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CKPR-DT is a privately owned television station serving as an affiliate of CTV in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. It broadcasts a high-definition digital signal on VHF channel 2 from a transmitter in Shuniah. Owned by Dougall Media, it is sister to Global affiliate CHFD-DT and both stations share studios located on Hill and Van Norman Streets in central Thunder Bay. This station can also be seen on Shaw Cable channel 5 and in high definition on digital channel 210. On Shaw Direct, the channel is available in high definition on channel 037 (Classic) or 537 (Advanced). In June 2014, Dougall Media announced that the station would disaffiliate from CBC Television (with which it was affiliated since its 1954 sign-on) in September to become a CTV affiliate,〔("CTV set to return to CKPR-TV" ). tbnewswatch.com, June 18, 2014.〕 bringing CTV back to the Thunder Bay market for the first time since sister station CHFD switched its affiliation from CTV to Global in 2010. == History == CKPR-DT began broadcasting on October 4, 1954 as CFPA-TV. The "PA" stood for Port Arthur, where the station was licensed until it merged with Fort William to form Thunder Bay in 1970. The station was then owned by Ralph H. Parker Ltd along with CFPA radio (AM 1230, now CKTG-FM). Three years later on July 20, 1957, Thunder Bay Electronics, owned by the Dougall family, bought CFPA-TV and changed its callsign letters to CFCJ-TV. They changed again ten years later in 1967, to CKPR-TV. In 1972, Thunder Bay Electronics launched the CTV affiliate CHFD-TV (which switched to Global in 2010) and thus CKPR-TV and CHFD-TV became one of the first private twinstick stations in Canada. In March 2010, CKPR announced it was unable to come to an agreement with CBC to continue to operate as an affiliate.〔("CKPR-TV seeks licence adjustment" ). tbnewswatch.com, March 5, 2010.〕 CKPR filed an application with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) seeking to remove its condition of licence which mandates affiliation with CBC Television. The affiliation agreement would expire on August 31, 2011 and, according to the station would not be renewed by the CBC after that date. CKPR said that it was tentatively planning to disaffiliate as of September 1, 2010, but that it had yet to find a new programming source, and that it would be reserving the right to remain a CBC affiliate through the end of the 2010-2011 season, even if the relevant condition of licence was removed.〔(Broadcasting Notice of Consultation CRTC 2010-128 ), 4 March 2010〕 CKPR did not disaffiliate and continued negotiations with CBC. In March 2011, CKPR announced they had come to a programming agreement, under which the station would continue to provide CBC programming in Thunder Bay, which at the time was described as having a five-year term.〔("CKPR-Television, CBC ink programming deal" ). tbnewswatch.com, March 11, 2011.〕 In early 2014, the station filed a new application to disaffiliate, indicating that it had the ability under its current agreement to opt out in September 2014.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=CRTC Application 2014-0187-7 )〕 In June 2014, the CRTC approved CKPR's request to disaffiliate from CBC while suggesting to both CKPR and CBC to "consider alternate solutions" in order to "ensure the availability of the CBC’s service over-the-air" in the Thunder Bay area.〔(Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2014-316 ), 11 June 2014〕 On September 1, 2014, CKPR-DT disaffiliated from the CBC to become an affiliate of the CTV Television Network, which returned to local terrestrial television after sister station CHFD-TV disaffiliated from that network in 2010.〔 Despite the affiliation change, all TV service providers serving Thunder Bay, like all service providers across Canada, will continue to be required to include a CBC Television signal as part of their basic services. Shortly before the affiliation change, CBC confirmed that CBLT Toronto would be added to the basic packages of Shaw Communications cable systems in the area (channel 2 in Thunder Bay), and Tbaytel TV (channels 210 () and 802 ()). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「CKPR-DT」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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