CHAN-DT

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CHAN-DT

British Columbia
City of license	Vancouver, British Columbia
Branding	Global BC
Slogan	TV for BC
Channels	Digital: 22 (UHF) Virtual: 8.1 (PSIP)
Translators	See list
Affiliations	Global
Owner	Shaw Media (Shaw Television Limited Partnership)
First air date	October 31, 1960
Call letters' meaning	CHANnel
Former callsigns	CHAN-TV (1960-2011)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 8 (VHF, 1960-2011)
Former affiliations	Independent (1960-1961) CTV (1961-2001)
Transmitter power	40 kilowatts
Height	656 m
Transmitter coordinates	49°21′26″N 122°57′13″W
Website	Global BC

CHAN-DT (branded as Global BC) is the Global owned-and-operated television station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and serves as the West Coast flagship station of the network. It broadcasts a high-definition digital signal on UHF channel 22 (or virtual channel 8.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter atop Mount Seymour.

Owned by Shaw Media (a subsidiary of Shaw Communications), its studios are located on Enterprise Street in Burnaby. This station can also be seen on Shaw Cable channel 11, Bell TV channel 252, Shaw Direct channel 336 on the classic lineup and channel 5 on the advanced lineup and Rogers Personal TV channel 119. There is also a high definition feed available on Shaw Cable digital channel 211.

The station is available throughout British Columbia through a large network of translators, and its 6:00 p.m. News Hour is the highest-rated newscast in the province and the highest-rated local newscast in Canada.

History

CHAN's original logo, used until 1963.

CHAN-TV and CHEK-TV shared this logo in the 60s; it was often used when they simulcasted programming.

CHAN began broadcasting on October 31, 1960 at 4:45 p.m. 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 on Enterprise Street in Burnaby were completed in early 1961. Soon after launch, the station began installing relay transmitters across the province, and now reaches 96 percent of British Columbia. Via OTA channel 8, CHAN also reaches an American audience in neighbouring Whatcom County, Washington.

BCTV's iconic original logo, used for more than 20 years from 1973-1994. The logo featured the pacific dogwood flower, the provincial flower of British Columbia.

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. CHEK then began airing a few CTV shows, usually at different times from CHAN. It would become a full CTV affiliate in 1981, but aired a shuffled schedule. Griffiths' Western Broadcasting Co. later sold a minority share to Selkirk Communications, buying back full control in 1989.

As early as 1971, CHAN began unofficially using the on-air name BCTV. In 1973, 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, but the branding was so effective that many people still call the station by that name today.

Hostility to CTV

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-TV in Toronto, received favouritism in the production of CTV's Canadian programming in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

The final logo for BCTV. The stylized pacific dogwood was modernized in 1994 and was used until the affiliation switch on August 31, 2001.

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 provincial 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-TV. Baton became sole owner of CTV soon after CIVT's launch, and 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 Limited-produced programming also aired on CHAN at times during the 1997-2001 period, including CityLine.

The affiliation shakeup of 2001

Main article: 2001 Vancouver TV realignment

In 2000, WIC's stations were purchased by Canwest, and as a result, CHAN was due to 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). Both switches left CTV dependent on cable and satellite to reach the rest of the province. Global BC retained the rights to The Oprah Winfrey Show until show host Oprah Winfrey announced that the show was ending production in 2011.
• 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. CKVU meanwhile adopted the ckvu13 brand and briefly 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.
• 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. It was later renamed CHEK News in 2007 as part of CH's rebranding to E! and simply CHEK in 2009 following the demise of the E! system.
• A religious station, CHNU (currently Joytv 10), launched two weeks later, and a CHUM-owned NewNet station in Victoria, CIVI, launched just over two weeks after that.

News operation

Global BC News Hour during the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Global BC's microwave ENG vans.

CHAN-DT currently produces a total of 45 hours of local newscasts each week (with seven hours on weekdays, 5½ hours on Saturdays and 4½ hours on Sundays), along with an additional 3½ hours with Global's Vancouver-based national evening newscast Global National; unlike most Global stations that carry midday newscasts, CHAN airs its noon newscast seven days a week. The station's newscast schedule is very similar to that of an affiliate of the Big Three television networks in the United States (ABC, CBS or NBC). 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 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 2001 and 2006. 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 (who later went to CIVT-TV, CTV's current Vancouver O&O station, and retired in December 2010) and a national version, hosted by Tony Parsons, who also presented CHAN's nightly news program, the News Hour. When Canwest 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 its newscasts, since the BCTV brand was still very well respected in the province. It also wanted 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 -- thus fulfilling its longstanding dream of producing a national newscast, currently anchored by former CTV and NBC correspondent Dawna Friesen (originally Kevin Newman beforehand). 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 Chris Gailus. Carolyn Jarvis and Robin Gill share the anchoring duties on the weekend edition of Global National, followed by Robin Stickley, who anchors the weekend edition 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 used for the news helicopters of other Global stations.

