CBET
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CBET, channel 9, is the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
's owned-and-operated television station in Windsor, Ontario
. The station's signal also covers the Detroit, Michigan
area across the international border in the United States
, and is counted as a Detroit station for the purposes of territorial programming rights. It is carried on American cable television systems as far south as Sandusky, Ohio
and in many parts of Michigan. CBET's studios are located in Windsor, with its transmitter located in McGregor.
and FM 93.9, now CIDR-FM
). Channel 9 was an affiliate of the CBC, though it also maintained a secondary affiliation with DuMont
(shared with Detroit's WJBK-TV
) until that network's demise in 1956. CKLW-TV transmitted its signal in black and white until 1968 when it upgraded its transmitter and began broadcasting in color.
In that same year, American industrial and communications firm General Tire and Rubber
purchased a controlling interest in Western Ontario Broadcasting. This move, done through General Tire's broadcasting subsidiary General Teleradio, made the CKLW stations perhaps the only stations in Canada to be owned by an American company. In 1959, General Teleradio was renamed RKO General
. In 1963, RKO bought out Western Ontario Broadcasting's other shareholders and gained full ownership of the CKLW stations. CKLW-AM-FM-TV was now fully integrated with RKO General's American broadcast interests, located in New York City
, Memphis
, San Francisco, Los Angeles
, Boston
, Washington, D.C.
, and Hartford, Connecticut
, among other cities.
There was some local programming and personalities during this era, including Toby David as Captain Jolly, Art Cervi as Bozo the Clown
(who would later move to WJBK-TV), and Bill Kennedy
hosting Bill Kennedy's Showtime (which would soon relocate to WKBD-TV as Bill Kennedy and the Movies, with CKLW retaining the Showtime title). Another popular show on CKLW-TV during the 1960s was Swingin' Time, a local teenage dance-party show similar to American Bandstand, hosted by local WKNR
personality Robin Seymour (and also, for a time, CKLW radio's Tom Shannon). The show featured recording acts, both nationally and locally popular, lip-synching to their latest releases while teenagers showcased the latest dances on the show's huge dance floor. Due to the show's connection to Detroit's popular rock-and-roll AM radio stations, Swingin' Time was used by many artists, especially local acts such as The Supremes
, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, the MC5
, and Mitch Ryder
, to reach a substantially larger teen audience than they could have achieved through solely working the record hop circuit.
interests, such as the CTV
affiliates (and partial stake in CTV itself, since CTV was a cooperative owned by its stations at the time) in Montreal
, Ottawa
, and the Maritimes
-- or had much lower shares of American ownership (such as CKCO-TV
in Kitchener, Ontario
and CKMI-TV
in Quebec City
) though those stations went to all-Canadian ownership.
Two Canadian broadcasting firms, Maclean Hunter Ltd. (which owned CTV station CFCN-TV
in Calgary
), and Baton Broadcasting (owners of Toronto
's CTV affiliate CFTO-TV
), made a joint offer to purchase the stations, but were turned down by the CRTC, as Maclean-Hunter owned CFCO in Chatham, Ontario (also in the Windsor-Detroit market), and neither company could agree which radio stations to sell (CFCO or CKLW-AM-FM). Also Maclean-Hunter and Baton wanted to have CKLW-TV as a CTV affiliate. Baton was undeterred in its quest and reapplied again, and with a new partner—the CBC, which had wanted an owned-and-operated station in southwestern Ontario for some time. Baton and CBC formed a holding company, known as St. Clair River Broadcasting Ltd., which was 75 percent owned by Baton; the CBC held the remaining 25 percent. This time, the CRTC approved the application, and in 1970 the CBC/Baton alliance took control of CKLW-TV. St. Clair River was granted a five-year licence by the CRTC to operate the station, after which the CBC would gain full ownership of CKLW-TV. Meanwhile, Baton took sole control of CKLW-AM-FM, operating them until they were sold to CUC Broadcasting
in 1984 and to CHUM Limited
in 1993; they are now owned by CTVglobemedia
.
When CBC/Baton took over, more Canadian content was added to channel 9's schedule, including programs from CTV, such as People in Conflict, Here Comes the '70s, The Pig and Whistle
and The Starlost
. The CTV programming was mainly seen in place of CBC's American programming as a result of border protection rules prohibiting the broadcast of American programs carried on the CBC network. Channel 9 also carried CTV's midweek hockey telecasts of NHL hockey, as well as its playoffs and finals, when CTV held the rights. Before the sale, and especially before Detroit's WKBD-TV went on the air in 1965, CKLW-TV was often likely to preempt games involving the Toronto Maple Leafs
if the Montreal Canadiens
hosted the Detroit Red Wings
on Hockey Night in Canada
.
After its sale, CKLW-TV also produced a significant amount of local programming that ranged from music and variety to daytime talk, sports, agriculture, current affairs and documentaries. CKLW-TV was the first CBC station (and maybe the only station) to produce a 90 minute local, national and international newscast over the supper hour.
in the early-1980s. CTV content on CBET would remain at some capacity through the 1980s, despite the fact that after the CBC took full control of channel 9 in 1975, Kitchener-based CTV affiliate CKCO-TV signed on a repeater transmitter in Sarnia
on channel 42, with a signal that reached Windsor at least marginally.
The station also sometimes purchased rights to sports programming, such as Maple Leafs games from CHCH-TV
in Hamilton
in the early 1980s, who picked up the midweek rights from CFTO-TV after Baton sold the team. CBET was known as CBET 9 when it first adopted the new call letters, and later TV 9 Windsor.
The 90 minute supper hour news program Newsday remained as well as late and weekend news programs, but the music, variety, daytime talk and the popular Reach for the Top
were all gone. In 1990, CBC closed down the entire Windsor news operation. The Windsor community was up in arms. A large rally of about 5,000 plus citizens marched down Riverside Drive West to the station in protest.
