CHEK launched its foray into community podcasts, producing MicCHEK, Political Capital, Our Native Land and Chamber Chats. Notable former on-air staff Mi-Jung Lee now at CTV Vancouver Pamela Martin (former Director of Engagement for former Premier Christy Clark & Liaison to the Leader of the British Columbia Liberal Party) Harvey Oberfeld (retired) Tony Parsons (retired) Michaela Pereira (last with KTTV's Good Day L.A. in Los Angeles; later at HLN as anchor of Michaela; formerly with CNN as anchor for New Day) The Tyabji Show from September 1996 to July 1998 Technical information Subchannel Spectrum re-packing In April 2017, Industry Canada posted new channel assignments for stations as a result of spectrum repacking due to the US 600 MHz spectrum auction. CHEK-DT moved to channel 16 on July 3, 2020. Analogue-to-digital conversion CHEK flash cut its digital signal into operation, over UHF channel 49, on August 31, 2011, the official date in which Canadian television stations in CRTC-designated mandatory markets transitioned from analogue to digital broadcasts. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display CHEK-DT's virtual channel as its analog-era VHF channel 6. Due to technical issues with the digital transmitter, the analogue transmitter did not shut down until October 26, 2011; it was the last television station in the Vancouver-Victoria market to continue operating its main analogue transmitter, making Calgary the largest market in Western Canada to have an analogue station operate over-the-air and also unseating Edmonton as Canada's second-largest market to have all of its stations convert to digital-only broadcasts. While all Vancouver and Victoria area television stations continued operating analogue signals until August 31, CHEK-TV was the only such station in the Vancouver/Victoria market, as all of the other transmitters in these markets shut down as required by 12:00 a.m. on September 1, 2011. KVOS-TV (channel 12) in nearby Bellingham, Washington was the first television station that served Vancouver to shut down its analogue signal on February 17, 2009, as part of the digital television transition in the United States. CHEK-TV was not the last analogue transmitter to shut down as part of Canada's August 31, 2011 digital conversion deadline in mandatory markets. A handful of other transmitters in Canada were also late to shut down, though unlike CHEK-DT, the other stations did not have their digital transmitters on-air by August 31, 2011. Transmitter Note: On November 18, 2011, CHEK-TV received approval from the CRTC to shut