 1971 to 2002. It was a private affiliate of CBC Television, through Northern Ontario's MCTV television system.

History

CKNC was established on October 4, 1971 by J. Conrad Lavigne, the owner of CFCL in Timmins. On the same day, the existing television station in Sudbury, CKSO, switched its affiliation to CTV. A rebroadcaster with the call sign CKNC-TV-1 went to air in Elliot Lake on the same date. That transmitter was sold to the CBC in 1982, although it continued to air CKNC's signal for the remainder of the station's existence.

Until 1980, CICI and CKNC aggressively competed with each other for advertising dollars, leaving both in a precarious financial position due to the Sudbury market's relatively small size. In 1980, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission approved the merger of the two stations, along with their co-owned stations in North Bay and Timmins, into the MCTV twinstick.

In 1990, the MCTV stations were acquired by Baton Broadcasting, which became the sole corporate owner of CTV in 1997.

End of operations

CTV subsequently sold its four CBC affiliates in Northern Ontario — CKNC, CHNB in North Bay, CJIC in Sault Ste. Marie and CFCL in Timmins — directly to the CBC in 2002 [ [http://www.crtc.gc.ca/archive/ENG/Decisions/2002/db2002-303.htm CRTC Decision 2002-303] ] . All four ceased to exist as separate stations on October 27, 2002, and now exist only as rebroadcasters of Toronto's CBLT. The former CKNC's call sign is now CBLT-6.

Other notes

CKNC was also the original callsign, in the 1920s and 1930s, of a radio station in Toronto that now uses the callsign CJBC.

References

External links

* [http://www.crtc.gc.ca/Archive/ENG/Decisions/2001/DB2001-457-6.htm CRTC Decision 2001-457-6] , license renewal for all MCTV stations.
* [http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/listings_and_histories/television/histories.php?id=23&historyID=108 CKNC-TV history at the Canadian Communications Foundation]