(formerly known as ''ATV'') is a system of four
Television Station s in the
Canadian Maritimes ,
Owned And Operated by the
CTV Television Network .
The CTV Atlantic stations are:
All four stations refer to themselves on air as CTV, not by their call letters, and have common local programming for the most part, but are otherwise considered separate stations. Station information and history is discussed on each station's own page.
CJCH was a charter CTV affiliate when it started in
1961 . CJCB and CKCW were established as
CBC stations in
1954 . CKCW affiliated with CTV in
1969 , adding sister station CKLT the same year, and CJCB affiliated with CTV in
1972 . Between 1969 and 1976, CKCW's relay stations in Northern New Brunswick (Campbellton, Upsalquitch Lake and Newcastle, plus 3 relay stations in Quebec) carried a combined CBC/CTV schedule, becoming full relays of CKCW after CHSJ Saint John, the CBC affiliate in New Brunswick, established their own relays in the area.
CHUM Limited , a Toronto broadcaster, bought CJCH in
1970 , CJCB in
1971 and CKCW and CKLT in
1972 and merged them into the ATV system. In
1997 , as part of a group deal, the ATV stations were sold to CTV.
Although each station originally produced its own news and local programming in the beginning, they too were merged in the early
1980s . A side effect of this is that the newscast often includes stories about things like local politics that can be of little interest to viewers in other parts of the region, and a common complaint among residents of both
New Brunswick and
Nova Scotia is that CTV News focuses too much on the other province. However, CTV Atlantic has had some of the highest ratings of any local newscasts in Canada, although its presence and viewing audience is somewhat less in
Prince Edward Island mainly as a result of competition from a local CBC station which provides the province's only PEI-specific newscast.
On October 11, 2005, ATV was rebranded as simply CTV. Most other CTV owned-and-operated stations had been rebranded the prior week.
CTV Atlantic produces approximately 27 hours of local programming each week.
- All of the newscasts on CTV Atlantic are branded as ''CTV News''.
- --- ''CTV News'' airs at 12:00 PM (on .
- --- The flagship 6:00 PM newscast was formally known as the ''ATV Evening News'' while the 11:30 PM newscast was known as ''ATV News Nightside''
