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CICA-TV

TVO branding logo.
Toronto, Ontario
Branding TVO
Slogan "makes you think"
Channels Analog: 19 (UHF) (Toronto) and 24 (UHF) (Ottawa/Gatineau)

Digital: (Not Yet Broadcasting)
Translators See below
Affiliations Ontario Educational Communications Authority
Owner Government of Ontario
(Crown corporation)
Founded September 27, 1970
Call letters’ meaning CI Communications Authority
Former affiliations Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Website http://www.tvo.org/

TVOntario, officially the Ontario Educational Communications Authority, is a Crown corporation serving as an educational public television broadcaster in the Canadian province of Ontario. Toronto (təˈrɒntoʊ colloquially pronounced or) is the largest city in Canada and is the provincial capital of Ontario A brand is a collection of Images and ideas representing an economic producer more specifically it refers to the descriptive verbal attributes and concrete symbols such as a A slogan is a memorable Motto or Phrase used in a Political, commercial, Religious and other context as a repetitive expression of In Broadcasting, a channel is a range of frequencies (or equivalently Wavelengths assigned by a government for the operation of a particular Television Analog (or analogue) television encodes Television picture and sound information and transmits it as an Analog signal: one in which the Digital Terrestrial Television ( DTTV or DTT) is an implementation of digital technology to provide a greater number of channels and/or better quality of picture and Ownership is the state or fact of exclusive rights and control over Property, which may be an object, land/real estate, Intellectual property In the Commonwealth realms a Crown corporation is a State-controlled company or enterprise Events 489 - Odoacer attacks Theodoric at the Battle of Verona and is defeated again Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. In Broadcasting and Radio communications a call sign (also known as a callsign or call letters, or abbreviated as a call, or otherwise A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages In the Commonwealth realms a Crown corporation is a State-controlled company or enterprise Public broadcasting refers to radio television and other electronic media outlets that receive some or all of their funding from the public Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page Ontario (ɒnˈtɛrioʊ is a province located in the central part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest after Quebec Instead of following the model of the federally-owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), which shows commercials, TVOntario is instead, like PBS in the United States, funded by donations from the public, particularly from viewer contributions made during on-air pledge drives. The Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS) is a Non-profit Public broadcasting Television service with 354 member TV stations in the The United States of America —commonly referred to as the However, the vast majority of TVOntario's funding is provided by the Government of Ontario, which contributed $58. 8 million in 2005-06. [1]

TVOntario, currently branded TVO, is Canada's oldest educational TV service. It established the country's first UHF TV channel in 1970 at Toronto. [2] It has larger over-the-air coverage in Ontario than the CBC, reaching 98. 5% of Ontario with 216 transmitters. TVO is also broadcast on the Bell ExpressVu satellite service on Channel 265, and on the StarChoice satellite service on Channel 353.

All TVO rebroadcast transmitters have the call letters CICA, CICO or CICE, followed by a number to denote their status as rebroadcasters.

All TVO transmitters are in Ontario, with one exception — its Ottawa transmitter, CICO-TV-24, is based at the Ryan Tower at Camp Fortune in Gatineau, Quebec, where it shares its site with its Quebec counterpart, Télé-Québec, as well as almost all of the region's television and FM radio signals. Ryan Tower is a 2289 metre (750 feet tall guyed mast that was erected in 1968. Camp Fortune is a commercial Alpine ski center It is located in the Gatineau Hills north of Gatineau Quebec, approximately 15 minutes from downtown Gatineau ( 2006 census population 242124 is a city in western Quebec, Canada. Télé-Québec is equivalent to Ontario 's TVOntario and TFO, British Columbia 's Knowledge and Saskatchewan 's SCN,

TVOntario also formerly operated TFO, a separate network for Franco-Ontarian audiences. TFO is a Canadian French language educational Public television network in the province of Ontario. Franco-Ontarians (franco-ontarien are French Canadian or Francophone residents of the Canadian province of Ontario. Before the launch of TFO, TVO aired French-language programming on Sundays. French ( français,) is a Romance language spoken around the world by 118 million people as a native language and by about 180 to 260 million people Even after TFO's launch, TVO and TFO swapped programming on Sundays well into the 1990s. TFO was separated from TVOntario and incorporated as an independent agency in 2007.

