CKNC-TV

CKNC-TV
(defunct)

City	Sudbury, Ontario
Branding	MCTV - CBC
Channels	Analog: 9 (VHF)
Translators	see below
Affiliations	CBC
Owner	J. Conrad Lavigne (1971 - 1980) Mid-Canada Communications (1980 - 1990) Baton Broadcasting/CTV Inc. (1990 - 2002)
First air date	October 8, 1971
Last air date	October 27, 2002
Sister station(s)	CICI-TV
Transmitter power	198.1 kW
Height	221 m
Transmitter coordinates	46°30′2″N 81°1′12″W / 46.50056°N 81.02000°W

CKNC-TV was a television station in Sudbury, Ontario. The station was in operation from 1971 to 2002 as a private affiliate of CBC Television.

History

CKNC was established on October 8, 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.^[1] All four ceased to exist as separate stations on October 27, 2002, becoming rebroadcasters of Toronto's CBLT, with CKNC's call sign changed to CBLT-6. These translators would close on July 31, 2012, due to budget cuts affecting the CBC.^[2][3]

Transmitters

Station	City of licence	Channel	ERP	HAAT	Transmitter Coordinates
CBCE-TV	Little Current	16 (UHF)	59.2 kW	254 m	45°56′1″N 81°59′32″W / 45.93361°N 81.99222°W
CBEC-TV	Elliot Lake	7 (VHF)	67.9 kW	173.5 m	46°23′16″N 82°37′16″W / 46.38778°N 82.62111°W

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

1. CRTC Decision 2002-303
2. Speaking notes for Hubert T. Lacroix regarding measures announced in the context of the Deficit Reduction Action Plan
3. Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2012-384, July 17, 2012.

External links

• CRTC Decision 2001-457-6, license renewal for all MCTV stations.
• Canadian Communications Foundation - CKNC-TV History