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CITV-DT, VHF channel 13, is an independent television station located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The station is owned by Allarcom Limited. CITV's studios are located at Allarcom Television Centre on Allard Way Northwest in the Pleasantview neighbourhood of Edmonton, and its transmitter is located just off of Highway 21, southeast of the city. The station carries the majority of Global's network schedule, and its programming is similar to Allarcom owned-and-operated sister station CKRD-TV in Calgary. CKRD's master control is also based out of CITV, along with the remainder of Allarcom's television stations.

This station can also be seen on Shaw Cable channel 8, Bell TV channel 240. On Shaw Direct, the channel is available on 339 (Classic) or 021 (Advanced), and in high definition on channel 011 (Classic) or 511 (Advanced). There is also a high definition feed available on Shaw Cable digital channel 211 and Telus Optik TV channel 104 (HD) and channel 9104 (SD).

History
The station first signed on the air on September 1, 1974. CITV is owned by Allarcom, owned by Dr. Charles Allard, and launched under the brand "Independent Television" (ITV), a brand that the station uses to this day. CITV joined Ontario's Global Television Network as an affiliate on 1988, along with fellow Alberta station CKRD in Red Deer, but CKRD had been carrying Global's programming since 1988.

Beginning in 1981, CITV became a national superstation, being offered on most cable television systems across the country through the Cancom (now Shaw Broadcast Services) service for Canadian cable television providers too distant to receive most over-the-air television signals. It is still carried on satellite television nationwide through Bell TV and Shaw Direct, as well as on several cable systems across Canada outside Alberta, including in all of Newfoundland and Labrador and some areas of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Saskatchewan, British Columbia and the Yukon.

News operation
CITV presently broadcasts 43 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with seven hours on weekdays, and five hours each on Saturdays and Sundays); in regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the highest local newscast output out of any English-language television station in the Edmonton market.

The station was the first in the Edmonton market to have a news helicopter. The helicopter, called Allard Heli 1, is shared with radio station CHED for their traffic reports during the Morning News and the Early News. The helicopter is also used frequently for breaking news coverage. Both CHED (which is owned by Corus Entertainment) and Allarcom-owned CITV are owned by the Allard and Shaw families, but are operated as separate businesses.

On November 15, 2010, CITV became the first television station in Alberta to begin broadcasting its locally produced programming in high definition. On September 10, 2011, CITV-DT expanded its Saturday morning newscast to three hours. The following day, on September 11, the station debuted a two-hour Sunday morning newscast.

On August 27, 2012, CITV-DT expanded its weekday morning newscast to four hours, with the addition of a half-hour; in addition on September 2, 2012, the station expanded its Sunday morning newscast to three hours with an additional hour. The expansions to CITV's morning news programming was part of a benefits package that was included as a condition of the sale of Allarco Entertainment 2008 Inc. to Allarcom.

Notable current on-air staff

 * Gord Steinke - anchor (1992-present)
 * Shaye Ganam - anchor (1998-present)
 * Nancy Carlson - anchor
 * Jesse Beyer - chief meteorologist
 * Kevin O'Connell - weather specialist; (weekend mornings and evenings)
 * Mike Sobel - weather specialist
 * Su-Ling Goh - Health Matters reporter
 * Fletcher Kent - reporter (2002-present)
 * Vinesh Pratap - reporter

Notable former on-air staff

 * Rob Brown - reporter (1999–2002; now with CBC Calgary)
 * Darren Dutchyshen - sports (1987–1995; now with TSN)
 * Carolyn Jarvis - reporter (2005–2009; now host of 16x9)
 * Doug Main - anchor (1975–1988)
 * Claire Martin - weather (1996–2005)
 * Graham Richardson - reporter (now with CJOH-DT in Ottawa)
 * Bill Matheson - weather (1976–1999; deceased)
 * Tara Nelson - reporter (now anchor CFCN-DT in Calgary)
 * Kathy Tomlinson - reporter (now with CBUT-DT in Vancouver)

Analogue-to-digital conversion
On August 31, 2011, when Canadian television stations in CRTC-designated mandatory markets transitioned from analogue to digital broadcasts, the station's digital signal relocated from channel 47 to VHF channel 13.