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RIP CKNX and CHWI
CTV to close two Ontario stations
CHWI is licenced in Wheatley, but serves Essex and Kent and based in Windsor.
CKNX is based in tiny Wingham, Ontario, but serving the Bruce-Grey-Huron region.
Both were BBS/Electrohome stations under the CTV affiliate. They were sold to CHUM which operated CKNX and CHWI as "New 'NX and New 'WI" before being rebranded as "A Channels" in the CHUM/Craig merger - then CTV picked them up.
Apparently, CKCO (K-W) and CFPL (London) will "fill in", but it means the loss of local news programming. Windsor still has a CBC station though.
Canada, Ontario in particular doesn't have the network of local corporate-owned and affiliate stations that the US has. Everything will likely be centalized in Toronto (like how Global always was) and Ottawa and perhaps one station each for CBC and CTV in SW Ontario and Northwestern Ontario.
CTV to close two Ontario stations
CHWI is licenced in Wheatley, but serves Essex and Kent and based in Windsor.
CKNX is based in tiny Wingham, Ontario, but serving the Bruce-Grey-Huron region.
Both were BBS/Electrohome stations under the CTV affiliate. They were sold to CHUM which operated CKNX and CHWI as "New 'NX and New 'WI" before being rebranded as "A Channels" in the CHUM/Craig merger - then CTV picked them up.
Apparently, CKCO (K-W) and CFPL (London) will "fill in", but it means the loss of local news programming. Windsor still has a CBC station though.
Canada, Ontario in particular doesn't have the network of local corporate-owned and affiliate stations that the US has. Everything will likely be centalized in Toronto (like how Global always was) and Ottawa and perhaps one station each for CBC and CTV in SW Ontario and Northwestern Ontario.
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