Editing CHCH-DT (section)

== History ==
=== CBC affiliation (1954–1961) ===
The station signed on the air on June 7, 1954, operating as an [[network affiliate|affiliate]] of [[CBC Television]]. Its studios at 163 Jackson Street West were previously used by CJSH-FM (102.9, now [[CKLH-FM]]).<ref>[https://worldradiohistory.com/CANADA/Archive-Broadcaster-Canada/50s/53/RCC-1953-03-18.pdf Private Bids On CBC Board Agenda/Seven Bids Okayed], (PDF) ''Canadian Broadcaster and Telescreen/World Radio History'', See pages 18 Vol. 6, No. March 6, 18, 1953 and p. 1 (37) Vol. 12, No. 7. April 1, 1953</ref> After CJSH's shutdown, its studios were converted for CHCH.<ref>{{cite web |title=CJSH-FM {{!}} History of Canadian Broadcasting |url=https://www.broadcasting-history.ca/listing_and_histories/radio/cjsh-fm |website=www.broadcasting-history.ca |access-date=March 30, 2020 |archive-date=September 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200929072837/https://www.broadcasting-history.ca/listing_and_histories/radio/cjsh-fm |url-status=dead }}</ref> It is the oldest privately owned television station in the Hamilton–Toronto area. At the time all privately owned television stations in Canada were required to be CBC affiliates. CHCH-TV was founded by [[Ken Soble]], a leader of Hamilton's urban renewal movement and the owner of radio station [[CHML]] (900 AM).<ref name=GREATHAM2>{{Cite web|title = Hamilton Spectator: "The Greatest Hamiltonian". (II)| url = http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=hamilton/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1143499813048&call_pageid=1020420665036&col=1014656511815| access-date = February 11, 2007| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070927194324/http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=hamilton%2FLayout%2FArticle_Type1&c=Article&cid=1143499813048&call_pageid=1020420665036&col=1014656511815|archive-date = September 27, 2007}}</ref>

=== Independent station (1961–1982) ===
[[File:Chch1986.png|thumb|left|150px|CHCH-TV logo used from the introduction of colour television in 1966 until 1987 (a variant of this design with all-blue colouration was used until 1990).]]
In [[1961 in Canadian television|1961]], CHCH left the CBC and became an [[independent station]]. There were three reasons for removing its affiliation from CBC. Hamilton is part of the Toronto market, and Toronto-based [[CBLT]] already provided full network service to some of CHCH's viewing area. CBLT planned to increase its transmitter power and change frequencies (from [[VHF]] channel 9 to channel 6, and eventually channel 5), resulting in a near-100 percent overlap with CHCH. The station's managers wanted to produce more local programming, instead of having to carry CBC programming.

CHCH became the first and for over a decade the only television station in Canada not to be affiliated with any network; the other private stations (which signed on the air in [[1960 in Canadian television|1960]] or early 1961) that were not affiliated with the CBC had formed the [[CTV Television Network|CTV]] network in October 1961.

=== Possible flagship of a third network (1966–1981) ===
In the mid-1960s, CHCH was the lead station in United Program Purchase, a consortium of Canadian television stations which began purchasing some programming rights separately from the CTV and CBC networks.<ref name="backbone">"Backbone of third TV network takes shape in CHCH schedule". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', March 31, 1966.</ref>

By 1966, UPP was attracting media coverage as the potential framework for a third Canadian television network.<ref name="backbone" /> In the fall of the same year, Soble's Niagara Television which was the licensee of CHCH, put forward a proposal for a network to be branded as NTV.<ref name=pitch>"Soble's pitch". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', October 27, 1996.</ref> In the original plan, CHCH would have been the network's flagship station for the [[Greater Toronto Area]]. However the application faced numerous regulatory hurdles and delays, and its main financial backer which was [[Power Corporation of Canada]], backed out in 1969. By 1970 however, the network application was revived by former CHCH executive [[Al Bruner]]'s new Global Communications corporation, with Niagara Television and CHCH no longer involved in the bid. The [[Global Television Network]] network launched in 1974 on the new [[CIII-DT|CKGN-TV]].

Despite the station's lack of success in developing a full-fledged network, it became one of Canada's most prominent [[television syndication|syndicators]] of non-network programming in the 1970s and 1980s, with many of its locally produced entertainment programs airing on television stations across Canada and occasionally internationally.

