A fascinating fact about the two defunct stations from the Broadcast Dialogue story on the closures:

"They were two of the last remaining stations in the country to sign off overnight, breaking away from network programming with the playing of the national anthem."

There certainly aren't many TV stations I can think of that still do a traditional sign-off anymore.  

Bell media never did re brand CJDC and CFTK into CTV news. It looks like both stations produce 1 half hour newscast weekdays, but I am not sure from where. If Bell can not afford to produce local tv news in Victoria,  I am not sure how they can do it in smaller communities.
I am wondering about the future of these to stations as they might be some of the last to still use there own Call letters and belong to a large media company.

The CBC's story on this indicates that, despite what Stingray claims, city officials had no idea what was coming. According to the mayor of Lloydminster:

"This was a total surprise," [Gerald] Aalbers said. "I would have certainly welcomed the opportunity to at least try and change their minds if that opportunity had been given to me. But it wasn't. So I was just in this much in the dark as the employees who got their news Tuesday morning."

Aalbers said people in Lloydminster, which straddles the Alberta-Saskatchewan border, and the surrounding communities will now have to rely on Edmonton and Saskatoon for local news.

"It was deeply, deeply saddening from the perspective that we're losing an icon in our city," Aalbers said. "It really rips the fabric of the community."

It's not the first time a broadcasting entity has shut down an important station with no notice. Corus turned off the CHML signal in Hamilton last August after almost 100 years of broadcasting, and fired all staff members, with zero notice. 

'Losing an icon': Long-running Lloydminster TV stations abruptly shut down

Shorty Wave wrote:

I think it’s crappy that Stingray didn’t allow the stations to do a farewell broadcast. It would have helped the staff to start the healing process and the local viewership would have appreciated it.
It would appear that Stingray is pretty heartless, too bad, I did have a fair impression of them.

Really? You're going to make a blanket statement about each and every Stingray employee, manager and shareholder? Thanks a lot. If you don't like how the company is run, blame it on their powers that be - NOT THE FRONTLINE STAFF!

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Aytononline wrote:

Bell media never did re brand CJDC and CFTK into CTV news. It looks like both stations produce 1 half hour newscast weekdays, but I am not sure from where. If Bell can not afford to produce local tv news in Victoria,  I am not sure how they can do it in smaller communities.
I am wondering about the future of these to stations as they might be some of the last to still use there own Call letters and belong to a large media company.

CFTK and CJDC are still putting together their local newscasts with their own crews from their own respective studios. Their website also has their newscasts available (their website also appears to be set up the same way as the CTV News website)