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CIVI-DT
Victoria, British Columbia; Canada;
Channels	Digital: 23 (UHF); Virtual: 53;
Branding	CTV 2 Vancouver Island (general); CTV News Vancouver Island (newscasts);
Programming
Affiliations	CTV 2 (2011–present)
Ownership
Owner	Bell Media Inc.
Sister stations	TV: CIVT-DT; Radio: CFAX, CHBE-FM;
History
First air date	October 4, 2001 (22 years ago)
Former call signs	CIVI-TV (2001–2011)
Former channel number(s)	Analogue:; CIVI-TV: 53 (UHF, 2001–2011); CIVI-TV-2: 17 (UHF, 2001–2011);
Former affiliations	Independent (NewNet) (2001–2005); A-Channel/A (2005–2011);
Call sign meaning	Independent Television for Vancouver Island
Technical information
Licensing authority	CRTC
ERP	CIVI-DT: 1.5 kW; CIVI-DT-2: 35 kW;
HAAT	CIVI-DT: 99.6 m (327 ft); CIVI-DT-2: 634.3 m (2,081 ft);
Transmitter coordinates	CIVI-DT: 48°25′30″N 123°20′13″W / 48.42500°N 123.33694°W; CIVI-DT-2: 49°21′16″N 122°57′30″W / 49.35444°N 122.95833°W;
Translator(s)	CIVI-DT-2 17 (UHF) Vancouver
Links
Website	CTV 2 Vancouver Island

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CIVI-DT (channel 53) is a television station in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, part of the CTV 2 system. It is owned and operated by Bell Media alongside Vancouver-based CTV station CIVT-DT (channel 32). Although the two stations nominally maintain separate operations, the Victoria station's newscasts have been anchored from the CIVT-DT studios since 2023. CIVI-DT's offices are located at the corner of Broad Street and Pandora Avenue across from the McPherson Playhouse and the Victoria City Hall in downtown Victoria, and its transmitter is located on the roof of Camosack Manor near Rockland. The station operates a rebroadcaster (CIVI-DT-2) on virtual and UHF channel 17 in Vancouver, with transmitter atop Mount Seymour in the district municipality of North Vancouver.

History[edit]

At the end of the 1990s, CHUM Limited only owned terrestrial television stations in the province of Ontario. Similarly, Craig Media only had stations in provinces within the Canadian Prairies. Both companies looked to expand their national presence, and both submitted a bid when the CRTC issued a call for applications for a new television station licence in Victoria; CHUM was awarded the licence in 2000. CIVI first signed on the air on October 4, 2001, as CHUM's first original station to be part of the NewNet television system. Their studios, dubbed "Pandora's Box" for its location on Pandora Avenue, had previously been the home of the Brackman-Ker Milling Company and other uses over the years; CHUM spent over $20 million restoring it, including outfitting the building with the latest in technology and bringing it up to seismic standards.^[1]^[2]

CIVI logo used under "The New VI" brand, used from 2001 to 2005.

Known on the air as "The New VI", the station started off with much pomp and circumstance, marking their launch with a street party around their studios in Victoria and around their Nanaimo bureau.^[3] It boasted a large lineup of personalities, including former British Columbia New Democratic Party cabinet minister Moe Sihota. Original programming included Island Underground (focusing on Vancouver Island's youth culture),^[4] The New Canoe (hosted by and produced for the area's First Nations residents),^[5]^[6] Environ-Mental (focusing on localized environmental issues),^[7] the VI Parade (handling local arts and culture),^[8] and a localized version of Speaker's Corner; much of the launch schedule consisted of programming from other CHUM outlets (including CityLine, FashionTelevision and Ed the Sock's Night Party), some of which had previously aired across the border on KVOS-TV in Bellingham, WA (which CHUM had been syndicating programming to since the 1990s in the face of repeated failures to launch a station in the area), along with American imported and syndicated programming (including The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and the Star Trek franchise), and a primetime movie on Sundays dubbed The Great MoVI (in the style of Citytv's Great Movies).^[9]

However, the station wound up launching amid a massive TV realignment in the Vancouver market, and ultimately their launch was delayed from September to October; the various changes also meant that KVOS was displaced by CIVI from its long-time home on channel 12 on many Vancouver-area cable systems.^[10]^[11] The station also struggled to compete against CH owned-and-operated station CHEK-TV (channel 6, now an independent station), which had been the only local station on Vancouver Island for more than four decades. Gradually, personalities from the original roster were replaced by new faces, and some were let go without replacements. Not long after launch, CHUM purchased CKVU in Vancouver and converted it into the Citytv station for the region, meaning CIVI became part of a twinstick; as per CRTC regulations regarding twinsticks, CKVU was prohibited from airing more than 10% of the programming aired on CIVI, and newscasts were required to be separately managed.

As A-Channel Victoria[edit]

Logo used while as *A-Channel*, used from 2005 to 2008.

The station's studio building in Victoria. It used to be nicknamed "Pandora's Box" for its location at the corner of Broad Street and Pandora Avenue, just across the street from Victoria City Hall and McPherson Playhouse.

The station was rebranded as "A-Channel" on August 2, 2005, along with the rest of the NewNet system. The station would likely have been part of the original A-Channel system at its launch had Craig Media won the licence in 2000. On July 12, 2006, CTVglobemedia announced plans to purchase CHUM Limited, with the intention of divesting the A-Channel stations.^[12] On that same day it was also announced that the morning news program A-Channel Morning would be discontinued, although this decision was supposedly unrelated to the takeover by CTVglobemedia (CIVI later restored a morning program to its schedule in the fall of 2007).

Rogers Communications announced a deal to buy A-Channel on April 9, 2007;^[13] however, given the conditions of approval for the sale of CHUM on June 8, 2007,^[14] Rogers acquired the Citytv system instead, while CTV kept A-Channel.^[15] CTVglobemedia became the official owner of CIVI on June 22, 2007.

As A Vancouver Island[edit]

The A-Channel system and Atlantic Canada's ASN was rebranded as A on August 11, 2008, with CIVI becoming branded as "A Vancouver Island". As a result, CIVI's newscasts were rebranded as A News on that date, although the station's employees had been using that title for a couple of months prior to the relaunch; the station also began producing a morning newscast (under the title A Morning) on September 8, 2008, but was later cancelled on March 4, 2009, due to economic issues. The program was later replaced with a simulcast of the morning show from sister radio station CFAX (1070 AM).^[16]^[17]^[18]

CTV Two/CTV 2 Vancouver Island[edit]

As part of Bell Media's May 30, 2011, announcement of the rebranding of the A television stations to the CTV Two brand, CIVI became branded as "CTV Two Vancouver Island" on August 29, 2011.^[19] As a result, CIVI's newscasts were rebranded as CTV News on that same date.