A "Save Our Station" committee was begun and politicians on every level lobbied both CBC and the Canadian government to preserve the Windsor operation. Only three reporters were left and they produced stories for CBLT Toronto's Newscast which was broadcast at the supper hour. First came 5:30 Live, which was followed by CBC Evening News with Bill Cameron
(which earlier was known as CBC at 6 on CBLT).
The Windsor Council was also formed. This group made up of managers and union reps oversaw the progress of the "experiment" and dealt with issues that arose on an almost weekly basis. The new methods of the operation paved way for some of the new language in the collective agreements reached in 1996-97.
Windsor was not only in the spotlight in the CBC, but was also of interest to many other broadcasters and union leaders across the country. Two local half hour news programs were produced when CBET presented the Windsor Evening News, anchored by Carole MacNeil
, at 5:30 p.m. and the Windsor Late News at 11 p.m. (CBET would continue to show the Toronto-based CBC Evening News at 6 p.m.)
In the mid-1990s, CBC stepped up its Canadian content. However, the few American shows left on CBC had disappeared from CBET some years before. They were replaced with older CBC programs or shows from other Commonwealth countries
, such as the popular British TV drama Coronation Street
(a national CBC program) and the Australian drama, Neighbours
(exclusive to CBET at first, later national).
The station had also moved its transmitter tower from Downtown Windsor to near McGregor, Ontario in 2002, by dismantling the top 600 feet (182.9 m) and erecting it up as a new structure. The bottom 400 feet (121.9 m) still remain for the analog signal on channel 9, while the new tower houses the future digital signals for CBET (post-transition digital channel 9), CICO-TV-32 (TVOntario
) and CBEFT
(post-transition digital channel 35 / 54.1).
and coverage of the Olympic Games
, has historically been quite popular in the Detroit area, sometimes even more popular than American network coverage of the same events.
During the CBC's original run of Toronto Blue Jays
telecasts (before Rogers Sportsnet
's 2004 takeover), Jays games were often subject to blackout on CBET in order to protect Detroit Tigers
home games available on broadcast stations. During 2007, CBC carried eight Jays games; CBET was able to air all CBC Jays games that season. However, blackouts returned during the 2008 season. Jays telecasts on CBC was discontinued beginning with the 2009 season, with Rogers Sportsnet
and TSN
having exclusive carriage within Canada.
Conversely, CBC's National Hockey League
coverage is not subject to local blackout. Indeed, CBET generally airs any Detroit Red Wings
game covered by CBC in preference over the default national broadcast. For example, CBET aired all of the 2006 Western Conference Quarterfinal games between the Edmonton Oilers
and the Red Wings, although some games were only initially designated to air in the Northern and Central Alberta (CBXT
/Edmonton) region.
(which airs on the national CBC schedule at 4:30pm) and Jeopardy!
(7:30pm). These preemptions are due to Detroit rightsholder WDIV-TV
, which shows both programs during the 7 p.m. hour. The CBC says it will not be renewing its rights to Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy when they expire, although it is not clear how much longer the current agreement will run.
CBET currently handles these anomalies (as well as its one-hour 6:00 p.m. local newscast, which as noted below differs from most CBC stations) by airing repeats of Rick Mercer Report
at 4:30 p.m., Dragons' Den
repeats at 5:00 p.m., and Coronation Street
from 7:00 to 8:00 (whereas Corrie airs from 6:30 to 7:30 on most stations). The Dragons' Den repeats are aired on most CBC stations in the 1:00 p.m. timeslot, and as a result various documentaries from the CBC library air on CBET in that timeslot instead.
(which began at CBET before it went national), CBC's new hybrid hour-long dinnertime newscast at 6 p.m. began. National news originated from Vancouver and anchored by Ian Hanomansing
, with the Windsor segment anchored at CBET by Blake Roberts.
Carole MacNeil
would move to Toronto to anchor the Toronto segment there; she would later co-anchor with Evan Solomon
the CBC network's Sunday morning news program, CBC News: Sunday
, and its nighttime complement, CBC News: Sunday Night
. As a result of the dinnertime news change, CBC's local news operations faced some layoffs—especially CBET, where its news staff was reduced from 29 to 19 people. Prior to the 2006 retransformation, Canada Now was last locally anchored by Susan Pedler with Tony Doucette from a state of the art news studio inside the CBET newsroom.
On January 9, 2006, under the CBC's local programming expansion initiative, CBET's newscasts were renamed CBC News at Six
, with the national half hour remaining as Canada Now. Most CBC owned and operated stations are also offering expanded local newscasts under the CBC News at Six name.
On November 30, 2006, CBC announced plans to scrap Canada Now in February 2007, in favour of a full-hour local suppertime newscast on its stations. While CBC Prince Edward Island decided to name their new supper hour newscast Compass and CBC Vancouver
kept Canada Now, CBET stayed with the CBC News at Six name rather than returning to its original Newsday name. Susan Pedler continues as lead anchor, with Jim Lagogians on sports and Tara Weber reporting on weather. CBET later changed the name of its newscast from CBC News at Six to CBC News: Windsor at Six, following the lead of most of its sister stations across Canada by inserting the city's name into the newscast title.
In September 2009, most CBC stations began to carry a 90 minute block of local news from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on weeknights; however, CBET has opted to keep its CBC News: Windsor at Six program at 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. In addition to the main 6 p.m. newscast, CBET introduced a 10-minute late night newscast CBC News: Windsor Late Night on October 26, 2009. The update airs at 10:55 p.m. each weeknight following The National.
As part of Canada's transition to digital television, CBET flash-cut
to digital on August 31, 2011, using its existing signal on channel 9. While the CBC originally planned on requesting that analogue operations for CBET and some of its other stations be extended by one year, taking those stations digital in 2012, the corporation later revised its plan, and converted all of its originating stations to digital in August 2011.
