CBCS-DT

, virtual channel 5 (VHF digital channel 20), is a CBC Television owned-and-operated station licensed to, ,. The station is owned by the, as part of a twinstick with station CBCSF-DT (channel 2). CBCS's studios are co-located with CBC/Radio-Canada's Sudbury operations on Elm Street, and its transmitter is located in Spanish River Provincial Park. In addition, CBCS maintains a news bureau in at its former studios on Main Street East.

As a privately-owned CBC affiliate under the CKLS call sign, it originally broadcast from a transmitter on in  until 2013, and was previously repeated on CBC-owned rebroadcasters in remote parts of Northern Ontario.

History
The station first went on the air on February 17, 1973 as CKLS-TV. During the 1980s, it aggressively competed with the MCTV twinsticks in North Bay and Sudbury, especially since CHNB and CKNC (both respectively being one half of the twinsticks) were also CBC affiliates, however CKLS carried programming from both CBC and Radio-Canada, marking a clear difference between the North Bay and Sudbury areas' three CBC affiliates at the time.

In 2012, then-owners KTY Regional sold the station to the CBC, a day prior Sudbury's Radio-Canada affiliate CKLO was also sold to the CBC. CBC recalled CKLS as CBCS-DT (naming it after ) and CKLO as CBCSF-DT, and relocated CBCS's operations to Sudbury. The relaunch of CKLS as CBCS coincided with the shutdowns of CHNB and CKNC, by now rebroadcasters of 's.

News Programming
CKLS' newscast Point to Point was retained as part of the relaunch as CBCS, now branded as CBC Point to Point. Ron Kupper and Liza Ouvrard originally anchored the relaunched newscast from CBCS's new studio in Sudbury, with cut-ins from reporters at the North Bay bureau and elsewhere in Northern Ontario. Kupper left for CKDA-DT in in 2017, he was replaced by "guest anchor" Corey Cieślar for a three-week period before a replacement, Van Yarborough, was selected.