CHEK-TV
| CHEK-TV | |
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| Victoria, British Columbia | |
| Branding | CHEK News (Local programming only) |
| Slogan | Your Island's Own |
| Channels | Analog: 6 (VHF)/Cable 6 Digital: 43 (UHF) (Not on air) |
| Translators | CHEK-TV-1 13 Sooke CHEK-TV-2 11 River Jordan CHEK-TV-3 11 Port Alberni CHEK-TV-5 13 Campbell River CHWM-TV-1 18 Whistler CKUP-TV-1 9 Ucluelet |
| Affiliations | E! |
| Owner | CanWest Global |
| Founded | December 1, 1956 |
| Call letters meaning | CHE(C)K |
| Former callsigns | CKTV (Prior to launch) |
| Former affiliations | CBC (1956-1963) CBC/CTV (1963-1981) CTV (1981-2001) CH (2001-2007) |
| Website | www.cheknews.ca |
CHEK-TV is a television station in Victoria, British Columbia. Broadcasting to Vancouver Island, the station is a member of the E! system owned by CanWest Global. It broadcasts on channel 6.
History
CHEK was British Columbia's first private television station, signing on the air as a CBC affiliate on December 1, 1956 (the station was to have used the call letters CKTV, but changed to the present calls prior to launch). The station was originally owned by David Armstrong, who already owned local radio station CKDA. The station began to air some CTV programs in September 1963, and became a full-time CTV affiliate on January 5, 1981, when Vancouver CBC station CBUT launched repeater stations at Sooke and Mount McDonald. It was the only local television station on Vancouver Island before CHUM Limited's CIVI (The New VI) launched in October 2001.
In 1963, CHEK was purchased by local businessman Frank
Griffiths, who also owned CHAN-TV (BCTV) in Vancouver. For the first few years following
CHAN's purchase of the station, CHEK's schedule consisted primarily of simulcasts of CHAN programming and some of CBUT's CBC
network shows, in addition to airing local productions and syndicated programs not aired on CHAN, before starting to time-shift
network shows sometime in the late-1960s/early-1970s; also, during most of the dual affiliation era, CHEK would air CBC programs
in the afternoon and in prime-time while running CTV shows like University
of the Air and
In 1972, CHEK, which had simulcast CHAN's News Hour since the Griffiths purchase (and would continue to do so until 2001), began producing its own news program, Vancouver Island News Hour, airing at 5:30 p.m. before the CHAN News Hour, and at 11:15 p.m. following CBC's The National until 1981, then at 11:30 p.m. after CTV National News from 1981 until 2001[1]. At one stage, CHEK used the same flower logo as CHAN, but later reverted back to its own logo. On January 8, 1984, CHEK moved from its original studios in Saanich to its present location at 780 Kings Road, a studio which was to have been used by a proposed Victoria CBC Television station (which ultimately never went to air due to lack of funding).
Prior to 2001, CHEK also broadcast many of the same programs as CHAN on a time-shifted basis; as with CHAN, this was a mixture
of CTV network programming and WIC-owned programming (usually drawn from the schedule of CHCH
Hamilton), although the WIC programming usually differed from that aired on CHAN. When
Baton Broadcasting's CIVT came on the air, CHEK was one
of three stations broadcasting CTV programming, the other two being BCTV and CIVT. For a year or so prior to disaffiliation,
after BCTV strengthened its own morning newscast, CHEK was the only station in B.C. airing
When the Vancouver affiliation switch occurred in 2001, CHEK became a CH station. It rebranded as CH Vancouver Island, and took on a schedule similar to CH Hamilton. CHEK airs 15-20 hours of news programs a week, and often programs usually shown on CHAN that were moved to accommodate their news programming. It also took Sports Page from former Global O&O CKVU, but the program continued to be produced at CHAN until its cancellation in September 2005.
In 2004, news anchor Hudson Mack left the station after 19 years, and joined CIVI as its news director on September 1. He became CIVI's 5pm news anchor on October 11. As a result, Sophie Lui returned from CHAN-TV and joined CIVT's former Victoria bureau chief Ed Watson as the pair became the station's main anchors.
CHEK celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2006; as part of the celebrations, it aired vignettes of station promos from the pre-CH era during commercial breaks. Another short vignette was also introduced consisting of CHEK's logos and station IDs through the years, from their first in 1956 to the CH logo it used up until September 2007.
On September 7, 2007, with the rebranding of the national CH service as E!, local programming
adopted the "CHEK News" brand, a partial reversal of the current trend for TV networks and systems in Canada to use generic
branding for their owned stations.