At 11:58 PM on August 31, 2011, CBET turned off its signal for the final time after 57 years on analog channel 9. Three minutes later at 12:01 AM on September 1, the station turned on the ATSC signal on digital channel 9.
with a really strong and reliable rooftop and/or indoor antenna. The station was also listed in some TV Guide
editions in Northern Ohio.
CBET is carried on Detroit cable systems, as well as on cable systems in much of Southeast Michigan. In Northwest Ohio, Toledo-based Buckeye Cablesystem
carries CBET on its system, which serves areas as far east as Sandusky
. Until January 2009, CBET enjoyed cable coverage as far south as Findlay, Ohio
-- this ended when Time Warner Cable
dropped CBET (and Columbus
' CBS
affiliate WBNS-TV
) from its Northwestern Ohio systems.
CBET is the only CBC-owned station not to have any repeaters, transmitters in Sarnia
and Chatham
rebroadcast CBLT instead.
Beginning on August 15, both Windsor stations (CBET-TV and CHWI-TV
) will be carried on Shaw Direct.
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly known as CBC and officially as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian crown corporation that serves as the national public radio and television broadcaster...
's owned-and-operated television station in Windsor, Ontario
Windsor, Ontario
Windsor is the southernmost city in Canada and is located in Southwestern Ontario at the western end of the heavily populated Quebec City – Windsor Corridor. It is within Essex County, Ontario, although administratively separated from the county government. Separated by the Detroit River, Windsor...
. The station's signal also covers the Detroit, Michigan
Detroit, Michigan
Detroit is the major city among the primary cultural, financial, and transportation centers in the Metro Detroit area, a region of 5.2 million people. As the seat of Wayne County, the city of Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and serves as a major port on the Detroit River...
area across the international border in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, and is counted as a Detroit station for the purposes of territorial programming rights. It is carried on American cable television systems as far south as Sandusky, Ohio
Sandusky, Ohio
Sandusky is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Erie County. It is located in northern Ohio and is situated on the shores of Lake Erie, almost exactly half-way between Toledo to the west and Cleveland to the east....
and in many parts of Michigan. CBET's studios are located in Windsor, with its transmitter located in McGregor.
As CKLW-TV
Windsor's first television station originally signed on the air September 16, 1954 at 2:50 p.m. as CKLW-TV, owned by the Western Ontario Broadcasting Company, Ltd., along with CKLW radio (AM 800CKLW
CKLW is a 50,000 watt AM radio station broadcasting on 800 kHz and located in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, and serving Windsor and Detroit. Additionally, its signal can be heard as far west as Belding, Michigan; as far east as Batavia, New York; as far south as Edgewood, Kentucky; and as far...
and FM 93.9, now CIDR-FM
CIDR-FM
CIDR-FM is the callsign for a radio station, broadcasting at 93.9 FM in Windsor, Ontario. The station broadcasts a adult album alternative format using the brand name 93-9 The River. It is owned and operated by Bell Media. It is one of the few commercial adult album alternative stations in Canada...
). Channel 9 was an affiliate of the CBC, though it also maintained a secondary affiliation with DuMont
DuMont Television Network
The DuMont Television Network, also known as the DuMont Network, DuMont, Du Mont, or Dumont was one of the world's pioneer commercial television networks, rivalling NBC for the distinction of being first overall. It began operation in the United States in 1946. It was owned by DuMont...
(shared with Detroit's WJBK-TV
WJBK
WJBK is the Fox–owned and operated television station in Detroit, Michigan broadcasting on digital channel 7...
) until that network's demise in 1956. CKLW-TV transmitted its signal in black and white until 1968 when it upgraded its transmitter and began broadcasting in color.
In that same year, American industrial and communications firm General Tire and Rubber
General Tire
The General Tire and Rubber Company is an American manufacturer of tires for motor vehicles.General Tire was founded in 1915 in Akron, Ohio by William F. O'Neil. Products included the low-pressure "General Balloon Jumbo" and the "Dual 90" tire...
purchased a controlling interest in Western Ontario Broadcasting. This move, done through General Tire's broadcasting subsidiary General Teleradio, made the CKLW stations perhaps the only stations in Canada to be owned by an American company. In 1959, General Teleradio was renamed RKO General
RKO General
RKO General was the main holding company through 1991 for the noncore businesses of the General Tire and Rubber Company and, after General Tire's reorganization in the 1980s, GenCorp. The business was based around the consolidation of its parent company's broadcasting interests, dating to 1943, and...
. In 1963, RKO bought out Western Ontario Broadcasting's other shareholders and gained full ownership of the CKLW stations. CKLW-AM-FM-TV was now fully integrated with RKO General's American broadcast interests, located in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
, Memphis
Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers....
, San Francisco, Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
, Boston
Boston
Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
, Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
, and Hartford, Connecticut
Hartford, Connecticut
Hartford is the capital of the U.S. state of Connecticut. The seat of Hartford County until Connecticut disbanded county government in 1960, it is the second most populous city on New England's largest river, the Connecticut River. As of the 2010 Census, Hartford's population was 124,775, making...
, among other cities.
Programming
Under RKO's ownership, CKLW-TV aired only the minimum block of CBC programming. During this period, the CBC carried a number of U.S.-originated shows that were also broadcast on the Detroit stations; these programs, however, were blacked out on CKLW-TV because Windsor was, then as now, considered part of the Detroit market. The blackout of American network shows allowed RKO General an opportunity to reach the more lucrative American audience across the border. Outside of network programming, most of channel 9's schedule consisted of the standard fare of independent stations in the United States. Much like its radio counterparts (especially CKLW-AM, which became a Top 40 powerhouse in the Detroit market in the mid-1960s), the station looked more American than Canadian.There was some local programming and personalities during this era, including Toby David as Captain Jolly, Art Cervi as Bozo the Clown
Bozo the Clown
Bozo the Clown is a clown character very popular in the United States, peaking in the 1960s as a result of widespread franchising in early television.Originally created by Alan W...
