ACCESS TV was the designated educational broadcaster in Alberta. ACCESS produced, broadcasted and distributed television-based multimedia learning programs to learners of all ages, in partnership with Alberta departments of education, educational institutions and educators. Many of the programs, including all of the dramas, were connected to and promoted formal courses of study offered by the province's universities and colleges or the formal learning objectives of Alberta Education and Advanced Education.

In December 1972, an announcement was made that the Alberta government would set up an Alberta Educational Communications Corporation (AECC). CKUA’s radio license would be transferred from the University of Alberta to the Corporation, which would also take over two local educational television experimental projects that had been established earlier, MEETA (Metropolitan Edmonton Educational Television Association) and CARET (Calgary and Regional Educational Television Association).

On 30 June 1973, AECC, operating as ACCESS Alberta, was established as an independent statutory corporation with its own Board of Directors appointed by the Lieutenant Governor-in-Council.

On 9 January 1984, AECC was granted a broadcast license from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) for a television station. On 13 January 1985, the ACCESS Network began a twelve-hour-per-day service of both formal and informal educational programming delivered via satellite to cable companies throughout the province. The hours-per-day and the distribution expanded when two VHF transmitters were added, one in Edmonton and one in Calgary, to reach those households that did not have cable.

In 1993, the Government of Alberta undertook a re-evaluation of all provincially-funded activities and announced that it would not provide direct funding for ACCESS beyond 1994. At this point, ACCESS entered an agreement to sell the CKUA radio network to the not-for-profit CKUA Radio Foundation.

In 1995, ACCESS was privatized and sold to Learning and Skills Television of Alberta Limited (LTA), 60% of which was owned by CHUM Limited. Following a public hearing in April 1995, LTA was granted a full CRTC seven year broadcast license and introduced the new ACCESS television on 1 September 1995.

In February 2005, CHUM Limited acquired the remaining 40% interest in LTA, giving the company 100% of its shares including ACCESS. At that time, LTA began operating under the trade name “access media group.”

On 12 July 2006, CTVglobemedia Ltd. announced that it would make a friendly takeover bid to buy CHUM Limited, including ACCESS. This was finalized on 22 June 2007.

A new three-year agreement between LTA and Alberta Education and Advanced Education was signed on 1 April 2008. Under the agreement, ACCESS continued to broadcast and distribute programming for Alberta Education and Advanced Education.

On 29 August 2011, Access was relaunched by CTVglobemedia as CTV Two Alberta. CTV Two is mandated to “combine the best in entertainment programming in the evenings with a daytime broadcast schedule dedicated to commercial-free kid’s programming and series designed to support K-12 and Post-Secondary courses of study.”