As well, TVOntario is also responsible for over-the-air broadcasts of the Ontario Legislative Assembly in some remote Northern Ontario communities that don't have cable television access to the Ontario Parliament Network. See also Politics of Ontario The Legislative Assembly of Ontario (also known as Ontario Legislative Assembly or OntLA) is the Legislature Territorial evolution Those areas which formed part of New France in the pays d'en haut, essentially the watersheds of the Ottawa River, The Ontario Parliament Network (also known as the Ontario Legislative Assembly channel or OLA is an Ontarian Television network established in 1986 to

In 2002, the Ministry of Education transferred responsibility to TVOntario for the Independent Learning Centre which provides distance education at the elementary and secondary school level. The Independent Learning Centre offers Distance education courses to Ontario residents who want to earn Ministry of Education high school diploma credits upgrade basic skills Distance education, or distance learning, is a field of education that focuses on the Pedagogy and Andragogy, technology and instructional systems design See also Primary education An elementary school is an institution where children receive the first stage of Compulsory education known as elementary Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational Institution where the final stage of compulsory schooling known as Secondary education, takes

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History

1970s

CICA's history dates back to 1970, when its parent organization, the Ontario Educational Communications Authority, was created by then Education Minister Bill Davis in June that year. William Grenville "Bill" Davis, PC, CC, OOnt, QC (born July 30, 1929 in Brampton Ontario) was At that time, the OECA produced children's and educational programming which was aired on commercial television stations.

The CBC, acting on behalf of the Ontario Ministry of Education's TV branch, eventually applied for and won a licence for the ministry's television station in Toronto, Ontario, CICA, with the mandate of "[using] electronic and associated media to provide educational opportunities for all people in Ontario". The 'CA' in the CICA callsign was derived from the last two letters in the OECA acronym. Acronyms, initialisms, and alphabetisms are Abbreviations that are formed using the initial components in a phrase or name CBC initially operated the CICA transmitter while the OECA was in charge of programming. OECA assumed all operations of the station, independent of the CBC, when the provincial government declared the Authority an independent corporation in a 1973 Order-in-Council.

CICA Channel 19 began broadcasting on September 27, 1970 with 423,000 watts video and 84,600 watts audio. Events 489 - Odoacer attacks Theodoric at the Battle of Verona and is defeated again Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The watt (symbol W) is the SI derived unit of power, equal to one Joule of energy per Second. Its studios were located at 1670 Bayview Avenue and its transmitter was located at 354 Jarvis Street on the CBC tower; the height of its antenna was 550 feet. An antenna is a Transducer designed to transmit or Receive electromagnetic waves In other words antennas convert electromagnetic waves into In 1972, the station moved to its permanent studios at 2180 Yonge Street where it remains today. [3] The station's broadcast name was OECA, sharing the name of its parent organization. In 1974, however, the station started to become unofficially known as TVOntario, a name change that was made official in 1981. The OECA name is still used for official purposes, such as legal notices and copyrights.

In the latter half of the 1970s, the network began adding rebroadcast transmitters in other Ontario communities. Its very first rebroadcast transmitter was added in Ottawa on October 25, 1975, under the callsign CICO. Ottawa (ˈɒtəwə or sometimes /ˈɒtəwɑː/ is the Capital of Canada and the country's fourth largest municipality. Events 1147 - The Portuguese, under Afonso I, and Crusaders from England and Flanders conquer Lisbon after a Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

1980s-1990s

In 1987, TVOntario launched La Chaîne française, which became TFO in 1994. In 1995, the Mike Harris government promised to privatize TVOntario. Michael Deane Harris (born January 23, 1945, in Toronto Ontario) was the twenty-second Premier of Ontario from June 26, They never carried through on this plan, but did cut its budget.

2000s

The positions of chair and CEO were divided in 2005 with film producer Peter O'Brian being appointed chair and Lisa de Wilde becoming CEO. Peter O'Brian (born 1947 in Toronto Ontario) is a Canadian Film producer and broadcast executive Lisa de Wilde is a Canadian film and Television executive and has been the CEO of TVOntario since 2005. On June 29, 2006, the provincial Ministry of Education announced a major overhaul of TVO: its production capabilities would be upgraded to fully-digital systems by 2009 (ministry funding would be allocated for this); and TFO would be spun off into a separate organization. Events 512 - A Solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. [4]

Moreover, programming changes were announced later that day: thirteen hours of new weekly children's educational programming was added, Studio 2 was replaced by The Agenda, and More to Life and Vox were cancelled. Studio 2 was a daily (weeknights current affairs Newsmagazine on TVOntario in Ontario, Canada. The Agenda with Steve Paikin is TVOntario 's flagship current affairs program hosted by Steve Paikin. More to Life (aka More 2 Life) was a daily afternoon television show produced and broadcast by TVOntario. [5] The move to digitize services represents a transition; The Globe and Mail quoted TVOntario CEO Lisa de Wilde saying “While television will remain an important medium for TVO, the days of defining ourselves as only a broadcaster are past. The Globe and Mail is a Canadian English language nationally distributed Newspaper, based in Toronto and printed in six cities ” [6]

