CTV (Centralia)

CTV (also known as Centralia Television) is the 1st ever Centraliese free-to-air channel nationwide and it's islands, the international counterpart is CTV International.

The network share it's similarities to international terrestrial channels, including from Hong Kong,  from the UK,  and  from Japan, and  from the USA.

Launch and the early years: 1930-1960
In 29th September 1930, CTV was launched as Centralia Television Service in partnership with the BBC, American Broadcasting Company (later on making it's network nationwide and it's islands) and NHK, The 1st program to air is Centralia's Future, which is mostly taken from the future also it was the longest-running show aired on Centraliese television, And the news at the time branded as Network News (not to be confused with an real radio station, which doesn't exist until 1991).

The startup sequence was a sunrise with a timer counting down to 6am, before cutting out to the ident and then footages from Centraliese construction.

In 1st September 1939, The channel was suspended due to World War 2 until 7th June 1946 at 3pm. The final program before official temporary suspension is Mickey's Gala Premier.

In 1st July 1946 at 5:00pm CTT, the Centralia Television Service renamed to Television Centralia, Network News became Television Centralia News (also known as TVCN) and making the hours to let the channel end at midnight.

Popular free-to-air network/new decades: 1960-2005
In 1960, Television Centralia became CTV, and CTV now had a kids block named Sunny Centraliese, TVCN will remain the old name until 1980.

In 1980s, CTV became the most watched network as described by Asiantown News, and TVCN became CTV News.

In 1990, the branding was changed to CTV One, while off-air branding and sales team was still referred as CTV, 1 year later, it has the similar Rai Uno (now Rai 1)'s idents until 1999.

In 1991, CTV announced the new TV network Star TV Centralia, it was the first satellite network owned by Centraliese free-to-air broadcaster and the STAR TV Network, later in 2000 they launched CTV Centralia (now CTV International) and settle for countries like Singapore, Hong Kong and the United Kingdom.

In 1996 (or 1997), 2 days after Fuji TV moves headquarters, CTV and it's station, WCTV, announced to move it's headquarters to Shizu Hotel (the hotel which moved to another location), the move was complete in April 21, 1996/1997, and CTV/WCTV aired a special sign-off which is similar to Fuji TV but, the headquarters in beginning was an old CTVS/TVC/CTV headquarters picture taken from 1957, 4 videos are Doraemon (1973) finale, CTV sign-off from 1965, Fuji TV sign off from it's black and white days (after that, these are things from Fuji TV 1996/1997 sign-off (an control room with a message, call-sign, and town sequences), and Nippon Television's Dove's Day Off/closedown (in black and white), after that, it shows an message, followed by callsign for an few times, an a ident plays with Twinkle Twinkle Little Star jingles and the Voice of Korea internal signal, an Loeki the Lion, and then Goodnight Kiwi, and also CTV's corporate identity with "CentraliaTelevision OneTwoThreeFour" replaced with "Centralia Television", and followed by an mixture of Japan and Centralia's national anthem, and then a filler (similar to Fuji TV, but the footage is an Shizu Hotel), and after the song (except for Centralia Cable Vision, which will replace with Japanese VHS ending and a zone song and turn off TV sets message until the same testcard), it will transition to a testcard with Japanese words, it will now had resumes operations at 22 April, 1996/1997, when it played an sunrise background with logo and call-sign (similar to Fuji TV), and 2 announcers saying the call-sign in the similar way of Fuji TV, and then a ident leading to normal programming.

In 1999, the ID is changed once again to be similar to Seven Network 's until 2000, On 31st December 1999, Mostly Centraliese people celebrated New Decade, the news program hosted a first celebration of new years.

In January 1st 2000, the ID is changed to be similar to Telemundo 's until 2005 and also the channel was transitioned into 24-hours, It's new digital channel, CTV on Digital launched after a few months.

New generation: 2005-2020
In 2005, an rebrand is was aired, holding the channel's rebrand and making the shift to modern-aged era branding, the spinning 3 meter circle in middle of the different CTV logo, and some parts of the logo forming, and then welcome to our new world spins one by one of text, it was similar to the one of BP animations found on YouTube.

In 2006, CTV agrees with TV32 to give it's branding to CTV Centralia, giving an same identity but replaced TV32 logo with CTV logo, and the TV32 text below the logo replaced with CTV, and the slogan replaced with "greatprograms"

In 2009, These 2 idents are made by the team that made the ident for Channel 5 Singapore from 2007, one is generic that used for some programming, and another one with it's new slogan: "Entertaining you first".

