CHEK

CHEK-TV, Victoria (on Vancouver Island), British Columbia is a member of the CH television system, owned by CanWest Global, broadcasting on channel 6.

CHEK was British Columbia's first private television station, singing on the air as a CBC affilate on December 1, 1956. The station began to air some CTV programs in 1963, and became a full-time CTV affilate on January 5, 1981, when Vancouver CBC station CBUT launched repeater stations at Sooke and Mount McDonald . It was the only local television station on Vancouver Island before CHUM Limited's CIVI (The New VI) launched in October 2001.

In 1963, CHEK was purchased by local businessman Frank Griffiths, who also owned CHAN TV in Vancouver. At one stage, CHEK used the same flower logo as CHAN, but later reverted back to their own logo. Before 2001, CHEK also simulcast CHAN's News Hour and broadcast a shuffled schedule, with some programs from Hamilton's CHCH. When Baton Broadcasting's CIVT came on the air, CHEK was one of three stations broadcasting CTV programming, the other two being BCTV and CIVT, CHEK being the only one in BC showing Canada AM.

When the Vancouver affiliation switch occurred in 2001, CHEK became CH Vancouver Island, taking on a schedule similar to CH Hamilton, and becoming independent. CHEK airs 15-20 hours of news programs, and often programs usually shown on CHAN that were moved to accommodate their news programming. It also took Sports Page from former Global affilate CKVU, but the program isn't produced at CHEK; it's produced at CHAN.

In 2004, news anchor Hudson Mack left the station after 19 years, and joined CIVI as their news director on September 1. He became CIVI's 5pm news anchor on October 11. As a result, Sophie Lui returned from Global BC and joined CIVT's former Victoria bureau chief Ed Watson as the pair became the station's main anchors.

Previous Logos

A logo taken from a print ad	The first CHEK-TV logo with a check-mark in it	This logo was from when BCTV owners purchased CHEK and began to use BCTV's logo at the station	From the days when it was known as "CHEK 6 Island Television"
From the mid-late 1990's. The logo resembles a check board.	The last CHEK-TV logo, before they became CH Victoria/Vancouver Island

Transmitters

Sourced from Nelson Media

Videotape Format

Just like CHAN-TV, CHEK also uses Betacam SP tapes for all it's programming and non-live parts of its news broadcast now called CH News.

See also

• List of programs broadcast by CH

External links

• TVVancouver
• CH Vancouver Island's official website