In 2002 the Independent Learning Centre, which is responsible for distance education at the elementary and secondary school level as well as GED testing, was transferred from the Ministry of Education to TVOntario. The Independent Learning Centre offers Distance education courses to Ontario residents who want to earn Ministry of Education high school diploma credits upgrade basic skills Distance education, or distance learning, is a field of education that focuses on the Pedagogy and Andragogy, technology and instructional systems design General Educational Development (or GED) tests are a group of five tests which (when passed certifies that the taker has American or Canadian High [7]

Chairs and CEOs of TVOntario

Programming

See: List of TVOntario programs

TVO shows a mixture of original shows, children's programming, British imports, and movies from around the world. James Gordon (Jim Parr (1928-2000 was an academic broadcaster and provincial civil servant in the province of Ontario, Canada. John Radford is a Canadian broadcaster who briefly served as chairman of TVOntario. Bernard A Ostry, CC ( June 10 1927 &ndash May 24 2006) was a Canadian author philanthropist and civil servant who is Peter Herrndorf (born 1940 is a Canadian lawyer and media businessman Isabel Bassett (born August 23, 1939) is a Canadian broadcaster and former Politician. Peter O'Brian (born 1947 in Toronto Ontario) is a Canadian Film producer and broadcast executive Lisa de Wilde is a Canadian film and Television executive and has been the CEO of TVOntario since 2005. This is a list of TVOntario programs sorted alphabetically A Acme School of Stuff Adventures of Dudley the Dragon The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located TVO's daytime schedule is mostly children's programming. One of the network's most famous children's series is Polka Dot Door. Polka Dot Door was a long-running Children's television series produced and broadcast by TVOntario from 1971 until 1993 In the evenings, TVO runs a mixture of documentary, drama and public affairs programming for adult audiences, including the popular Saturday Night at the Movies, which presents classic films with commentary and interview segments. This article is about TVOntario's TV movie series For NBC 's counterpart see NBC Saturday Night at the Movies. Late at night, TVO shows educational programming that is designed for teachers to tape and show in school. Much of TVO's instructional programming also airs on public television stations in the United States. Public broadcasting refers to radio television and other electronic media outlets that receive some or all of their funding from the public

Initially, all dramatic programming was required to have some educational content. Actors, journalists or writers were hired to provide commentary on shows that would place them within an educational context. For instance Tom Gratton's War was bookmarked by segments that would use scenes from the series to discuss film making techniques. Episodes of The Prisoner were hosted by journalist Warner Troyer whose segments included interviews with the actors and a discussion of various psychyological, philosophical or sociological themes regarding the series. The Prisoner is an allegorical British 1960s Science fiction television series starring and co-created by Patrick McGoohan. Warner Troyer (1932 - 15 September 1991) was a Canadian broadcast journalist and writer [8] Similarly Doctor Who was hosted by science fiction author Judith Merril who would use discuss each week's episode to explore various themes in science and science fiction. Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. Judith Josephine Grossman ( January 21, 1923 - September 12, 1997) who took the pen-name Judith Merril about 1945 was an Saturday Night at the Movies continued to follow this format long after the requirement was dropped because of the popularity of its host, Elwy Yost. Elwy Yost, CM, BA (born July 10, 1925) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada is a Television host notable

Although French language programs were shown on TVO since its inception and gradually increased in number since then, they eventually moved to the French arm of TVOntario, TFO (originally known as La Chaîne française). When TFO started, TVO would run its English language shows on that channel on Sundays after noon, while the English TVO channel presented La Chaîne française programming at that time. This was done to give francophones without cable some French service, and discontinued in the 1990s after TFO began launching broadcast transmitters in some Franco-Ontarian communities. Franco-Ontarians (franco-ontarien are French Canadian or Francophone residents of the Canadian province of Ontario.