News operation[edit]

CIVI presently broadcasts two hours and 30 minutes of original newscasts each week, consisting of a thirty-minute local newscast each weekday at 4:30 p.m., anchored remotely from the Vancouver studios of co-owned CIVT.^[20] This newscast is repeated, potentially with minor modifications, at 6:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. (the latter being a 35-minute timeslot). There are no longer any weekend newscasts.

At launch, the station's newscast was dubbed VILand News (sister station CKVR had originally used a similar title, VRLand News, for their first few years as a NewNet station); the station's news anchors walked around the studio instead of sitting behind a desk, mimicking the format used at Toronto sister station CITY-TV and other NewNet outlets. VILand News consisted of a 90-minute long evening newscast from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. and a half-hour late newscast at 11:00 p.m., as well as the two-hour morning newscast New Day (initially broadcast from the station's Nanaimo facilities with Bruce Williams).^[21] Weatherman and local folk musician Tony Latimer delivered his forecasts from his own sailboat, the Forbes and Cameron, which was equipped with an omni-directional microwave transmitter so Tony could broadcast from Victoria's Inner Harbour or other offshore locations.^[22]

To combat the station's low ratings, the evening news block was also repeatedly modified, being split into three different shows (VILand Live at 5:30, VILand Voices at 6:00 and VILand News at 6:30) in January 2002.^[23]^[24]^[25] By 2004, CHUM higher-ups, in hopes of stemming the station's financial losses and low ratings, hired longtime CHEK anchor Hudson Mack as its new chief anchor and news director. Changes were introduced to the station's newscasts such as the introduction of a desk for the anchors; these changes appeared to have been effective.^[2] While still trailing CHEK, the ratings gap between the two had narrowed.

Since Mack's arrival, the station has been honoured with a number of industry awards. In 2006, it received three Edward R. Murrow Awards from the Radio-Television News Directors Association International, for Best Newscast, Best Investigative Reporting and Best Sports Reporting. It was the second straight year the station won Murrows for its newscast and investigative reporting. In 2005, the station won eight industry awards, including two Edward R. Murrow Awards from RTNDA International, for Best Newscast and Best Investigative Reporting; and top news honours from the British Columbia Association of Broadcasters.

The station's weekend 6:00 p.m. newscasts were cancelled as of February 3, 2021, due to budget cuts made by Bell Media.^[26]

On June 15, 2023, in the wake of cuts announced by Bell Media earlier that week, the station announced it had replaced its early-evening newscasts with a single half-hour 4:30 p.m. newscast (repeated at 6:00 p.m.) on weekdays, anchored from Vancouver, effective June 19.^[20] The Times Colonist reported that this was the station's only remaining daily newscast.^[27]

Notable former on-air staff[edit]

Moe Sihota – political commentator (former president of the British Columbia New Democratic Party)

Technical information[edit]

Subchannel[edit]

Subchannel of CIVI-DT^[28]
Channel	Res.	Aspect	Short name	Programming
53.1	1080i	16:9	CIVI	Main CIVI-DT programming / CTV 2

Analogue-to-digital conversion[edit]

CIVI shut down its analogue signal, over UHF channel 53, on August 31, 2011, the official date on which Canadian television stations in CRTC-designated mandatory markets transitioned from analogue to digital broadcasts. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 23,^[29]^[30] using virtual channel 53.

References[edit]

^ "The New VI - BUILDING". February 7, 2002. Archived from the original on February 7, 2002. Retrieved January 23, 2022.
^ ^a ^b Mack, Hudson (October 3, 2015). Hudson Mack: Unsinkable Anchor. Harbour Publishing. ISBN 978-1-55017-721-3.
^ The New VI Redux, retrieved January 23, 2022
^ "The New VI - Island Underground". December 30, 2001. Archived from the original on December 30, 2001. Retrieved January 23, 2022.
^ "The New VI - The New Canoe". November 12, 2001. Archived from the original on November 12, 2001. Retrieved January 23, 2022.
^ Andrews, Marke (June 3, 2005). "First nations woman heads TV production company" (Newspapers.com). The Vancouver Sun. Vancouver BC. p. 31.
^ "The New VI - EnviroMental". February 21, 2002. Archived from the original on February 21, 2002. Retrieved January 23, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^ "The New VI - VIParade". February 13, 2002. Archived from the original on February 13, 2002. Retrieved January 23, 2022.
^ "The New VI - Schedule Grid". December 16, 2001. Archived from the original on December 16, 2001. Retrieved January 23, 2022.
^ Edwards, Ian (May 14, 2001). "West Coast station shuffle causes confusion". Retrieved January 23, 2022.
^ "Canadian Communications Foundation - Fondation Des Communications Canadiennes". Archived from the original on November 7, 2007. Retrieved January 23, 2022.
^ "Bell Globemedia makes $1.7B bid for CHUM". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. July 12, 2006. Retrieved July 12, 2006.
^ "CRTC expected to OK Rogers' $137.5M buy of CTVglobemedia TV channels". Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News. April 9, 2007. Retrieved April 9, 2007.^{[dead link]}
^ "CRTC tells CTVglobemedia to sell 5 Citytv stations". cbc.ca via Yahoo! Canada News. June 8, 2007. Retrieved June 8, 2007.^{[dead link]}
^ "CTV expected to rebrand A Channel". Friends of Canadian Broadcasting. June 13, 2006. Archived from the original on March 22, 2015. Retrieved July 5, 2006.
^ Morning TV show back on airwaves Archived January 7, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
^ CNW Group | CTV INC. | Double Vision: Fall 2008 Schedules Announced for CTV and "A"
^ "A Victoria website confirming 'A' Morning debut September 8th". Archived from the original on September 4, 2009. Retrieved September 8, 2008.
^ "Bell Media's /A\ Network to Become "CTV Two" This Fall" (Press release). Bell Media. May 30, 2011. Archived from the original on July 27, 2011. Retrieved May 30, 2011.
^ ^a ^b "First at 4:30: CTV Vancouver Island launches live, hyper-local newscast". CTVNews.ca. June 15, 2023. Retrieved June 16, 2023.
^ "The New VI - NewDay". Archived from the original on December 30, 2001. Retrieved January 23, 2022.
^ "The New VI - Personalities". April 2, 2002. Archived from the original on April 2, 2002. Retrieved January 23, 2022.
^ VILand Live at 5:30 - Opening 2002, retrieved January 23, 2022
^ VILand Voices - Open 2002, retrieved January 23, 2022
^ VILandNews - Open 2002, retrieved January 23, 2022
^ @AlannaKellyNews (February 3, 2021). "As for the weekend coverage, I'm..." (Tweet) – via Twitter.
^ Devlin, Mike (July 4, 2023). "TV in Greater Victoria continues to evolve, with CHEK emerging triumphant". Times Colonist. Retrieved July 4, 2023.
^ RabbitEars TV Query for CIVI
^ Digital Television – Office of Consumer Affairs (OCA) Archived November 19, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
^ CHCH – Hamilton shuts off analog signal YouTube. August 15, 2011.