On December 16, 2009, Tony Parsons anchored his final newscast at Global BC after 34 years as anchor of the News Hour. It was expected that he would remain until after the 2010 Winter Olympics, but due to unknown reasons, Tony Parsons left the station much earlier than expected. Tony Parsons began anchoring CHEK Victoria's 10 PM newscast March 15, 2010 and also began anchoring the evening newscasts at CBUT on April 12, 2010.

Global BC debuted a new HD virtual set on October 4, 2010, but HD newscasts launched along with Global National's new anchor Dawna Friesen on September 20, which will utilize the same set with minor changes to the desk. A new graphics package also debuted. CHAN-DT 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.

On January 11, 2012, Shaw Media filed a license application with the CRTC for a Category B digital-only specialty service that will serve as a British Columbia-focused news channel operated by and utilizing news staff from Global BC. Slated for a Summer 2012 launch, it will become the fourth regional news channel in Canada and the first outside of Ontario (joining Toronto-based 24-hour services CP24 and CityNews Channel, and Hamilton-based independent station CHCH-DT, which carries a heavy local newscast schedule along with some entertainment programming). On August 27, 2012, Global BC will expand its weekday morning newscast to four hours, with the addition of a half-hour at 5 a.m., the 5-6 a.m. hour of the newscast will be titled as the Early Morning News; in addition on September 2, 2012, the station will expand its Sunday morning newscast to three hours with an additional hour at 7 a.m. The expansions of the station's morning news programming is part of an expansion of local news programming on Global owned-and-operated stations across Canada.

News/station presentation

Newscast titles

• Canada Tonight (1990s–2001; 5:30 p.m. newscast on BCTV)
• BCTV News on Global (2001–2006)
• Global National (2001–present; national newscast)
• Global News (2006–present)
  • News Hour (1968–present; 6 p.m. newscast)
  • News Hour Final (1968–present; weeknight newscasts)
  • Noon News Hour (1970s–present; noon newscast)
  • Early News (1980s–present; 5 p.m. weeknight newscast)
  • Morning News (1990s–present)
  • News Final (2006–present; weekend evening newscasts)

Station slogans

• "Tuned Into You" (1990-1994)
• "TV for BC" (1994–2001 and 2008–present)
• "Global's Got It!" (2001–2006)
• "Know Sooner" (news slogan; 2002–2004)
• "It's Our People" (2006–2008)

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News team

Anchors

• Lynn Colliar - Saturday and Sunday Morning News & Noon News Hour (Saturdays at 7 a.m./Sundays at 8 a.m. & Weekends at noon)
• Steve Darling - Morning News (weekday mornings at 5:30 a.m.)
• Anne Drewa - News Final (weekends at 11 p.m.)
• Chris Gailus - News Hour (weeknights at 6 p.m.)
• Deborra Hope - Early News/News Hour Insight (weeknights at 5 and 6 p.m.)
• Sophie Lui - Morning News & Noon News Hour (weekdays at 5:30 a.m. & noon)
• Randene Neill - News Hour Final (weeknights at 11:00 p.m.)
• Robin Stickley - News Hour (weekends at 6 p.m.)

Global National

• Dawna Friesen - anchor; weeknights at 5:30 p.m.
• Robin Gill - anchor; weekends at 5:30 p.m.

Weather team

• Amy Bell - substitute weather anchor
• Wayne Cox - weather anchor; Early News/News Hour/News Hour Final (weeknights at 5, 6 and 11 p.m.)
• Kristi Gordon (CMOS-endorsed weathercaster) - meteorologist; weekend mornings and Noon News Hour (weekends at noon), News Hour and News Final (weekends at 6 and 11 p.m.) - on maternity leave
• Arran Henn - substitute weather anchor
• Mark Madryga - senior meteorologist; Morning News (weekdays at 5:30 a.m.)
• Wesla Wong - weather anchor; Noon News Hour (weekdays at noon)

Sports team

• Squire Barnes - sports director; News Hour and News Hour Final (weeknights at 6 p.m. and 11 p.m.)
• Barry Deley - sports anchor; News Hour and News Final (weekends at 6 and 11 p.m.)
• Jay Durant - sports anchor; Noon News Hour (weekdays at noon)
• Jay Janower - sports anchor; Saturday and Sunday Morning News and Noon News Hour (Saturdays at 7 a.m./Sundays at 8 a.m. & Weekends at noon)
• Shanel Pratap - substitute sports anchor
• Kristin Reid - substitute sports anchor

Traffic

Except for Wesla Wong, all are also flying in "Global 1" and sharing traffic reports with CHMJ and CKNW

