CTV

Specialty Definition: CTV Television Network

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

CTV is Canada's largest privately-owned English language television network. Officially, CTV has not historically stood for anything, but it is obvious to most viewers, as well as the network's most recent promotional campaign, that it can be meant to stand for "Canadian Television".
CTV was founded in 1961 after a federal enquiry decided the CBC should not have a monopoly on television broadcasting in Canada. The original network management immediately ran into financial trouble, and in 1964 the original eight affiliates decided to buy the network and run it as a co-operative. The network expanded to cover almost all of Canada within fifteen years of its' founding. In 1991, CTV became a regular business, where ownership was determined by how much of the country each affiliate served.
This paved the way for Baton Broadcasting, original owner of the network's Toronto affiliate to take control of the network by buying up affiliate stations during the 1990s. In 1997 Baton gained effective control of the network, and now owns almost all CTV-affiliated stations. Only the stations in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Kenora, Ontario and Lloydminster, Alberta are owned by other companies.
In 2001 CTV merged with the Globe and Mail newspaper and fell under control of BCE Inc
CTV made a name for itself in news coverage when they convinced star Canadian Broadcasting Corporation news anchor Lloyd Robertson to switch networks in 1976. CTV has been Canada's highest-rated television network ever since. The network also has the country's only national morning news show, Canada AM.
The network's programming, other than their news programs, consists mainly of hit American series (such as ER, The West Wing, Law and Order and CSI), but they have had moderate success with Canadian-made shows.
Local stations that are part of the CTV network include:
CIVT (Vancouver)
CFRN (Edmonton)
CFCN (Calgary)
CFQC (Saskatoon)
CKCK (Regina)
CKY (Winnipeg)
CHFD (Thunder Bay)
MCTV (Northern Ontario)
CKCO (Kitchener)
CFTO (Toronto)
CJOH (Ottawa)
CFCF (Montreal)
ATV (Maritimes)

http://www.ctv.ca - CTV website
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "CTV Television Network."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: CTV

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
CTV	English	Cell Tolerance Variation	Computer - (ATM)
CTV	Finnish	Sitruspuun suruvirus	Food & Agriculture, Biology & Biotechnology
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Modern Usage: CTV

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	CTV (1997)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: CTV

Domain	Title
References	CTV Inc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) (more reference examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: CTV

"SKFRM 10" by Lucien Aréstegüi
Commentary: "SKYFORM 10 CTV. MM f."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Non-Fiction Usage: CTV

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Czech Republic	In protest, news staff began producing their own version of the principal CTV and public affairs programs. (references)
	Czech Republic	There was a controversy about political influence on CTV in December 2000, when the Council dismissed the CTV general manager. (references)
	Czech Republic	On February 9, the CTV appointed Jiri Balvin interim general manager, and on October 31, the CTV elected him permanent general manager. (references)
Economic History	Venezuela	The CTV claims a membership of 3 million, and is especially strong in the public sector. (references)
	Canada	There are two private national television networks: CTV, broadcasting on two English-language channels (regular programming and all-news) and Global Television. (references)
Women	Venezuela	According to the Ministry of Labor and the CTV, the country's major labor federation, these regulations are enforced in the formal sector, although social security payments often are delayed. (references)
Worker Rights	Venezuela	The CTV and the AD traditionally have influenced each other. (references)
	Venezuela	One major union confederation (the CTV), three small union confederations, and a number of independent unions operate freely. (references)
	Venezuela	The CTV represents most of the unionized workers and is especially strong in the public sector; its membership is approximately 800,000 workers. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: CTV

"CTV" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CTV" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	100%	7	133,076

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: CTV

Country	Name
Canada	CTV Inc
	(more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CTV

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
ctv	1,269	ctv net sports	6
ctv news	409	ctv w5	6
ctv sportsnet	103	ctv love money	5
ctv newsnet	55	com ctv	5
ctv sports	33	ctv edmonton	5
canadian ctv idol	31	ctv weather	5
canada ctv	21	ctv schedule	4
bc ctv	19	ctv news.ca	4
ctv television	16	ctv montreal	4
ctv vancouver	11	cfto ctv	4
ctv travel	10	ctv winnipeg	4
ca ctv	10	calgary ctv	4
ctv net news	9	canada ctv news	4
ctv regina	9	ctv sopranos	4
balance ctv	9	ctv listing	4
ctv idol	8	ctv news.com	4
am canada ctv	7	ctv network	4
ctv toronto	7	ctv media	4
ctv tv	6	6120 ctv vt	4
ctv saskatoon	6	552 ctv	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: CTV

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words containing the letters "c-t-v"
	+2 letters: civet, covet, evict, vatic, vetch.
	+3 letters: active, advect, atavic, avocet, caveat, cavity, cavort, civets, corvet, covert, covets, cravat, curvet, evicts, kvetch, octave, octavo, vacant, vacate, vector, viatic, victim, victor, vitric.
	+4 letters: actives, advects, avocets, captive, caveats, cavetti, cavetto, cavorts, centavo, cheviot, clavate, convect, convent, convert, convict, corvets, costive, coverts, coveted, coveter, cravats, culvert, curvets, cutover, cuvette, dovecot, evicted, evictee, evictor, fictive, kvetchy, motivic, octaval, octaves, octavos, overact, overcut, oviduct, uveitic, vacated, vacates, vacuity, vatical, vectors, venatic, verdict, vetches, viaduct, viatica, vicomte, victims, victors, victory, victual, vitrics, voltaic.
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