CHEK TV in Victoria and CHCA TV in Red Deer to go dark on 8/31

[e-dawg]

Please see link from Victoria Times Colonist for details.

http://www.timescolonist.com/news/CHEK+closing/1817386/story.html

 

[mimo]

This is getting ridiculous. I grew up watching CHEK when i lived in Vancouver. ¿How many cities are going to lose their only tv channel before all this stops? The capital of British Columbia without a local tv station, it's only tv news voice? That's just sick. The Vancouver channels sure as hell aren't going to provide any coverage of what goes on in Victoria, unless it has to do with provincial government issues.

 

[e-dawg]

What about CIVI-TV 53 (A-Channel)?

 

[Joe_Capitano]

Yeah, Mimo. A has been doing news for some time. Hudson Mack, yet.

Chalk another one up to media consolidation. What a shame.

 

[mimo]

I didn't know Victoria finally had a second tv channel. I lived in B.C. in the 80's and hadn't been back since 91. Still, the loss of CHEK is huge.

 

[Bluenoser]

I didn't know Victoria finally had a second tv channel. I lived in B.C. in the 80's and hadn't been back since 91. Still, the loss of CHEK is huge.

CIVI launched in 2001, as part of NewNet.

 

[azumanga]

I didn't know Victoria finally had a second tv channel. I lived in B.C. in the 80's and hadn't been back since 91. Still, the loss of CHEK is huge.

CIVI launched in 2001, as part of NewNet.

Chalk another one up to media consolidation. What a shame.

It's especially a shame that a legacy VHF television station, having signed on in 1956, is going dark, leaving an 8-year old UHF station the "last man standing" on Vancouver Island. I won't be surprised if CTV buys CHEK-TV (and its repeaters), moves "A" to CHEK-TV and closes CIVI -- the channel 6 frequency and the potential is too valuable.

 

[e-dawg]

Do you think Sun TV may purchase CHEK and CHCA TV?

 

[azumanga]

Do you think Sun TV may purchase CHEK and CHCA TV?

How's Sun TV doing in Toronto these days? If it's still doing rotten, Sun TV's owners are better off making CHEK-TV as the first west coast TVA affiliate.

Quebecor, the owners of Sun TV and TVA, originally had plans to expand Sun TV nationwide but, because of the economy and the performance of the Toronto station, they have given up on that idea.

 

[Yeziknoradio]

How's Sun TV doing in Toronto these days?

From what I understand, they are hanging on a thread. They may even be in violation of their licence for lacking in local news content.

As for expansion, the CRTC may not allow that.
They are already restricted to the Tororonto market for ad revenue, while placing themselves in the Ottawa and London markets.

 

[azumanga]

How's Sun TV doing in Toronto these days?

From what I understand, they are hanging on a thread. They may even be in violation of their licence for lacking in local news content.

Anyone want to take bets that Sun TV would be the next to close? In my opinion, they would be better off as a TVA affiliate -- that way, they would only have Radio-Canada as its competition among Toronto's Francophone community.

 

[Bluenoser]

Do you think Sun TV may purchase CHEK and CHCA TV?

How's Sun TV doing in Toronto these days? If it's still doing rotten, Sun TV's owners are better off making CHEK-TV as the first west coast TVA affiliate.

TVA has a Wet Coast feed, all programming (including the overnight LCN relay) delayed by 3 hrs. I can't see TVA opening a station in Victoria/Vancouver, but stranger things have happened in that market

 

[azumanga]

It's curtains for CHEK-TV -- the employees' bid to buy the station failed to pass Canwest's muster; the station will close after the evening news:

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/CHEK+employees+submit+save+local+station/1939927/story.html

 

[mjlarochelle]

And we all know that long after CHEK has gone dark, Canwest will be the first to oppose any attempt to open a new station on Vancouver Island. I just hope CIVI stays afloat.

 

[compubit]

As was announced today, CHEK will be around for at least another day... CHEK may survive after all!