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| branding = {{nowrapubl|CTV 2 [[Vancouver Island]] ''(general)''}}<br>|''[[CTV News]] Vancouver Island (newscasts)''}}

| digital = 23 ([[ultra high frequency|UHF]])

| owner = [[Bell Media|Bell Media Inc.]]

| sister_stations = {{ubl|'''TV:''' [[CIVT-DT]]<br>|'''Radio:''' [[CFAX]], [[CHBE-FM]]}}

| former_channel_numbers = {{ubl|'''AnalogAnalogue:'''<br>|'''CIVI-TV:''' 53 (UHF, 2001–2011)<br>|'''CIVI-TV-2:''' 17 (UHF, 2001–2011)}}

| former_affiliations = {{ubl|[[Independent station|Independent (NewNet)]] (2001–2005)<br>|A-Channel/A (2005–2011)}}

| erp = {{ubl|'''CIVI-DT:''' 1.5 kW<br>|'''CIVI-DT-2:''' 35 kW}}

| haat = {{ubl|'''CIVI-DT:''' {{convert|99.6|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}<br>|'''CIVI-DT-2:''' {{convert|634.3|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}}}

| coordinates = {{ubl|'''CIVI-DT:'''<br> {{coord|48|25|30|N|123|20|13|W|type:landmark}}<br>|'''CIVI-DT-2:'''<br> {{coord|49|21|16|N|122|57|30|W|type:landmark|name=CIVI-DT-2}}}}

| licensing_authority = [[Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission|CRTC]]

'''CIVI-DT''' (channel 53) is a [[television station]] in [[Victoria, British Columbia]], Canada, part of the [[CTV 2]] system. It is [[Owned-and-operated station|owned and operated]] by [[Bell Media]] alongside [[Vancouver]]-based [[CTV Television Network|CTV]] station [[CIVT-DT]], (channel 32). (althoughAlthough the two stations nominally maintain separate operations), the Victoria station's newscasts have been anchored from the CIVT-DT studios since 2023. CIVI-DT's studiosoffices are located at the corner of Broad Street and Pandora Avenue across from the [[McPherson Playhouse]] and the [[Victoria City Hall]] in [[downtown Victoria]], and its transmitter is located on the roof of Camosack Manor near [[Rockland, Greater Victoria|Rockland]]. The station operates a rebroadcaster ('''CIVI-DT-2''') on virtual and UHF channel 17 in Vancouver, with transmitter atop [[Mount Seymour]] in the district municipality of [[North Vancouver (district municipality)|North Vancouver]].

Known on the air as "The New VI", the station started off with much pomp and circumstance, marking their launch with a street party around their studios in Victoria and around their Nanaimo bureau.<ref>{{Citation|title=The New VI Redux|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_wrTT8-pUA|language=en|access-date=January 23, 2022}}</ref> It boasted a large lineup of personalities, including former [[British Columbia New Democratic Party]] cabinet minister [[Moe Sihota]]. Original programming included ''Island Underground'' (focusing on Vancouver Island's youth culture),<ref>{{Cite web|date=December 30, 2001|title=The New VI - Island Underground|url=http://www.thenewvi.com/programs/viPrg_islandUnderground.asp|access-date=January 23, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011230025316/http://www.thenewvi.com/programs/viPrg_islandUnderground.asp|archive-date=December 30, 2001}}</ref> ''The New Canoe'' (hosted by and produced for the area's [[First Nations in Canada|First Nations]] residents),<ref>{{Cite web|date=November 12, 2001|title=The New VI - The New Canoe|url=http://www.thenewvi.com/programs/viprg_thenewcanoe.asp|access-date=January 23, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011112092915/http://www.thenewvi.com/programs/viprg_thenewcanoe.asp|archive-date=November 12, 2001}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Andrews |first1=Marke |title=First nations woman heads TV production company |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-vancouver-sun-marke-andrews-first/132883142/ |work=The Vancouver Sun |date=June 3, 2005 |location=Vancouver BC |page=31 |format=Newspapers.com}}</ref> ''Environ-Mental'' (focusing on localized environmental issues),<ref>{{Cite web|date=February 21, 2002|title=The New VI - {{notatypo|Envir|oMental}} |url=http://www.thenewvi.com/programs/viprg_enviro.asp|access-date=January 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020221034040/http://www.thenewvi.com/programs/viprg_enviro.asp|archive-date=February 21, 2002 |url-status=usurped}}</ref> the ''VI Parade'' (handling local arts and culture),<ref>{{Cite web|date=February 13, 2002|title=The New VI - VIParade|url=http://www.thenewvi.com/programs/viPrg_Parade.asp|access-date=January 23, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020213105706/http://www.thenewvi.com/programs/viPrg_Parade.asp|archive-date=February 13, 2002}}</ref> and a localized version of ''[[Speakers Corner (TV series)|Speaker's Corner]]''; much of the launch schedule consisted of programming from other CHUM outlets (including ''[[CityLine]]'', ''[[FashionTelevision]]'' and ''[[Ed the Sock|Ed the Sock's Night Party]]''), some of which had previously aired across the border on [[KVOS-TV]] in Bellingham, WA (which CHUM had been syndicating programming to since the 1990s in the face of repeated failures to launch a station in the area), along with American imported and syndicated programming (including ''[[The Tonight Show with Jay Leno]]'' and the ''[[Star Trek]]'' franchise), and a primetime movie on Sundays dubbed ''The Great MoVI'' (in the style of Citytv's ''Great Movies'').<ref>{{Cite web|date=December 16, 2001|title=The New VI - Schedule Grid|url=http://thenewvi.com/schedule/viSh_schedule_grid.asp|access-date=January 23, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011216023223/http://thenewvi.com/schedule/viSh_schedule_grid.asp|archive-date=December 16, 2001}}</ref>

