TORONTO – Corus Entertainment has inked a program supply arrangement with Bell Media's CTV that will see three of Corus' local television channels in Eastern Ontario offer CTV programming starting this fall. The channels have long been CBC affiliates.
Beginning August 31st, Corus’ CHEX-TV in Peterborough, Channel 12 in Oshawa, and CKWS-TV in Kingston will launch new broadcast schedules featuring CTV hit series The Amazing Race Canada and MasterChef Canada. In addition, CTV's one-hour daily national news program, CTV National News with Lisa LaFlamme, will be integrated into the programming lineup along with the current local daily Newswatch newscasts. More details will be announced closer to the launch date.
"We are very pleased to be partnering with Bell Media to bring our audiences and advertisers CTV's stellar lineup of news, sports and entertainment programming," said Dave McCutcheon, general manager of Corus Radio and Television, Peterborough, Kingston and Ottawa, in the announcement. "As home to two of Canada's longest running heritage channels, our local news stations are recognized as leading voices in their markets. With the addition of CTV News content and programming, we will be offering audiences an exceptional new mix of news and entertainment, while maintaining our commitment to deliver the level of local news that our viewers have come to expect from us."
"We are proud to enter this comprehensive program-supply arrangement with Corus Entertainment, servicing Eastern Ontario," added Richard Gray, Bell Media’s regional vice-president, general manager, Radio and TV, Northern and Eastern Ontario, Maritimes. "Expanding the footprint of the CTV brand is a direct reflection of Bell Media's ongoing commitment to making our leading conventional programming lineup available to as many markets as possible."
