CKXT-TV : Ask Biography

Broadcast information

Call letters

CKXT-TV

City of license

Toronto, Ontario

Branding

Sun News Network

Slogan

Canada's Home for Hard News and Straight Talk

Analog

52 (UHF)

Digital

66 (UHF)
Virtual: 52.1 (PSIP)

Translators

see below

Affiliations

Sun News Network

Owner

Quebecor Media

Licensee

Groupe TVA Inc.

First air date

September 19, 2003

Call letters' meaning

CKX (call sign of the first television station owned by CKXT's original owners, Craig Media)
Toronto

Former affiliations

Independent (2003-2011)

Transmitter Power

30 kW (analog)
3 kW (digital)

Height

458 m (both)

Home | Broadcast | CKXT-TV

CKXT-TV is a broadcast television station based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and serving much of southern and eastern Ontario, owned by Quebecor Media through its Groupe TVA unit. The station currently serves as an over-the-air simulcast of Quebecor's cable news channel, the Sun News Network. It transmits on channel 52 in Toronto.

CKXT began broadcasting on September 19, 2003 as a general-interest independent station branded Toronto 1 and owned by Craig Media. Following the station's sale to Quebecor, it was rebranded as SUN TV on August 29, 2005. It then began to simulcast Sun News upon that channel's launch on April 18, 2011.

Although Sun News is licensed as a Category 2 (optional carriage) digital specialty channel, CKXT, as a broadcast station, has mandatory cable carriage in its over-the-air service area. Hence this simulcast means that Sun News programming is available to analog cable subscribers throughout southern and eastern Ontario. However, the station retains its own broadcast licence separate from the specialty channel, and it is not clear whether this simulcast will be maintained on a long-term basis.