CKES-TV
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CKES-DT is a television station
Television station
A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...
in Edmonton
Edmonton
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, Alberta
Alberta
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, Canada
Canada
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which first began broadcasting on October 8, 2007 on channel 45. The station uses CTS Edmonton as its on-air brand.
Licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission on June 8, 2007, the station is owned by Crossroads Christian Communications
Crossroads Christian Communications
Crossroads Christian Communications is a Canadian non-profit charitable corporation located in Burlington, Ontario, Canada. While it focuses on media development and production, it also has extensive involvement in Christian missions and aid and relief work....
and broadcasts a religious broadcasting
Religious broadcasting
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programming format as part of the Crossroads Television System
Crossroads Television System
Crossroads Television System, or CTS, is a privately held Canadian television system.CTS airs predominantly Christian-based religious programming, most notably 100 Huntley Street, The Michael Coren Show and LIFE Today with James & Betty Robison, as well as other religious and faith based...
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Digital television and high definition
In August 2011, CKES-TV began broadcasting in digital.Through the use of PSIP
Program and System Information Protocol
The Program and System Information Protocol is the protocol used in the ATSC digital television system for carrying metadata about each channel in the broadcast MPEG transport stream of a TV station and for publishing information about television programs so that viewers can select what to watch...
, digital television receivers will display CKES-TV's virtual channel
Virtual channel
In telecommunications, a logical channel number , also known as virtual channel, is a channel designation which differs from that of the actual radio channel on which the signal travels....
as 45.1.