* During the latter years of CHUM ownership, CKVR carried Breakfast Television from CITY-DT Toronto, but carried local news inserts covering stories in the Barrie area.

The current CKVR Television Tower is a high guyed mast for FM and TV transmission located at in Barrie.

The system began to develop in September 1995, when CHUM Limited disaffiliated CKVR, its longtime CBC Television affiliate in Barrie, Ontario, and re-launched it as an independent station with a more youthful image in order to generate interest from viewers in the neighbouring Toronto market, where CKVR had long been available on basic cable.

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.

Waters expanded from radio into the television market by buying Barrie CBC affiliate CKVR in 1969, four television stations in the Maritimes in 1972 which formed the CTV-affiliated Atlantic Television System ( ATV ), and then Toronto's fledgling CITY in 1978.

Once the CN Tower in Toronto had been completed, atop which CBC flagship CBLT transmits from, the signal areas of CKVR and CBLT overlapped considerably.

The Huntsville transmitter increased to full power in 1991 to better cover much of Muskoka and Haliburton County, but it was bought by the CBC in 1995 as part of the disaffiliation of CKVR from the CBC, and now rebroadcasts CBLT from Toronto.

For several days CKVR broadcast extensive coverage of the storm's aftermath, and spent that summer helping the people of Barrie recover and rebuild.

CKVR kept its Parry Sound transmitter, and CBC established CBLT transmitters in Barrie and Parry Sound at that time, on Channels 16 and 18, respectively.

* Barrie ( CKVR )

CKVR logo from the 1980s and 1990s.

The CKVR antenna was a six-bay RCA turnstile.

At 8: 55 p. m., CKVR vice president and general manager Jack Mattenley went on the air with a message of sympathy and words of gratitude.

CKVR was back on the air using a temporary 400 ' tower and reduced power of 40, 000 watts until a new tower was rebuilt in 1978.

CKVR logo from the 1960s and 1970s.

CKVR management began to consider a different course for their station.

On September 1, 1995, CKVR ended its affiliation with the CBC and was re-launched as The New VR, and began aiming its programming at younger viewers.

In February 2005, CHUM announced plans to consolidate the master control departments for CKVR, CFPL, CHRO, CHWI and CKNX at 299 Queen Street West in Toronto, and to consolidae the traffic and programming departments at CFPL in London, resulting in the loss of approximately nine staff members from CKVR.

On the same day, the previous brand was transferred to the NewNet stations, resulting in CKVR being known as A-Channel.

Gray now oversees CKVR and the other news departments ; CHRO, CFPL, CKNX, CHWI, CIVI and CKX-TV.

* At various times in the late 1990s and early 2000s, CKVR broadcast midweek games of the Toronto Maple Leafs and Toronto Raptors.

Various staff of CKVR at a 2010 open house.

CKVR previously operated low-power rebroadcast transmitters in the communities of Parry Sound, Huntsville, and Haliburton, on Channels 11, 8, and 5, respectively.

In February 2005, CHUM announced plans to consolidate the master control departments for CFPL, CKVR, CHRO, CHWI and CKNX at 299 Queen Street West in Toronto, and consolidating the traffic and programming departments at CFPL in London, resulting in the loss of approximately 13 staff members from CFPL.

In 1963, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contracted with Sib Tower 12 to have Jones and his staff produce new Tom and Jerry cartoons as well as a Television adaptation of all Tom and Jerry theatricals produced to that date.

Some versions of the tale state that the Golem was stolen from the genizah and entombed in a graveyard in Prague's Žižkov district, where the Žižkov Television Tower now stands.

* North Korea Uncovered, ( North Korea Google Earth ) See most of North Korea's communications facilities, including: The Korea Computer Center, the Pyongyang Television Tower, the KCBS tower, the major communications center in Heaju, as well as satellite communications stations near Pyongyang.

From the Panoramapunkt one can see such landmarks as the Brandenburg Gate, Reichstag, Federal Chancellery, Bellevue Palace, Cathedral, Television Tower, Gendarmes Market, Holocaust Memorial and Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church.

This culminated in the 13 January attack on the State Radio and Television Building and the Vilnius TV Tower, killing at least fourteen civilians and seriously injuring 700 more.

* The KMSP TV Tower, owned by Fox O & O duopoly KMSP / WFTC ( Channels 9 / 29 ) stands high and is also utilized by the stations of Twin Cities Public Television ( KTCA / KTCI 2 / 17 ), and ten FM stations.

In June 2010, Trey appeared as a surprise musical guest on Conan O ' Brien's " The Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour " stop at the Tower Theater ( Upper Darby, Pennsylvania ).

After some discussion as to the name of the new company – some directors favoured ' ABC London ', while others suggested ' Tower Television ' to reflect the Post Office Tower and the Tower of London – it was named Thames Television, after the River Thames.

), a short documentary charting the construction of the BBC's Crystal Palace Television Tower, plus a fully illustrated booklet with film notes, an original review and a history of the Crystal Palace.

During the 1960s, office developments grew up around this junction ; including the Euston Tower skyscraper that now forms part of Regent's Place, attracting a number of significant tenants, most notably the former ITV broadcaster Thames Television, which had its corporate headquarters and a number of studios there from 1970 to 1993, and Capital Radio.

On January 13, 1991, fourteen non-violent protesters in Vilnius died and hundreds were injured defending the Vilnius Television Tower and the Parliament from Soviet assault troops and tanks.

* Berlin Television Tower ( Fernsehturm ) — tuned mass damper located in the spire.

Capital finally moved into office blocks in Euston Tower in November 1973, just a few yards away from Thames Television headquarters.

The Tashkent Television Tower () is a high tower, located in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Or simply " Fernsehturm " (" Television Tower ") for it was the first broadcast tower in Frankfurt.

Two digital terrestrial television receiving antenna on the roof, upper antenna facing Tokyo Tower and lower one to another: en: Japanese Association of Independent Television Stations | Local Television Stations in Kantō Plain of Japan until Tokyo Skytree operates.

However, this dilatory and misguided attempt to re-establish Soviet dominance culminated in the bloody seizure of the State Radio and Television Building as well as the Vilnius TV Tower on 13 January 1991.