In 2010, These new idents are developed by the in-house team, it was being too similar to the Nine Network's original idents from 2006.

The new idents was shot in several locations including those in New York, Toronto, a school, a generic set that originally used in 2009 and more, this made CTV be on European Broadcasting Union and Asian Broadcasting Union.

In January 18th 2014, following the premiere of My Little Pony episode Rainbow Falls, CTV added new idents with creative idents like for Arts and more.

In August 8th 2014 at midnight CTT, CTV ended it's analog transmissions after the airing of Stand by Me Doraemon on Star Movies on CTV, the Japanese feed closed down it's analog transmissions 3 years earlier, and using it's interruption and analog switch-over message, and an classic sign off (which is actually 1993-2000 sign off but, it's 1993 version and only started at the CTV One ident).

In 2015, Idents from 2010 are recreated with 3D logo, green checkerboard, and with more idents.

Current decade: 2020-present
In 2020, CTV was rebranded, and still runs today.

In 2021, CTV was the first channel to air My Little Pony: An New Generation from Netflix through it's Star Movies block.

In late 2021, same day as the Boomerang LA rebrands to Cartoonito, CTV Centralia signs an 35-year partnership with WarnerMedia International (now Warner Bros. Discovery International) to bring back Cartoonito brand to Centralia as it was originally shutdown on 1st January 2015, effective 1st January 2022 (then Cartoonito block on Cartoon Network on April 4th 2022), replacing CTV Kids block.

At the same day, CTV Centralia signs 20-year partnership with BabyFirst to rebrand CTV Kids Junior into BabyFirst on CTV.

The rebrand of these 2 blocks are placed in 1st January 2022, following this change, CT Living's BabyFirst block will drop off from the channel.

Programming
In 1973-1980, before and after broadcasting Doraemon (1973), it uses the Nippon TV's Dove's Day Off (1973-1978 version is 1972-1978 ident, and 1978-1980 version is 1978-2001 ident).

Current

 * CTV News
 * BBC Breakfast (2004-2010, 2014-present)
 * BBC World News
 * Newsday
 * Centralia's Future
 * The Ellen DeGeneres Show
 * Ellen's Game of Games
 * This Hour Has Centralia's 22 Minutes
 * Running Man
 * Centralia's Saturday Night Live
 * Doraemon (2005) (2007-present)
 * Ident Museum
 * One to Thai (also airs on Star World)

Cartoonito on CTV block
Unlike the Cartoon Network block of the same name, it airs different shows from the past eras of CTV Kids.


 * Dora the Explorer
 * Little Einsteins
 * Octonauts
 * My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
 * Where's Chicky?
 * My Little Pony: Pony Life
 * Little Ellen (September 17, 2021-present)
 * Molang
 * Thomas and Friends: All Engines Go!
 * Pocoyo

Cartoonito on CTV block

 * The Hamster Show (Nick Jr.)

Former

 * Time Shock (1969-1986)
 * Doraemon (1973) (September-December 1973; reruns: 1973-1981)
 * The Brady Bunch (1978-1999)
 * Doraemon (1979) (1979-2005; reruns: 2005-2006)
 * Sailor Moon (1992; moved to CTV Two)
 * ITN World News (1993-1999, also airs on NBC Centralia)
 * Weakest Link (2002-2003)

CTV Kids/Cartoonito on CTV block

 * Pinwheel (1977-1990)
 * My Little Pony (1985-1993)
 * My Little Pony Tales (1992-1995)
 * Rolie Polie Olie (2000-2020)

Technical issues
CTV was known for broadcasting technical difficulties from late 2000s to early 2010s. The first time it was occurred was in late-2008, during a airing of CTV News. The channel had blackout for few seconds, then it return back to normal.

On January 1st 2010 at midnight, the CTV had blackout for few minutes till 12:10am CTT. It was just in time for the new years eve.

On December 21st 2013 following the new episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, the channel cut out halfway during the episode. It suddenly broadcast a testcard on a SD version (not on Centelecom TV and Star Select analog, which changed it's feed to HD until the SD feed resumed), while the episode keeps playing but black screen appears and disappears after 5 seconds in HD version (which then plays commercials on the loop), then a generic ident played once before the other idents play, then the other show plays.