• Amber Belzer - substitute
• Kaitlyn Herbst - weekday mornings
• Erika Hinze - substitute
• Leah Holiove - weeknights at 5 p.m.
• Scott Newman - substitute
• Stephanie Wiebe - weekends
• Wesla Wong - traffic anchor; weekday mornings

Reporters

• Linda Aylesworth - health and human interest reporter
• Keith Baldrey - Legislative Bureau chief
• Brett Ballah
• Tanya Beja
• Jane Carrigan - also substitute anchor
• Erin Cebula - entertainment reporter
• Ted Chernecki
• Brian Coxford
• John L. Daly - crime reporter
• Rumina Daya
• Anne Drewa
• Samantha Falk - also substitute anchor
• Ted Field
• Geoff Hastings
• Darlene Heidemann
• Jas Johal
• Grace Ke - weekday morning reporter
• Leigh Kjekstad
• Jill Krop - senior reporter; also substitute anchor
• Claudia Kwan
• Aaron McArthur - also substitute anchor
• Mike McCardell - human interest reporter
• Michelle Miller
• Randene Neill
• Jennifer Palma - weekend morning reporter
• Megan Smyth
• Robin Stickley
• Marisa Thomas
• Catherine Urquhart
• Elaine Yong McArthur

Online team (Trending Now, weekdays at 7:45 a.m.)

• Peter Meiszner
• Yuliya Talmazan
• Amy Judd

Alumni

Ernie Rose (1960–1981) Ron Morrier (1960–1981) Jean Cannem (1960–1978) D'Arcy Griffiths (1991-2000) Frank Griffiths (1963–1994) Ray Peters (1963–1989) Peter Rolston (1963–1979) Cameron Bell (1968–1989) Bernie Pascall (1969–1999) Norm Grohmann (1970–1979, 1983–1998) Keith Bradbury (1972–1998) Robert Malcolm (1972–1991) John McKeachie (1973–1999) Patrick Clancey (1974–1978) Clem Chapple (1977–2003) Pamela Martin (1977-2001; now Director of Outreach for Premier Christy Clark) Russ Froese (1977–1980) Jack Webster (1978–1987) Harvey Oberfeld (1979–2006) John Gibbs (1981–1992) Barry Houlihan (1983–1997) Elaine McKay (1984–2006)

Jennifer Mather (1991–1998) Linden Soles (1991–1993) Mi-Jung Lee (1992-1998; now at CTV Vancouver) Kimberly Halkett (1993–1997, 2002–2006) Bill Good Jr. (1993-2001; now at CKNW) Zack Spencer (1994–2006) Sarah Daniels (1997–2005) Reg Hampton (1998-2006; now at CTV Calgary) Keri Adams (2001-2002; now at CTV Vancouver) Naz Salimian (2002–2005) Leigh Morrow (2006–2007) Dennis Bell Don Timbrell Alan Edwards Ed Cosgrove

Belle Puri (now at CBUT-DT) Margo Harper Fred Cawsey Colleen Leung Chester Grant (1981–2004) Rena Heer (2005–2007) Leigh Carter (1983–1986) Dale Hicks (first BCTV reporter) Mike Chisholm (2005–2008) Kevin Newman (2001–2008, 2008-2010 at Ottawa anchoring Global National but retired on August 20, 2010) Tara Nelson (?-2008, now with CTV Calgary) Jas Johal (?-2008, now Asia Bureau Chief for Global National) Anna Gebauer (?-2009, now at CTV Vancouver) Tony Parsons - News Hour anchor (1975–2009, now at CHEK Victoria and CBC Vancouver) Dan Elliott (2005-2010, currently with Vancouver Giants)

Programming

For the most part, CHAN-DT airs a typical Global network schedule, but with a few differences.

• Some programs seen on Global's daytime schedule in other markets – primarily library programs from Canwest's specialty channels are not cleared on CHAN in order to make room the station's various local news programs.

Selected former non-network programs

• 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.)

• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, weeknights 12:07 a.m. (August 1995 to August 2001)

(As CHUM Limited 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.)

• The Oprah Winfrey Show (1986-2011) aired at 4:00 pm on CHAN because the station owned the British Columbia rights to this show, dating back to its days as a CTV affiliate. In every other market in which CTV owned a station, CTV owned the local rights to Oprah.

Transmitters

Main article: List of transmitters of CHAN-TV

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).

Owned-and-operated transmitters

Semi-satellites are in bold italics.
Note that the transmitters in Kelowna and area (CHKL-TV) are in addition to CHBC-TV, a separate Global station in Kelowna that originates its own local evening newscasts, but which carries Global BC's programming at virtually all other times.

Digital

Shaw Media has applied for permission from the CRTC to convert some of its analog rebroadcasters in the Okanagan to digital.

