 ckpr-dt is a privately owned television station serving as an affiliate of ctv in thunder bay, ontario, canada. it broadcasts a high-definition digital signal on vhf channel 2 from a transmitter in shuniah. owned by dougall media, it is sister to global affiliate chfd-dt and both stations share studios located on hill and van norman streets in central thunder bay. this station can also be seen on shaw cable channel 5 and in high definition on digital channel 210. on shaw direct, the channel is available in high definition on channel 037 (classic) or 537 (advanced). in june 2014, dougall media announced that the station would disaffiliate from cbc television (with which it was affiliated since its 1954 sign-on) in september to become a ctv affiliate,"ctv set to return to ckpr-tv". tbnewswatch.com, june 18, 2014. bringing ctv back to the thunder bay market for the first time since sister station chfd switched its affiliation from ctv to global in 2010. == history == ckpr-dt began broadcasting on october 4, 1954 as cfpa-tv (the "pa" stood for port arthur). the station was then owned by ralph h. parker ltd. three years later on july 20, 1957, cfpa-tv changed its callsign letters to cfcj-tv and then another ten years later in 1967, thunder bay electronics bought cfcj-tv and changed its callsign again to ckpr-tv. in 1972, thunder bay electronics launched the ctv affiliate chfd-tv (which switched to global in 2010) and thus ckpr-tv and chfd-tv became one of the first private twinstick stations in canada. [[file:tbtelevision.svg|thumb|left|130px|logo used until may 2012, when the station rebranded to ckpr thunder bay. this logo was also used at sister station [[chf
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