However, the station wound up launching amid a [[2001 Vancouver TV realignment|massive TV realignment in the Vancouver market]], and ultimately their launch was delayed from September to October; the various changes also meant that KVOS was displaced by CIVI from its long-time home on channel 12 on many Vancouver-area cable systems.<ref>{{Cite web|date=May 14, 2001|first=Ian|last=Edwards|title=West Coast station shuffle causes confusion|url=https://playbackonline.ca/2001/05/14/stations-20010514/|access-date=January 23, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Canadian Communications Foundation - Fondation Des Communications Canadiennes|url=http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/listings_and_histories/television/histories.php?id=63&historyID=59|access-date=January 23, 2022|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071107025723/http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/listings_and_histories/television/histories.php?id=63&historyID=59|archive-date = November 7, 2007}}</ref> The station also struggled to compete against [[E! (Canadian TV system)|CH]] owned-and-operated station [[CHEK-DT|CHEK-TV]] (channel 6, now an [[independent station]]), which had been the only local station on [[Vancouver Island]] for more than four decades. Gradually, personalities from the original roster were replaced by new faces, and some were let go without replacements. Not long after launch, CHUM purchased [[CKVU-DT|CKVU]] in Vancouver and converted it into the Citytv station for the region, meaning CIVI became part of a [[Duopoly (broadcasting)|twinstick]]; as per CRTC regulations regarding twinsticks, CKVU was prohibited from airing more than 10% of the programming aired on CIVI, and newscasts were required to be separately managed.

The station was rebranded as "A-Channel" on August 2, 2005, along with the rest of the NewNet system. The station would likely have been part of the original [[A-Channel (Craig Media)|A-Channel]] system at its launch had Craig Media won the licence in 2000. On July 12, 2006, CTVglobemedia announced plans to purchase CHUM Limited, with the intention of divesting the A-Channel stations.<ref name=takeover>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bell-globemedia-makes-1-7b-bid-for-chum-1.583543|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110908083837/http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2006/07/12/chum-bell.html|url-status=live|archive-date=September 8, 2011|title=Bell Globemedia makes $1.7B bid for CHUM|publisher=[[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]]|date=July 12, 2006|access-date=July 12, 2006}}</ref> On that same day it was also announced that the morning news program ''[[A Morning|A-Channel Morning]]'' would be discontinued, although this decision was supposedly unrelated to the takeover by CTVglobemedia (CIVI later restored a morning program to its schedule in the fall of 2007).

The A-Channel system and Atlantic Canada's [[CTV 2 Atlantic|ASN]] was rebranded as A on August 11, 2008, with CIVI becoming branded as "A Vancouver Island". As a result, CIVI's newscasts were rebranded as ''[[A News (TV program)|A News]]'' on that date, although the station's employees had been using that title for a couple of months prior to the relaunch; the station also began producing a morning newscast (under the title ''A Morning'') on September 8, 2008, but was later cancelled on March 4, 2009, due to economic issues. The program was later replaced with a simulcast of the morning show from sister radio station [[CFAX]] (1070 AM).<ref>[http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/business/story.html?id=f94f272f-93d4-4018-8f19-c5fe6473ed9e Morning TV show back on airwaves] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160107011003/http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/business/story.html?id=f94f272f-93d4-4018-8f19-c5fe6473ed9e |date=January 7, 2016 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/June2008/02/c7178.html CNW Group | CTV INC. | Double Vision: Fall 2008 Schedules Announced for CTV and "A"<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.atv.ca/victoria/tvschedule.aspx?date=9-8-2008 |title=A Victoria website confirming 'A' Morning debut September 8th |access-date=September 8, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090904002948/http://www.atv.ca/victoria/tvschedule.aspx?date=August 9, 2008 |archive-date=September 4, 2009 }}</ref>

CIVI presently broadcasts fivetwo hours and 2530 minutes of original newscasts each week, consisting of a thirty-minute local newscast each weekday at 4:30&nbsp;p.m. (repeated at 6:00&nbsp;p.m.), anchored remotely from the Vancouver [[750 Burrard Street|studios]] of co-owned CIVT, and a 35-minute local newscast at 11:00&nbsp;p.m. each weekday.<ref name="civi-430-launch">{{cite web|url=https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/first-at-4-30-ctv-vancouver-island-launches-live-hyper-local-newscast-1.6442394|title=First at 4:30: CTV Vancouver Island launches live, hyper-local newscast|work=CTVNews.ca|date=June 15, 2023|access-date=June 16, 2023}}</ref> This newscast is repeated, potentially with minor modifications, at 6:00&nbsp;p.m. and 11:00&nbsp;p.m. (the latter being a 35-minute timeslot). There are no longer any weekend newscasts.