(who would later move to WJBK-TV), and Bill Kennedy
Bill Kennedy (actor)
Willard "Bill" Kennedy was an American actor, voice artist, and host of the long-running Detroit-based television show, Bill Kennedy at the Movies. He began his career as a staff announcer in radio; Kennedy's voice narrates the opening of the television series Adventures of...
hosting Bill Kennedy's Showtime (which would soon relocate to WKBD-TV as Bill Kennedy and the Movies, with CKLW retaining the Showtime title). Another popular show on CKLW-TV during the 1960s was Swingin' Time, a local teenage dance-party show similar to American Bandstand, hosted by local WKNR
WDTW (AM)
WDTW is a Detroit-area radio station, operating at 1310 kHz with 5,000 watts. The station is owned by Clear Channel Communications and airs mostly syndicated progressive talk radio programs....
personality Robin Seymour (and also, for a time, CKLW radio's Tom Shannon). The show featured recording acts, both nationally and locally popular, lip-synching to their latest releases while teenagers showcased the latest dances on the show's huge dance floor. Due to the show's connection to Detroit's popular rock-and-roll AM radio stations, Swingin' Time was used by many artists, especially local acts such as The Supremes
The Supremes
The Supremes, an American female singing group, were the premier act of Motown Records during the 1960s.Originally founded as The Primettes in Detroit, Michigan, in 1959, The Supremes' repertoire included doo-wop, pop, soul, Broadway show tunes, psychedelic soul, and disco...
, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, the MC5
MC5
The MC5 is an American rock band formed in Lincoln Park, Michigan and originally active from 1964 to 1972. The original band line-up consisted of vocalist Rob Tyner, guitarists Wayne Kramer and Fred "Sonic" Smith, bassist Michael Davis, and drummer Dennis Thompson...
, and Mitch Ryder
Mitch Ryder
William S. Levise, Jr , better known by his stage name Mitch Ryder, is an American musician who has recorded over two dozen albums in more than four decades.-Career:...
, to reach a substantially larger teen audience than they could have achieved through solely working the record hop circuit.
Transition
Through the 1968 Broadcasting Act, the Canadian Radio-television Commission (the forerunner to today's Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)) decreed that broadcast stations licensed within Canada must be at least 80 percent owned by Canadians. With this ordinance in effect, RKO General's stewardship of the CKLW stations was coming to a close. Western Ontario Broadcasting's licence to operate the stations was renewed for only one year, and in 1969 General Tire looked to sell them rather than accept a 20 percent ownership share. However, the CRTC was more lenient with private affiliates that were owned partially or fully by BritishUnited Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
interests, such as the CTV
CTV television network
CTV Television Network is a Canadian English language television network and is owned by Bell Media. It is Canada's largest privately-owned network, and has consistently placed as Canada's top-rated network in total viewers and in key demographics since 2002, after several years trailing the rival...
affiliates (and partial stake in CTV itself, since CTV was a cooperative owned by its stations at the time) in Montreal
CFCF-TV
CFCF-DT is a CTV-owned and operated station located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada...
, Ottawa
CJOH-TV
CJOH-DT is a television station serving Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and the surrounding region. Owned by Bell Media, it is part of the CTV Television Network....
, and the Maritimes
CTV Atlantic
CTV Atlantic is a system of four television stations in the Canadian Maritimes, owned and operated by the CTV Television Network, a division of Bell Media...
-- or had much lower shares of American ownership (such as CKCO-TV
CKCO-TV
CKCO-DT is a television station broadcasting on channel 13 in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Owned and operated by Bell Media, it is a part of the CTV Television Network and has been branded CTV Southwestern Ontario since 2005.-History:...
in Kitchener, Ontario
Kitchener, Ontario
The City of Kitchener is a city in Southern Ontario, Canada. It was the Town of Berlin from 1854 until 1912 and the City of Berlin from 1912 until 1916. The city had a population of 204,668 in the Canada 2006 Census...
and CKMI-TV
CKMI-TV
CKMI-DT-1 is the Global Television Network owned-and-operated station in Quebec.Originally a privately owned CBC Television affiliate in Quebec City, the station moved most of its operations to Montreal in 1997 after launching a rebroadcaster there and becoming a Global affiliate as Global Quebec...
in Quebec City
Quebec City
Quebec , also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest...
) though those stations went to all-Canadian ownership.
Two Canadian broadcasting firms, Maclean Hunter Ltd. (which owned CTV station CFCN-TV
CFCN-TV
CFCN-DT is a Canadian television station, broadcasting in Calgary, Alberta. Owned and operated by Bell Media, it is a part of the CTV Television Network. The station also operates a semi-satellite in Lethbridge....
in Calgary
Calgary
Calgary is a city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies...
), and Baton Broadcasting (owners of Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
's CTV affiliate CFTO-TV
CFTO-TV
CFTO-DT, broadcast on channel 9 and cable 8, is a television station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, owned by Bell Media. Currently branded as CTV Toronto, it is the flagship station of the CTV Television Network, and was one of the charter members of the network when it was launched in 1961. It...
