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Canterbury Television is an independent television station broadcasting in Canterbury, New Zealand. The name is synonymous with regional television in New Zealand as it was the name of the first regional broadcaster to operate in New Zealand. CTV produces and screens more than twenty hours of locally based programming every week. It also screens overseas programming from Deutsche Welle and Al Jazeera. It broadcasts from the Sugarloaf transmitter on the Port Hills. On 22 February 2011 Christchurch was hit by a 6.3 magnitude earthquake and the CTV Building collapsed killing 16 staff members and destroying all of CTV’s equipment. On 18 April 2011 CTV resumed service in a new base location at the Mainland Press building in the Christchurch suburb of Harewood. As of 18 March 2013, CTV commenced digital free-to-air transmissions on Freeview Channel 40. CTV is also on Vodafone Channel 199. ==History== In 1999, yet to be signed New Zealand soprano Hayley Westenra performed on CTV. The appearance led to her being signed by Universal Music Group New Zealand. In 2003, NowTV (formerly known as CHTV) and CTV merged, headquartered into the NowTV Building. In 2006, CTV was the chief sponsor of the Canterbury United soccer team. Today in Canterbury, a nightly news programme, started in March 2008. In late 2008 CTV gained popularity with the New Zealand professional wrestling promotion Impact Pro Wrestling airing IPW Ignition weekly. The first episode premiered on the 5 October 2008. In March 2009, CTV started screening Graham Kerr's Kitchen and Nick Stellino's Cucina Amore, half-hour cooking programmes from the 1990s. In September 2010, the CTV Building had received superficial damage in the 4 September 2010 Canterbury earthquake, but was "given a clean bill of health" by structural engineers, according to the owners.〔 Reports of the building's construction date vary: Chip Le Grand of ''The Australian'' said 1960; a 1 March 2011 NZPA report said 1991 or shortly before; and a 4 March 2011 ''New Zealand Herald'' editorial said 1972. On 18 April 2011, CTV was back on air at 5.30 pm for the first time since February's earthquake.〔 The station began with a two-hour broadcast of news and then another hour of interviews with people involved in the earthquake recovery. Shows would screen nationwide on Māori Television the day after each CTV broadcast. 18 March 2013, CTV joined Freeview, broadcasting from Sugarloaf, Christchurch on Channel 40. They extended their reach to South Canterbury on 1 June 2013, broadcasting from Cave Hill, Timaru. 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「Canterbury Television」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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