CTC 4

**CTC 4**  is an Cowellan free-to-air television channel operated by the CTC Television Network. It's the fourth TV channel. It was launched on June 2, 1989. CTC 4 is commercial-free primarily aimed at a more intellectual crowd than the other CTC channels, and mainly airs educational, arts, opera, world cinema, documentaries and period drama programming from all genres.

The channel free airs every day at 6:00 pm to 2:00 am. It timeshares with CTC 24 (2:00 am to 6:00 pm).

The PAL-E analog channel 4 frequency used by most CTC 4 stations has an analog audio subcarrier of 77.15 MHz, and can be picked up at 77.1 FM on the radio dial.

## History

CTC 4 launched on May 1, 1975. As the channel's launch gained major controversy, the CTC management team allowed the channel to broadcast content planned for broadcasting on CTC 4. This later restored the reputation, but not at full scale, because CTC 4 was aimed to be primarily educational, arts and not towards trends.

In 2011, it's airtime was split between it, CTC 24, and CTC Preschool.

On February 2, 2018, after Mia de Jesus was appointed the head of CTC Kids and CTC Preschool, she had CTC Kids and CTC Preschool converted to 24-hour and 16-hour channels respectively, leaving only CTC 24 time-sharing with CTC 4.

#### Channel interruption

On March 6, 2019, filmmaker Marcos Paqueros, member of VidSpace account Social Dude Productions, hijacked CTC 4's signal in response to the hate he received across the Internet.

## Current programs

### Original programs

* I Remember Better When I Paint (2010-present)
* On The Road (2011-present)
* Top Gear Cowell (2008-2016 as first-run; 2016-present as second-run) (first-run now on CTC Kids)
* 3-D (2006-present)
* Gardening Cowell (1989-present)
* Phantom Gourmet Cowell (2008-present)
* Supersense (2016-present)
* Artsville (2001-present)
* Jazz Club (2017-present)

### Docuseries

* The World According to Jeff Goldblum (US) (2020-present)

### Comedy

* Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (US) (2014-present)
* The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (US) (2015-present)
* Talkin' Toons with Rob Paulsen (US) (2017-present)

### History

* Crash Course World History (US) (2013-present)

### World Exploration

* Exploring With Josh (US) (2016-present)
* Rick Steves' Europe (US) (2001-present)
* Ben Laurence (US) (2018-present)

### Toy Reviews

* Black Tub Bootlegs (US) (2018-present)
* The Bootleg Zone (CA) (2015-present)
* Miraculous Merchandise Zone (CA) (2016-present)
* Grand Illusions (UK) (2019-present)

### Movie Reviews

* The Cinema Snob (US) (2012-present)
* Midnight Screenings (US) (2013-present)
* Say MovieNight Kevin (US) (2018-present)

### Weather

* Extreme Weather: The Survivors (UK) (2017-present)

### Food/Cooking

* brutalfoods (US) (2017-present)
* Epic Meal Time (CA) (2011-present)
* Fung Bros. Food (US) (2016-present)

### Music

* Austin City Limits (US) (1989-present)
* JBTV (US) (1989-present)

### Annual

* Miss Exotic World Pageant (US) (2006-present)

### Others

* Ashens reviews (UK) (2013-present)
* YouTube Geographic (US) (2017-present)
* Bobsheaux (US) (2015-present)

### Children's programming (branded as Think About It)

* BizKid$ (US) (2018-present)
* Wild Kratts (US) (2018-present)
* DragonflyTV (US) (2018-present) (Also aired on CTC Kids)
* Annedroids (CAN) (2018-present)
* Endlings (CAN) (2021-present)
* The Kids from Room 402 (CAN) (2020-present)
* Deadly 60 (UK) (2018-present)
* Bananas in Pyjamas (AU) (2019-present)
* George and Martha (CAN/US) (2018-present)
* In The Night Garden (UK) (2018-present)
* Stella and Sam (CAN) (2019-present)
* Mio Mao (IT/UK) (2019-present)
* Ask Me (CAN) (2019-present)

## Slogans

* The fourth life. (1989-2000)
* The Green Network (2000-2006)
* Four your inspiration. (2006-2020)
* Four a world of ideas. (2020-present)