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CHAN-TV
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- BCTV redirects here. For the former Boston Catholic Television, see CatholicTV.
| CHAN-TV | |
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| Vancouver, British Columbia | |
| Branding | Global BC |
| Slogan | "It's Our People" |
| Channels | Analog: 8 (VHF)/Cable 11 Digital: 22 (UHF) (not yet broadcasting; originally expected to launch in September 2006[citation needed]) |
| Translators | See list |
| Affiliations | Global |
| Owner | CanWest Global (CanWest MediaWorks Inc.) |
| Founded | October 30, 1960 |
| Call letters meaning | CHANnel |
| Former affiliations | Independent (1960-1961), CTV (1961-2001) |
| Transmitter Power | 250 kW 8.7 kW (digital) |
| Height | 711.0 m (analog) 670.0 m (digital) |
| Website | www.globaltvbc.com |
CHAN-TV is a television station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, broadcasting over-the-air on channel 8, and available via cable providers in the area on channel 11. Its studios are in the nearby city of Burnaby. The Global Television Network's owned-and-operated station in B.C., it currently uses the on-air brand Global BC, and was previously known as BCTV. The station is available throughout British Columbia, and its 6:00 p.m. News Hour is the highest-rated newscast in the province, with an average of 500,000 viewers per night.
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CHAN began broadcasting on October 30, 1960 at 4:45 PM as an independent station, joining CTV upon the new network's launch on October 1, 1961. Temporary studios were housed in downtown Vancouver, at 1219 Richards Street, until its current studios at 7850 Enterprise Street in Burnaby were completed in early 1961. Soon after launch, the station began installing relay transmitters across the province, and now reaches 97 percent of British Columbia. Via OTA channel 8, CHAN also reaches an American audience in neighbouring Whatcom County, Washington. In 1963, local entrepreneur Frank Griffiths, the owner of radio station CKNW, purchased the station from original owner Vantel Broadcasting, along with nearby CBC affiliate station CHEK-TV, based in Victoria on Vancouver Island, from its original owner, David Armstrong. Griffiths' Western Broadcasting Co. later sold a minority share to Selkirk Communications, buying back full control in 1989.
As early as 1973, CHAN began unofficially using the on-air name BCTV. [1] [2] In 1975, BCTV became CHAN's official on-air brand, which it used until 2001, when it became Global BC ("BCTV" was retained for its local news programs up until February 2006). Also in 1975, the current newsroom was constructed. It was rebuilt in the early nineties, moving the studio out of the newsroom, but keeping it as a backdrop, and remodelled again in 2006.
CHAN was one of the backbones of the CTV network for many years and one of the network's most successful affiliates. However, it was always somewhat hostile toward CTV. Management believed that the network's flagship station, CFTO in Toronto, was given undue favouritism in the production of CTV's Canadian programming in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
In the 1990s, CHAN's goal became the production of a new, early-evening national newscast from its studios. In fact, several newscast pilots were produced at CHAN, suggesting the network was seriously considering such a move. However, that newscast never materialized; instead, CHAN began producing Canada Tonight, which aired on most WIC-owned stations beginning in the mid-nineties.
Nonetheless, until 1997, CHAN bought the B.C. rights to several popular series from CFTO's parent company, Baton Broadcasting. However, tensions were exacerbated that year when Baton won a licence for a new station in Vancouver, CIVT. After Baton bought majority control of CTV, it became an open secret that CIVT would eventually replace CHAN as the CTV station for Vancouver. CHAN had signed a long-term contract several years prior that would not expire until 1999, but was extended to 2001. However, outside of the 40 hours of programming per week that this allowed for, and CHAN's own local news, the station had to rely on lower-profile programming supplied by parent company WIC. A small amount of CHUM programming also aired on CHAN at times during the 1997-2001 period, including CityLine.
In 2000, WIC's stations were purchased by CanWest Global, and as a result, CHAN would become the British Columbia O&O station of the Global Television Network. When BCTV's affiliation with CTV expired on September 1, 2001, a major shakeup in British Columbia television occurred:
- The CTV affiliation, jointly held by CHAN and sister station CHEK, moved to CTV-owned independent station CIVT, becoming a CTV O&O station which was briefly known as "BC CTV" (later simply "CTV").
- The Global affiliation, held by CKVU, a former CanWest station that was in the process of being sold to CHUM Limited, moved to CHAN, which became new O&O "Global BC".