=== Superstation CHCH (1982–1997) ===
[[File:CHCH1990s.png|thumb|left|100px|The CHCH-TV logo during the early-to-mid-1990s, before the station's rebranding to ONtv]]
CHCH became a national [[superstation]] on January 1, 1982, when Cancom (now [[Shaw Broadcast Services]]) began carrying the station and three others ([[CHAN-TV]] in Vancouver, [[CITV-TV]] in Edmonton, and TCTV, which was essentially a rebroadcaster of [[CFTM-TV]] in Montreal) to cable television providers in remote regions of the country that otherwise only had access to the CBC.

During the late 1980s and early 1990s, the station began a branding effort centred around the slogan "Together, we're the ones!" Different promotional slogans referring to either Hamilton or Ontario as a whole, reflecting the station's cable coverage across the province, and a blue-coloured, 3D variation of the longtime "circles" logo were used. Promos had a vocal song from [[Frank Gari]] which was part of the ''Pride Inside'' music package also used by the station's newscasts and movie presentations (originally commissioned by another channel 11 which is [[WBAL-TV]] in [[Baltimore]]).

=== ONtv era (1997–2001) ===
[[File:CHCH ONTV.svg|thumb|right|100px|CHCH-TV's logo as "ONtv", (1997–2001)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ic.gc.ca/app/opic-cipo/trdmrks/srch/viewTrademark.html?id=0832824-0&lang=eng&fileNumber=0832824&extension=0&startingDocumentIndexOnPage=1|title=Canadian Trademarks Details: ONTV & DESIGN — 0832824 - Canadian Trademarks Database - Intellectual property and copyright - Canadian Intellectual Property Office - Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada|via=www.ic.gc.ca}}</ref>]]
In 1990, [[Western International Communications]] (WIC) purchased CHCH. Although the station had been available on cable television in many Ontario markets for years, its broadcast signal coverage was expanded throughout Ontario in 1997. The launch of several rebroadcasters happened in 1997 in an effort to compete with the reach of Global's Ontario station CIII (channel 6), and with the [[Baton Broadcast System]], a group of mostly CTV-affiliated stations that served most of the province.<ref>{{Cite press release |url=http://www.chch.com/press/archive/ontsba.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19970103033639/http://www.chch.com/press/archive/ontsba.htm |archive-date=January 3, 1997 |date=January 30, 1996 |access-date=March 16, 2012 |title=CHCH-TV Seeks Ontario Expansion |publisher=Niagara Television Limited}}</ref>

In turn WIC rebranded the station as "ONtv" ("Ontario Television"), in line with the branding conventions of many of the company's other stations including CHAN-TV in Vancouver (which was branded as "BCTV"), CITV-TV in Edmonton (which was branded as "ITV"), and [[CHCA-TV]] in [[Red Deer, Alberta]] (which was branded as "RDTV").

Local news programming shifted their focus from the station's core market, the Hamilton area, toward Ontario as a whole in an attempt to challenge what was then a regional news service provided by Global. However, with Hamilton now being largely an afterthought and other local stations (in Toronto and elsewhere) already having strong ratings, the shift was unsuccessful and CHCH's ratings decreased. During the ONtv years, the station also aired WIC's nightly ''[[Canada Tonight]]'' newscast.

=== Canwest ownership (2001–2009) ===
[[Image:CHTV1.svg|thumb|left|100px|Logo used as ''CH Hamilton'' (2001-2005) which shares the same crescent device as sister station Global Ontario ([[CIII-DT]])'s logo]]
In 2000, [[Canwest Global Communications]] purchased WIC's television assets. Since Global already served the Hamilton area through flagship station CIII-TV's transmitter in [[Paris, Ontario]], Canwest rebranded the station "CH" (or "CH Hamilton") on February 12, 2001, and launched the [[E! (Canadian TV system)|CH]] [[television system]] in September of that year. The move launched a secondary television system for Canwest's stations in medium-sized cities located near larger markets. Local news coverage was revamped and refocused on the Hamilton/[[Regional Municipality of Halton|Halton]]/[[Regional Municipality of Niagara|Niagara]] region.

[[Image:CHTV2.svg|thumb|right|100px|CH Hamilton's second logo (2005-2007)]]
Despite the [[Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission]] (CRTC)'s television station ownership restrictions (one station per owner and per language in each market), Canwest was permitted to maintain CHCH's coverage of other markets throughout most of Ontario. However it could not broadcast to [[Thunder Bay]], [[Peterborough, Ontario|Peterborough]], or [[Kingston, Ontario|Kingston]] because of opposition from local television stations. Some cable providers outside of Ontario also continue to carry CHCH as a form of "superstation". Its over-the-air signal also easily covers [[Buffalo, New York]], and [[Erie, Pennsylvania]], across the [[Canada–United States border]].

