CICI-TV
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| CICI | |
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| Sudbury, Ontario | |
| Branding | CTV Northern Ontario |
| Slogan | News for the North. |
| Channels | Analog: 5 (VHF) Digital: 8 (not yet on air) |
| Translators | CICI-TV-1 3, Elliot Lake CKNY-TV-11 11 Huntsville (former CKCO-TV, then CKNY-TV rebroadcaster) |
| Affiliations | CTV |
| Owner | CTVglobemedia |
| Founded | October 25, 1953 |
| Call letters’ meaning | none known |
| Former callsigns | CKSO (1953-1980) |
| Former affiliations | CBC (1953-1971), BBS (secondary, 1992-1997) |
| Website | CTV Northern Ontario |
CICI (also commonly known as CTV Northern Ontario) is a Canadian television station, broadcasting in Sudbury, Ontario. It is an O&O of CTV.
CICI also broadcasts on Channel 3 in Elliot Lake and Channel 11 in Huntsville. The rebroadcaster in Huntsville (CKNY-TV-11) was originally a CKCO-TV repeater (CKCO-TV-4), but switched to CKNY-TV as its source, and then to CICI-TV, but has not changed its call-letters yet.
[edit] History
Under the call letters CKSO, CICI was Canada's first privately owned TV station. It was a CBC affiliate from its launch in 1953 until 1971, when it joined CTV. A new CBC affiliate, CKNC, went to air in Sudbury the day of CKSO's affiliation switch. CKSO's first rebroadcast transmitter, CKSO-TV-1, was established in Elliot Lake shortly after CKSO launched. A second transmitter, CKSO-TV-2, was established in Timmins in 1971 when CKSO switched to the CTV network. When CKSO changed to CICI in 1980, the Timmins station changed to CITO-TV and became its own standalone station.
Until 1980, CKSO 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. CKSO changed its call letters to CICI at that point.
In 1990, the stations were acquired by Baton Broadcasting. Baton subsequently became the sole corporate owner of CTV, and sold CKNC to the CBC in 2002.
CICI produces all of the CTV Northern Ontario stations' local programming, except for local news segments of the system's newscasts.
[edit] Famous people
Onetime CKSO employee Judy Jacobson was the first woman in Canadian broadcasting history to work on air as a television weather reporter. She later became a federal Member of Parliament for Sudbury's Nickel Belt riding.
Other past employees of the station include journalists Kris Reyes, Sarika Sehgal and Susan Hay. All are now associated with major market stations in Toronto.
Canadian sportscaster Brendan Connor is the son of Michael Connor, a longtime news anchor from the station's days as CKSO.
[edit] External links
- CTV Television
- CKSO Historical information on CKSO Radio and Television in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.
- CKSO-TV History at Canadian Communications Foundation
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