), made a joint offer to purchase the stations, but were turned down by the CRTC, as Maclean-Hunter owned CFCO in Chatham, Ontario (also in the Windsor-Detroit market), and neither company could agree which radio stations to sell (CFCO or CKLW-AM-FM). Also Maclean-Hunter and Baton wanted to have CKLW-TV as a CTV affiliate. Baton was undeterred in its quest and reapplied again, and with a new partner—the CBC, which had wanted an owned-and-operated station in southwestern Ontario for some time. Baton and CBC formed a holding company, known as St. Clair River Broadcasting Ltd., which was 75 percent owned by Baton; the CBC held the remaining 25 percent. This time, the CRTC approved the application, and in 1970 the CBC/Baton alliance took control of CKLW-TV. St. Clair River was granted a five-year licence by the CRTC to operate the station, after which the CBC would gain full ownership of CKLW-TV. Meanwhile, Baton took sole control of CKLW-AM-FM, operating them until they were sold to CUC Broadcasting
CUC Broadcasting
CUC Broadcasting was a Canadian media company. Primarily a cable television distributor which operated under the name Trillium Cable, CUC was also a minority investor in other smaller cable companies, including Northern Cable and UMG Cable....
in 1984 and to CHUM Limited
CHUM Limited
CHUM Limited was a media company based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from 1945 to 2007. Immediately prior to its acquisition, it held full or joint control of two Canadian television systems — Citytv and A-Channel — comprising 11 local stations, and one CBC Television affiliate, one...
in 1993; they are now owned by CTVglobemedia
CTVglobemedia
CTVglobemedia , was one of Canada's largest private media companies. Its operations include newspaper publishing , television broadcasting and production , radio broadcasting , and their respective Internet properties.Originally established by BCE and the Thomson family in 2001 combining CTV Inc.,...
.
When CBC/Baton took over, more Canadian content was added to channel 9's schedule, including programs from CTV, such as People in Conflict, Here Comes the '70s, The Pig and Whistle
The Pig and Whistle
The Pig and Whistle was a Canadian musical television series aired on the CTV television network from 1967 to 1977. Filmed in Toronto, Ontario but set in a fictional English pub, the show featured an assortment of Canadian, British and Irish performers....
and The Starlost
The Starlost
The Starlost is a Canadian-produced science fiction television series devised by writer Harlan Ellison and broadcast in 1973 on CTV in Canada and syndicated to local stations in the United States. The show's setting is a huge generational colony spacecraft called The Ark, which has gone off-course...
. The CTV programming was mainly seen in place of CBC's American programming as a result of border protection rules prohibiting the broadcast of American programs carried on the CBC network. Channel 9 also carried CTV's midweek hockey telecasts of NHL hockey, as well as its playoffs and finals, when CTV held the rights. Before the sale, and especially before Detroit's WKBD-TV went on the air in 1965, CKLW-TV was often likely to preempt games involving the Toronto Maple Leafs
Toronto Maple Leafs
The Toronto Maple Leafs are a professional ice hockey team based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League...
if the Montreal Canadiens
Montreal Canadiens
The Montreal Canadiens are a professional ice hockey team based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . The club is officially known as ...
hosted the Detroit Red Wings
Detroit Red Wings
The Detroit Red Wings are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League , and are one of the Original Six teams of the NHL, along with the Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, New York...
on Hockey Night in Canada
Hockey Night in Canada
Hockey Night in Canada is the branding used for CBC Sports' presentations of the National Hockey League...
.
After its sale, CKLW-TV also produced a significant amount of local programming that ranged from music and variety to daytime talk, sports, agriculture, current affairs and documentaries. CKLW-TV was the first CBC station (and maybe the only station) to produce a 90 minute local, national and international newscast over the supper hour.
As CBET
The Baton/CBC partnership in CKLW-TV ended in May 1975 when, per the original 1970 arrangement, the CBC purchased Baton's 75 percent ownership stake in St. Clair River Broadcasting. On September 1, 1975, CKLW-TV became a CBC owned-and-operated station with a new set of call letters, CBET. The station's schedule did not change much early on; it still featured the same formula of CBC and CTV programs, plus British and American television shows (mostly reruns and movies) with Detroit rights. CBET also carried some special programming aimed towards American viewers, such as the annual Weekend With the Stars telethon for United Cerebral PalsyUnited Cerebral Palsy
United Cerebral Palsy is an international nonprofit charitable organization consisting of a network of affiliates. UCP is a leading service provider and advocate for adults and children with disabilities, including cerebral palsy...
in the early-1980s. CTV content on CBET would remain at some capacity through the 1980s, despite the fact that after the CBC took full control of channel 9 in 1975, Kitchener-based CTV affiliate CKCO-TV signed on a repeater transmitter in Sarnia
Sarnia, Ontario
Sarnia is a city in Southern Ontario, Canada . It is the largest city on Lake Huron and is located where the upper Great Lakes empty into the St. Clair River....
on channel 42, with a signal that reached Windsor at least marginally.
The station also sometimes purchased rights to sports programming, such as Maple Leafs games from CHCH-TV
CHCH-TV
CHCH-DT, channel 11, is a television station originating in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, with transmitters located throughout Ontario. CHCH currently operates as an independent station, having previously served as a CBC Television affiliate, and more recently as the flagship station of the...
in Hamilton
Hamilton, Ontario
Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe...
in the early 1980s, who picked up the midweek rights from CFTO-TV after Baton sold the team. CBET was known as CBET 9 when it first adopted the new call letters, and later TV 9 Windsor.
Budget cuts
The good times of CBET were sadly about to fade to black, in 1985 a large budget cut decimated all locally produced programs by the CBC except for news, even though CBET was one of the few profitable CBC stations in Canada.The 90 minute supper hour news program Newsday remained as well as late and weekend news programs, but the music, variety, daytime talk and the popular Reach for the Top
Reach for the Top
Reach for the Top is a Canadian game show in which teams of high school students participate in local, provincial and eventually national trivia tournaments...
were all gone. In 1990, CBC closed down the entire Windsor news operation. The Windsor community was up in arms. A large rally of about 5,000 plus citizens marched down Riverside Drive West to the station in protest.
