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| City of license | Kingston, Ontario |
| Branding | CKWS Television |
| Channels | Analog: 11 (VHF) Digital: allocated 69 (UHF) |
| Translators | see below |
| Affiliations | CBC |
| Owner | Corus Entertainment, Inc. (591989 B.C. Ltd.) |
| First air date | December 18, 1954 |
| Call letters’ meaning | Kingston Whig-Standard |
| Sister station(s) | CHEX-TV CFMK-FM CFFX-FM |
| Transmitter Power | 325 kW |
| Height | 311.9 m |
| Transmitter Coordinates | 44°9′59″N 76°25′28″W / 44.16639°N 76.42444°W |
| Website | CKWS Television |
CKWS is an affiliate of the CBC Television Network in Kingston, Ontario, providing coverage to Eastern Ontario from Campbellford to Morrisburg and from Perth to Oswego, New York in the United States.
CKWS is available on many cable systems throughout Eastern Ontario and Northern/Central New York. Its Channel 11 transmitter is located on Wolfe Island, south of Kingston. The tower height is 1000 ft (304.8 m[dubious conversion]), and the effective radiated power is 325,000 watts. There are also UHF transmitters in Brighton (Channel 66), Spencerville (Channel 26) and Beckwith Township (Smiths Falls/Perth) on Channel 36.
CKWS is owned by Corus Entertainment and its studios and offices are located at 170 Queen Street in downtown Kingston. CKWS has been a CBC affiliate since its inception in late 1954. It was originally a joint venture between Roy Thomson and the Davies family, owners of the Kingston Whig-Standard (the source of its calls). The station has been sold three times: to the Kanatec Corporation, bought by Power Corporation in 1977 and to Corus in 1999.
Many children across the country were exposed to CKWS programming in the late 1970s and 1980s by the Harrigan series - a particularly innocent and low budget show about a leprechaun, starring Barry Dale.[1] Shelagh Rogers of CBC Radio fame started out presenting the weather for the station's newscasts.
Until the arrival of CJOH-TV's Deseronto repeater on channel 6 in 1972 and cable television in Kingston in 1973, CKWS had very much a captive audience, as the only other station reliably available over-the-air was Watertown, New York's WWNY-TV.
Although the station is a private affiliate, it airs the minimum amount of CBC programming (40 hours per week).
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Transmitters
| Station | City of licence | Channel | ERP | HAAT | Transmitter Coordinates |
| CKWS-TV-1 | Brighton | 66 (UHF) | 22.4 kW | 159.5 m | 44°2′40″N 77°47′35″W / 44.04444°N 77.79306°W |
| CKWS-TV-2 | Prescott | 26 (UHF) | 7.2 kW | 118.2 m | 44°49′55″N 75°31′16″W / 44.83194°N 75.52111°W |
| CKWS-TV-3 | Smiths Falls | 36 (UHF) | 10 kW | 100 m | 45°0′42″N 76°3′16″W / 45.01167°N 76.05444°W |
Although CKWS-TV's Smiths Falls repeater overlaps its signal with that of CBC owned-and-operated station CBOT Ottawa, CKWS-TV-3 usually serves the Brockville area, along with the station's Prescott rebroadcaster.
Digital Television
As of 2009, no Canadian terrestrial station serving Kingston has applied for a digital transitional television license. After the analogue shutdown on August 31, 2011, CKWS-DT will be required to broadcast digitally using CKWS-TV's current analogue channel, VHF 11.
Should CKWS-DT apply to begin digital broadcast before the analogue shutdown, it would in theory have a reserved allocation on UHF channel 69. This allocation may conflict with US allocations to emergency services in this portion of the 700 MHz band;[2] its potential usability for digital subchannels would also be hampered by CRTC-imposed license restrictions preventing the broadcast of more than fourteen hours/week of unique programming not carried on the existing analogue channel.[3]
While CKWS is currently available digitally as part of the Bell TV and Shaw Direct satellite pay-TV packages, no immediate plans have been announced for digital terrestrial operation at CKWS or any other Corus station.
See also: digital television in Canada
See also
References
- ^ Harrigan (Series, 1969-1985), TVarchive.ca
- ^ Proposed Revisions to the Frequency Plan for Public Safety in the Band 700 MHz, January 2008, Industry Canada, Spectrum Management and Telecommunications
- ^ Networks unprepared for digital TV shift: CRTC, Grant Robertson, Globe and Mail, Toronto, June 24, 2008.
External links
- CKWS Television
- Canadian Communications Foundation - CKWS-TV History
- Fybush tower site descriptions - September 5, 2008 - Kingston, Ontario
- Query the REC's Canadian station database for CKWS-TV
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