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CKWS-DT (channel 11) is a television station in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, part of the Global Television Network. Owned and operated by network parent Corus Entertainment , the station maintains studios on Queen Street in downtown Kingston, and its transmitter is located near Highway 95 on Wolfe Island , south of the city.
The Standard was created by William R. Givens in 1907, when he acquired the News and Times, which had been an amalgamation of the Kingston News and Evening Times in 1903. The two men amalgamated the papers on 1 December 1926, creating the Whig-Standard. The word "Kingston" was dropped from the name in 1973, but was reinstated in the early 1990s.
It was meant as a competitor to the Whig’s daily, with two more pages to their six, and a dollar cheaper a year compared to their price of $6. On April 8, 1908, the News was taken over by a local syndicate of Conservatives made up of William R. Givens (a one-time News reporter), H. W. Richardson and W. F
Get the Kingston, NY local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days. ... Today's top weather news for Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024: Millions of people face threats of rain and snow as 2025 ...
Broadcasting on 960 AM, CKWS was owned by Allied Broadcasting, a partnership of Roy Thomson and Rupert Davies, owner of the Kingston Whig-Standard newspaper. The call letters were derived from the newspaper's name, as was common at the time. FM sister station CKWS-FM (now CFMK-FM) signed on in 1947 (originally as CKWR-FM), and CKWS-TV launched ...
John Walter "Bill" Fitsell (July 25, 1923 – December 3, 2020) was a Canadian journalist, writer and historian. He was a columnist for The Kingston Whig-Standard from 1961 to 1993, and was the founding president of the Society for International Hockey Research in 1991.
There was a strong reaction against this decision, and she reversed her position after what the Kingston Whig-Standard described as "many vicious hate calls". When Cooper first campaigned for mayor in 1988, she pledged not to proclaim a Gay Pride Day if elected.
channel Digital channel VC Callsign Network Notes Barrie: 10 3.1 CKVR-DT: CTV 2: Belleville: 26 53.1 CICO-DT-53: TVO: Brighton: 30 66.1 CKWS-DT: Global: satellite of CKWS-TV Kingston Chatham: 28 32.1 CICO-DT-59: TVO: Cornwall: 8 No CJOH-TV-8: CTV: satellite of CJOH-TV ch. 13 Ottawa, formerly CJSS-TV. Defunct - Transmitter turned off July 2017 ...