Station	City of license	Channel	ERP	HAAT	Transmitter Coordinates
CHKL-DT	Kelowna	24 (UHF)	31.2 kW	509.6 m	49°58′2″N 119°31′50″W
CHKL-DT-1	Penticton	32 (UHF)	3 kW	365.3 m	49°39′34″N 119°34′22″W
CHKL-DT-2	Vernon	22 (UHF)	3 kW	184.6 m	50°16′58″N 119°19′13″W

Analogue

Station	City of license	Channel	ERP	HAAT	Transmitter Coordinates
CHAN-TV-1	Chilliwack	11 (VHF)	0.009 kW	NA	49°4′9″N 122°1′41″W
CHAN-TV-2	Bowen Island	3 (VHF)	0.009 kW	NA	49°23′16″N 123°22′41″W
CHAN-TV-3	Squamish	7 (VHF)	0.009 kW	NA	49°38′51″N 123°12′39″W
CHAN-TV-4	Courtenay	11 (VHF)	2.55 kW	402.6 m	49°44′54″N 125°14′58″W
CHAN-TV-5	Brackendale	9 (VHF)	0.01 kW	NA	49°46′24″N 123°7′44″W
CHAN-TV-6	Wilson Creek	23 (UHF)	19.3 kW	174.3 m	49°13′19″N 124°0′15″W
CHAN-TV-7	Whistler	9 (VHF)	0.01 kW	NA	50°8′43″N 122°58′24″W
CHKL-TV	Kelowna	5 (VHF)	7 kW	509.6 m	49°58′2″N 119°31′50″W
CHKL-TV-1	Penticton	10 (VHF)	1.08 kW	358 m	49°39′34″N 119°34′22″W
CHKL-TV-2	Vernon	12 (VHF)	0.564 kW	176.2 m	50°16′58″N 119°19′13″W
CHKL-TV-3	Revelstoke	7 (VHF)	0.001 kW	NA	50°53′7″N 118°15′4″W
CHKM-TV	Kamloops	6 (VHF)	4 kW	152.7 m	50°40′9″N 120°23′52″W
CHKM-TV-1	Pritchard	9 (VHF)	0.008 kW	NA	50°38′55″N 119°50′18″W
CHRP-TV-2	Revelstoke	9 (VHF)	0.005 kW	NA	50°53′7″N 118°15′4″W
CHSH-TV-2	Chase	13 (VHF)	0.01 kW	NA	50°54′7″N 119°38′24″W
CIFG-TV	Prince George	12 (VHF)	4.7 kW	474 m	53°54′48″N 122°27′15″W
CISR-TV	Santa Rosa	68 (UHF)	0.1 kW	NA	49°1′30″N 118°3′34″W
CISR-TV-1	Grand Forks	7 (VHF)	0.009 kW	NA	49°0′35″N 118°23′29″W
CITM-TV	100 Mile House	3 (VHF)	1.3 kW	584.3 m	51°54′10″N 121°15′42″W
CITM-TV-1	Williams Lake	13 (VHF)	0.005 kW	NA	52°6′55″N 122°11′15″W
CITM-TV-2	Quesnel	8 (VHF)	0.005 kW	NA	52°53′0″N 122°20′10″W
CKKM-TV	Oliver/Osoyoos	3 (VHF)	0.93 kW	964 m	49°8′15″N 119°40′14″W
CKTN-TV	Trail	8 (VHF)	18 kW	480.4 m	49°5′30″N 117°49′14″W
CKTN-TV-1	Castlegar	5 (VHF)	0.009 kW	NA	49°18′50″N 117°37′34″W
CKTN-TV-2	Taghum	23 (UHF)	0.009 kW	NA	49°29′40″N 117°27′19″W
CKTN-TV-3	Nelson	3 (VHF)	0.33 kW	-569 m	49°29′35″N 117°16′19″W
CKTN-TV-4	Creston	12 (VHF)	0.01 kW	NA	49°5′25″N 116°22′49″W

Digital television and high definition

Broadcasting in Digital	Yes (Vancouver transmitter)
Programs in HD	Yes
News in HD	Yes
PSIP functioning properly	Yes

CHAN has been broadcasting in digital since April 11, 2008 on channel 22 and will continue to do so on this channel after the digital transition deadline of August 31, 2011. On June 29, 2011, CHAN-DT increased its effective radiated power (ERP) from 8.3 kW to its post-transitional allotment of 40 kW. Note that the Vancouver transmitter is the station's only one required to go digital by the transition deadline. Shaw Communications has committed to converting all of the other over-the-air transmitters to digital by 2016.

Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display CHAN-DT's virtual channel as 8.1. The station's electronic program guide began functioning properly on January 28, 2012.

External links

• Global BC
• Canadian Communications Foundation - CHAN-TV History
• Vancouver Radio Museum - CHAN-TV/BCTV
• Query the REC's Canadian station database for CHAN-DT
• Query TV Fool's coverage map for CHAN-DT