Until August 2009, Red Deer was served by a local television station, CHCA-TV channel 6, carrying programming from Canada's E!
CHCA closed on August 31, 2009 due to economic troubles endured by its parent company, Canwest.
After CHCA dropped its longtime affiliation with CBC Television in 2005, Edmonton's CBXT set up a rebroadcaster in Red Deer.
Radio-Canada outlet CBXFT already operated a rebroadcaster there, and both stations had been available for decades on cable in the city.
Discounting Shaw TV, Red Deer, with a population approaching 100,000, is one of the largest standalone urban centres in Canada (i.e. one that is not part of a larger metropolitan area) without a local TV station.