CTV produced and screened more than twenty hours of locally based programming every week.

On 18 April 2011 CTV resumed service in a new base location at the Mainland Press building in the Christchurch suburb of Harewood.

In March 2009, CTV started screening Graham Kerr's Kitchen and Nick Stellino's Cucina Amore, half-hour cooking programmes from the 1990s.

[6] The station began with a two-hour broadcast of news and then another hour of interviews with people involved in the earthquake recovery.

They extended their reach to South Canterbury on 1 June 2013, broadcasting from Cave Hill, Timaru.

CTV was bought by Star Media in August 2015 and relocated to the company's premises in Middleton.

[9][10] Many of the dead and missing were faculty and students at the King's Education school for English language, located on the third floor of the CTV building.

CTV's sister channel VTV (Visitors Television) also ceased broadcasting because of the quake.