CKCW-DT
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Moncton, New Brunswick Canada |
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| Branding |
CTV Atlantic CTV News Atlantic (newscasts) |
| Channels |
Digital: 29 (UHF) Virtual: 29.1 () |
| Translators | see below |
| Affiliations | CTV |
| Owner | Bell Media |
| First air date | November 30, 1954 |
| Call letters' meaning | derived from its former sister radio station |
| Former callsigns | CKCW-TV (1954-2011) |
| Former channel number(s) | 2 (Analog, 1954-2011) |
| Former affiliations | CBC (1954-1969) |
| Transmitter power | 390 kW |
| Height | 304.4 m |
| Transmitter coordinates | 45°51′6″N 64°48′44″W / 45.85167°N 64.81222°W |
| Website | CTV Atlantic |
CKCW-DT is the CTV owned-and-operated television station in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. It broadcasts a high-definition digital signal on UHF channel 29 from a transmitter located on Wilson Road in Hillsborough. It serves as the CTV outlet for both New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island (by way of a repeater in Charlottetown). It is sister station to CKLT-DT in Saint John, which essentially operates as a CKCW rebroadcaster even though it is separately licensed.
Owned by Bell Media, it is part of the CTV Atlantic regional system in the Canadian Maritimes. Its studios are located at Halifax and George Streets in Moncton, with a PEI bureau in Charlottetown. On cable, CKCW-DT can be seen on Rogers Cable channel 8 and Eastlink channel 9.
The station first went on the air in 1954 and was founded by Fred A. Lynds and his company, Moncton Broadcasting, along with CKCW radio (AM 1220, now FM 94.5). It was originally the CBC Television affiliate for central and northern New Brunswick. CKCW was part of a regional network of stations called the Lionel Television System. Its mascot was called Lionel the Lobster.
On September 21, 1969, as part of a complex realignment of television affiliations in the Maritimes, Saint John's original station, CHSJ-TV (now CBAT-DT) set up a rebroadcaster in Moncton, enabling CKCW-TV to switch to CTV. CKCW then built a full-time satellite in Saint John, CKLT. However, since CHSJ-TV needed time to build rebroadcasters in the northern part of the province, CKCW's rebroadcasters in Campbellton, Upsalquitch and Newcastle aired a mixed CBC-CTV schedule until October 1976.
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