CAB Hall of Fame (TV Stations)(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In spite of the erosion of their audience, CKVR managed to maintain its presence in the Barrie area, and stay in the "fl".
On September 27th, 1977 a jet aircraft dropped his altitude to 500 feet in dense fog, hit the CKVR tower, killing the occupants and collapsing the tower.
CKVR was off the air for ten days until a temporary tower could be found and limited operation could be resumed.
When CKVR (VR) picked up the rights to season 4, the mailing list had a bit of a falling out between those who could get VR and those who could not.
The good news for most SO B5 fans was CKVR picked up the rights at the last second (as most other stations had set their fall schedule).
CKVR, not only purchased the rights for season 4 and got the rights to air the final 4 of season 3 they put B5 on at Mondays at 7pm and didn't move it.
It is the largest and first station to become part of the NewNet system.
The station was founded by Ralph Snelgrove and was a longtime CBCaffiliate, having been for forty years from its inception in 1955 to 1995, after which it was disaffiliated and rebranded by CHUM as The New VR.
Today's CKVR tower is home to a number of different broadcast and communication services.
CHAY and sister CIQB-FM (101.1) were already CKVR tenants, but were using separate antennas at different points on the tower.
At the same time that the master antenna went in, Central Ontario Broadcasting's CFJB-FM (95.7) and CKMB-FM (107.5) were granted permission to move to the CKVR tower from a site north of Barrie...
Strategymag.com - For the Record: Media: CKVR(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has allowed CKVR Television in Barrie, Ont. to disaffiliate from the cbc and operate instead as an independent station serving viewers in the south-central part of the province.
ckvr plans a much closer link with Citytv in Toronto.
City and ckvr are both under the chum broadcast umbrella.
Right now, it looks like YTV is leaving their new eps on Saturday at 8, while CKVR is leaving new episodes on Tuesdays at 8, and showing syndicated episodes on the weekends at 5 pm (Sat and Sun).
Space is supposed to be showing the episodes weeknights at 8, and it looks like they start on the 10th.
It looks as though CKVR (and probably all the other VR stations) will be showing Buffy reruns on Friday and Saturday nights at 5 pm, while still showing new episodes Tuesday nights at 8 pm.
Paul Sarossy's unique frame of reference TAKE ONE - Find Articles(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Toronto-based, award-winning cinematographer Paul Sarossy began his training when he was a child growing up in Barrie, Ont. His father was a news cameraman with the local TV station, CKVR.
It gave me a chance to learn about the entire medium." Sarossy's familiarity with cameras and film, led to work at CKVR shooting news the old-fashioned way.
He recalls how this informal film school gave him the unique experience of shooting, developing, editing and viewing a piece onair in one day.
Travelling extensively throughout Canada, particularly in the Prairie Provinces and the Maritimes, he also worked in Florida, the Caribbean, the Dominican Republic and in Scotland, Wales and England.
Formally, he was and will be remembered as an Ontario artist with his first studios in Toronto, the town of Stayner and finally Barrie, where he also worked for many years as an illustrator and commercial artist for Canadian Television CKVR during its infancy in the 50's.
Actively painting into his celebrated nineties, blindness finally overcame him the year before his death.
Local media include the Collingwood Enterprise-Bulletin and Collingwood-Wasaga Connection community newspapers, and radio station CKCB-FM (95.1, "the Peak," hot adult contemporary) and Collingwood Now, a web-based news, information and services directory online since 1999.
The Barrie-based regional television station CKVR (now part of CHUM'sA-Channel group) maintains a bureau and the Owen Sound-based Bayshore Broadcasting radio group maintains an office in Collingwood.
Collingwood is also known for its annual Elvis Presley festival, which attracts Elvis impersonators from the world over.
Subject: Re: BUFFY: Canadian CKVR viewers Jeff wrote about that person at CKVR saying: >"I have confirmed that >the show did run in its entirety and did start on time...
As I said before, I watched the ep on CFPL the next night and saw the opening sequence which CKVR did not show.
So, judging by their response, it will, hopefully, just be a one-time 'fluke'.....sounds like someone screwed up to me! I did see that they didnt cut the opening sequence of Go Fish on Monday night.
David Major Resume / Bio(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
David has extensive experience with all media types, from drawing and painting to courtroom graphics and model making.
David Major’s past clients include: CTV, CFTO, CBC, CBLT, ON-TV, City-TV, CKVR, Newsweek, Canadian Business Magazine, The National Post, The Globe and Mail, The Star and The Sun.
He told Roberts to call him when he returned to Toronto and use the 1-800 number on his business card.
When he called back the producer told him that CKVR would use the greetings 20 times over a four day period, he provided the dates and times so Roberts could pass the information back to the soldiers families.
Click here to listern to the audio of MCpl Birch's Christmas Greetings
Subject: Re: BUFFY: Canadian CKVR viewers In a message dated 5/6/98 7:59:39 AM Pacific Daylight Time, rohaly@iaw.com writes: > Unfortunately, they decided to follow the time honored tradition of > "Deny, deny, deny".
Don't you just *hate* it when they try to blame you?