CTV Television Network
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| Type | Broadcast television network |
|---|---|
| Country | |
| Availability | Canada (via cable or antenna) |
| Slogan | Naturally CTV |
| Owner | Bell Canada (Bell Media Inc.) |
Key people | John Raisman, President, Programming and Sports Rick Brace, President, Production Wendy Freeman, President, News Mike Cosentino, Senior Vice-President, Programming |
Launch date | October 1, 1961 |
Former names | Canadian Television Network (CTN) – pre-launch name |
Sister channels | CTV Two |
Official website | CTV |
CTV Television Network (commonly referred to as CTV) is a Canadian English-language television network.
CTV stations
CTV has many TV stations around Canada. Some of them include:
- CFCN Calgary, Alberta
- CKCK Regina, Saskatchewan
- CKCW Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
- CJCH Halifax, Nova Scotia
Slogans
- 1961-1966 This is CTV
- 1966-1967 The Colour Network
- 1967-1974 It's Happening on CTV
- 1968-1969 Pleasure Isle (TV promos only)
- 1974-1985 For Those Who Want It All
- 1985-1987 CTV Entertains You
- 1987-1988 You'll See it All on CTV
- 1988-1989 The Choice of Canadians
- 1989-1990 Watch Yourself on CTV
- 1990-1994 Tuned In To You
- 1994-1997 This Is CTV
- 1997-2005 Canadian Television
- 2003-2005 Canada's Watching (alternate slogan)
- 2005-2009 Canada's #1 Network
CTV Two
Since the 2007 acquisition of A Channel by CTVglobemedia as part of the takeover of CHUM Limited, media analysts had speculated that CTV may potentially extend its market-leading CTV brand to that network. It was first rebranded as A in 2008, then as CTV Two on August 29, 2011.
CTV Television Network Media
CTV HD logo
CTV 2 logo, beginning fall 2018
CTV's original logo (1961–1966)
Original version of CTV's geometrical shape logo (1966–1967)
The logo in use during the late 1960s and early 1970s added the colors, still in use today, to the shapes, with the letters being rounded (1968–1975)
The logo in use during the late 1970s and early 1980s added a white half-square representing a television picture tube to the geometrical shape logo (1975–1985)
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The logo in use from 1990 to 2018 dropped any additional designs to the geometrical shape logo with letters being angled and tweaked. In 1998, the network added colour gradients to the shapes to create a 3D effect before that variant became the network's official logo in 2004, although the plain version remained in use in print publications where the colour gradients could not be rendered.