External links[edit]

CTV 2 Vancouver Island
Canadian Communications Foundation – CIVI-DT History
CIVI-DT in the REC Canadian station database

[1] "The New VI - BUILDING". February 7, 2002. Archived from the original on February 7, 2002. Retrieved January 23, 2022.

[:0-2] Mack, Hudson (October 3, 2015). Hudson Mack: Unsinkable Anchor. Harbour Publishing. ISBN 978-1-55017-721-3.

[3] The New VI Redux, retrieved January 23, 2022

[4] "The New VI - Island Underground". December 30, 2001. Archived from the original on December 30, 2001. Retrieved January 23, 2022.

[5] "The New VI - The New Canoe". November 12, 2001. Archived from the original on November 12, 2001. Retrieved January 23, 2022.

[6] Andrews, Marke (June 3, 2005). "First nations woman heads TV production company" (Newspapers.com). The Vancouver Sun. Vancouver BC. p. 31.

[7] "The New VI - EnviroMental". February 21, 2002. Archived from the original on February 21, 2002. Retrieved January 23, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)

[8] "The New VI - VIParade". February 13, 2002. Archived from the original on February 13, 2002. Retrieved January 23, 2022.

[9] "The New VI - Schedule Grid". December 16, 2001. Archived from the original on December 16, 2001. Retrieved January 23, 2022.

[10] Edwards, Ian (May 14, 2001). "West Coast station shuffle causes confusion". Retrieved January 23, 2022.

[11] "Canadian Communications Foundation - Fondation Des Communications Canadiennes". Archived from the original on November 7, 2007. Retrieved January 23, 2022.

[takeover-12] "Bell Globemedia makes $1.7B bid for CHUM". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. July 12, 2006. Retrieved July 12, 2006.

[Rogers-13] "CRTC expected to OK Rogers' $137.5M buy of CTVglobemedia TV channels". Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News. April 9, 2007. Retrieved April 9, 2007.^{[dead link]}

[CTV-14] "CRTC tells CTVglobemedia to sell 5 Citytv stations". cbc.ca via Yahoo! Canada News. June 8, 2007. Retrieved June 8, 2007.^{[dead link]}

[rebrand-15] "CTV expected to rebrand A Channel". Friends of Canadian Broadcasting. June 13, 2006. Archived from the original on March 22, 2015. Retrieved July 5, 2006.

[16] Morning TV show back on airwaves Archived January 7, 2016, at the Wayback Machine

[17] CNW Group | CTV INC. | Double Vision: Fall 2008 Schedules Announced for CTV and "A"

[18] "A Victoria website confirming 'A' Morning debut September 8th". Archived from the original on September 4, 2009. Retrieved September 8, 2008.

[19] "Bell Media's /A\ Network to Become "CTV Two" This Fall" (Press release). Bell Media. May 30, 2011. Archived from the original on July 27, 2011. Retrieved May 30, 2011.

[civi-430-launch-20] "First at 4:30: CTV Vancouver Island launches live, hyper-local newscast". CTVNews.ca. June 15, 2023. Retrieved June 16, 2023.

[21] "The New VI - NewDay". Archived from the original on December 30, 2001. Retrieved January 23, 2022.

[22] "The New VI - Personalities". April 2, 2002. Archived from the original on April 2, 2002. Retrieved January 23, 2022.

[23] VILand Live at 5:30 - Opening 2002, retrieved January 23, 2022

[24] VILand Voices - Open 2002, retrieved January 23, 2022

[25] VILandNews - Open 2002, retrieved January 23, 2022

[26] @AlannaKellyNews (February 3, 2021). "As for the weekend coverage, I'm..." (Tweet) – via Twitter.

[27] Devlin, Mike (July 4, 2023). "TV in Greater Victoria continues to evolve, with CHEK emerging triumphant". Times Colonist. Retrieved July 4, 2023.

[28] RabbitEars TV Query for CIVI

[Analog_to_Digital-29] Digital Television – Office of Consumer Affairs (OCA) Archived November 19, 2013, at the Wayback Machine

[YouTube_video_of_transition-30] CHCH – Hamilton shuts off analog signal YouTube. August 15, 2011.

