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CHMI is a television station formerly owned by Craig Media Inc., currently owned by CHUM Limited and based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It is now part of the Citytv system. With the takeover of CHUM Limited by Bell Globemedia, CHMI and CTV affiliate CKY-TV will become sister stations.
History
The station went on the air on May 8, 1986 where it was originally branded as the Manitoba Television Network or MTN. The station was originally licensed to Portage la Prairie, Manitoba but focused primarily on Winnipeg. Originally, MTN was not allowed to sell advertising in Winnipeg.
MTN was well-known for its Prairie Pulse News (later retitled MTN Pulse News, and then MTN News), MTN Kids Club, and Prime Ticket Movies, the last of which would carry over to the A-Channel system. Its slogan was "Very independent".
Prior to 1995, cable customers west of the Red River, serviced by Videon, got CHMI on channel 8, while cable customers east of the Red River, serviced by Greater Winnipeg Cablevision, got CHMI on channel 13. This was caused by a channel change that Videon did when CHMI debuted in 1986 in which CHMI got channel 8, while WDAZ, which had occupied channel 8, moved to channel 13. This move was not duplicated east of the Red River. Causing confusion for Winnipeg viewers on where the station aired depending on region, Shaw, which now owned Greater Winnipeg Cablevision, decided to move CHMI to channel 8 and WDAZ to channel 13 by 1995.
In the fall of 1999, Craig Media moved the station to the refurbished former CN Power House at The Forks in Winnipeg and rebranded the station as A-Channel, joining CKEM in Edmonton, Alberta and CKAL in Calgary, Alberta. Technical operations for the station remained in Portage la Prairie.
In 2004, Craig Media announced a deal to sell the A-Channel stations to CHUM Limited. The sale was approved by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission on November 19, 2004, and became official on December 1. CHMI was rebranded as Citytv on August 2, 2005.
On July 12, 2006, the local CityNews program was immediately cancelled with the Bell Globemedia takeover. It is expected to be replaced with a weekly half-hour newsmagazine called In Your City starting in January 2007. Technical operations for the station will be moved to CKAL, known as Citytv Calgary.[1]
Previous logos
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A-Channel logo (1999-2005)
