It shared its call letters with its former sister station, CKX-FM, owned by Astral Media (formerly Standard Radio).

In February 2009, CTV announced that CKX was up for sale as CBC would not continue its affiliation agreement.

During the early 1980s when the CRTC had called for applications for a new television station serving southern Manitoba, CKX-TV had raised fears that extending CKND-TVs signal into the Westman area would split the revenue from national advertisers which could cause CKX-TV to operate in the red.

[6] In 2004, Craig Media announced a deal to sell its broadcasting assets to CHUM Limited.

The sale was approved by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) on November 19, 2004, and became official on December 1.

On January 15, 2007, master control for CKX-TV was moved back from Portage la Prairie to Brandon.

[8] In early 2009, CBC decided it would not renew CKX's affiliation agreement past its expiration date of August 31, 2009.

[10] Instead, on July 16, CTV announced that Bluepoint Investment Corporation, a new company owned by media veteran Bruce Claassen, would buy CKX for a dollar.

The last image televised on CKX-TV before going to black was the corporate logo and copyright notice for CTVglobemedia.