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CHAN-TV is a Canadian local station in Vancouver, British Columbia, owned by Canwest Global Communications and affiliate with the Global Television Network. It broadcasts on analog channel 8, and on digital channel 22 (which went on the air on April 11, 2008).

[edit] History

CHAN was the first privately-owned independent station in British Columbia when it first signed on the air on October 31, 1960 under original owner Vantel Broadcasting. It was originally located in downtown Vancouver, in temporary studios at 1219 Richards Street, until it moved to its current facilities at 7850 Enterprise Street in neighboring Burnaby in early-1961. CHAN became a charter affiliate of CTV when the network began operations on October 1, 1961.

Frank Griffiths, the owner (through his Western Broadcasting Company) of New Westminster radio station CKNW, bought CHAN, along with Victoria CBC Television affiliate CHEK-TV (which thereafter became a dual CBC-CTV affiliate), in 1963. CHAN began using the unofficial name British Columbia Television (later abbreviated to BCTV) on-air and in print media in the early 1970s, and BCTV became CHAN's official on-air brand in 1973.

In 1989, the Griffiths family's Western Broadcasting Company, the owner of CHAN and CHEK, established Westcom TV Group (which became WIC Television in 1997) to operate the stations. In 1999, WIC Television parent Western International Communications was split up in a sale that saw Canwest acquire WIC's broadcast television assets (including CHAN), while Corus Entertainment received the WIC radio and cable-TV assets. The Canwest purchase of CHAN and its sister TV stations was approved by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission in 2000.

CHAN switched affiliations to Global TV on September 1, 2001, as one of several TV stations in the Vancouver/Victoria market to switch their network affiliations that day. At that point, the BCTV brand was dropped in favor of Global BC for most shows on CHAN, but the BCTV name was retained for its local news shows (originally as BCTV News, then BCTV News on Global) until February 2006.

[edit] Current Prime-Time Schedule

Day	7:00	7:30	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	10:30	11:00	11:30
Monday	Entertainment Tonight	Entertainment Tonight Canada	House		Lie To Me		Bones		News Hour Final
Tuesday	Entertainment Tonight	Entertainment Tonight Canada	NCIS		Big Brother		In Plain Sight		News Hour Final
Wednesday	Entertainment Tonight	Entertainment Tonight Canada	Wipeout		Glee		In Plain Sight		News Hour Final
Thursday	Entertainment Tonight	Entertainment Tonight Canada	Big Brother		The Office	The Office	90210		News Hour Final
Friday	Entertainment Tonight	Entertainment Tonight Canada	Howie Do It	Howie Do It	Mental		NUMB3RS		News Hour Final
Saturday	Doc		Doc		Doc		Doc		News Final	Saturday Night Live
Sunday	16:9 The Bigger Picture	Movie: Spiderman 2					Big Brother		News Final	16:9 The Bigger Picture

[edit] External Sites

• CHAN-TV Site