On June 7, 2004, at 8&nbsp;p.m. CHCH-TV celebrated its 50th anniversary. The station aired a documentary profiling the station's history, entitled ''The First 50 Years: A Half Century of CH'', which was hosted by Matt Hayes. It was announced that the CH brand would change starting in 2007; however, it remained in use until September 7, 2007. Canwest then rebranded CHCH's local programming from CH Hamilton to ''CHCH News'' following the relaunch of the national CH service as E! under a [[brand licensing]] agreement with the [[E!]] cable channel in the United States. CHCH's non-news schedule was rebranded on the same day as "E! Ontario".
[[Image:Chchnewslogo.svg|thumb|left|190px|The logo used for newscasts from 2007 to 2010. It was used as the ''de facto'' branding of the station from 2007 to 2009. This logo is usually still present on some CHCH vehicles. While no longer present on air (except for ''Terra @ Home'' promos), another ex-E! station [[CHEK-DT]] and its [[Jim Pattison Group|Pattison]]-owned City network affiliates ([[CFJC-TV]], [[CKPG-TV]] and [[CHAT-TV]]) still use this variation for newscasts and branding.]]

=== Channel Zero ownership (2009–present) ===
On February 5, 2009, Canwest announced it would explore "strategic options". These included the possible sale or closure of CHCH and the company's other stations in the E! system, saying a second conventional TV network was no longer key to the long-term success of the company.<ref>[https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canwest-may-sell-tv-stations-1.827822 "Canwest may sell TV stations"]. [[cbc.ca]], February 5, 2009.</ref> A grassroots group which was fronted by ''Live @ 5:30'' co-host [[Donna Skelly]] announced an intent to purchase CHCH from Canwest and return the station to its former local focus.<ref>[http://www.thespec.com/News/Business/article/520615 "CHCH staff launch bold bid"] ''[[The Hamilton Spectator]]'' (February 26, 2009)</ref><ref>[https://www.thestar.com/Entertainment/Television/article/602302 "Will townsfolk save the House of Frightenstein?"] From ''[[Toronto Star]]'', March 15, 2009.</ref>

In March 2009, paperwork filed with the CRTC for a one-year renewal of CHCH's licence revealed that the station was projected to lose nearly $30 million during the station's 2010 fiscal year which began on September 1, 2009—with projected revenues of just $41 million against costs of $69 million. John Douglas, a spokesperson for Canwest, said that CHCH and its other stations in the E! group were money losers during the last decade, coupled with the Canadian broadcasters' dependency on American programming for profits.<ref>[https://archive.today/20120723083203/http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/issues/ISArticle.asp?id=97502&issue=03182009 CHCH-TV, Hamilton Projected to Lose $30-million], ''Broadcaster Magazine'', March 18, 2009.</ref>

[[Image:CHCH News Movies.svg|thumb|right|160px|Logo used by CHCH from 2009 to 2010. It is an altered version; "News-Movies" is added on the bottom]]
On June 30, 2009, [[Channel Zero (company)|Channel Zero]] announced that it would purchase CHCH and [[CJNT-TV]] in [[Montreal]] from Canwest in exchange for $12 in cash and the assumption of various station liabilities.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090705085939/http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/June2009/30/c3204.html Channel Zero Inc. agrees to purchase CHCH-TV Hamilton and CJNT-TV Montreal from Canwest] ''[[CNW Group]]'' (June 30, 2009)</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uBbCJIJ1HE Channel Zero Inc. agrees to purchase CHCH-TV Hamilton and CJNT-TV Montreal from Canwest (Video News Coverage)] (June 30, 2009)</ref> The CRTC approved the sale on August 28, 2009.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2009/2009-536.htm|title=ARCHIVED - CJNT-TV Montréal – Acquisition of assets|first=Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)|last=Government of Canada|date=August 28, 2009|website=crtc.gc.ca}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2009/2009-537.htm|title=ARCHIVED - CHCH-TV Hamilton and its transmitters and CHCH-DT Hamilton – Acquisition of assets|first=Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)|last=Government of Canada|date=August 28, 2009|website=crtc.gc.ca}}</ref> Channel Zero took control of the station's programming at midnight [[Eastern Time]] on the morning of August 31, beginning its tenure with a film from the 1980s<!-- appears to be ''[[Deadline]]'', to be confirmed -->. CHCH removed its affiliation from E! (which shut down at the end of the day) and adopted a new programming format. This consisted of local newscasts throughout the day on weekdays and movies at night (as well as all day on weekends, outside of limited newscasts, infomercials, and other select programs during the morning and evening hours). The channel reverted to branding itself as "CHCH". 