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+| affiliations = [[CTV 2]] (2011–present)
-| owner                  = [[Bell Media|Bell Media Inc.]]
+| owner = [[Bell Media Inc.]]
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+| location = [[Victoria, British Columbia]]
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+| country = Canada
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-| callsign_meaning       = Independent Television for Vancouver Island
+| callsign_meaning = Independent Television for Vancouver Island
-| sister_stations        = '''TV:''' [[CIVT-DT]]<br>'''Radio:''' [[CFAX]], [[CHBE-FM]]
+| sister_stations = {{ubl|'''TV:''' [[CIVT-DT]]|'''Radio:''' [[CFAX]], [[CHBE-FM]]}}
-| former_callsigns       = CIVI-TV (2001–2011)
+| former_callsigns = CIVI-TV (2001–2011)
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-| former_affiliations    = [[Independent station (North America)|Independent (NewNet)]] (2001–2005)<br>A-Channel/A (2005–2011)
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-| licensing_authority    = [[Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission|CRTC]]
+| licensing_authority = [[CRTC]]
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+| website = {{URL|https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca|CTV 2 Vancouver Island}}
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-'''CIVI-DT''' (channel 53) is a [[television station]] in [[Victoria, British Columbia]], Canada, part of the [[CTV 2]] system. It is [[Owned-and-operated station|owned and operated]] by [[Bell Media]] alongside [[Vancouver]]-based [[CTV Television Network|CTV]] station [[CIVT-DT]], channel 32 (although the two stations maintain separate operations). CIVI-DT's studios are located at the corner of Broad Street and Pandora Avenue across from the [[McPherson Playhouse]] and the [[Victoria City Hall]] in [[downtown Victoria]], and its transmitter is located near [[Rockland, Greater Victoria|Rockland]]. The station operates a rebroadcaster ('''CIVI-DT-2''') on virtual and UHF channel 17 in Vancouver, with transmitter atop [[Mount Seymour]] in the district municipality of [[North Vancouver (district municipality)|North Vancouver]].
+'''CIVI-DT''' (channel 53) is a [[television station]] in [[Victoria, British Columbia]], Canada, part of the [[CTV 2]] system. It is [[owned and operated]] by [[Bell Media]] alongside [[Vancouver]]-based [[CTV Television Network|CTV]] station [[CIVT-DT]] (channel 32). Although the two stations nominally maintain separate operations, the Victoria station's newscasts have been anchored from the CIVT-DT studios since 2023. CIVI-DT's offices are located at the corner of Broad Street and Pandora Avenue across from the [[McPherson Playhouse]] and the [[Victoria City Hall]] in [[downtown Victoria]], and its transmitter is located on the roof of Camosack Manor near [[Rockland, Greater Victoria|Rockland]]. The station operates a rebroadcaster ('''CIVI-DT-2''') on virtual and UHF channel 17 in Vancouver, with transmitter atop [[Mount Seymour]] in the district municipality of [[North Vancouver (district municipality)|North Vancouver]].
 ==History==
-At the end of the 1990s, [[CHUM Limited]] only owned terrestrial television stations in the province of [[Ontario]]. Similarly, [[Craig Media]] only had stations in provinces within the [[Canadian Prairies]]. Both companies looked to expand their national presence, and both submitted a bid when the CRTC issued a call for applications for a new television station licence in Victoria; CHUM was awarded the licence in 2000. CIVI first signed on the air on October 4, 2001, as CHUM's first original station to be part of the NewNet [[television system]]. Their studios, dubbed "Pandora's Box" for its location on Pandora Avenue, had previously been the home of the Brackman-Ker Milling Company and other uses over the years; CHUM spent over $20 million restoring it, including outfitting the building with the latest in technology and bringing it up to seismic standards.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2002-02-07|title=The New VI - BUILDING|url=http://thenewvi.com/about/viAb_building.asp|access-date=2022-01-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020207193917/http://thenewvi.com/about/viAb_building.asp|archive-date=2002-02-07}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Mack|first=Hudson|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XAkmDwAAQBAJ&dq=Tony+Latimer+the+new+VI&pg=PT102|title=Hudson Mack: Unsinkable Anchor|date=2015-10-03|publisher=Harbour Publishing|isbn=978-1-55017-721-3|language=en}}</ref>
+At the end of the 1990s, [[CHUM Limited]] only owned terrestrial television stations in the province of [[Ontario]]. Similarly, [[Craig Media]] only had stations in provinces within the [[Canadian Prairies]]. Both companies looked to expand their national presence, and both submitted a bid when the CRTC issued a call for applications for a new television station licence in Victoria; CHUM was awarded the licence in 2000. CIVI first signed on the air on October 4, 2001, as CHUM's first original station to be part of the NewNet [[television system]]. Their studios, dubbed "Pandora's Box" for its location on Pandora Avenue, had previously been the home of the Brackman-Ker Milling Company and other uses over the years; CHUM spent over $20 million restoring it, including outfitting the building with the latest in technology and bringing it up to seismic standards.<ref>{{Cite web|date=February 7, 2002|title=The New VI - BUILDING|url=http://thenewvi.com/about/viAb_building.asp|access-date=January 23, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020207193917/http://thenewvi.com/about/viAb_building.asp|archive-date=February 7, 2002}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Mack|first=Hudson|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XAkmDwAAQBAJ&dq=Tony+Latimer+the+new+VI&pg=PT102|title=Hudson Mack: Unsinkable Anchor|date=October 3, 2015|publisher=Harbour Publishing|isbn=978-1-55017-721-3|language=en}}</ref>
 [[File:Thenewvi.svg|150px|left|thumb|CIVI logo used under "The New VI" brand, used from 2001 to 2005.]]
-Known on the air as "The New VI", the station started off with much pomp and circumstance, marking their launch with a street party around their studios in Victoria and around their Nanaimo bureau.