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CIII - Toronto, Ontario (First aired 1974 with intentions of starting national network, came under partial Canwest ownership in 1977. Acquired from Shaw Media in 2016) [ 1 ] CKND - Winnipeg , Manitoba (Canwest owned in 1985, acquired from Shaw in 2016)
Corus Entertainment Inc. (often simply known as Corus) is a Canadian mass media and television production company. The company was founded in 1987 as Shaw Radio Ltd. as a subsidiary of Shaw Communications and was spun-off from Shaw in 1999.
In late 2011, Global Winnipeg became the first television station in Manitoba to broadcast its local news in high definition. [ citation needed ] On February 6, 2012, CKND launched a three-hour weekday morning newscast, airing from 6 to 9 a.m. Around the same time, CKND became the first Winnipeg station to acquire a news helicopter, Skyview 1.
Once Corus took ownership of the channel, it moved operations from Winnipeg to Toronto in mid-January 2002, laying off 50 employees in the process. [9] Corus subsequently relaunched the network as W on April 15, 2002, with a more entertainment-oriented mix of recent dramas and movies. On the same date, Corus launched the west coast feed. [10]
Was a pirate radio station which also broadcast on 6045 kHz on shortwave. CJRM-FM: Montreal: 98.5 FM: Frequency since occupied by CHMP-FM. CFOX/CKO: Pointe-Claire: 1470 AM: 1960-89. CKO was the only AM outlet of the defunct CKO all-news network, which bought the station in late 1977. All other CKO stations across the country were FM.
CBWT-DT (channel 6) is a CBC Television station in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.It has common ownership with Ici Radio-Canada Télé station CBWFT-DT (channel 3). The two stations share studios on Portage Avenue and Young Street in Downtown Winnipeg; CBWT-DT's transmitter is located near Red Coat Trail/Highway 2 in Macdonald.
In 2023, Bell Media laid off 6% of its workforce and closed nine of its radio stations and sold three as part of a restructuring plan and consolidated newsrooms across its platforms, resulting in its news/talk stations laying off most of their news staff and relying instead on the local and national newsrooms of CTV News. Stations closed ...
In 1922, George Melrose Bell, from Calgary, was licensed to launch a radio station in Winnipeg known as CKZC-AM. However, the license would expire and the station never made it to air, as Bell would be too preoccupied in launching stations in Calgary and Regina. [31] Another defunct station, CKZC, was launched by Lynn V. Salton (1897-1956) in 1922.