The first film which was broadcast in prime time that night was ''[[Rocky]]'' as a signal to the new ownership's come-from-behind spirit. CHCH added a modicum of additional programming during the 2009–10 season, including ''Let's Get It On'', a [[mixed martial arts]] program; [[Ed the Sock]]'s ''[[This Movie Sucks!]]'', a movie show featuring the former [[MuchMusic]] character alongside co-host [[Liana Kerzner]] and comedian [[Ron Sparks (comedian)|Ron Sparks]]; and [[infomercial]]s.

In September 2010, CHCH, for the first time since its purchase by Channel Zero, began airing American network television series. Many of the programs which were added, including ''[[Smallville]]'', ''[[Supernatural (American TV series)|Supernatural]]'', ''[[Jimmy Kimmel Live!]]'', ''[[48 Hours Mystery]]'', ''[[20/20 (American TV program)|20/20]]'', ''[[Chuck (TV series)|Chuck]]'', and ''[[60 Minutes]]'' had been broadcast in the Toronto-Hamilton market on [[CKXT-TV]] (channel 52; the station's owner, [[Quebecor]], was in the process of replacing it with the all-news cable channel [[Sun News Network]]).<ref>[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/television/news/e3ib6a55e024fd8d087caed238a236d8333 Channel Zero loads up on U.S. network series] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100617210241/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/television/news/e3ib6a55e024fd8d087caed238a236d8333 |date=June 17, 2010 }}, THR, June 14, 2010</ref> CHCH also debuted additional original local programs ''Sportsline'' (hosted by Mark Hebscher and Clint "Bubba" O'Neil), and launched a second series with Ed the Sock, the entertainment newsmagazine spoof ''[[I Hate Hollywood]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://edthesock.com/|title=Ed the Sock}}</ref> Coinciding with the schedule changes was the introduction of an updated version of CHCH's classic multi-coloured logo used from the 1960s to the 1980s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://chch.com/Fall2010%20PressRelease.pdf|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708140913/http://chch.com/Fall2010%20PressRelease.pdf|url-status=dead|title=Source: CHCH Fall 2010 press release|archivedate=July 8, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fftVYSiHMs|title=CHCH 2010 Fall Preview - New shows, new logo and more|via=www.youtube.com}}</ref>

[[File:CHCH 2010.jpg|thumb|upright|CHCH and Channel Zero signs are up on the side of 163 Jackson Street West. E! and CHCH News logos had been placed up in 2007. The red E! logo was removed after Channel Zero took control of CHCH in 2009, and has replaced the previous E! era newscast logo the following year.]]
On April 10, 2011 [[Green Party of Canada|Green Party]] leader [[Elizabeth May]] participated in a panel interview on CHCH. She was invited to attend the show as were the leaders of the [[Bloc Québécois]], [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberals]], [[New Democratic Party]], and [[Conservative Party of Canada|Conservatives]], by Channel Zero, whose president was disappointed by May's exclusion from the [[2011 Canadian federal election#Leaders' debates|2011 election leaders' debates]].<ref>{{cite news |title=CHCH-TV to Broadcast "Elizabeth May, For the Record" Live this Sunday, April 10, 2011 – 8 pm ET |url=http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/April2011/08/c2709.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120905142548/http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/April2011/08/c2709.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 5, 2012 |access-date=April 10, 2011 |publisher=CNW Group |date=April 8, 2011 |agency=CNW }}</ref>

On April 18, 2011, CKXT-TV converted from an independent station to a simulcast of the Sun News Network, leaving CHCH as the only independent station in the Toronto/Hamilton area (the station ceased operations approximately seven months later on November 1, 2011). On June 8, 2011, at Channel Zero's upfront presentation for advertisers for the 2011–12 television season, the company announced a programming distribution deal with [[20th Century Fox]], giving CHCH and CJNT access to show first-run exclusive broadcast movie premieres, most notably ''[[Avatar (2009 film)|Avatar]]'', which first aired in May 2012 on both stations, featuring the [[director's cut]] version of the film not shown in theatres. Other debut titles included ''[[Crazy Heart]]'', ''[[Taken (film)|Taken]]'', and ''[[X-Men Origins: Wolverine]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/issues/story.aspx?aid=1000467638|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120729191437/http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/issues/story.aspx?aid=1000467638|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 29, 2012|title=CHCH and Metro 14 Announce Fall Line-Up}}</ref>