<ref>{{Citation|title=The New VI Redux|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_wrTT8-pUA|language=en|access-date=2022-01-23}}</ref> It boasted a large lineup of personalities, including former [[British Columbia New Democratic Party]] cabinet minister [[Moe Sihota]]. Original programming included ''Island Underground'' (focusing on Vancouver Island's youth culture),<ref>{{Cite web|date=2001-12-30|title=The New VI - Island Underground|url=http://www.thenewvi.com/programs/viPrg_islandUnderground.asp|access-date=2022-01-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011230025316/http://www.thenewvi.com/programs/viPrg_islandUnderground.asp|archive-date=2001-12-30}}</ref> ''The New Canoe'' (hosted by and produced for the area's [[First Nations in Canada|First Nations]] residents),<ref>{{Cite web|date=2001-11-12|title=The New VI - The New Canoe|url=http://www.thenewvi.com/programs/viprg_thenewcanoe.asp|access-date=2022-01-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011112092915/http://www.thenewvi.com/programs/viprg_thenewcanoe.asp|archive-date=2001-11-12}}</ref> ''Environ-Mental'' (focusing on localized environmental issues),<ref>{{Cite web|date=2002-02-21|title=The New VI - {{notatypo|Envir|oMental}} |url=http://www.thenewvi.com/programs/viprg_enviro.asp|access-date=2022-01-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020221034040/http://www.thenewvi.com/programs/viprg_enviro.asp|archive-date=2002-02-21 |url-status=usurped}}</ref> the ''VI Parade'' (handling local arts and culture),<ref>{{Cite web|date=2002-02-13|title=The New VI - VIParade|url=http://www.thenewvi.com/programs/viPrg_Parade.asp|access-date=2022-01-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020213105706/http://www.thenewvi.com/programs/viPrg_Parade.asp|archive-date=2002-02-13}}</ref> and a localized version of ''[[Speakers Corner (TV series)|Speaker's Corner]]''; much of the launch schedule consisted of programming from other CHUM outlets (including ''[[CityLine]]'', ''[[FashionTelevision]]'' and ''[[Ed the Sock|Ed the Sock's Night Party]]''), some of which had previously aired across the border on [[KVOS-TV]] in Bellingham, WA (which CHUM had been syndicating programming to since the 1990s in the face of repeated failures to launch a station in the area), along with American imported and syndicated programming (including ''[[The Tonight Show with Jay Leno]]'' and the ''[[Star Trek]]'' franchise), and a primetime movie on Sundays dubbed ''The Great MoVI'' (in the style of Citytv's ''Great Movies'').<ref>{{Cite web|date=2001-12-16|title=The New VI - Schedule Grid|url=http://thenewvi.com/schedule/viSh_schedule_grid.asp|access-date=2022-01-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011216023223/http://thenewvi.com/schedule/viSh_schedule_grid.asp|archive-date=2001-12-16}}</ref>
+Known on the air as "The New VI", the station started off with much pomp and circumstance, marking their launch with a street party around their studios in Victoria and around their Nanaimo bureau.<ref>{{Citation|title=The New VI Redux|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_wrTT8-pUA|language=en|access-date=January 23, 2022}}</ref> It boasted a large lineup of personalities, including former [[British Columbia New Democratic Party]] cabinet minister [[Moe Sihota]]. Original programming included ''Island Underground'' (focusing on Vancouver Island's youth culture),<ref>{{Cite web|date=December 30, 2001|title=The New VI - Island Underground|url=http://www.thenewvi.com/programs/viPrg_islandUnderground.asp|access-date=January 23, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011230025316/http://www.thenewvi.com/programs/viPrg_islandUnderground.asp|archive-date=December 30, 2001}}</ref> ''The New Canoe'' (hosted by and produced for the area's [[First Nations in Canada|First Nations]] residents),<ref>{{Cite web|date=November 12, 2001|title=The New VI - The New Canoe|url=http://www.thenewvi.com/programs/viprg_thenewcanoe.asp|access-date=January 23, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011112092915/http://www.thenewvi.com/programs/viprg_thenewcanoe.asp|archive-date=November 12, 2001}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Andrews |first1=Marke |title=First nations woman heads TV production company |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-vancouver-sun-marke-andrews-first/132883142/ |work=The Vancouver Sun |date=June 3, 2005 |location=Vancouver BC |page=31 |format=Newspapers.com}}</ref> ''Environ-Mental'' (focusing on localized environmental issues),<ref>{{Cite web|date=February 21, 2002|title=The New VI - {{notatypo|Envir|oMental}} |url=http://www.thenewvi.com/programs/viprg_enviro.asp|access-date=January 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020221034040/http://www.thenewvi.com/programs/viprg_enviro.asp|archive-date=February 21, 2002 |url-status=usurped}}</ref> the ''VI Parade'' (handling local arts and culture),<ref>{{Cite web|date=February 13, 2002|title=The New VI - VIParade|url=http://www.thenewvi.com/programs/viPrg_Parade.asp|access-date=January 23, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020213105706/http://www.thenewvi.com/programs/viPrg_Parade.asp|archive-date=February 13, 2002}}</ref> and a localized version of ''[[Speakers Corner (TV series)|Speaker's Corner]]''; much of the launch schedule consisted of programming from other CHUM outlets (including ''[[CityLine]]'', ''[[FashionTelevision]]'' and ''[[Ed the Sock|Ed the Sock's Night Party]]''), some of which had previously aired across the border on [[KVOS-TV]] in Bellingham, WA (which CHUM had been syndicating programming to since the 1990s in the face of repeated failures to launch a station in the area), along with American imported and syndicated programming (including ''[[The Tonight Show with Jay Leno]]'' and the ''[[Star Trek]]'' franchise), and a primetime movie on Sundays dubbed ''The Great MoVI'' (in the style of Citytv's ''Great Movies'').<ref>{{Cite web|date=December 16, 2001|title=The New VI - Schedule Grid|url=http://thenewvi.com/schedule/viSh_schedule_grid.asp|access-date=January 23, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011216023223/http://thenewvi.com/schedule/viSh_schedule_grid.asp|archive-date=December 16, 2001}}</ref>
-However, the station wound up launching amid a [[2001 Vancouver TV realignment|massive TV realignment in the Vancouver market]], and ultimately their launch was delayed from September to October; the various changes also meant that KVOS was displaced by CIVI from its long-time home on channel 12 on many Vancouver-area cable systems.<ref>{{Cite web|date=May 14, 2001|first=Ian|last=Edwards|title=West Coast station shuffle causes confusion|url=https://playbackonline.ca/2001/05/14/stations-20010514/|access-date=2022-01-23}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Canadian Communications Foundation - Fondation Des Communications Canadiennes|url=http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/listings_and_histories/television/histories.php?id=63&historyID=59|access-date=2022-01-23|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071107025723/http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/listings_and_histories/television/histories.php?id=63&historyID=59|archive-date = 2007-11-07}}</ref> The station also struggled to compete against [[E! (Canadian TV system)|CH]] owned-and-operated station [[CHEK-DT|CHEK-TV]] (channel 6, now an [[Independent station (North America)|independent station]]), which had been the only local station on [[Vancouver Island]] for more than four decades. Gradually, personalities from the original roster were replaced by new faces, and some were let go without replacements. Not long after launch, CHUM purchased [[CKVU-DT|CKVU]] in Vancouver and converted it into the Citytv station for the region, meaning CIVI became part of a [[Duopoly (broadcasting)|twinstick]]; as per CRTC regulations regarding twinsticks, CKVU was prohibited from airing more than 10% of the programming aired on CIVI, and newscasts were required to be separately managed.
