CHMI-DT

CHMI-DT (channel 13) is a television station licensed to Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Canada, broadcasting the Citytv network to the Winnipeg area.

Broadcasting from studios downtown in the historic Canadian National Railway Power House at The Forks, it was the first new commercial TV station in Winnipeg since 1975.

Due to poor ratings and as part of a wave of layoffs, CHUM reduced the size of its local operation in Winnipeg in 2006, cancelling the station's evening newscast.

[4] Their application for a television license was denied by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) in 1981 due to "vague" programming promises.

When CKND-TV applied to the CRTC for extension of their signal into the Westman area via a transmitter in Minnedosa, CKX-TV filed an intervention opposing it, saying it would harm CKX's ad revenue.

In the fall of 1999, Craig Media moved the station's production facilities to the refurbished former Canadian National Railway Power House at The Forks in Winnipeg and rebranded the station as A-Channel, joining CKEM-TV in Edmonton and CKAL-TV in Calgary—effectively uniting Craig's non-CBC affiliates under the A-Channel banner.

At a CRTC hearing in Saskatoon in November 1999, Craig Broadcast Systems applied to take over the IMTV transmitter located in Dauphin on VHF channel 6.

[9] The move came more than a month after the CRTC denied CHUM's applications for new Calgary and Edmonton stations because the market did not have sufficient advertising revenue to support a new entrant.

[11] In addition to launching The Bounce and becoming the sole owner of Access Media Group in February 2005 in Albea, CHUM announced that it would rebrand the three A-Channel stations—in Calgary, Edmonton, and Winnipeg—as Citytv, aligning with the stations it already owned in Toronto and Vancouver.

[15][16] On June 13, 2006, CHUM announced that it would dramatically reduce its newsgathering operations in Edmonton, Calgary, and Winnipeg, as well as in several other cities.

[17][18] In a coincidental development, that same day, BCE Inc., the parent company of CTV, announced it would buy CHUM Limited.

Between October 2012 and 2018, the station began branding itself on promos and on-screen logos as "City", removing the "tv" portion from its identification.

CityNews programs previously aired until July 12, 2006, when it was announced that CTVglobemedia would acquire then-owner CHUM Limited.

The original Manitoba Television Network , or MTN , logo was used from 1986–1995.
The second MTN logo was used from 1995–1999.
While this logo was being used on its Alberta counterparts years before, CHMI adopted the A-Channel branding in 1999. It was dropped in 2005 when CHUM bought Craig Media.
The CHMI Studio as Citytv in August 2005.