A "Save Our Station" committee was begun and politicians on every level lobbied both CBC and the Canadian government to preserve the Windsor operation. Only three reporters were left and they produced stories for CBLT Toronto's Newscast which was broadcast at the supper hour. First came 5:30 Live, which was followed by CBC Evening News with Bill Cameron
Bill Cameron
William "Bill" Cameron was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. A Gemini Award winner, he was a news anchor, television producer, columnist and author...
(which earlier was known as CBC at 6 on CBLT).
The Windsor experiment
With an editorial and tech staff of about 32, CBC reinstated local news in pilot project form. New operating methods and new technologies were introduced. This meant videojournalists (cross-skilling) multi-skilling, and the use of non-linear editing technology (AVID newscutters and air-play for news item playback.)The Windsor Council was also formed. This group made up of managers and union reps oversaw the progress of the "experiment" and dealt with issues that arose on an almost weekly basis. The new methods of the operation paved way for some of the new language in the collective agreements reached in 1996-97.
Windsor was not only in the spotlight in the CBC, but was also of interest to many other broadcasters and union leaders across the country. Two local half hour news programs were produced when CBET presented the Windsor Evening News, anchored by Carole MacNeil
Carole MacNeil
Carole MacNeil is an award-winning television journalist and producer with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. She is the host of CBC News Now from 12 to 3 p.m. Eastern Time Zone on the CBC News Network....
, at 5:30 p.m. and the Windsor Late News at 11 p.m. (CBET would continue to show the Toronto-based CBC Evening News at 6 p.m.)
In the mid-1990s, CBC stepped up its Canadian content. However, the few American shows left on CBC had disappeared from CBET some years before. They were replaced with older CBC programs or shows from other Commonwealth countries
Commonwealth of Nations
The Commonwealth of Nations, normally referred to as the Commonwealth and formerly known as the British Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organisation of fifty-four independent member states...
, such as the popular British TV drama Coronation Street
Coronation Street
Coronation Street is a British soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford. Created by Tony Warren, Coronation Street was first broadcast on 9 December 1960...
(a national CBC program) and the Australian drama, Neighbours
Neighbours
Neighbours is an Australian television soap opera first broadcast on the Seven Network on 18 March 1985. It was created by TV executive Reg Watson, who proposed the idea of making a show that focused on realistic stories and portrayed adults and teenagers who talk openly and solve their problems...
(exclusive to CBET at first, later national).
The station had also moved its transmitter tower from Downtown Windsor to near McGregor, Ontario in 2002, by dismantling the top 600 feet (182.9 m) and erecting it up as a new structure. The bottom 400 feet (121.9 m) still remain for the analog signal on channel 9, while the new tower houses the future digital signals for CBET (post-transition digital channel 9), CICO-TV-32 (TVOntario
TVOntario
TVOntario, often referred to only as TVO , is a publicly funded, educational English-language television station and media organization in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is operated by the Ontario Educational Communications Authority, a Crown corporation owned by the Government of Ontario...
) and CBEFT
CBEFT
CBEFT is Radio-Canada's transmitter serving Franco-Ontarians in Windsor. Previously licensed as a standalone television station, it is currently a semi-satellite of CBLFT-DT in Toronto.-History:...
(post-transition digital channel 35 / 54.1).
Sports
The CBC's sports programming, including Hockey Night in CanadaHockey Night in Canada
Hockey Night in Canada is the branding used for CBC Sports' presentations of the National Hockey League...
and coverage of the Olympic Games
Olympic Games
The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...
, has historically been quite popular in the Detroit area, sometimes even more popular than American network coverage of the same events.
During the CBC's original run of Toronto Blue Jays
Toronto Blue Jays
The Toronto Blue Jays are a professional baseball team located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Blue Jays are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball 's American League ....
telecasts (before Rogers Sportsnet
Rogers Sportsnet
Sportsnet was launched on October 9, 1998 as CTV Sportsnet. The name was chosen to match the regional "Fox Sports Net" operations across the United States...
's 2004 takeover), Jays games were often subject to blackout on CBET in order to protect Detroit Tigers
Detroit Tigers
The Detroit Tigers are a Major League Baseball team located in Detroit, Michigan. One of the American League's eight charter franchises, the club was founded in Detroit in as part of the Western League. The Tigers have won four World Series championships and have won the American League pennant...
home games available on broadcast stations. During 2007, CBC carried eight Jays games; CBET was able to air all CBC Jays games that season. However, blackouts returned during the 2008 season. Jays telecasts on CBC was discontinued beginning with the 2009 season, with Rogers Sportsnet
Rogers Sportsnet
Sportsnet was launched on October 9, 1998 as CTV Sportsnet. The name was chosen to match the regional "Fox Sports Net" operations across the United States...
and TSN
The Sports Network
The Sports Network, commonly abbreviated as TSN, is a Canadian English language Category C specialty channel and is Canada's leading English language sports TV channel. TSN premiered in 1984, in the first group of Canadian specialty cable channels...
having exclusive carriage within Canada.
Conversely, CBC's National Hockey League
National Hockey League
The National Hockey League is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are currently located in Canada and 23 in the United States...
coverage is not subject to local blackout. Indeed, CBET generally airs any Detroit Red Wings
Detroit Red Wings
The Detroit Red Wings are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League , and are one of the Original Six teams of the NHL, along with the Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, New York...
game covered by CBC in preference over the default national broadcast. For example, CBET aired all of the 2006 Western Conference Quarterfinal games between the Edmonton Oilers
Edmonton Oilers
The Edmonton Oilers are a professional ice hockey team based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. They are members of the Northwest Division in the Western Conference of the National Hockey League ....
and the Red Wings, although some games were only initially designated to air in the Northern and Central Alberta (CBXT
CBXT
CBXT-DT is the television call sign for the CBC's television station in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.- History :The station first went on-air on October 1, 1961 as Edmonton's second television station; the previous CBC affiliate, CFRN, switched to the newly-established CTV on the same day. Initially,...