+However, the station wound up launching amid a [[2001 Vancouver TV realignment|massive TV realignment in the Vancouver market]], and ultimately their launch was delayed from September to October; the various changes also meant that KVOS was displaced by CIVI from its long-time home on channel 12 on many Vancouver-area cable systems.<ref>{{Cite web|date=May 14, 2001|first=Ian|last=Edwards|title=West Coast station shuffle causes confusion|url=https://playbackonline.ca/2001/05/14/stations-20010514/|access-date=January 23, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Canadian Communications Foundation - Fondation Des Communications Canadiennes|url=http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/listings_and_histories/television/histories.php?id=63&historyID=59|access-date=January 23, 2022|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071107025723/http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/listings_and_histories/television/histories.php?id=63&historyID=59|archive-date = November 7, 2007}}</ref> The station also struggled to compete against [[E! (Canadian TV system)|CH]] owned-and-operated station [[CHEK-TV]] (channel 6, now an [[independent station]]), which had been the only local station on [[Vancouver Island]] for more than four decades. Gradually, personalities from the original roster were replaced by new faces, and some were let go without replacements. Not long after launch, CHUM purchased [[CKVU]] in Vancouver and converted it into the Citytv station for the region, meaning CIVI became part of a [[twinstick]]; as per CRTC regulations regarding twinsticks, CKVU was prohibited from airing more than 10% of the programming aired on CIVI, and newscasts were required to be separately managed.
 ===As A-Channel Victoria===
 [[Image:Achannelnew.svg|125px|left|thumb|Logo used while as ''A-Channel'', used from 2005 to 2008.]]
 [[File:Your Island Television, Victoria, Canada.jpg|200px|right|thumb|The station's studio building in Victoria. It used to be nicknamed "Pandora's Box" for its location at the corner of Broad Street and Pandora Avenue, just across the street from Victoria City Hall and McPherson Playhouse.]]
-The station was rebranded as "A-Channel" on August 2, 2005, along with the rest of the NewNet system. The station would likely have been part of the original [[A-Channel (Craig Media)|A-Channel]] system at its launch had Craig Media won the licence in 2000. On July 12, 2006, CTVglobemedia announced plans to purchase CHUM Limited, with the intention of divesting the A-Channel stations.<ref name=takeover>{{cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2006/07/12/chum-bell.html|title=Bell Globemedia makes $1.7B bid for CHUM|publisher=[[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]]|date=July 12, 2006|access-date=July 12, 2006}}</ref> On that same day it was also announced that the morning news program ''[[A Morning|A-Channel Morning]]'' would be discontinued, although this decision was supposedly unrelated to the takeover by CTVglobemedia (CIVI later restored a morning program to its schedule in the fall of 2007).
+The station was rebranded as "A-Channel" on August 2, 2005, along with the rest of the NewNet system. The station would likely have been part of the original [[A-Channel]] system at its launch had Craig Media won the licence in 2000. On July 12, 2006, CTVglobemedia announced plans to purchase CHUM Limited, with the intention of divesting the A-Channel stations.<ref name=takeover>{{cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2006/07/12/chum-bell.html|title=Bell Globemedia makes $1.7B bid for CHUM|publisher=[[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]]|date=July 12, 2006|access-date=July 12, 2006}}</ref> On that same day it was also announced that the morning news program ''[[A-Channel Morning]]'' would be discontinued, although this decision was supposedly unrelated to the takeover by CTVglobemedia (CIVI later restored a morning program to its schedule in the fall of 2007).
 [[Rogers Communications]] announced a deal to buy A-Channel on April 9, 2007;<ref name=Rogers>{{cite news|url=http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/technology_rogers_ctvglobemedia |title=CRTC expected to OK Rogers' $137.5M buy of CTVglobemedia TV channels |publisher=[[Canadian Press]] via Yahoo! Canada News |date=April 9, 2007 |access-date=April 9, 2007 }}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> however, given the conditions of approval for the sale of CHUM on June 8, 2007,<ref name=CTV>{{cite news|url=http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/08062007/3/canada-crtc-tells-ctvglobemedia-sell-5-citytv-stations.html |title=CRTC tells CTVglobemedia to sell 5 Citytv stations |publisher=cbc.ca via Yahoo! Canada News |date=June 8, 2007 |access-date=June 8, 2007 }}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> Rogers acquired the [[Citytv]] system instead, while CTV kept A-Channel.<ref name=rebrand>{{cite news |url=http://www.friends.ca/News/Friends_News/archives/articles06130703 |title=CTV expected to rebrand A Channel |publisher=[[Friends of Canadian Broadcasting]] |date=June 13, 2006 |access-date=July 5, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150322210712/http://www.friends.ca/Media_Monitor/termsconditions?url=%2FNews%2FFriends_News%2Farchives%2Farticles06130703 |archive-date=March 22, 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> CTVglobemedia became the official owner of CIVI on June 22, 2007.
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 ===As A Vancouver Island===
 [[File:CIVI 'A'.svg|thumb|150px|right|Logo for A Vancouver Island (2008–2011)]]
-The A-Channel system and Atlantic Canada's [[CTV 2 Atlantic|ASN]] was rebranded as A on August 11, 2008, with CIVI becoming branded as "A Vancouver Island". As a result, CIVI's newscasts were rebranded as ''[[A News (TV program)|A News]]'' on that date, although the station's employees had been using that title for a couple of months prior to the relaunch; the station also began producing a morning newscast (under the title ''A Morning'') on September 8, 2008, but was later cancelled on March 4, 2009, due to economic issues. The program was later replaced with a simulcast of the morning show from sister radio station [[CFAX]] (1070 AM).<ref>[http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/business/story.html?id=f94f272f-93d4-4018-8f19-c5fe6473ed9e Morning TV show back on airwaves] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160107011003/http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/business/story.html?id=f94f272f-93d4-4018-8f19-c5fe6473ed9e |date=2016-01-07 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/June2008/02/c7178.html CNW Group | CTV INC. | Double Vision: Fall 2008 Schedules Announced for CTV and "A"<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.atv.ca/victoria/tvschedule.aspx?date=9-8-2008 |title=A Victoria website confirming 'A' Morning debut September 8th |access-date=September 8, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090904002948/http://www.atv.ca/victoria/tvschedule.aspx?date=9-8-2008 |archive-date=September 4, 2009 }}</ref>
