page_title: CIVI-DT
section_title: As A-Channel Victoria
hierarchical_section_title: CIVI-DT / History / As A-Channel Victoria
caption_attribution_description: English: Your Island Television, Victoria, Canada
context_page_description: CIVI-DT, virtual channel 53, is a CTV 2 owned-and-operated television station licensed to Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The station is owned by the Bell Media subsidiary of BCE Inc., as part of a twinstick with Vancouver-based CTV station CIVT-DT, channel 32. CIVI-DT's studios are located at the corner of Pandora Avenue and Broad Street across from Victoria City Hall in Downtown Victoria, and its transmitter is located near Rockland. The station operates a rebroadcaster on virtual and UHF channel 17 in Vancouver, with transmitter atop Mount Seymour.
  On cable, the station is available on Shaw Cable channels 12 and 212 in Victoria and Metro Vancouver. On satellite, it is carried on Bell Satellite TV channel 1154, and Shaw Direct channel 215.
context_section_description: The station was rebranded as "A-Channel" on August 2, 2005, along with the rest of the NewNet system. The station would likely have been part of the original A-Channel system at its launch had Craig Media won the licence in 2000. On July 12, 2006, CTVglobemedia announced plans to purchase CHUM Limited, with the intention of divesting the A-Channel stations. On that same day it was also announced that the morning news program A-Channel Morning would be discontinued, although this decision was supposedly unrelated to the takeover by CTVglobemedia (CIVI later restored a morning program to its schedule in the fall of 2007).
  Rogers Communications announced a deal to buy A-Channel on April 9, 2007; however, given the conditions of approval for the sale of CHUM on June 8, 2007, Rogers acquired the Citytv system instead, while CTV kept A-Channel. CTVglobemedia became the official owner of CIVI on June 22, 2007.
caption: The station's studio building in Victoria. It used to be nicknamed "Pandora's Box" for its location at the corner of Broad Street and Pandora Avenue, just across the street from Victoria City Hall.
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