Current anchors and reporters
Anchors
- Julie Nolin (CHEK News at Five)
- Jennifer Crosby and Scott Fee (CHEK News at Six)
- Scott Fee (CHEK News at Eleven)
- Dana Hutchings (CHEK News at Five and Eleven Weekend)
Weather
- Ed Bain
- Gordie Tupper
Sports
- Jeff King
- Stacy Ross
- Keith Wells
Reporters
- John Ackermann
- Ian Black
- Philip Campbell
- Veronica Cooper
- Kim Emerson
- Kendall Hanson
- Dana Hutchings
- Jenny Matechuk
- Bruce Kirkpatrick
- Kristen Robinson
- Skye Ryan
- Dean Stoltz
Alumni (partial list)
- Marisa Adair
- Robin Adair
- Bob Aylward
- Harry Barisoff
- John Barton
- Paul Carson
- Clem Chapple
- Coleen Christie
- Ida Clarkson
- Bert Dodd
- Dawn Draper
- Kristin Eriksen
- Mark Jan Vrem
- Rich Jones
- Jill Krop
- Lara Lauzon
- Sophie Lui
- Catherine MacDonald
- Hudson Mack
- Pamela Martin
- Harry Maunu
- Bruce McAllister
- John Mitchell
- Harvey Oberfeld
- Doris Page
- Bruce Payne
- Michaela Pereira
- Patty Pitts
- Wally Rawcliffe
- Dale Read
- Mike Roberts
- Alex Robertson
- Bev Sinclair
- Zack Spencer
- Andy Stephens
- Judy Tyabji
- Ed Watson
- Ron Way
- Norma Wick
- Bill Williams
- Joan Wright
Locally produced programs formerly aired on CHEK (partial list)
- At Eleven (talk)
- Barton & Company (talk)
- BC Business Spotlight (business news)
- Body Moves (exercise)
- Capital Comment (political affairs)
- CH News at Noon (news)
- CHEK Around (lifestyles)
- CHEK at Noon (news & lifestyles)
- Club Six (teen dance show)
- Daily Edition (news)
- Daybreak (variety)
- For The Record (political affairs)
- Foufouli (children)
- GO! Magazine (lifestyles)
- Government Street (political affairs)
- Island Country Garden (gardening)
- Island Places, Island Faces (lifestyles)
- Island Good Morning (talk)
- Island Morning (talk)
- Island News Report (news)
- Island Sports Report (sports highlights)
- Learning for Leisure (educational)
- Maturity: The Golden Years (seniors' issues & lifestyles)
- Mixed Company (current affairs)
- Nanaimo Report (news)
- Shake It Up (teen dance show)
- Sports Page (sports highlights - produced at CHAN)
- Student Forum (student issues)
- Talk Back (current affairs call-in)
- The Ida Clarkson Show (talk)
- The Noon Show (news and talk)
- The Senior Chef (cooking)
- Tyabji (current affairs call-in)
- Vancouver Canucks hockey (sports)
- Vancouver Grizzlies basketball (sports)
- Victoria Scene (arts and entertainment magazine)
- Wake Up (morning newscast)
- What's Cooking (cooking)
- Woman to Woman (women's issues)
- World of Travel (travel)
Previously aired US programs
- Late Show with David Letterman, weekdays 4:30pm (August 1995 to August 1999)
Videotape Format
Just like CHAN-TV, CHEK also uses Betacam SP tapes for all its programming and non-live parts of its news broadcast called CHEK News.
See also
References
- ^ CHEK-TV's last night with CTV on YouTube
External links
- Official CHEK News Website
- Official E! Website
- CHEK-TV history at CCF website
| Broadcast television in British Columbia | |
|---|---|
| Vancouver | |
| Victoria | |
| Southern BC | |
| Northern BC | |
| US stations serving Vancouver |
Bellingham: KVOS 12 (Ind) • KBCB 24 (ShopNBC) |
| Cable-only | |
| 1 Available on over the air retransmitters in certain towns. | |
| E! Canada stations in Canada | |
|---|---|
| Owned and operated stations | CHCH Hamilton • CHBC Kelowna • CHCA Red Deer • CHEK Victoria • CJNT Montreal |
| Affliates | CFJC Kamloops |
| Secondary Carriers: | CHFD Thunder Bay • CKWS Kingston • CHEX Peterborough • CHEX-2 Oshawa |
| See Also | Global stations • CanWest Global Communications |
| CanWest Global Communications Corp. | |
|---|---|
| Corporate Directors | David Asper • Gail Asper • Leonard Asper • Lloyd Barber • Derek Burney • Ronald Daniels • David Drybrough • Paul Godfrey • Frank King • Lisa Pankratz |
| Newspapers | Calgary Herald • Dose • Edmonton Journal • Montreal Gazette • National Post • Ottawa Citizen • Regina Leader-Post • Saskatoon StarPhoenix • The Province (Vancouver) • Vancouver Sun • Victoria Times-Colonist • Windsor Star |
| Television Assets | E!:
CHBC • CHCA • CHCH •
CHEK • CJNT Global: CFRE • CFSK • CHAN • CICT • CIHF • CIII • CISA • CITV • CKMI • CKND CoolTV • DejaView • Fox Sports World Canada • Lonestar • mentv1 • Mystery TV1 • TVtropolis • X-Treme Sports |
| Assets outside of Canada | Original 106 Solent/Bristol/Aberdeen (UK) |
| 1 Co-owned with Quebecor, with CanWest having management responsibilities. | |
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