The station is owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (known in French as Société Radio-Canada).

An application to directly acquire the stations was filed by Radio-Canada on April 25, 2008, concurrently with Cogeco's proposed sale of TQS to Remstar.

[2] Prior to the 2002 municipal amalgamations, the station's city of license was Jonquière, which is now a borough of Saguenay.

Soon after Radio-Canada bought the station, the network announced its plans to increase local programming and to move CKTV to an integrated production centre in the new Chicoutimi studios adjacent the Place du Royaume shopping centre, alongside its radio sisters, CBJ-FM and CBJX-FM.

[3] CKTV was previously rebroadcast on CKTV-TV-1 channel 27 in St-Fulgence; however, this translator ceased operations by November 2011.