CIVI-DT
CIVI-DT (channel 53) is a television station in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, part of the CTV 2 system.CIVI first signed on the air on October 4, 2001, as CHUM's first original station to be part of the NewNet television system.[1][2] Known on the air as "The New VI", the station started off with much pomp and circumstance, marking their launch with a street party around their studios in Victoria and around their Nanaimo bureau.[3] It boasted a large lineup of personalities, including former British Columbia New Democratic Party cabinet minister Moe Sihota.Original programming included Island Underground (focusing on Vancouver Island's youth culture),[4] The New Canoe (hosted by and produced for the area's First Nations residents),[5][6] Environ-Mental (focusing on localized environmental issues),[7] the VI Parade (handling local arts and culture),[8] and a localized version of Speaker's Corner; much of the launch schedule consisted of programming from other CHUM outlets (including CityLine, FashionTelevision and Ed the Sock's Night Party), some of which had previously aired across the border on KVOS-TV in Bellingham, WA (which CHUM had been syndicating programming to since the 1990s in the face of repeated failures to launch a station in the area), along with American imported and syndicated programming (including The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and the Star Trek franchise), and a primetime movie on Sundays dubbed The Great MoVI (in the style of Citytv's Great Movies).Not long after launch, CHUM purchased CKVU in Vancouver and converted it into the Citytv station for the region, meaning CIVI became part of a twinstick; as per CRTC regulations regarding twinsticks, CKVU was prohibited from airing more than 10% of the programming aired on CIVI, and newscasts were required to be separately managed.As a result, CIVI's newscasts were rebranded as A News on that date, although the station's employees had been using that title for a couple of months prior to the relaunch; the station also began producing a morning newscast (under the title A Morning) on September 8, 2008, but was later cancelled on March 4, 2009, due to economic issues.
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