Eastlink channel guide windsor ns Continue CTV 2 cable television channel serving Atlantic Canada CTV 2 AtlanticCountryCanadaBroadcast areaAtlantic CanadaNetworkCTV 2Former accessories: Citytv (1983-2008; Premier) Headquarters Of Halifax, New ScotiaProgrammingPicture format1080i HDTV (reduced to 480i mailbox for SDTV) OwnershipOwnerBell Media Inc.Sister channelsCTV Atlantic (CJCH-DT, CKCW-DT, CKLT-DT, CJCB-TV)HistoryLauednchMay 29, 1983; 37 years ago (1983-05-29)Former namesAtlantic Satellite Network (1983-2008)Atlantic (2008-2011)CTV Two Atlantic (2011-2018)LinksWebsite TV 2 AtlanticAvailabilityCableEastlink (Halifax)Channel Two 7Access on most Atlantic cable systemsCanal slots range from each provider Satellite TVChannel 202 (SD)Shaw DirectChannel 341 (HD)IPTVFibreOP (Halifax) Channel 5 (SD) Channel 406 (HD)Bell Fibe TVChannel 202 CTV 2 Atlantic is a Canadian cable tv channel serving Atlantic Canada is owned by Bell Media , with their studios located in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Owned by Bell Media's subsidiary BCE Inc., it operates as a de facto owned and operated station of its secondary television system CTV 2. The channel was launched as the Atlantic Satellite Network (or ASN) in 1983. The Canadian Radio Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) defines it as a satellite and cable television programming enterprise, defined as a local television channel available in the region on mainstream cable television, and is currently available throughout Canada on many digital cable and satellite television systems, but without any terrestrial transmitters (similarly a small number of other channels, mostly educational broadcasters). The channel does not seem to have the mandatory cable transportation rights, although almost all cable systems in the region offer it. However, it has full rights to simultaneous replacements in the Atlantic provinces, while most non-broadcasters do not. Until the fall of 2008, the channel received most of its programs from CHUM Limited Citytv (now owned by Rogers Media) and A-Channel (now CTV 2), which do not operate in the region; Since the early 2000s, temporary shifts to CTV programs have often been broadcast on the channel as well. CTV acquired CHUM (excluding Citytv) in 2007, and ASN merged with the restarted A system on August 11, 2008. On the cable channel in the Halifax area, CTV Two Atlantic can be found on EastLink 7 and Bell Aliant Fibe 5. There is also an HD channel on EastLink TV channel 606 and on Bell Aliant Fibe Channel 406. Outside of Halifax, the station can usually be found on any channel 4, 7, 8, 9, 10 or 13. History Beginning of the 1990s rendering of the ASN logo; the same basic form was From 1983 to 2008 the channel launched as the Atlantic Satellite Network on May 29, 1983, owned by CHUM Limited, as an additional service for its ATV CTV affiliate system (now known to know CTV Atlantic). ASN initially aired the Atlantic Pulse news on alternative times to ATV news releases. Atlantic Pulse used ATV reporters but various anchors and graphics, with a relatively spartan set located through atV's editorial. ASN also performed alternative entertainment programs, most of them produced or otherwise sourced from Chum's Toronto station CITY-TV (including a late-night feature film, branded as Great Movies, as CITY-TV did). In 1997, as part of a multi-station trade between CHUM and Baton Broadcasting, ATV and ASN became Baton Properties; THE ATV was integrated into the expanded CTV network, while ASN took over the few remaining CHUM programs from ATV. ASN remained, for all intents and purposes, a Citytv affiliate in Atlantic Canada, and for another nearly a decade carried a similar mix of movies and TV series in prime time. However, by the mid-2000s, the amount of CHUM programming on ASN's schedule had actually decreased, and CHUM-supplied soap operas and films (except for a handful of weekend timeslots) were no longer present. The logo was used from 2008 to 2011. After the merger of CHUM and CTVglobemedia, it seems likely that ASN will become a Citytv-owned and operated station for Atlantic Canada. However, the merger was due to the sale of Citytv to a third party, with Rogers Communications being the buyer of the television system; As such, ASN was relaunched as part of CTV also recently acquired the system on August 11, 2008, and became known as the Atlantic. On May 30, 2011, Bell Media announced that A Atlantic, along with the rest of System A, would be renamed CTV Two, thus becoming known as CTV Two Atlantic. The official restart of CTV Two took place on August 29, 2011. September 12, 2011 (June 4, 2019) CTV Two Atlantic has launched a high-definition channel called CTV Two Atlantic HD to replace the SD channel with Shaw Direct. Programming Home article: The list of programs broadcast by CTV and CTV 2 ASN has also devoted a significant amount of its daily schedule