Shaw Loses Clermont, PGTV Gains

Wednesday, August 13, 2008 11:23 AM

Prince George, B.C.- There are big changes coming for PGTV in Prince George.

As of September 1^st, it will be known as CKPG TV, going back to its Prince George broadcasting roots. It will end it’s affiliation with CBC and start a new affiliation with “E” T.V.

CKPG TV will add more news, and a new face to its news line up.

Sandra Clermont, who has been with Shaw Cable in Prince George and the star of recent musical productions like Hello Dolly and Nunsense, will take on the responsibilities of being the T.V. anchor for the 5 p.m. television news.

Dave Barry has taken over the duties of News Director since the June 27^th departure of Mike Woodworth.

The new program line up and new faces will be presented to invited guests and clients later today at a special presentation at the PG Playhouse.

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Posted on Wednesday, August 13, 2008 11:23 AM in Life by 250 News

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Posted by: lostfaith on August 13 2008 11:51 AM

Welcome Sandra, I'm sure you will bring some new excitement to the otherwise dreary newscast

Posted by: Rockin on August 13 2008 12:29 PM

a fantastic upgrade to the news environment I look forward to watching CKPG TV news in the future...
Good luck Sandra....

Posted by: lmorg on August 13 2008 3:38 PM

Beauty and brains I hope

Posted by: Harbinger on August 13 2008 3:41 PM

Any relation to the Clermont who ran the Canada Post Corp. a while back?

Posted by: lostfaith on August 13 2008 3:49 PM

Local girl

Posted by: thisisme on August 13 2008 4:49 PM

I really hope that the 'new' news will either consider a 30 minute broadcast, or figure out how not to have an 'instant replay' at 5:30. It would also be nice to not have to watch the same news clips many times over several days.

And that's This Persons opinion!

Posted by: Eagleone on August 13 2008 7:06 PM

Its been nearly a decade since I've watched PGTV... it would be nice if a person could get it through their regular satellite service. I used to watch it every night and would again if it was available.

Posted by: Wileycoyote on August 13 2008 7:20 PM

Hey what will happen to Hockey Night in Canada broadcasts?? we dont have any other local channel so where will we be able to watch CBC??

Posted by: Norm1 on August 13 2008 7:46 PM

Never fear eagleone....you can watch PGTV on satellite and have been able to do so for quite a while.

PGTV Channel 2-Cable 3-Starchoice 325- Bell ExpressVU 260.

This information is available on their web site.

Posted by: lostfaith on August 13 2008 8:24 PM

I'd stay away from Starchoice if I were you.

Posted by: DPJ on August 13 2008 10:59 PM

good to have "our own" TV station. I suggest a "Discover Prince George" program. Would be good for tourist and locals to see what is happenning here. Have one in Guangzhou, China (called "Discover Guangzhou" on the english channel) and it is very informative.

Posted by: Eagleone on August 14 2008 1:12 AM

I got Bell, but channel 260 won't tune in. 261 or 259, but the 260 it just skips by it. I think I need to buy a second receiver or something to make it work.

I heard a while back I could pay a $100 or something to get a second dish to tune in and get the one extra channel, and at the time didn't figure it was worth the cost at the time. I think I'd pay an extra $2 a month for the channel if it would work with existing hardware.

Posted by: MeBubba on August 14 2008 1:37 AM

Isn't it somewhere in CBC's mandate that they must broadcast an over the air signal to every community in Canada?

Posted by: Tank Abbott on August 14 2008 9:32 AM

hey eagle one your dish needs a dual LNB so you can hit the 82w EXPRESSVU satellite most of them are just pointed at 91W.buy one ebay for like 10 bucks

Posted by: shamrock girl on August 14 2008 2:42 PM

Shaw's loss is definitely PGTV's gain...Sandra will bring a touch of class to the station.

Posted by: HD on August 14 2008 6:35 PM

Who is PGTV??????