CICI-TV

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CICI
Image:CTV logo.svg
Sudbury, Ontario
Branding	CTV Northern Ontario
Slogan	News for the North.
Channels	5 (VHF) analog, 8 (not yet on air) digital
Affiliations	CTV
Owner	CTVglobemedia
Founded	October 25, 1953
Call letters meaning	none known
Former affiliations	CBC (1953-1971)
Website	CTV Northern Ontario

CICI (also commonly known as CTV Northern Ontario) is a Canadian television station, broadcasting in Sudbury, Ontario. It is affiliated with CTV.

Under the call letters CKSO, CICI was Canada's first privately owned TV station. It was a CBC affiliate from its launch in 1953 until 1971, when it joined CTV. A new CBC affiliate, CKNC, went to air in Sudbury the day of CKSO's affiliation switch. CKSO's first rebroadcast transmitter, CKSO-TV-1, was established in Elliot Lake shortly after CKSO launched. A second transmitter, CKSO-TV-2, was established in Timmins in 1971 when CKSO switched to the CTV network. When CKSO changed to CICI in 1980, the Timmins station changed to CITO and became its own standalone station.

Until 1980, CKSO and CKNC aggressively competed with each other for advertising dollars, leaving both in a precarious financial position due to the Sudbury market's relatively small size. In 1980, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission approved the merger of the two stations, along with their co-owned stations in North Bay and Timmins, into the MCTV twinstick. CKSO changed its call letters to CICI at that point.

In 1990, the stations were acquired by Baton Broadcasting. Baton subsequently became the sole corporate owner of CTV, and sold CKNC to the CBC in 2002.

CICI produces all of the CTV Northern Ontario stations' local programming, except for local news segments of the system's newscasts.

CICI also broadcasts on Channel 3 in Elliot Lake and Channel 11 in Huntsville.

Trivia

Onetime CKSO employee Judy Jacobson was the first woman in Canadian broadcasting history to work on air as a television weather reporter.

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