to educational programs provided by provincial education departments and local universities. This university programming came from a remote university education through a television (DUET) service offered by ASN, in partnership with participating universities in Atlantic Canada for university students. Some of the university programs offered through DUET included business administration and gerontology. ASN provided 16 hours of educational programs every weekend from 6:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and ten o'clock every Monday through Friday morning from 4:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. (in the early years, some TVOntario programs were held on ASN, such as Dotka Pol Door, Special and Fast Forward). In September 1992, ASN launched a local version of Citytv's Breakfast Television, moving to weekend education programs and Hours. By 1996, when the popularity of specialized television began to grow, Atlantic Pulse had given way to a short-lived smaller version called ATV Headline News. The ATV headline news only continued until early 1998, when ASN news programs were fully integrated into the ATV News Operation (now CTV Atlantic). While ATV aired some syndicated programs from the United States that was shown on Citytv in Toronto (like Friends and Seinfeld repeats), ASN aired programs related to CTV in the rest of the country such as Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy! and Camilla Scott. ASN was also Oprah Winfrey's original home show until it moved to ATV in 1991 (and in Newfoundland and Labrador, on CJON-TV, commonly known as NTV). Both Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! it is currently broadcast by Hamilton, Ontario-based CHCH on September 2012. The logo used in 2011-2018. Over the years, ASN/A Atlantic occasionally broadcast separate CTV networks. In some cases, it will be live programming that was scheduled for time that was inconvenient for either either ATV and NTV, such as weekend afternoon sports programs that could interfere with local news. From the fall of 2005 to the fall of 2008, ASN also performed the same night relaying CTV programs on most nights at 11:00 pm at (10:00 pm ET). This appears to have been necessary to maximize simultaneous network coverage by substitution; Since 1997, CTV Atlantic aired a series from the last hour of US prime time earlier in the evening in order to host newscasts at 11:00 AT. Since 2002, NTV's dissatisfaction with CTV, ASN/A Atlantic has also shown selected high-profile CTV network programs that may be of interest to viewers in Newfoundland and Labrador, but otherwise will not be widely available in this province due to the lack of an alternative CTV affiliate on the main cable. This includes the first three seasons of Canadian Idol, which NTV began to carry in 2006, as well as sports programs such as CTV coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics. In these cases, the program will continue to be broadcast on CTV Atlantic as well. Such events are currently rare since most CTV programs are available on analogue cable in Newfoundland on other channels, either through simulcasts on US network affiliates, or through repetitions on CTV analog specialty channels like Comedy Network. Despite being awaiting the CTVglobemedia/CHUM merger, CHUM content was actually reduced during the 2006-07 season compared to previous years, with other series from the CTV library - including repeats, shelf series like that of Brian, programming from MTV Canada, and timeshifted CTV programming for simsub purposes - balancing. News CTV 2 Atlantic currently broadcasts 15 hours of locally produced newscasts every week (with three hours each weekday). The joint ownership of ATV and ASN was in 1983, without any restrictions on duplication of programmes or news coverage between the two channels. This has been grandfathered in the current CRTC policy, which requires most of the big new market lookalikes to maintain individual programs and news content at both component stations. Since 1997, local ASN programming has declined significantly. At the peak of its development, Breakfast Television aired for two and a half hours a day; it is currently broadcasting for two hours, broadcasting from 7 to 9 a.m. The format of the breakfast Television channel's signature morning show and its logo resembled the format and branding used by Citytv stations. Also, while ASN still carried out a midday news release and early morning rebroadcast of CTV Live on 5, both are branded as CTV News programs. In mid-October 2005, ASN stopped conducting late news due to the additional CTV programs below. Currently, CTV 2 Atlantic carries the end of the local news release (rebroadcast CTV Atlantic at the end of the news at midnight), the earlier rebroadcast was removed from the schedule in 2005, but was returned when? as well as the aforementioned CTV news at noon.