/Edmonton) region.
American programming preemptions
As part of the Detroit market, CBET is required to preempt American shows on the CBC network schedule of which exclusive rights are claimed by American stations in the market. As of the 2011-12 season, these programs are Wheel of FortuneWheel of Fortune (U.S. game show)
Wheel of Fortune is an American television game show created by Merv Griffin, which premiered in 1975. Contestants compete to solve word puzzles, similar to those used in Hangman, to win cash and prizes determined by spinning a large wheel. The title refers to the show's giant carnival wheel that...
(which airs on the national CBC schedule at 4:30pm) and Jeopardy!
Jeopardy!
Griffin's first conception of the game used a board comprising ten categories with ten clues each, but after finding that this board could not be shown on camera easily, he reduced it to two rounds of thirty clues each, with five clues in each of six categories...
(7:30pm). These preemptions are due to Detroit rightsholder WDIV-TV
WDIV-TV
WDIV-TV, virtual channel 4, is an NBC-affiliated television station based in Detroit, Michigan, United States. It is owned by Post-Newsweek Stations and is the flagship station and home base of the group with the offices of the group located alongside WDIV's studios; the "Local" branding now...
, which shows both programs during the 7 p.m. hour. The CBC says it will not be renewing its rights to Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy when they expire, although it is not clear how much longer the current agreement will run.
CBET currently handles these anomalies (as well as its one-hour 6:00 p.m. local newscast, which as noted below differs from most CBC stations) by airing repeats of Rick Mercer Report
Rick Mercer Report
Rick Mercer Report is a Canadian television comedy series which airs on CBC Television...
at 4:30 p.m., Dragons' Den
Dragons' Den (Canada)
Dragons' Den is a Canadian television reality show, based on the internationally franchised Dragons' Den format, in which aspiring entrepreneurs pitch business ideas to a panel of venture capitalists in the hopes of securing business financing. The show debuted on October 3, 2006 on CBC Television...
repeats at 5:00 p.m., and Coronation Street
Coronation Street
Coronation Street is a British soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford. Created by Tony Warren, Coronation Street was first broadcast on 9 December 1960...
from 7:00 to 8:00 (whereas Corrie airs from 6:30 to 7:30 on most stations). The Dragons' Den repeats are aired on most CBC stations in the 1:00 p.m. timeslot, and as a result various documentaries from the CBC library air on CBET in that timeslot instead.
News operation
On October 2, 2000, local news on CBET and other CBC owned and operated stations would be cut back to a half-hour a weeknight, and late news would be cancelled. With the introduction of Canada NowCanada Now
Canada Now was the early-evening national news program on CBC Television, the main English television network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, between 2000 and 2007...
(which began at CBET before it went national), CBC's new hybrid hour-long dinnertime newscast at 6 p.m. began. National news originated from Vancouver and anchored by Ian Hanomansing
Ian Hanomansing
Ian Hanomansing is a Canadian television journalist with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation . He currently reports for CBC Television's nightly newscast, The National.-Early life:...
, with the Windsor segment anchored at CBET by Blake Roberts.
Carole MacNeil
Carole MacNeil
Carole MacNeil is an award-winning television journalist and producer with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. She is the host of CBC News Now from 12 to 3 p.m. Eastern Time Zone on the CBC News Network....
would move to Toronto to anchor the Toronto segment there; she would later co-anchor with Evan Solomon
Evan Solomon
Evan Solomon is a Canadian writer, magazine publisher and television journalist, who currently hosts the nightly series Power & Politics on CBC News Network. Beginning in September 2011, he will also host CBC Radio One's weekly political affairs series The House.Solomon graduated from McGill...
the CBC network's Sunday morning news program, CBC News: Sunday
CBC News: Sunday
CBC News: Sunday was a weekly television newsmagazine series in Canada, which aired on Sunday mornings on both CBC Newsworld and CBC Television...
, and its nighttime complement, CBC News: Sunday Night
CBC News: Sunday Night
CBC News: Sunday Night was a television newsmagazine series in Canada, which aired on Sunday evenings at 10 p.m. on CBC Television. It was, essentially, the Sunday night equivalent of The National, although it took a more features-oriented approach than its weekday counterpart. The program also...
. As a result of the dinnertime news change, CBC's local news operations faced some layoffs—especially CBET, where its news staff was reduced from 29 to 19 people. Prior to the 2006 retransformation, Canada Now was last locally anchored by Susan Pedler with Tony Doucette from a state of the art news studio inside the CBET newsroom.
On January 9, 2006, under the CBC's local programming expansion initiative, CBET's newscasts were renamed CBC News at Six
CBC News at Six
CBC News produces a variety of local newscasts for CBC Television's owned-and-operated stations throughout Canada. On most stations, the local news operation is currently titled CBC News: [city/province name], such that the 6:00 p.m. newscast on CBLT is named CBC News: Toronto at 6...
, with the national half hour remaining as Canada Now. Most CBC owned and operated stations are also offering expanded local newscasts under the CBC News at Six name.
On November 30, 2006, CBC announced plans to scrap Canada Now in February 2007, in favour of a full-hour local suppertime newscast on its stations. While CBC Prince Edward Island decided to name their new supper hour newscast Compass and CBC Vancouver
CBUT
CBUT-DT is the CBC's television station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and the flagship CBC Television station for the Pacific Time Zone. The station transmits its main terrestrial signal from a tower atop Mount Seymour....
kept Canada Now, CBET stayed with the CBC News at Six name rather than returning to its original Newsday name. Susan Pedler continues as lead anchor, with Jim Lagogians on sports and Tara Weber reporting on weather. CBET later changed the name of its newscast from CBC News at Six to CBC News: Windsor at Six, following the lead of most of its sister stations across Canada by inserting the city's name into the newscast title.
