and on cable through Toronto/Hamilton independent station CKXT-TV (that station's owner, Quebecor, was in the process of replacing that station's licence with one for an all-news cable channel; Quebecor shut down the station and relinquished the CKXT license to the CRTC in 2011). The station also acquired I Hate Hollywood, produced by CHCH-DT, which picked up all of the mentioned programs. On January 25, 2013, CHEK began sharing space with the local CBC Radio One station CBCV-FM, which migrated its operations into the television station's Kings Road studios. Programming As an independent station, CHEK is programming features a mix of newscasts and other locally produced programs, syndicated programming, movies and infomercials. Syndicated weekday programs include Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy!, Judge Judy, 25 Words or Less, and Hot Bench among others. Some entertainment programming is aired through its secondary affiliation with Yes TV. Past local programming The following is a partial list of local programs that formerly aired on CHEK: Sports Page (sports highlights – produced at CHAN-TV) Vancouver Canucks hockey (sports) Vancouver Grizzlies basketball (sports) Notable past foreign programming From August 1995 to August 1999, CHEK carried the Late Show with David Letterman at 4:30 on weekday afternoons. Other channels that have carried the talk show, including originating U.S. network CBS, have aired the program in the late evening (11:35 p.m. ET/PT). From 1995 to 2001 The Bold and the Beautiful weekdays on CTV. News operation CHEK-DT presently broadcasts 14½ hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 2½ hours each weekday and an hour each on Saturdays and Sundays); in addition, the station also produces news updates between entertainment programs at the top of each hour between 1:00 and 3:30 p.m. each weekday. Unlike most news-producing television stations in major Canadian markets, the station does not broadcast a late evening newscast on weekends (its only weekend newscast is a one-hour 5:00 p.m. newscast). In addition, the station produces the half-hour public affairs program CHEK Point. CHEK-TV uses shoots on DVC-Pro tapes for all its programming and pre-recorded segments during its newscasts. Longtime news anchor Hudson Mack left CHEK in 2004, after 19 years at the station, following his appointment as news director at CIVI effective September 1 (Mack later became anchor of that station's 5:00 p.m. newscast the following month on October 11). To replace Mack, Sophie Lui returned to the station from CHAN-TV and was paired with former