Editing CTV 2 (section)

{{short description|Canadian television system}}
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{{Infobox television channel
| name = CTV 2
| logo = CTV 2 2018.svg
| logo_size = 200px
| type = [[Terrestrial television|Free-to-air]] [[television system]]
| country = Canada
| area = Nationwide
|headquarters = [[9 Channel Nine Court]], [[Scarborough, Ontario|Scarborough]], [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], [[Canada]]
| affiliates = See {{section link||CTV 2 stations}}
| language = English
| picture_format = [[1080i]] [[HDTV]]
| former_names = {{Plainlist|
*NewNet (1998–2005)
*[[A-Channel]] (2005–2008)
*A (2008–2011)
*CTV Two (2011–2018)
}}
| owner = [[BCE Inc.]]
| sister_channels = {{Plainlist|
*[[CTV Television Network|CTV]]
*[[CTV News Channel (Canadian TV channel)|CTV News Channel]]
*[[BNN Bloomberg]]
*[[CP24]]
*[[CTV Comedy Channel]]
*[[CTV Drama Channel]]
*[[CTV Life Channel]]
*[[CTV Nature Channel]]
*[[CTV Sci-Fi Channel]]
*[[CTV Speed Channel]]
*[[CTV Wild Channel]]
*[[Oxygen (Canadian TV channel)|Oxygen]]
*[[USA Network (Canadian TV channel)|USA Network]]
*[[Noovo]] (French language)
}}
| parent = [[CTV Inc.]]<br>([[Bell Media]])
| founder = [[Moses Znaimer]] (as creator of "The New..." format at CKVR)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/listings_and_histories/television/histories.php?id=10&historyID=29|title=Canadian Communications Foundation - CKVR-TV History|access-date=2011-09-11|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611002250/http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/listings_and_histories/television/histories.php?id=10&historyID=29|archive-date=2011-06-11}}</ref>
| launch_date = September 1, 1995, 29 years ago<br>{{small|(First aired on [[CKVR-DT|CKVR-TV]] in [[Barrie]])}}<br>September 7, 1998, 25 years ago<br>{{small|(First national expansion)}}
| website = {{URL|https://www.ctv.ca/shows/ctv2/}}
}}
'''CTV 2''' is a [[Television in Canada|Canadian]] [[English language|English-language]] [[television system]] owned by the [[Bell Media]] subsidiary of BCE Inc. The system consists of four terrestrial [[owned-and-operated station|owned-and-operated]] television stations (O&Os) in [[Ontario]], one in [[British Columbia]] and two regional [[cable television]] channels, one in [[Atlantic Canada]] and the other in [[Alberta]] (the latter formerly being the provincial educational channel in that province under the name Access Alberta).

The CTV 2 system began in 1995 as '''NewNet''', which was originated from the station [[CKVR-DT|CKVR-TV]], owned by [[CHUM Limited]], who disaffiliated from the CBC and modeled its format aimed at younger viewers after its [[Citytv]] station, [[CITY-DT|CITY-TV]] in Toronto. The NewNet system expanded with the acquisition of four Baton Broadcasting stations in [[Southern Ontario]], followed by the launch of [[CIVI-DT|CIVI-TV]] in [[Vancouver Island]]. NewNet was rebranded to '''A-Channel''' in 2005 after acquiring the assets of [[Craig Media]]. In 2007, CHUM Limited was acquired by CTVglobemedia; to comply with [[Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission]] (CRTC) ownership limits, the Citytv stations were sold to [[Rogers Sports & Media|Rogers Media]], while the non-Citytv stations were relaunched as '''A''' in 2008 then again as '''CTV Two''' in 2011 with two former [[Astral Media]] stations in [[British Columbia]] joining the system in 2015.

Although patterned after the original station in Barrie and since its acquisition by Bell, CTV 2 provides complementary programming to Bell Media's larger [[CTV Television Network|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 (simulcast from [[NBC]]) and stations' local newscasts targeting younger demographics. It operates primarily in markets that overlap with the service area of an existing CTV station. CTV 2 broadcast covers all provinces in Canada except Quebec, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan.