diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/ctsnews.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/ctsnews.py
index f769dc031..0226f8036 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/ctsnews.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/ctsnews.py
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
 from .common import InfoExtractor
-from ..compat import compat_urllib_request
 from ..utils import parse_iso8601, ExtractorError