During a broadcast of ''News Now AM'' on April 20, 2012, [[Cogeco]]'s and [[Shaw Cable]]'s transmissions of CHCH's signal were interrupted for approximately three minutes by the broadcast of a scene from a [[Hardcore pornography|hardcore]] [[gay pornography]] film from an unidentified adult-oriented specialty channel.<ref>[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hardcore-gay-porn-interrupts-canadian-local-news-314617 Gay Porn Interrupts Canadian Local TV Newscast], ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'', April 20, 2012.</ref> The substitution appeared to have been made by a cable operator during repairs of severed cable lines, and not at CHCH, leaving the station's over-the-air viewers and subscribers of other cable and satellite providers unaffected. Channel Zero denied that the program in question came from any of its adult-oriented [[Category B services|Category B]] specialty channels ([[Maleflixxx Television]], [[XXX Action Clips Channel|XXX TV]] and [[AOV Adult Movie Channel|AOV TV]]).<ref>[http://www.torontosun.com/2012/04/20/hamilton-ont-news-station-broadcasts-gay-porn Hamilton, Ont., news station broadcasts gay porn], ''[[Toronto Sun]]'', April 20, 2012.</ref> The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission later announced it would be investigating the incident as a cable transmission issue.<ref>[http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/04/20/porn-movie-interrupts-morning-news-broadcast-at-hamilton-tv-station/Porn movie interrupts morning news broadcast at Hamilton TV station], ''[[The National Post]]'', April 20, 2012.</ref>

In September 2012, CHCH acquired the rights to ''[[Wheel of Fortune (American game show)|Wheel of Fortune]]'' and ''[[Jeopardy!]]'' from CBC Television, after the network's exclusive contract to carry both game shows expired.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/chch-jeopardy-wheel-of-fortune-334240 |title=Canada's CHCH Buys 'Jeopardy' and 'Wheel of Fortune' |website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |date=June 6, 2012 |access-date=July 23, 2014}}</ref> The shows were dropped for the fall 2014 season and ''[[The Simpsons]]'' began airing on Friday nights.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://chch.com/pdf/2014-2015_CHCH_Media_Kit.pdf|title=CHCH Media Kit|access-date=July 24, 2014|archive-date=August 9, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140809075814/http://chch.com/pdf/2014-2015_CHCH_Media_Kit.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

=== 2015 news department bankruptcy and aftermath (2015–present) ===
On December 11, 2015, CHCH cancelled that evening's 6&nbsp;p.m. newscast amid fears the station was facing a shutdown.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.thespec.com/news-story/6180588-chch-tv-cancels-tonight-s-newscast-station-future-uncertain/ |title=CHCH TV suspends newscasts amid bankruptcy and restructuring moves |access-date=December 11, 2015 |archive-date=December 13, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151213164444/http://www.thespec.com/news-story/6180588-chch-tv-cancels-tonight-s-newscast-station-future-uncertain |url-status=dead }}</ref> Though the station remained on the air, CHCH's daytime rolling news format was discontinued at 4&nbsp;p.m.; Channel Zero CEO Romen Podzyhun appeared on the air to announce that the station's local newscasts would remain off the air through the weekend, and would return on December 14. In addition, Channel Zero announced that Channel 11, L.P., the subsidiary that had produced CHCH's newscasts since 2009, had filed for [[bankruptcy]]. Podzyhun blamed it on a loss of federal subsidy and an inability to draw national advertising revenue to a locally oriented station, but stated that the station itself was not shutting down. 

