page_title: CIVT-DT
section_title: News operation
hierarchical_section_title: CIVT-DT / News operation
caption_attribution_description: 2009-present Ford Explorer CTV Vancouver photographed in Vancouver, British Coumbia, Canada at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
context_page_description: CIVT-DT, virtual and UHF digital channel 32, is a CTV owned-and-operated television station licensed to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The station is owned by the Bell Media subsidiary of BCE Inc., as part of a twinstick with Victoria-based CTV 2 station CIVI-DT, channel 53. CIVT-DT's studios are located at 969 Robson Street at the intersection of Robson Street and Burrard Street in downtown Vancouver, which also houses the British Columbia operations of the CTV network itself, including the CTV News Vancouver bureau. The station's transmitter is located atop Mount Seymour.
  On cable, the station is available on Shaw Cable channels 9 and 210 in the Vancouver area. On satellite, it is carried on Bell Satellite TV channel 1151, and Shaw Direct channel 214.
context_section_description: CIVT-DT presently broadcasts 38 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with seven hours each weekday and 1½ hours each on Saturdays and Sundays); in regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the highest local newscast output among CTV's television stations (either owned-and-operated or affiliated), and the second-highest among the Vancouver-Victoria market's television stations, falling behind Global O&O CHAN-DT's weekly news total by seven hours.
  At its launch as "VTV", the station operated news bureaus in Victoria, North Vancouver, Burnaby, Port Coquitlam, Surrey and Richmond, alongside its main studio in downtown Vancouver. Most of these bureaus were closed by 2001, with the exception of the one in Victoria (which continues in operation to this day). On the other hand, the station added bureaus in the Fraser Valley and the Okanagan, and also operated a bureau in Whistler for coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics.
  On November 23, 2009, beginning with its 5:00 p.m. newscast, CIVT became the first television station in Metro Vancouver and the fourth in Canada (after Toronto-based stations CITY, CBLT and CFTO) to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in HD; with the upgrade, the station renovated its existing news set.
  On March 18, 2010, CIVT unveiled a new set for its news broadcasts, which repurposed portions of CTV's set from its coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics. CIVT's newsroom was redesigned using the news desk, interview area and large screen monitors that were previously installed in the International Broadcast Centre. On December 7, 2010, Bill Good and Pamela Martin announced their resignation as anchors of the 6:00 p.m. newscast. Mike Killeen and Tamara Taggart were announced as their replacements the next day, and took over as anchors of the broadcast on January 3, 2011.
  CIVT debuted an hour-long lunchtime newscast at noon on October 31, 2011. Two weeks later on November 14, the station debuted a 3½-hour weekday morning newscast under the CTV Morning Live banner. With the latter addition, CFCF-DT in Montreal and CTV's Toronto flagship station CFTO-DT are now the largest CTV owned-and-operated stations that have yet to carry locally produced weekday morning newscasts.
  On April 9, 2018, Mike Killeen and Tamara Taggart were let go as the main CTV News Vancouver at Six anchors.
  On January 31, 2020, CTV Chopper 9 news helicopter ceased operations after 16 years of service.
caption: A Ford Explorer vehicle from CTV Vancouver
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