I am from Toronto, never heard of this station, but I did take the time to watch its final broadcast, it is a damn shame when a community loses its local element. It this what modern news and Tv suppose to be about? A damn shame, I hope the people from that news station land on their feet.
Wow. I watched the whole thing, too. Very sad to watch, especially the end. I'm from Selkirk, so I'm used to not having a TV station. We've never had one. But, we're only about 40 minutes from Winnipeg. Brandon is far enough away from Winnipeg, and has a large enough population, to support a TV station. Something is wrong with the world when a TV station on the air for 50+ years fades to black. Sad.
The CTVglobemedia banner at the end of most CTV-owned television stations usually has the ribbons beneath it unlike what they used on this station with the "Copyright 2009" beneath it.
The note at the end might say… “CKX-TV has shut down it’s transmission of the broadcast. We also like to thank you for supporting CKX-TV Brandon over the years.”
@@GavinLarosaYT to my surprise they are still broadcasting black they just pulled the plug it's just like ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1Oj_cRkMrCY.html at 5:27
It's actually quite fitting, the final story of CKX is all about that tower. The tower was not only used to broadcast CKX, but also its main competitor, CKY Winnipeg, in a unique twin-stick situation. CKY's main signal was sent to CKX which in turn would insert local Brandon commercials over some Winnipeg commercials (ones not pertinent to Brandon), and CKX would share the revenue and collect lease money on the tower. This kept CKX solvent. Once CTV Globemedia purchased CKX it meant that their CKY station now had free access to the tower, and no longer needed CKX, resulting in the station shutting down. CKY broadcasts on the tower to this day. The CRTC should have never allowed CTV to own CKX and the tower.
The production music used for CKX was still in use for a couple more years........at my neck of the woods. WGSR-LD, an independent station primarily serving the Greensboro and Roanoke DMAs, used it until 2013.
THVL1, in the Vinh Long province of Vietnam, used that for its ident in 2021. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-w9lZrWTLp8c.html EDIT: just found out that VTV, Vietnam's national television station, was also using that for their VTV2 ident in 2020... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lP-XqLZ76YY.html
In fact, here's in Yogyakarta, this production music that used for CKX News are also used on ADITV's Lensa 44 until now! So when i heard the closing BGM, i feel so familiar with that music. For context : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7G44aixy6sc.html
It's an example with corporate FUD being more important than what would be best long term. CTV and Global were full on into their "Local TV matters" propaganda and CKX was their sacrificial lamb. I've said for years that CKX would have become CTV2 Manitoba and ended up on cable in Winnipeg just two years later. The CRTC also dropped the ball by letting Bell/CTV aquire CKX. Once Bell owned the tower for CKX, which also acted as a twin stick for CKY, they no longer needed CKX viable to get their signal into Brandon. "Local TV Matters" was some of the biggest corporate BS campaigns ever launched at Canadian viewers.
The closure of CKX-TV in Brandon comes just one month after CTV closed down it's /A\ station in Wingham on August 31, 2009, which is now a rebroadcaster of /A\ London. Another CTV-owned station that claimed a victim of the broken conventional model.
They never faded to black. One thing I can say is that they indeed shut down its news operation and gave full control of the ABC affiliation of the market to WEWS 5. Similar to how CKX shut down and gave full control of CTV programming to sister & tower-shared station CKY.
Because it no longer could afford to produce programming in local markets. CTV cannot renew CKX’s Television License. Brandon is still without CKX to this day as of 2024.