CHCH's news output would be scaled back to what it determined to be its "core news programs", only producing {{frac|17|1|2}} hours of newscasts a week (a morning show and 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts, with no weekend news), after having produced 80 weekly hours of news before the cutbacks; the local news is mainly being maintained to meet the station's licence requirements.<ref name="cbc-chchcuts">{{cite news|last1=Carter|first1=Adam|title=CHCH News files for bankruptcy, cancels Friday and weekend newscasts|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/news/chch-news-files-for-bankruptcy-cancels-friday-and-weekend-newscasts-1.3361492|access-date=December 11, 2015|work=[[CBC Hamilton]]|publisher=[[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]]|date=December 11, 2015}}</ref><ref name="chml-chchcuts">{{cite news|last1=Watson|first1=Jen|title=CHCH TV scaling back local news amid bankruptcy filing|url=http://www.900chml.com/2015/12/11/chch-tv/|access-date=December 11, 2015|work=[[CHML|AM900 CHML]]|date=December 11, 2015}}</ref><ref name="cp-chchcuts">{{cite news|last1=Friend|first1=David|title=Hamilton's CHCH channel cuts back on local news in an effort to save costs|url=http://www.canadianbusiness.com/business-news/hamiltons-chch-channel-cuts-back-on-local-news-in-an-effort-to-save-costs/|access-date=December 12, 2015|work=[[Canadian Business]]|agency=[[The Canadian Press]]|date=December 11, 2015|archive-date=December 14, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151214041831/http://www.canadianbusiness.com/business-news/hamiltons-chch-channel-cuts-back-on-local-news-in-an-effort-to-save-costs/|url-status=dead}}</ref> A few programs from [[Bloomberg TV Canada|Bloomberg Television]] such as ''Studio 1.0, Good Fortunes'' and ''The Daily Brief'' were added to the station's schedule the following week.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.chch.com/schedule/|title = Schedule|access-date = December 16, 2015|website = chch.com|publisher = CHCH}}</ref> Coincidentally CHCH's former program ''The Morning Market'' used resources from [[Bloomberg News|Bloomberg]] twenty years before CHCH shared common ownership with Bloomberg TV Canada. The news graphics that had been used for morning and daytime news programming were kept intact for Morning Live and daytime programming produced by Channel Zero and Bloomberg TV Canada such as ''The Pinkertons'' and ''The Daily Brief.''

In 2015, CHCH-DT teamed up with fellow independent [[CJON-DT]] and the three [[Yes TV]] stations (including nearby station [[CITS-DT]]) to share and syndicate YesTV's secular programming in arrangement referred to in advertising sales information as the Net5 alliance (referring to the three O&Os and two affiliates).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.yestv.com/saleskit/pdf/Net5_Profile_2015_HalfSize_Printable.pdf|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304002331/https://www.yestv.com/saleskit/pdf/Net5_Profile_2015_HalfSize_Printable.pdf|url-status=dead|title=NET5 Profile|archivedate=March 4, 2016}}</ref> Since Fall 2016, CHCH has replaced many airings of these programs with newly acquired daytime shows on weekdays, and movies on the weekends. Net5 was rebranded as [[indieNET]] following the addition of two other independent stations.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://yestv.com/saleskit/pdf/indieNET_CoverageMap_Fall_2016.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=October 17, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170110065859/http://yestv.com/saleskit/pdf/indieNET_CoverageMap_Fall_2016.pdf |archive-date=January 10, 2017 }}</ref>

In the spring of 2016, Channel Zero put the studios of CHCH-DT (from which the station has continuously operated, starting in 1954) on the market. The studios include the historic stone mansion "Pinehurst" (built in 1850 by local politician Tristram Bickle and owned by [[William Southam]] from 1892 until his death in 1932), as well as the large silver addition dubbed "Spaceship 11" for its futuristic appearance (built in 1983), for {{CAD|7 million}}. The sale was to a private investor group named Television City, who would rent out half of "Spaceship 11" to CHCH-DT for two and a half years, while looking for other tenants (Pinehurst is protected by the ''[[Ontario Heritage Act]]'' and will not be altered). It was expected for the sale to close by the middle of November 2016.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thespec.com/opinion-story/6952247-paul-wilson-history-on-the-hill-rolls-on-goodbye-chch-hello-television-city/|title = Opinion &#124; PAUL WILSON: History on the hill rolls on - goodbye CHCH, hello Television City|newspaper = The Hamilton Spectator|date = November 8, 2016}}</ref>

In October 2018, CHCH announced a new location for its studios, leaving its long-time location on Jackson Street West in downtown Hamilton, and moving to 4 Innovation Drive in Dundas. The property was renovated for a news operation, which the station had originally intended to have up and running by the spring of 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.chch.com/chch-finds-new-home-in-hamilton/|title = CHCH Finds New Home in Hamilton - CHCH| date=October 17, 2018 }}</ref> While the station left the Jackson Street studio in June 2021, delays in renovations to 4 Innovation Drive forced it to move to a temporary studio across the street. On April 11, 2022, CHCH had begun broadcasting from its 4 Innovation Drive studios.