+The A-Channel system and Atlantic Canada's [[CTV 2 Atlantic|ASN]] was rebranded as A on August 11, 2008, with CIVI becoming branded as "A Vancouver Island". As a result, CIVI's newscasts were rebranded as ''[[A News (TV program)|A News]]'' on that date, although the station's employees had been using that title for a couple of months prior to the relaunch; the station also began producing a morning newscast (under the title ''A Morning'') on September 8, 2008, but was later cancelled on March 4, 2009, due to economic issues. The program was later replaced with a simulcast of the morning show from sister radio station [[CFAX]] (1070 AM).<ref>[http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/business/story.html?id=f94f272f-93d4-4018-8f19-c5fe6473ed9e Morning TV show back on airwaves] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160107011003/http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/business/story.html?id=f94f272f-93d4-4018-8f19-c5fe6473ed9e |date=January 7, 2016 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/June2008/02/c7178.html CNW Group | CTV INC. | Double Vision: Fall 2008 Schedules Announced for CTV and "A"<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.atv.ca/victoria/tvschedule.aspx?date=9-8-2008 |title=A Victoria website confirming 'A' Morning debut September 8th |access-date=September 8, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090904002948/http://www.atv.ca/victoria/tvschedule.aspx?date=August |archive-date=September 4, 2009 }}</ref>
 ===CTV Two/CTV 2 Vancouver Island===
-As part of Bell Media's May 30, 2011 announcement of the rebranding of the A television stations to the CTV Two brand, CIVI became branded as "CTV Two Vancouver Island" on August 29, 2011.<ref>{{cite press release|url=http://www.bellmediapr.ca/ctv/releases/release.asp?id=13828&yyyy=2011 |title=Bell Media's /A\ Network to Become "CTV Two" This Fall |publisher=Bell Media |date=May 30, 2011 |access-date=May 30, 2011 |archive-date=July 27, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727114428/http://www.bellmediapr.ca/ctv/releases/release.asp?id=13828&yyyy=2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> As a result, CIVI's newscasts were rebranded as ''[[CTV News]]'' on that same date.
+As part of Bell Media's May 30, 2011, announcement of the rebranding of the A television stations to the CTV Two brand, CIVI became branded as "CTV Two Vancouver Island" on August 29, 2011.<ref>{{cite press release|url=http://www.bellmediapr.ca/ctv/releases/release.asp?id=13828&yyyy=2011 |title=Bell Media's /A\ Network to Become "CTV Two" This Fall |publisher=Bell Media |date=May 30, 2011 |access-date=May 30, 2011 |archive-date=July 27, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727114428/http://www.bellmediapr.ca/ctv/releases/release.asp?id=13828&yyyy=2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> As a result, CIVI's newscasts were rebranded as ''[[CTV News]]'' on that same date.
 ==News operation==
-{{Expand section|information on the history of CIVT's news operation|date=September 2011}}
+{{Expand section|information on the history of CIVI's news operation|date=September 2011}}
+CIVI presently broadcasts two hours and 30 minutes of original newscasts each week, consisting of a thirty-minute local newscast each weekday at 4:30&nbsp;p.m., anchored remotely from the Vancouver [[750 Burrard Street|studios]] of co-owned CIVT.<ref name="civi-430-launch">{{cite web|url=https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/first-at-4-30-ctv-vancouver-island-launches-live-hyper-local-newscast-1.6442394|title=First at 4:30: CTV Vancouver Island launches live, hyper-local newscast|work=CTVNews.ca|date=June 15, 2023|access-date=June 16, 2023}}</ref> This newscast is repeated, potentially with minor modifications, at 6:00&nbsp;p.m. and 11:00&nbsp;p.m. (the latter being a 35-minute timeslot). There are no longer any weekend newscasts.
-CIVI presently broadcasts 13{{frac|1|2}} hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 2{{frac|1|2}} hours each weekday and a half-hour each on Saturdays and Sundays). The station does not air local news on the weekends; the station did not carry an 11:00&nbsp;p.m. newscast on weekend evenings, and its weekend 6:00&nbsp;p.m. newscasts were cancelled as of February 3, 2021 due to budget cuts made by Bell Media.<ref>{{cite tweet|number=1357065076834881536|user=AlannaKellyNews|title=As for the weekend coverage, I’m...|date=3 February 2021}}</ref>
-At launch, the station's newscast was dubbed ''VILand News'' (sister station [[CKVR-DT|CKVR]] had originally used a similar title, ''VRLand News'', for their first few years as a NewNet station); the station's news anchors walked around the studio instead of sitting behind a desk, mimicking the format used at Toronto [[sister station]] [[CITY-DT|CITY-TV]] and other NewNet outlets. ''VILand News'' consisted of a 90-minute long evening newscast from 5:30 to 7:00&nbsp;p.m. and a half-hour late newscast at 11:00&nbsp;p.m., as well as the two-hour morning newscast ''New Day'' (initially broadcast from the station's Nanaimo facilities with Bruce Williams).<ref>{{Cite web|title=The New VI - NewDay|url=http://www.thenewvi.com/programs/viprg_newday.asp|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011230125720/http://www.thenewvi.com/programs/viprg_newday.asp|archive-date=30 December 2001|access-date=23 January 2022}}</ref> Weatherman and local folk musician Tony Latimer delivered his forecasts from his own sailboat, the ''Forbes and Cameron'', which was equipped with an omni-directional microwave transmitter so Tony could broadcast from Victoria's Inner Harbour or other offshore locations.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2002-04-02|title=The New VI - Personalities|url=http://www.thenewvi.com/personalities/viP_latimer.asp|access-date=2022-01-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020402000538/http://www.thenewvi.com/personalities/viP_latimer.asp|archive-date=2002-04-02}}</ref>
+At launch, the station's newscast was dubbed ''VILand News'' (sister station [[CKVR]] had originally used a similar title, ''VRLand News'', for their first few years as a NewNet station); the station's news anchors walked around the studio instead of sitting behind a desk, mimicking the format used at Toronto [[sister station]] [[CITY-TV]] and other NewNet outlets. ''VILand News'' consisted of a 90-minute long evening newscast from 5:30 to 7:00&nbsp;p.m. and a half-hour late newscast at 11:00&nbsp;p.m., as well as the two-hour morning newscast ''New Day'' (initially broadcast from the station's Nanaimo facilities with Bruce Williams).<ref>{{Cite web|title=The New VI - NewDay|url=http://www.thenewvi.com/programs/viprg_newday.asp|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011230125720/http://www.thenewvi.com/programs/viprg_newday.asp|archive-date=December 30, 2001|access-date=January 23, 2022}}</ref> Weatherman and local folk musician Tony Latimer delivered his forecasts from his own sailboat, the ''Forbes and Cameron'', which was equipped with an omni-directional microwave transmitter so Tony could broadcast from Victoria's Inner Harbour or other offshore locations.<ref>{{Cite web|date=April 2, 2002|title=The New VI - Personalities|url=http://www.thenewvi.com/personalities/viP_latimer.asp|access-date=January 23, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020402000538/http://www.thenewvi.com/personalities/viP_latimer.asp|archive-date=April 2, 2002}}</ref>
