CTV 2 is a Canadian English-language television system owned by the Bell Media subsidiary of BCE Inc The system consists of four terrestrial owned-and-operated television stations in Ontario, one in British Columbia and two regional cable television channels, one in Atlantic Canada and the other in Alberta.
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CTV 2 system began in 1995 as NewNet, which was originated from the station CKVR-TV, owned by CHUM Limited, who disaffiliated from the CBC and modeled its format aimed at younger viewers after its Citytv station, CITY-TV in Toronto.
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CTV 2 provides complementary programming to Bell Media's larger CTV network, though since the late 2010s it has increasingly aired repeats in primetime, with only a handful of first-run programs apart from late-night talk shows and stations' local newscasts.
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CTV 2 broadcast covers all provinces in Canada except Quebec, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan.
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CTV 2 initially intended to keep CHUM's Citytv system, while divesting the A-Channel and Access stations in order for the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to approve the acquisition.
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CTV 2 initially intended to keep the A-Channel stations' branding and programming independent from the CTV Television Network.
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Shortly after CTV 2 took control of A-Channel and most of the other assets owned by CHUM, media analysts began to speculate that the A-Channel stations would be renamed in 2008.
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At its fall upfronts presentation on June 2,2008, CTV 2 announced that it would reformat the A-Channel stations with a new look and new logo, becoming known as simply "A".
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On February 25,2009, CTV 2 announced that, given what it saw as ongoing structural problems facing the conventional television sector in Canada and the current global economic crisis, it would not seek to renew the licences of Wheatley's CHWI-TV and Wingham's CKNX-TV.
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The stations were not expected to be converted to rebroadcasters of London's A station upon the expirations of their existing licences in August 2009; however, CTV 2 had said news coverage for both areas would be provided by CFPL and CKCO.
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On July 8,2009, CTV 2 announced that it would keep CHWI open after the CRTC announced policy changes to increase funding for small-market television stations, and following lobbying efforts by the Windsor City Council, local Members of Provincial Parliament Sandra Pupatello and Dwight Duncan, and federal Members of Parliament Brian Masse and Joe Comartin to keep the only local privately owned television station in Windsor on air.
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