CFTM-DT
kW | |
| HAAT | 292 m (958 ft) |
|---|---|
| Transmitter coordinates | 45°30′20″N 73°35′30″W / 45.50556°N 73.59167°W |
| Links | |
| Website | TVA |
CFTM-DT (channel 10) is a television station in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, serving as the flagship of the French-language network TVA. Owned by Groupe TVA, the station has studios on Boulevard de Maisonneuve East and Rue Alexandre de Sève in the Ville-Marie borough of Montreal, and its transmitter is located on Voie Camillien Houde (near Mount Royal).
History
It opened on February 19, 1961, a few weeks after
CFTM has always been by far the largest station in the TVA network. As such, it dominated the network long before Télé-Métropole bought majority control of TVA in 1990. At one point, CFTM produced as much as 90 percent of TVA's programming. Even today, TVA's network feed is little more than a retransmission of CFTM. Whenever CFTM has to interrupt its programming for breaking news or weather alerts in Montreal, the entire network usually gets interrupted as well.
CFTM-TV was essentially available on satellite beginning November 1, 1981, as TCTV, carried via
The TCTV service ended when the
Digital television and high definition
CFTM received CRTC approval in March 2006 for its request to broadcast digitally on UHF channel 59[1] and was granted a requested extension to August 31, 2009, to launch this service but the launch never occurred.[2] On July 6, 2009, as part of a license renewal hearing, TVA was granted a second extension in which to launch CFTM-DT.
During the analogue television shutdown and digital conversion, which took place on August 31, 2011,[3] CFTM silenced its analogue transmitter on September 1, 2011, at 12:01 a.m. during a movie's airing and began broadcasting a digital signal a few minutes later on its old analog channel number, 10.
References
- ^ Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2006–78, 15 March 2006, re: TVA Group Inc, Montréal, Québec
- ^ Broadcasting Public Notice 2008-0050-0 17 March 2008, approval of extension to 31 August 2009 to commence operation of transitional digital television at CFTM-TV Montréal
- ^ "Canada's Office of Consumer Affairs - What You Need to Know About the Analog-to-Digital Television Transition in Canada". Archived from the original on September 16, 2008. Retrieved March 15, 2012.
External links
- Official website
(in French) - TVA News - Montréal (in French)
- CFTM-DT at The History of Canadian Broadcasting by the Canadian Communications Foundation
- CFTM at TV Hat
- CFTM-DT in the REC Canadian station database
