CKVU moved to VHF to avoid interference with KTZZ ( on Channel 22 ) in Seattle, which signed on after CKVU's switch to channel 10.

The agreement was originally slated to run through August 2012, however Rogers signed a long-term affiliation renewal agreement on May 3, 2012, allowing the Pattison stations to carry 90 % of primetime programming and the majority of morning and daytime programming from the programming grid of CKVU-DT ( including simulcasts of the Vancouver edition of Breakfast Television ; however unlike CKVU, the Pattison stations will continue to produce midday and evening local newscasts ).

Although this programming strategy was discontinued in the 1980s, it was reinstated on CITY and CKVU for short time in the early 2000s.

CKVU also has a rebroadcast transmitter west of Courtenay, callsign CKVU-TV-1, which is received over-the-air on North Vancouver Island ( off the air since transmitter fire in October 2008 ).

Once the sale was approved and all other legal issues were settled, CanWest gained 100 % ownership and control of CKVU on July 13, 1988.

The CRTC approved the purchase on July 6, 2000 on the condition that Canwest divest CKVU.

The CRTC further approved the transfer of CKVU to a CanWest subsidiary, CKVU Sub Inc., on December 21, placing the station in a blind trust while CanWest looked for a buyer.

CHUM Limited applied to the CRTC to acquire CKVU Sub Inc. on July 26, 2001 for $ 175 million, with the intention of making it a Citytv station similar to CITY in Toronto, Ontario.

CHUM gained CRTC approval for its acquisition of CKVU Sub Inc. on October 15, 2001.

Because CHUM owned CIVI ( part of the NewNet system, later A-Channel then A and now CTV Two ) in Victoria, the CRTC imposed its usual licence conditions for large-market twinsticks: CKVU was prohibited from airing more than 10 % of the programming aired on CIVI, and newscasts were required to be separately managed.

At 6 a. m. PDT on July 22, 2002, CKVU dropped the ckvu13 branding and became part of the Citytv system.

The acquisition was approved by the CRTC on June 8, 2007, on the condition that CTVglobemedia sell off CHUM's Citytv stations ( including CKVU ) to another buyer due to the fact they have CIVT-DT in the same base as this station ; Rogers Communications announced its intention to purchase the five Citytv stations three days later.

The transaction was approved by the CRTC on September 28, and Rogers became the official owner of CKVU on October 31, 2007.

As part of Rogers Media's May 3, 2012 renewal of its affiliation agreement with Jim Pattison Group-owned Citytv affiliates CKPG-TV / Prince George, CFJC-TV / Kamloops and CHAT-TV / Medicine Hat, the three stations will begin simulcasting the Vancouver edition of Breakfast Television on September 1, 2012 as part of an expansion of Citytv programming on the stations, which will follow the program grid of CKVU ( with breakaways from the Vancouver program grid for their weekday evening and midday newscasts and other locally-produced programs ).

CBUFT was launched on September 27, 1976 on UHF channel 26 ( as Vancouver's second UHF station after CKVU ), taking with it programming previously aired on Sunday mornings on CBUT, which began airing exclusively English-language programs from that point.

Before U. TV, the station used the names CKVU 13, VU13, and CKVU.

*" You're Watching CKVU 13 " ( 1976 – late 1980s )

On December 6, 1985, CanWest announced that it had purchased the majority interest in CKVU, subject to CRTC approval.

On Monday, August 18, 1997, after 9 years as U. TV, the station was renamed " Global ", as the CanWest Global System ( of which CKVU had been a member since its launch in 1990 ) was relaunched as the Global Television Network.

* The Global affiliation, held by CKVU, a former Canwest station that was in the process of being sold to CHUM Limited, moved to CHAN, which became new O & O Global BC.

CKVU meanwhile adopted the ckvu13 brand and briefly became an independent station carrying CHUM programming, some of which had aired on KVOS-TV the previous season.

The station also carried a number of programs syndicated from the Canadian Citytv system, which did not have a station in Vancouver ; this ceased when Citytv acquired CKVU.

Three years later, CanWest loaned another $ 8 million to Western Approaches to reduce the station's debt with the condition that CanWest would have the option to purchase Western Approaches ' shares in CKVU.

He served as anchor on CityNews ( formerly CityPulse ) and Breakfast Television on Citytv Toronto ) from 1999 until 2004, when he moved to Vancouver's CKVU ( Citytv Vancouver ) and became that station's lead male anchor with co-anchor Julie Nolin.

Prior to CHUM's acquisition of CKVU, some Citytv programming was syndicated to KVOS in nearby Bellingham, Washington.

CKVU was re-branded as Citytv in 2002, making Citytv a two-station system ( see 2001 Vancouver TV realignment ).

CKVU was the second station to become part of the Citytv system in Canada.

As a result, CIVT, an independent station owned by Baton Broadcasting, became a CTV owned-and-operated station ( O & O ), while CKVU was renamed ckvu13.

On January 19, 2010, Rogers Communications announced that it was laying off six employees at CKVU.

There was already a Global owned-and-operated station in the Vancouver market, CKVU, but Canwest decided to sell that station and keep CHAN instead.

As a result, on September 1, 2001, the Global brand and programming moved from CKVU to CHAN, the CTV association moved from CHAN to CIVT, and CKVU was purchased by CHUM Limited, adopting the Citytv brand the following year.

CKVU was eventually sold to CHUM Limited, and has since been re-branded as a Citytv station.

* CanWest, then-owner of what is now the Global Television Network, proposed a new station in Victoria, in parallel to its existing Vancouver station CKVU, purportedly to gain parity with the market's existing BCTV and CHEK twinstick under the ownership of Western International Communications ( WIC );

CHUM Television operated the CITY / CKVR twinstick in Toronto-Barrie and the CKVU / CIVI twinstick in Vancouver-Victoria under the Citytv and A-Channel brands prior to its acquisition by CTVglobemedia in 2006.

Currently, CKVU produces a total of 17½ hours of local newscasts each week, all consisting of Citytv's 3½ hour-long local morning news franchise Breakfast Television.

CKVU launched Breakfast Television in 2002.

The local newscasts at CHMI Winnipeg, CKAL Calgary, CKEM Edmonton and CKVU Vancouver have been cancelled outright, with the exception of the morning show Breakfast Television, but the length of that show has been reduced in all markets to three hours, though as of September 2011, each of the Breakfast Television programs have expanded to 3½ hours.

However as part of a renewal of their affiliation agreements with Citytv on May 3, 2012, CKPG, CHAT and CJFC will begin simulcasting the Vancouver edition of Breakfast Television from CKVU-DT, starting in fall 2012 as the stations will begin carrying 90 % of Citytv's morning and daytime programming from the CKVU schedule grid.

In July 2005, she returned to Breakfast Television on CKVU.

Citytv gained a second station in Vancouver when CHUM bought CKVU from Canwest Global in 2001.

Prior to its 2001 acquisition by Citytv's former parent company CHUM Limited, CKVU previously operated as an independent station and then later became a Global owned-and-operated station in 1997.

While CKVU began airing CHUM programming immediately following the switch, the station remained in trust pending regulatory approval of the sale.

One station that identifies this way is Citytv O & O CKVU in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

** Vancouver ( CKVU ): 180 West 2nd Avenue ( station building ), with a second booth at Coquitlam Centre