Logo history

An early OECA TV logo

A TVO logo from the mid-to-late 1970s or 1980s

Noted shows

Transmitters

See List of TVOntario transmitters. The Adventures of Dudley the Dragon was a Children's television series which aired in Canada on YTV and the United States on Public The Adventures of Timothy Pilgrim was a 1970s Canadian children's television series broadcast on TVOntario. The Agenda with Steve Paikin is TVOntario 's flagship current affairs program hosted by Steve Paikin. Art Attack was a British Television series revolving around art Big Ideas is a Canadian television series produced and broadcast by TVOntario, on the air since 2001. Bits and Bytes was the name for two Canadian Television series, starring Billy Van, who teaches people the basics of how to use a Computer Children's Underground Club of United Moose and Beaver for Enthusiastic Reporters or Cucumber was a TV show produced by TVOntario in the 1970's and repeated in the 1980's during Created in 1985, Dear Aunt Agnes was a children's show that aired on TV Ontario. Diplomatic Immunity was a weekly political analysis and debate television show on TV Ontario, which ran until 2006 Distinguished Artists is an intimate Canadian Interview television series that focuses on all aspects of the arts with the goal of celebrating their guests' Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. Eureka! was a Canadian Educational Television series which was produced and broadcast by TVOntario in 1980. is an Anime adaption based on a series of books published in the 1910s and 1920s by Thornton W Fourth Reading was a weekly current events Newsmagazine series in Canada, airing on TVOntario from 1992 to 2006 Human Edge is a Canadian television series which airs weekly on TVOntario. Imprint was a Canadian Television series that aired on TVOntario, BookTelevision, Knowledge and for one season on Colargol is a fictional bear created by French writer Olga Pouchine in the 1950s Join In! was a Canadian educational children's Television show which aired on TVOntario between 1989 and 1995. Miss BG is a 3-D Animated series based on Gudule et les bébés a series of books from France Parlez-moi (French for "Talk To Me" was an educational Television series which was produced and broadcast by TVOntario from 1978 Polka Dot Door was a long-running Children's television series produced and broadcast by TVOntario from 1971 until 1993 Polka Dot Shorts is a Children's television show from TVOntario in Canada, but which has been broadcast around the world Prisoners of Gravity was a Canadian Public broadcasting Television News magazine program that explored Speculative fiction Reach for the Top is a Canadian Game show in which teams of High school students participate in local provincial and eventually national Read All About It! was a Canadian educational Television series created by TVOntario that aired during the early to mid 1980s It also aired Readalong was an educational Canadian television program for young children first produced in 1976 for TVOntario. Hosted by Heather Conkie, this Canadian television program was modeled after a news program This article is about TVOntario's TV movie series For NBC 's counterpart see NBC Saturday Night at the Movies. The Science Alliance was an educational television show which was produced and broadcast by TVOntario in 1981-82 Studio 2 was a daily (weeknights current affairs Newsmagazine on TVOntario in Ontario, Canada. Téléfrançais was a French language children's television show produced by TVOntario in 1985 and 1986. Time Team is a British television series that has aired on Channel 4 since 1994 Today's Special is a children's Television show produced by Clive VanderBurgh at TVOntario from 1982 to 1987. TVOKids - The Space (formerly known as '"The Crawlspace"' launched on April 1, 1994, on TVOntario, as a block of afterschool children's programming VoxTalk was TVOntario 's "Youth Issues Talk Show" Created and Produced by Maria Farano until her departure and subsequently produced by Alison Bruce VoxTalk aimed Write On was an educational television show which was produced and broadcast by TVOntario in the late 1970s WordWorld is a computer-animated cartoon series produced by WTTW Chicago Illinois for PBS Kids, funded in part by the This is a list of transmitters broadcasting the TVOntario network in the Canadian province of Ontario.

References

  1. ^ Ministry of Education (Ontario). The Ministry of Education (MOE is the agencies of the Ontario government in the Canadian province of Ontario responsible for government policy funding "Newly Aligned TVOntario to Support Government's Education Agenda", CNW Group, 29 September 2005. CNW Group (CNW is a commercial News release service established in 1960 and jointly owned by PR Newswire and The Press Association. Events 522 BC - Darius I of Persia kills the Magian usurper Gaumâta securing his hold as king of the Persian Empire. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Retrieved on 2008-01-08. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 871 - Battle of Ashdown - Ethelred of Wessex defeats a Danish invasion army  
  2. ^ Keast, Ron. Educational Broadcasting in Canada - A Brief Overview (PDF). Retrieved on 2008-01-08. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 871 - Battle of Ashdown - Ethelred of Wessex defeats a Danish invasion army . See page 10.
  3. ^ Canadian Communications Foundation - Fondation Des Communications Canadiennes
  4. ^ McGuinty Government Transforms TVOntario (PDF). Ontario Ministry of Education (2006-06-29). The Ministry of Education (MOE is the agencies of the Ontario government in the Canadian province of Ontario responsible for government policy funding Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 512 - A Solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland. Retrieved on 2006-06-29. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 512 - A Solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland.
  5. ^ TVOntario to cancel Studio 2. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (2006-06-29). Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 512 - A Solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland. Retrieved on 2006-06-29. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 512 - A Solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland.
  6. ^ Ontario Liberals deny role in cancelling TVO news show. Globe and Mail (2006-06-29). The Globe and Mail is a Canadian English language nationally distributed Newspaper, based in Toronto and printed in six cities Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 512 - A Solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland. Retrieved on 2006-06-29. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 512 - A Solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland.
  7. ^ History of ILC, accessdate=2008-01-24
  8. ^ Patrick McGoohan Interview

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