CKX-TV

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CKX is a television station in Brandon, Manitoba affiliated with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Owned by CHUM Limited, it was the first privately-owned television station in Manitoba. It shares its call letters with CKX-FM, owned and operated by Standard Radio.

The station was founded by John Craig and went on the air on January 28, 1955, a day which marked Craig Media's start in television broadcasting.

As a private affiliate of the CBC, the station airs the minimum requirement of CBC programming but also airs a significant amount of A-Channel programming.

For nearly half a century, the station remained under the ownership of the family-owned Craig Media. In 2004, Craig Media announced a deal to sell the A-Channel stations to CHUM. The sale was approved by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission on November 19, 2004, and became official on December 1.

CHUM rebranded the original A-Channel stations as Citytv on August 2 2005, and at the same time the existing NewNet stations picked up the A-Channel brand. It is possible that CKX may also do so, however it is currently a CBC affiliate, which would likely force the station to disaffiliate from the CBC (and a repeater of Winnipeg's CBWT would need to be installed in Brandon to provide CBC programming). The company has not made any announcement regarding what it will do with CKX.

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