CFTK-TV

CFTK-TV is a privately owned television station affiliated with CBC Television in Terrace, British Columbia, Canada. It broadcasts an analogue signal on VHF channel 3 from a transmitter on Thornhill Mountain near Terrace and also rebroadcasts in Prince Rupert on VHF channel 6.

Owned by Bell Media, it is part of the Great West Television system, and has its studios located on Lazelle Avenue in Terrace. This station can also be seen on Citywest Cable channel 7, Shaw Direct channel 324 and Bell TV channel 257.

History

CFTK went on the air for the first time on November 1, 1962. Standard Broadcasting acquired CFTK from Telemedia in 2002. Telemedia had owned CFTK since 1999.

The station was originally part of a two-station "sub-network" called Northern Television (NTV) since the early 1990s, until 2002, when it was disbanded and re-launched as Great West Television (joined by CKPG-TV). NTV and GWTV's programming consisted of mainly American shows imported and aired on CHUM Limited's NewNet/A-Channel stations, mixed with CBC's own programming.