Courtesy of Dan Kowal, CTV Montreal Engineering Supervisor
Why there’s a lot of contradictory information on the web regarding the exact age of the network and how a lot of it is the fault of their own PR.
Those who’ve been following up on the 50th anniversary of the CTV stations in Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto, among other places may have accidentally stumbled upon this awkwardly worded CTV national PR campaign stating that they are celebrating 50 years of providing local news. You’ll notice on the web page that, strangely enough, there’s no mention of when the CTV network itself actually went on the air or what or exactly happen 50 years ago that led to the creation CTV’s local news.
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