is a
Television Station in
Victoria, British Columbia . Broadcasting to
Vancouver Island , the station is a member of the
CH Television System , owned by
CanWest Global . It broadcasts on channel 6.
CHEK was British Columbia's first private television station, signing on the air as a
CBC affiliate on
December 1 ,
1956 . The station began to air some
CTV programs in
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. At one stage, CHEK used the same flower logo as CHAN, but later reverted back to its own logo.
Prior to 2001, CHEK also simulcast CHAN's ''News Hour'' and broadcast many of the same programs 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 ''
Canada AM ''.
When the Vancouver affiliation switch occurred in 2001, CHEK became a CH affliate. 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.
- Murray Langdon ''(CH News at Noon)''
- Sophie Lui ''(CH News at Five)''
- Ed Watson ''(CH News at Six)''
- Jennifer Crosby ''(CH News at Eleven)''
- Philip Campbell ''(CH Weekend News)''
- Jeff King
- Stacy Ross
- Keith Wells
- Philip Campbell
- Veronica Cooper
- Kim Emerson
- Kendall Hanson
- Dana Hutchings
- Bruce Kirkpatrick
- Kristen Robinson
- Skye Ryan
- Dean Stoltz
- Mary Griffin
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Just like CHAN -TV, CHEK also uses Betacam SP tapes for all its programming and non-live parts of its news broadcast called CH News.