- Most of BCTV's former WIC programming, now part of CanWest's CH system, moved to CHEK (where other WIC programs already aired). The station was rebranded "CH Vancouver Island".
- Finally, CKVU adopted the "ckvu13" brand and became an independent station carrying CHUM programming, some of which had aired on KVOS-TV the previous season. The station became Citytv Vancouver several months later, after the sale to CHUM was approved.
- A religious station, CHNU, launched two weeks later, and a CHUM-owned NewNet station in Victoria, CIVI, launched just over two weeks after that.
CHAN's news operation is well respected in the industry. Ever since the station decided to produce a one hour news bulletin in the late 1960s, a major part of the station's cash flow has gone into its news programming, and it has garnered high ratings and major awards since then. The station's on-air news style was even used as an inspiration for Ted Turner's CNN, as both use the newsroom as a backdrop during the broadcast.
In addition to its various local newscasts, CHAN also produced Canada Tonight, an early-evening newscast focusing on national news. Two versions were produced: one for BC itself, hosted by CKNW radio commentator Bill Good (now at CIVT, CTV's current Vancouver O&O station) and a national version, hosted by Tony Parsons, who also presented (and continues to anchor) CHAN's nightly news program, the News Hour. When CanWest Global purchased CHAN, the stories that were once sourced from CTV's other affiliates throughout the country, were replaced by stories sourced from Global's affiliates.
From 2001, when the station became Global BC, the news organization underwent a minor name change - BCTV News on Global. CHAN opted to keep the BCTV name for their newscast, as it was still a widely-recognised name in BC; also, to keep CIVT from using the name itself, as it contained the letters "CTV". In addition, CHAN became home to Global's national news centre and a new national newscast, Global National, anchored by former ABC reporter and presenter, Kevin Newman. The program goes live from tape from Vancouver at 5:30 p.m. (Pacific Time Zone), and is followed by the News Hour at 6:00 p.m. with Tony Parsons. Tara Nelson anchors the weekend edition of Global National, and is also the primary substitute anchor for the weekday editions, followed by Chris Gailus, who anchors the weekend version of the 'News Hour'.
The BCTV brand was finally dropped when Global launched its new look on February 6, 2006. CHAN's local news brand became "Global BC" at this point.
In 2006 Global struck a deal with the Canadian Traffic Network to supply the station with a Robinson R44 news helicopter with gyroscopic camera mounts. It will be shared with CKNW - the second news helicopter in Vancouver after that used by CIVT. Global has named the helicopter Global 1 - the same designation as Global Ontario and Global Edmonton's helicopter.
Global BC produces 48.5 hours of news content per week, 45 hours locally between the Morning News, Noon News, Early News, News Hour & News Hour Final and 3.5 hours nationally with Global National.
- Anchors
- Lynn Colliar - Morning News (Weekdays @ 5:30 a.m.)
- Steve Darling - Morning News (Weekdays @ 5:30 a.m.)
- Anne Drewa - News Final (Weekends @ 11PM)
- Chris Gailus - News Hour (Thursdays-Mondays @ 6 p.m.)
- Deborra Hope - Early News/News Hour Insight (Weekdays @ 5 p.m. and 6 p.m.)
- Jill Krop - News Hour Final (Weekdays @ 11 p.m.)
- Randene Neill - Noon News Hour (Weekdays @ 12 p.m.)
- Tara Nelson - Global National (Weekends @ 5:30 p.m.)
- Kevin Newman - Global National (Weekdays @ 5:30 p.m.)
- Tony Parsons - News Hour (Tuesdays/Wednesdays @ 6 p.m.)
- Robin Stickley - Weekend Morning News and Weekend Noon News Hour (Saturdays @ 7 a.m./Sundays @ 8 a.m. and Weekends @ 12:00 p.m.)
