VICTORIA — It appears that the first commercial television station available to TV antennas on much of the North Olympic Peninsula will continue.
Owner Canwest today announced that it is selling CHEK-TV channel 6, which signed on for the first time in 1956, to a Vancouver Island investor group. The deal will allow the Victoria station to stay on the air and preserves about 45 jobs.
The “nominal” purchase price was not disclosed.
The deal still requires Canadian federal government approval.
Canwest planned to have the station go dark Monday night because of financial difficulties, but the deal kept nominal programming on the channel, which is carried by cable television systems in Port Angeles, Sequim and East Jefferson County.
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