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CKX is a television station in Brandon, Manitoba affiliated with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Owned by CHUM Limited, it is the first privately-owned television station in Manitoba.
The station was founded by John Craig and went on the air on January 28, 1955, a day which marked Craig Media's start in television broadcasting.
As a CBC affiliate, the station airs the minimum requirement of CBC programming but also airs a significant amount of A-Channel programming.
For nearly half a century, the station remained under the ownership of the family-owned Craig Media. In 2004, Craig Media announced a deal to sell the A-Channel stations to CHUM. The sale was approved by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission on November 19, 2004, and became official on December 1.
The station may be rebranded as a NewNet station, most likely as The New KX, but as it is currently a CBC affiliate rather than an independent station, this is not certain, since a repeater of Winnipeg's CBWT would need to be launched in Brandon to provide CBC programming. It is almost certainly not going to be rebranded as Citytv, due to the small population which would not fit well for an urban-based system.
Craig Media was planning on getting a license for a new television station in Brandon, which would make CKX a full repeater of Winnipeg's CBWT, but it is unknown whether any further developments will be made, especially because of the station's sale to CHUM.
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