- Weather
- Wayne Cox - Early News/News Hour/News Hour Final weatherman
- Kristi Gordon - Weekend meteorologist
- Arran Henn - Noon News Hour weatherwoman
- Mark Madryga - Senior/Morning News meteorologist
- Sports
- Squire Barnes - Noon News Hour/News Hour Sportscaster
- Barry Deley - News Hour Final (Thursday/Friday), News Hour and News Final (Weekends)
- Jay Durant - News Hour Final (Monday - Wednesday)
- Jay Janower - Weekend Morning and Noon News sportscaster
- Traffic
- Kaitlyn Herbst - Weekday mornings in Global 1
- Arran Henn - Weekday mornings
- Leah Holiove - Weekday 5 PM in Global 1
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For the most part, CHAN-TV airs a typical Global network schedule, but with a few differences:
- Programs that are pushed from the CHAN schedule for its news programs, such as Days of Our Lives, and Sports Page (until its cancellation in September 2005), are shown on CHEK.
- CHAN owns the British Columbia rights to The Oprah Winfrey Show, dating back to its days as a CTV affiliate. In every other market in which CTV owns a station, CTV owns the local rights to Oprah.
- CHAN normally aired Saturday Night Live reruns (that were originally aired from 1975 to 1980) during its late night programming hours on weekdays from March of 2004 (following the cancellation of The Mike Bullard Show). The repeats continued until March of 2006, when they were replaced with reruns of The Shield, followed by reruns That '70s Show and Queer Eye For The Straight Guy.
- Late Show with David Letterman, weeknights 12:37 a.m. (Feb 1994 to August 1995)
- (280-JOCK followed News Hour Final at 12:05 a.m. until it was cancelled in late 1994, which pushed back Late Show to 12:37 a.m. for several months.)
- Tonight Show with Jay Leno, weeknights 12:07 a.m. (August 1995 to August 2001)
- (As CHUM held the rights to this program throughout the rest of the country, when CIVI-TV lanuched in nearby Victoria, British Columbia, the broadcast rights transferred over to there.)
CHAN operates the single largest private transmitter network in North America, with roughly one hundred transmitters (some of which are community-owned) serving 97 percent of British Columbia. Therefore, the network relies exclusively on cable and satellite in the remaining municipalities (including most where CFCN and CFRN were already available over-the-air before 2001).
CHAN-TV uses Betacam SP analogue videotape for all of its local advertisements and non-live parts of their newscasts. MPEG-2 transmission is used in nearly all non-local broadcasts. The station is slowly moving away from Betacam SP and moving to a digital format.
 "Channel 8" logo used from 1960 to 1963. |
 Joint logo of CHAN (8) and CHEK-TV (6), introduced following Frank Griffiths' purchase of both stations. This logo was used from 1963 to 1975. |
 The original "BCTV" logo used from 1975 to 1994. |
 Final "BCTV" logo, used from 1994 to 2001. |
 Global logo, used from 2001 to 2006. |
 Global BC logo, used from 2001 to 2006. |
- 1960: CHAN-O-RAMA (Used in Newscasts)
- 1976: There's No Place Like BCTV
- 1978: The Best Goes On
- 1979: Putting On the Hits
- 1980: We've Got a Good Thing Showing
- 1981: First of All
- 1982: Our Best is Showing
- 1983: We're Givin' it all We've Got
- 1984: Coming Through For You
- 1985: Together We'll Have the Best Year Yet
- 1986: Now You Know BCTV
- 1987: BCTV, Oh So Much To Share
- 1993: BCTV, All The Right Stuff
- 1994-2001: TV for BC
- 1994: Your Choice BCTV
- 1994: Coverage. We Go All The Way
- 2001-2006: Global's Got It!
- 2003-2006: KnoW Sooner (Used in News Promos)
- 2006-present: It's Our People. (Used in News Promos)
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| Vancouver |
CBUT 2 (CBC) • CHAN 8 (Global) • CKVU 10 (Citytv) • CFEG 19 (Religious Ind) • CBUFT 26 (SRC) • CIVT 32 (CTV) • CHNM 42 (Multicultural Ind) • CHNU 66 (Religious Ind) |
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| 1 Available on over the air retransmitters in certain towns. | |
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| Owned and operated stations | CHAN Vancouver • CICT Calgary • CITV Edmonton • CISA Lethbridge • CFSK Saskatoon • CFRE Regina • CKND Winnipeg • CIII Toronto • CKMI Quebec City • CIHF Halifax |
| Secondary carriers | CJBN Kenora • CJON St. John's |
| See also | E! stations • CanWest Global Communications |
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| 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 | Network Ten (Australia) • Original 106: Solent/Bristol/Aberdeen (UK) |
| 1 Co-owned with Quebecor, with CanWest having management responsibilities. | |
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