In September 2009, most CBC stations began to carry a 90 minute block of local news from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on weeknights; however, CBET has opted to keep its CBC News: Windsor at Six program at 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. In addition to the main 6 p.m. newscast, CBET introduced a 10-minute late night newscast CBC News: Windsor Late Night on October 26, 2009. The update airs at 10:55 p.m. each weeknight following The National.
Newscast titles
- Telescope (1960s)
- News 9 (1970s)
- NewsDay (1980s–1990s)
- CBC Windsor News (1990s–2000)
- Canada Now (national evening newscast based at CBET; 2000–2006)
- CBC News: Windsor (2000–present)
Past branding
- CKLW-TV Channel 9 (1954)
- CKLW Television 9 Windsor (1965)
- CBET Television 9 Windsor (1975)
- CBET 9 (1978)
- TV 9 Windsor (1985)
- CBC Television Windsor 9 (1986–1993)
- CBC Windsor 9 (1993–2000)
News team
Anchors- Susan Pedler - news anchor; CBC News: Windsor at SixCBC News at SixCBC News produces a variety of local newscasts for CBC Television's owned-and-operated stations throughout Canada. On most stations, the local news operation is currently titled CBC News: [city/province name], such that the 6:00 p.m. newscast on CBLT is named CBC News: Toronto at 6...
(weeknights at 6 p.m.) - Sara Elliott - weather specialist; CBC News: Windsor at SixCBC News at SixCBC News produces a variety of local newscasts for CBC Television's owned-and-operated stations throughout Canada. On most stations, the local news operation is currently titled CBC News: [city/province name], such that the 6:00 p.m. newscast on CBLT is named CBC News: Toronto at 6...
(weeknights at 6 p.m.)
Digital television
| Broadcasting in Digital | Yes |
| Programs in HD | Yes |
| News in HD | No |
| PSIP functioning properly | No |
As part of Canada's transition to digital television, CBET flash-cut
Flash-cut
A flash-cut, also called flash-cutover, is an immediate change in a complex system, with no phase-in period.Some telephone area codes were split immediately, rather than being phased in with a permissive dialing period. An example is telephone area code 213, which was split into 213 and 714 all at...
to digital on August 31, 2011, using its existing signal on channel 9. While the CBC originally planned on requesting that analogue operations for CBET and some of its other stations be extended by one year, taking those stations digital in 2012, the corporation later revised its plan, and converted all of its originating stations to digital in August 2011.
At 11:58 PM on August 31, 2011, CBET turned off its signal for the final time after 57 years on analog channel 9. Three minutes later at 12:01 AM on September 1, the station turned on the ATSC signal on digital channel 9.
Coverage
Over-the-air, CBET can be seen in Cleveland and Toledo, OhioToledo, Ohio
Toledo is the fourth most populous city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Lucas County. Toledo is in northwest Ohio, on the western end of Lake Erie, and borders the State of Michigan...
with a really strong and reliable rooftop and/or indoor antenna. The station was also listed in some TV Guide
TV Guide
TV Guide is a weekly American magazine with listings of TV shows.In addition to TV listings, the publication features television-related news, celebrity interviews, gossip and film reviews and crossword puzzles...
editions in Northern Ohio.
CBET is carried on Detroit cable systems, as well as on cable systems in much of Southeast Michigan. In Northwest Ohio, Toledo-based Buckeye Cablesystem
Buckeye CableSystem
Buckeye CableSystem, formerly known as The CableSystem until the 1990s, is a cable company located in Toledo, Ohio and serves Northwest Ohio and parts of Southeast Michigan...
carries CBET on its system, which serves areas as far east as Sandusky
Sandusky, Ohio
Sandusky is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Erie County. It is located in northern Ohio and is situated on the shores of Lake Erie, almost exactly half-way between Toledo to the west and Cleveland to the east....
. Until January 2009, CBET enjoyed cable coverage as far south as Findlay, Ohio
Findlay, Ohio
As of the census of 2000, there were 38,967 people, 15,905 households, and 10,004 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,266.3 people per square mile . There were 17,152 housing units at an average density of 997.6 per square mile...
-- this ended when Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable is an American cable television company that operates in 28 states and has 31 operating divisions...
dropped CBET (and Columbus
Columbus, Ohio
Columbus is the capital of and the largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio. The broader metropolitan area encompasses several counties and is the third largest in Ohio behind those of Cleveland and Cincinnati. Columbus is the third largest city in the American Midwest, and the fifteenth largest city...
' CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
affiliate WBNS-TV
WBNS-TV
WBNS-TV, channel 10, is a television station in Columbus, Ohio, USA. The station is an affiliate of the CBS Television Network and is owned by the Dispatch Broadcast Group, a subsidiary of the Columbus Dispatch, along with WBNS radio...
) from its Northwestern Ohio systems.
CBET is the only CBC-owned station not to have any repeaters, transmitters in Sarnia
Sarnia, Ontario
Sarnia is a city in Southern Ontario, Canada . It is the largest city on Lake Huron and is located where the upper Great Lakes empty into the St. Clair River....
and Chatham
Chatham-Kent, Ontario
Chatham–Kent is a unitary authority in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. Mostly rural, its centres of population are Blenheim, Chatham, Dresden, Ridgetown, Tilbury and Wallaceburg. Modern Chatham–Kent was created in 1998 by the merger of Kent County and its municipalities.- History :The former city of...
rebroadcast CBLT instead.
Beginning on August 15, both Windsor stations (CBET-TV and CHWI-TV
CHWI-TV
CHWI-DT is a Canadian television station owned by Bell Media. It is part of the CTV Two system. The station is licensed to Wheatley, Ontario, but operates out of Windsor. CHWI also has offices in Chatham....
) will be carried on Shaw Direct.