At launch, the station's newscast was dubbed ''VILand News'' (sister station [[CKVR-DT|CKVR]] had originally used a similar title, ''VRLand News'', for their first few years as a NewNet station); the station's news anchors walked around the studio instead of sitting behind a desk, mimicking the format used at Toronto [[sister station]] [[CITY-DT|CITY-TV]] and other NewNet outlets. ''VILand News'' consisted of a 90-minute long evening newscast from 5:30 to 7:00&nbsp;p.m. and a half-hour late newscast at 11:00&nbsp;p.m., as well as the two-hour morning newscast ''New Day'' (initially broadcast from the station's Nanaimo facilities with Bruce Williams).<ref>{{Cite web|title=The New VI - NewDay|url=http://www.thenewvi.com/programs/viprg_newday.asp|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011230125720/http://www.thenewvi.com/programs/viprg_newday.asp|archive-date=December 30, 2001|access-date=January 23, 2022}}</ref> Weatherman and local folk musician Tony Latimer delivered his forecasts from his own sailboat, the ''Forbes and Cameron'', which was equipped with an omni-directional microwave transmitter so Tony could broadcast from Victoria's Inner Harbour or other offshore locations.<ref>{{Cite web|date=April 2, 2002|title=The New VI - Personalities|url=http://www.thenewvi.com/personalities/viP_latimer.asp|access-date=January 23, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020402000538/http://www.thenewvi.com/personalities/viP_latimer.asp|archive-date=April 2, 2002}}</ref>

To combat the station's low ratings, the evening news block was also repeatedly modified, being split into three different shows (''VILand Live'' at 5:30, ''VILand Voices'' at 6:00 and ''VILand News'' at 6:30) in January 2002.<ref>{{Citation|title=VILand Live at 5:30 - Opening 2002|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHolVz_84fE|language=en|access-date=January 23, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|title=VILand Voices - Open 2002|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGvx3nEpuMU|language=en|access-date=January 23, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|title=VILandNews - Open 2002|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReLOcBH-caY|language=en|access-date=January 23, 2022}}</ref> By 2004, CHUM higher-ups, in hopes of stemming the station's financial losses and low ratings, hired longtime CHEK anchor Hudson Mack as its new chief anchor and [[news director]]. Changes were introduced to the station's newscasts such as the introduction of a desk for the anchors; these changes appeared to have been effective.<ref name=":0" /> While still trailing CHEK, the ratings gap between the two has beenhad narrowed.

Since Mack's arrival, the station has been honoured with a number of industry awards. In 2006, it received three [[RTDNA Edward R. Murrow Award|Edward R. Murrow Awards]] from the [[Radio Television Digital News Association|Radio-Television News Directors Association]] International, for Best Newscast, Best Investigative Reporting and Best Sports Reporting. It was the second straight year the station won Murrows for its newscast and investigative reporting. In 2005, the station won eight industry awards, including two Edward R. Murrow Awards from RTNDA International, for Best Newscast and Best Investigative Reporting; and top news honours from the British Columbia Association of Broadcasters.

On June 15, 2023, in the wake of cuts announced by Bell Media earlier that week, the station announced it had replaced its early-evening newscasts with a single half-hour 4:30&nbsp;p.m. newscast (repeated at 6:00&nbsp;p.m.) on weekdays, anchored from Vancouver, effective June 19.<ref name="civi-430-launch" /> The ''[[Times Colonist]]'' reported that this was the station's only remaining daily newscast.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.timescolonist.com/entertainment/tv-in-greater-victoria-continues-to-evolve-with-chek-emerging-triumphant-7230679|title=TV in Greater Victoria continues to evolve, with CHEK emerging triumphant|first=Mike|last=Devlin|work=[[Times Colonist]]|date=July 4, 2023|access-date=July 4, 2023}}</ref>

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| 53.1 || [[1080i]] || [[16:9]] || CIVI || Main CIVI-DT programming / [[CTV 2]]

CIVI shut down its analogue signal, over [[Ultra high frequency|UHF]] channel 53, on August 31, 2011, the official date inon which Canadian television stations in CRTC-designated mandatory [[media market|markets]] [[Digital television in Canada|transitioned from analogue to digital broadcasts]]. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 23.,<ref name="Analog to Digital">[http://digitaltv.gc.ca/eng/1298734815548/1298734815582 Digital Television – Office of Consumer Affairs (OCA)<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131119235810/http://digitaltv.gc.ca/eng/1298734815548/1298734815582 |date=November 19, 2013 }}</ref><ref name="YouTube video of transition">[//www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoF7jVAgg2g CHCH – Hamilton shuts off analog signal] [[YouTube]]. August 15, 2011.</ref> Through the use of [[Program and System Information Protocol|PSIP]], digital television receivers display CIVI-DT'susing [[virtual channel]] as its analogue-era UHF channel 53, which was among the high band UHF channels (52–69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition.

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