-To combat the station's low ratings, the evening news block was also repeatedly modified, being split into three different shows (''VILand Live'' at 5:30, ''VILand Voices'' at 6:00 and ''VILand News'' at 6:30) in January 2002.<ref>{{Citation|title=VILand Live at 5:30 - Opening 2002|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHolVz_84fE|language=en|access-date=2022-01-23}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|title=VILand Voices - Open 2002|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGvx3nEpuMU|language=en|access-date=2022-01-23}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|title=VILandNews - Open 2002|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReLOcBH-caY|language=en|access-date=2022-01-23}}</ref> By 2004, CHUM higher-ups, in hopes of stemming the station's financial losses and low ratings, hired longtime CHEK anchor Hudson Mack as its new chief anchor and [[news director]]. Changes were introduced to the station's newscasts such as the introduction of a desk for the anchors; these changes appeared to have been effective.<ref name=":0" /> While still trailing CHEK, the ratings gap between the two has been narrowed.
+To combat the station's low ratings, the evening news block was also repeatedly modified, being split into three different shows (''VILand Live'' at 5:30, ''VILand Voices'' at 6:00 and ''VILand News'' at 6:30) in January 2002.<ref>{{Citation|title=VILand Live at 5:30 - Opening 2002|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHolVz_84fE|language=en|access-date=January 23, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|title=VILand Voices - Open 2002|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGvx3nEpuMU|language=en|access-date=January 23, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|title=VILandNews - Open 2002|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReLOcBH-caY|language=en|access-date=January 23, 2022}}</ref> By 2004, CHUM higher-ups, in hopes of stemming the station's financial losses and low ratings, hired longtime CHEK anchor Hudson Mack as its new chief anchor and [[news director]]. Changes were introduced to the station's newscasts such as the introduction of a desk for the anchors; these changes appeared to have been effective.<ref name=":0" /> While still trailing CHEK, the ratings gap between the two had narrowed.
-Since Mack's arrival, the station has been honoured with a number of industry awards. In 2006, it received three [[RTDNA Edward R. Murrow Award|Edward R. Murrow Awards]] from the [[Radio Television Digital News Association|Radio-Television News Directors Association]] International, for Best Newscast, Best Investigative Reporting and Best Sports Reporting. It was the second straight year the station won Murrows for its newscast and investigative reporting. In 2005, the station won eight industry awards, including two Edward R. Murrow Awards from RTNDA International, for Best Newscast and Best Investigative Reporting; and top news honours from the British Columbia Association of Broadcasters.
+Since Mack's arrival, the station has been honoured with a number of industry awards. In 2006, it received three [[RTDNA Edward R. Murrow Award|Edward R. Murrow Awards]] from the [[Radio-Television News Directors Association]] International, for Best Newscast, Best Investigative Reporting and Best Sports Reporting. It was the second straight year the station won Murrows for its newscast and investigative reporting. In 2005, the station won eight industry awards, including two Edward R. Murrow Awards from RTNDA International, for Best Newscast and Best Investigative Reporting; and top news honours from the British Columbia Association of Broadcasters.
+The station's weekend 6:00&nbsp;p.m. newscasts were cancelled as of February 3, 2021, due to budget cuts made by Bell Media.<ref>{{cite tweet|number=1357065076834881536|user=AlannaKellyNews|title=As for the weekend coverage, I'm...|date=February 3, 2021}}</ref>
+On June 15, 2023, in the wake of cuts announced by Bell Media earlier that week, the station announced it had replaced its early-evening newscasts with a single half-hour 4:30&nbsp;p.m. newscast (repeated at 6:00&nbsp;p.m.) on weekdays, anchored from Vancouver, effective June 19.<ref name="civi-430-launch" /> The ''[[Times Colonist]]'' reported that this was the station's only remaining daily newscast.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.timescolonist.com/entertainment/tv-in-greater-victoria-continues-to-evolve-with-chek-emerging-triumphant-7230679|title=TV in Greater Victoria continues to evolve, with CHEK emerging triumphant|first=Mike|last=Devlin|work=[[Times Colonist]]|date=July 4, 2023|access-date=July 4, 2023}}</ref>
 ===Notable former on-air staff===
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 ====Analogue-to-digital conversion====
 [[File:CTV Two.svg|thumb|Logo used from 2011 to 2018]]
-CIVI shut down its analogue signal, over [[Ultra high frequency|UHF]] channel 53, on August 31, 2011, the official date in which Canadian television stations in CRTC-designated mandatory [[media market|markets]] [[Digital television in Canada|transitioned from analogue to digital broadcasts]]. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 23.<ref name="Analog to Digital">[http://digitaltv.gc.ca/eng/1298734815548/1298734815582 Digital Television – Office of Consumer Affairs (OCA)<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131119235810/http://digitaltv.gc.ca/eng/1298734815548/1298734815582 |date=2013-11-19 }}</ref><ref name="YouTube video of transition">[//www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoF7jVAgg2g CHCH – Hamilton shuts off analog signal] [[YouTube]]. August 15, 2011.</ref> Through the use of [[Program and System Information Protocol|PSIP]], digital television receivers display CIVI-DT's [[virtual channel]] as its analogue-era UHF channel 53, which was among the high band UHF channels (52–69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition.
+CIVI shut down its analogue signal, over [[UHF]] channel 53, on August 31, 2011, the official date on which Canadian television stations in CRTC-designated mandatory [[media market|markets]] [[Digital television in Canada|transitioned from analogue to digital broadcasts]]. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 23,<ref name="Analog to Digital">[http://digitaltv.gc.ca/eng/1298734815548/1298734815582 Digital Television – Office of Consumer Affairs (OCA)<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131119235810/http://digitaltv.gc.ca/eng/1298734815548/1298734815582 |date=November 19, 2013 }}</ref><ref name="YouTube video of transition">[//www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoF7jVAgg2g CHCH – Hamilton shuts off analog signal] [[YouTube]]. August 15, 2011.</ref> using [[virtual channel]] 53.
 ==References==
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-[[Category:Television stations in British Columbia|IVI-DT]]
+[[Category:2001 establishments in British Columbia]]
-[[Category:Television channels and stations established in 2001]]
 [[Category:CTV 2 stations|IVI-DT]]
 [[Category:Mass media in Victoria, British Columbia]]
-[[Category:2001 establishments in British Columbia]]
+[[Category:Television channels and stations established in 2001]]
+[[Category:Television stations in British Columbia|IVI-DT]]

v t e CTV 2 stations in Canada
Owned-and-operated stations	CIVI-DT Victoria CHWI-DT Windsor CFPL-DT London CKVR-DT Barrie CHRO-TV Ottawa
Secondary carriers	CFTK-TV Terrace CJDC-TV Dawson Creek
Cable-only	CTV 2 Alberta CTV 2 Atlantic
Defunct	CKNX-TV Wingham
See also	A-Channel (original) Bell Media CTV stations CP24