CFSK-DT
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| Affiliations | Global |
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First air date | September 6, 1987 |
Former call signs | CFSK-TV (1987–2011) |
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Licensing authority | CRTC |
| ERP | 18 kW |
| HAAT | 195 m (640 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 52°10′28″N106°26′3″W/ 52.17444°N 106.43417°W |
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| Website | Global Saskatoon |
CFSK-DT(channel 4) is atelevision stationinSaskatoon, Saskatchewan,Canada, part of theGlobal Television Network.Owned and operatedby network parentCorus Entertainment,the station has studios on Robin Crescent on the northwest side of Saskatoon (near theSaskatoon John G. Diefenbaker International Airport), and its transmitter is located on Agra and Settlers Ridge Roads (nearHighway 41), northeast of the city.
History
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The station first signed on the air on September 6, 1987, under the ownership ofCanwest.CFSK and its sister station inRegina,CFRE-TV,were initially branded as "STV" (short for "Saskatchewan Television" ). It joined the Canwest Global System in1990.At the time that STV went on the air, it was Saskatoon's third locally based over-the-air television station, joining a market that includedCTV'sCFQCand the then-operationalCBCaffiliate,CBKST.However, technically it was Saskatoon's second fully licensed station; CBKST was licensed as a rebroadcaster of Regina'sCBKT.
Canwest discontinued the STV branding, along with all other individual local station brandings in1997,when the Global Television Network brand was expanded to all of Canwest's stations. One of STV's major broadcasts in its early years was the children's programSize Small Island(that show was originally broadcast on sister stationCKND-TVinWinnipeg), which was syndicated around the world (the show's host, Helen Lumby, officially launched the mini-network's first broadcast in Saskatoon in 1987). Since the closure of CBKST in 2012, CFSK is one of only two over-the-air broadcast stations originating from Saskatoon.
News operation
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CFSK-DT presently broadcasts24+1⁄2hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with4+1⁄2hours each weekday and one hour each on Saturdays and Sundays); it is among the few Global stations (and one of the few television stations in Canada) to carry a prime time newscast during the 10 p.m. hour.
On December 5, 2011, CFSK-DT debuted a three-hour newscast on weekday mornings (under Global'sMorning Newsbrand), which runs from 6 to 9 a.m. Around the same time, CFSK became the first television station in Saskatoon to begin broadcasting its local newscasts inhigh definition.
On August 20, 2012, CFSK expanded its half-hour 10 p.m. newscast to one hour, which was retitled fromPrime NewstoNews Hour Final;the addition of the morning newscast and the expansion of the prime time newscast is part of an expansion of local news programming on Global owned-and-operated stations across Canada as part of a benefits package that was included as a condition of the sale of the Global Television Network to Shaw Communications.[2]
As of September 2023, Global Saskatoon's only newscast presented from its studios isGlobal News Morningfrom 6 to 9 a.m.
Global News at 5,Global News at 6andGlobal News at 10are presented by Lisa Dutton from the Global Winnipeg studios. The 5 p.m. newscast is a province-wide show (also seen on Global Regina), while the 6 and 10 p.m. newscasts are Saskatoon-focused. Weather reports for both Global Regina and Saskatoon are produced by meteorologist Peter Quinlan from the Saskatoon studios.
Global News at 10was previously presented byGlobal Torontoanchors Crystal Goomansingh and Antony Robart from September 2015 until 2018. From 2018, presentation of the 10 PM news returned to Saskatchewan, albeit anchored from Global Regina by anchors Carlyle Fiset and Elise Darwish.
The weekend editions ofGlobal News at 6andGlobal News at 10are presented from the Global News Centre in Toronto by Mark Carcasole.
WithCFQC-DTcancelling several of its local news programming in September 2023 (replaced with provincial news programming), CFSK is the only station in Saskatoon to provide local news in the morning, late night and on weekends.
Notable former on-air staff
[edit]- Darren Dutchyshen– sports (anchor of the prime time edition ofSportsCentreon TSN)
- Jay Onrait– sports (later and now back withTSN;was withFox Sports 1in August 2013 – March 2017)
Technical information
[edit]Subchannels
[edit]| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 4.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | CFSK-HD | Main CFSK-DT programming /Global |
| 4.2 | 480i | 4:3 | CFSK-SD | SDsimulcast of CFSK-DT 4.1 |
Analogue-to-digital conversion
[edit]On August 15, 2011,2+1⁄2weeks before Canadian television stations in CRTC-designated mandatorymarketswere slated totransition from analogue to digital broadcasts,CFSKflash cutits digital signal into operation onUHFchannel 42. Through the use ofPSIP,television receivers will list CFSK-DT's virtual channel number as 4.1.[4]
References
[edit]- ^Ownership Chart 32H – CORUS – TV & Discretionary Services
- ^Global News Boosts Local Programming Across the CountryArchived2014-01-07 at theWayback Machine,Broadcaster Magazine,May 30, 2012.
- ^RabbitEars TV Query for CFSK
- ^"Digital Television – Office of Consumer Affairs (OCA)".Archived fromthe originalon 2013-07-07.Retrieved2013-07-13.
External links
[edit]- Global Saskatoon
- CFSK-DTat The History of Canadian Broadcasting by theCanadian Communications Foundation
- CFSK-TVin the REC Canadian station database