(CRTC) ownership limits, the Citytv stations were sold to Rogers Media, while the non-Citytv stations were relaunched as A in 2008 then again as CTV Two in 2011 with two former Astral Media stations in British Columbia joining the system in 2015.

Although patterned after the original station in Barrie and since its acquisition by Bell, CTV2 provides complementary programming to Bell Media's larger