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| City | Portage la Prairie, Manitoba |
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| Channels | |
| Branding | Citytv Winnipeg (general) CityNews Winnipeg (newscasts) |
| Programming | |
| Affiliations | Citytv (2005–present) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner |
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| TV: Sportsnet West Radio: CITI-FM, CKY-FM | |
| History | |
First air date | October 17, 1986 |
Former call signs | CHMI-TV (1986–2011) |
Former channel number(s) | Analogue: 13 (VHF, 1986–2011) |
| Independent (1986–1999) A-Channel (1999–2005) | |
Call sign meaning | CH Manitoba Independent |
| Technical information | |
Licensing authority | CRTC |
| ERP | 8.3 kW |
| HAAT | 324.3 m (1,064 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 49°52′26″N 97°44′27″W / 49.87389°N 97.74083°W |
| Links | |
| Website | Citytv Winnipeg |
CHMI-DT (channel 13) is a television station licensed to Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Canada, broadcasting the Citytv network to the Winnipeg area. Owned and operated by Rogers Sports & Media, the station has studios at 8 Forks Market Road (near Fort Gibraltar Trail and Waterfront Drive) in downtown Winnipeg, and its transmitter is located adjacent to Bohn Road (near Provincial Road 245) in Cartier.
CHMI signed on the air in 1986 as the Manitoba Television Network (MTN) by Craig Broadcast Systems. Broadcasting from studios downtown in the historic Canadian National Railway Power House at The Forks, it was the first new commercial TV station in Winnipeg since 1975. The station then joined the A-Channel system in 1999; its style of news and programming was young and aggressive. Ratings settled into third place, above the CBC but behind the established stations in town, CKY and CKND.
Craig, overextended by its launch of Toronto 1 in 2003, sold itself to CHUM Limited, then-owner of Citytv, in 2004. In 2005, the A-Channel stations took on the Citytv brand. Due to poor ratings and as part of a wave of layoffs, CHUM reduced the size of its local operation in Winnipeg in 2006, cancelling the station's evening newscast. CHUM sold most of its assets to Bell Globemedia that same year; as Bell owned the CTV Television Network, the Citytv stations were spun off to Rogers and for a brief period, it was paired with religious station CIIT (Omni 11) before being sold to S-VOX in 2008. The station continued producing a morning newscast under the Breakfast Television brand until 2015 when it was replaced with a simulcast of CITI-FM's morning show and reinstated evening local news programs in 2017.