UPDATE: Canwest's Victoria, Red Deer, stations to close; Kelowna to become a Global outlet

WINNIPEG – While CHBC TV Kelowna will live on – rebranded from E! to part of the Global TV network – CHEK-TV Victoria and CHCA-TV Red Deer will be shuttered at the end of business on August 31, 2009, said the stations’ owner Canwest Global Communications.As reported by Cartt.ca, the other two stations in the E! chain CHCH-TV in Hamilton and CJNT-TV in Montreal have been conditionally sold to independent broadcaster Channel Zero.“When we began this process about six months ago to determine if there was any way to keep these local stations on the air in the current regulatory...