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Mid-Canada Communications was a Canadian media company, which operated from 1980 to 1990. The company, a division of Northern Cable,〔"Northern Cable seeks control of TV systems". ''The Globe and Mail'', September 20, 1979.〕 had television and radio holdings in Northeastern Ontario. ==MCTV== Mid-Canada Television, or MCTV, was created in 1980 when Cambrian Broadcasting, which owned the CTV affiliates in Sudbury, North Bay and Timmins merged with J. Conrad Lavigne's CBC affiliates in the same cities. This twinstick structure was permitted by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission because both companies were on the brink of bankruptcy due to their aggressive competition for limited advertising dollars in small markets. In its decision, however, the CRTC explicitly communicated the expectation that this would exist only as a temporary arrangement, to end as soon as the CBC could afford to directly acquire MCTV's CBC affiliates. That "temporary" deal, however, would last 22 years. The MCTV stations were: * North Bay - CKNY (CTV), CHNB (CBC) * Sudbury - CICI (CTV), CKNC (CBC) * Timmins - CITO (CTV), CFCL (CBC) All six stations were referred to on air as MCTV rather than by their callsigns. The stations were distinguished from each other by use of their network affiliation (i.e. "MCTV-CTV" and "MCTV-CBC".) As well, MCTV owned CHRO in Pembroke, a CBC affiliate in a market with no other television stations. CHRO used the same logo and programming schedule as MCTV's other stations, but it used its own callsign, rather than MCTV, as its on-air identification. 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「Mid-Canada Communications」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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