global saskatoon general global news newscasts channels digital 42 uhf virtual 4.1 psip affiliations global owner corus entertainment first air date september 6 1987 call letters meaning cf saskatoon city or cf saskatchewan province former callsigns cfsk tv 1987 2011 former channel number s analog 4 vhf 1987 2011 former affiliations independent 1987 1990 transmitter power 30 kw height 200.5 m transmitter coordinates 52 10 28 n 106 26 5 w 52.17444 n 106.43472 w 52.17444 ; 106.43472 website global saskatoon cfsk dt virtual channel 4.1 uhf digital channel 42 is a global owned and operated television station located in saskatoon saskatchewan canada . the station is owned by corus entertainment . cfsk s studios are located on robin crescent on the northwest side of saskatoon and its transmitter is located on agra and settlers ridge roads near highway 41 northeast of saskatoon . this station can also be seen on shaw cable corporate sister through parent company shaw communications channel 3 bell tv channel 236 and in high definition on digital channel 211 . contents 1 history 2 news operation 2.1 notable former on air staff 3 digital television 3.1 digital channels 3.2 analogue to digital conversion 4 references 5 external links history edit logo used while as stv from 1987 to 1997 ; this logo was shared with cfre in regina . the station first signed on the air on september 6 1987 under the ownership of canwest . cfsk and its sister station in regina cfre tv were initially branded as stv short for saskatchewan television . it joined the canwest global system in 1990 . at the time that stv went on the air it was saskatoon s third locally based over the air television station joining a market that included ctv s cfqc and the then operational cbc affiliate cbkst . however technically it was saskatoon s second fully licensed station ; cbkst was licensed as a rebroadcaster of regina s cbkt . canwest discontinued the stv branding along with all other individual local station brandings in 1997 when the global television network brand was expanded to all of canwest s stations . one of stv s major broadcasts in its early years was the children s program size small island that show was originally broadcast on sister station cknd tv in winnipeg which was syndicated around the world the show s host helen lumby officially launched the mini network s first broadcast in saskatoon in 1987 . since the closure of cbkst in 2012 cfsk is one of only two over the air broadcast stations originating from saskatoon . news operation edit former logo of cfsk tv and cfre tv from 1997 to 2006 cfsk dt presently broadcasts 24 hours of locally produced newscasts each week with 4 hours on weekdays and one hour each on saturdays and sundays ; it is among the few global stations and one of the few television stations in canada to carry a prime time newscast during the 10 p.m. hour . on december 5 2011 cfsk dt debuted a three hour newscast on weekday mornings under global s morning news brand which runs from 6 to 9 a.m. around the same time cfsk became the first television station in saskatoon to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition . on august 20 2012 cfsk expanded its half hour 10 p.m. newscast to one hour which was retitled from prime news to news hour final ; the addition of the morning newscast and the expansion of primetime newscast is part of an expansion of local news programming on global owned and operated stations across canada as part of a benefits package that was included as a condition of the sale of the global television network to shaw communications . 1 notable former on air staff edit jay onrait sports later with tsn ; to join fox sports 1 in august 2013 digital television edit digital channels edit channel video aspect psip short name programming 2 4.1 1080i 16 9 cfsk hd main cfsk dt programming 4.2 480i 4 3 cfsk sd sd simulcast of cfsk dt 4.1 analogue to digital conversion edit on august 15 2011 2 weeks before canadian television stations in crtc designated mandatory markets were slated to transition from analogue to digital broadcasts cfsk flash cut its digital signal into operation on uhf channel 42 . through the use of psip television receivers will list cfsk dt s virtual channel number as 4.1 . 3 references edit global news boosts local programming across the country broadcaster magazine may 30 2012 . rabbitears tv query for cfsk digital television office of consumer affairs oca external links edit global saskatoon canadian communications foundation cfsk tv history query the rec s canadian station database for cfsk tv query tv fool s coverage map for cfsk v t e broadcast television in saskatchewan regina dtv ckck 2.1 ctv cbkt 9.1 cbc cfre 11.1 global cbkft 13.1 ici radio canada saskatoon dtv cfsk 4.1 global cfqc 8.1 ctv lloydminster dtv cksa 2.1 global citl 4.1 ctv prince albert cipa 9 ctv yorkton cicc 10 ctv defunct stations moose jaw chab 4 cbc ctv prince albert ckbi 5 cbc saskatoon cbkst 11 cbc cbkft 1 13 ici radio canada swift current cjfb 5 cbc yorkton ckos 5 cbc cable only city saskatchewan saskatchewan legislative network sportsnet west tsn3 see also list of television stations in saskatchewan v t e global television network owned and operated stations chan vancouver chbc kelowna cict calgary citv edmonton cisa lethbridge cfsk saskatoon cfre regina cknd winnipeg ciii toronto ckmi montreal chnb saint john cihf halifax affiliates cjbn kenora cksa lloydminster chfd thunder bay cjon st. john s de facto chex peterborough1 chex tv 2 oshawa1 ckws kingston1 see also corus entertainment 1 news programming only v t e corus entertainment broadcast television global o & o cfre cfsk chan chbc chnb cict cihf ciii cisa citv ckmi cknd ctv chex chex tv 2 ckws cable television specialty channels english language abc spark action bbc canada cartoon network adult swim cmt cosmopolitan tv crime & investigation dejaview disney channel disney junior disney xd diy network double helix dtour food network fyi global news bc 1 hgtv history h2 ifc lifetime movietime national geographic channel nat geo wild nickelodeon oprah winfrey network showcase slice sundance channel teletoon the edge treehouse w movies w network ytv corus m dia french language disney la cha ne historia s ries t l toon vrak telelatino network 50.5 % euroworld sport mediaset italia sky tg24 telebimbi telelatino teleni os univision canada terrestrial radio by call sign am cfmj cfpl ched chmj chml chqr chqt cjob cjoy cknw fm cfgq cfhk cflg cfmi cfmk cfny cfox cfpl chay cilq cimj cing ciqb cisn cjdv cjgv cjkr cjot cjss cjxy ckbt ckcb ckdk ckng ckqb ckru ckry ckwf ckws other assets kids can press nelvana toon boom animation defunct historical brands and predecessors discovery kids dusk edge tv kidsco encore avenue leonardo world movie central teletoon retro t l toon r tro video italia shaw media alliance atlantis canwest chca tv cooltv dusk e tv system fine living fox sports world canada selkirk communications 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