CHCH-DT
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HAAT | 337 m (1,106 ft) |
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Transmitter coordinates | 43°18′12″N 79°57′43″W / 43.30333°N 79.96194°W |
Translator(s) | see § Transmitters |
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Website | CHCH |
CHCH-DT (channel 11) is an independent television station in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Owned by Channel Zero, the station maintains studios on Innovation Drive in the west end of Hamilton; prior to 2021, it was located near the corner of Jackson and Caroline streets in downtown Hamilton for nearly 65 years. The station has additional offices at the Marriott on the Falls in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Its transmitter located on First Road West in the former city of Stoney Creek was demolished in March 2024[2] and replaced with a new tower located on Highway 5 in Dundas, Ontario, which started transmitting in November 2023.
CHCH signed on the air on June 7, 1954, as a CBC affiliate which was founded by Ken Soble. Beginning in 1961, it became an independent station which transformed into a national superstation on January 1, 1982. In 1990, the station was acquired by Western International Communications.[3]
After several years as an independent station, CHCH was acquired by
History
CBC affiliation (1954–1961)
The station signed on the air on June 7, 1954, operating as an affiliate of CBC Television. Its studios at 163 Jackson Street West were previously used by CJSH-FM (102.9, now CKLH-FM).[5] After CJSH's shutdown, its studios were converted for CHCH.[6] It is the oldest privately owned television station in the Hamilton–Toronto area. At the time all privately owned television stations in Canada were required to be CBC affiliates. CHCH-TV was founded by Ken Soble, a leader of Hamilton's urban renewal movement and the owner of radio station CHML (900 AM).[7]
Independent station (1961–1982)
In
CHCH became the first and for over a decade the only television station in Canada not to be affiliated with any network; the other private stations (which signed on the air in 1960 or early 1961) that were not affiliated with the CBC had formed the CTV network in October 1961.
Possible flagship of a third network (1966–1981)
In the mid-1960s, CHCH was the lead station in United Program Purchase, a consortium of Canadian television stations which began purchasing some programming rights separately from the CTV and CBC networks.[8]
By 1966, UPP was attracting media coverage as the potential framework for a third Canadian television network.[8] In the fall of the same year, Soble's Niagara Television which was the licensee of CHCH, put forward a proposal for a network to be branded as NTV.[9] In the original plan, CHCH would have been the network's flagship station for the Greater Toronto Area. However the application faced numerous regulatory hurdles and delays, and its main financial backer which was Power Corporation of Canada, backed out in 1969. By 1970 however, the network application was revived by former CHCH executive Al Bruner's new Global Communications corporation, with Niagara Television and CHCH no longer involved in the bid. The Global Television Network network launched in 1974 on the new CKGN-TV.
Despite the station's lack of success in developing a full-fledged network, it became one of Canada's most prominent
Superstation CHCH (1982–1997)
CHCH became a national
During the late 1980s and early 1990s, the station began a branding effort centred around the slogan "Together, we're the ones!" Different promotional slogans referring to either Hamilton or Ontario as a whole, reflecting the station's cable coverage across the province, and a blue-coloured, 3D variation of the longtime "circles" logo were used. Promos had a vocal song from Frank Gari which was part of the Pride Inside music package also used by the station's newscasts and movie presentations (originally commissioned by another channel 11 which is WBAL-TV in Baltimore).
ONtv era (1997–2001)
In 1990, Western International Communications (WIC) purchased CHCH. Although the station had been available on cable television in many Ontario markets for years, its broadcast signal coverage was expanded throughout Ontario in 1997. The launch of several rebroadcasters happened in 1997 in an effort to compete with the reach of Global's Ontario station CIII (channel 6), and with the Baton Broadcast System, a group of mostly CTV-affiliated stations that served most of the province.[11]
In turn WIC rebranded the station as "ONtv" ("Ontario Television"), in line with the branding conventions of many of the company's other stations including CHAN-TV in Vancouver (which was branded as "BCTV"), CITV-TV in Edmonton (which was branded as "ITV"), and CHCA-TV in Red Deer, Alberta (which was branded as "RDTV").
Local news programming shifted their focus from the station's core market, the Hamilton area, toward Ontario as a whole in an attempt to challenge what was then a regional news service provided by Global. However, with Hamilton now being largely an afterthought and other local stations (in Toronto and elsewhere) already having strong ratings, the shift was unsuccessful and CHCH's ratings decreased. During the ONtv years, the station also aired WIC's nightly Canada Tonight newscast.
Canwest ownership (2001–2007)
In 2000,
Despite the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)'s television station ownership restrictions (one station per owner and per language in each market), Canwest was permitted to maintain CHCH's coverage of other markets throughout most of Ontario. However it could not broadcast to Thunder Bay, Peterborough, or Kingston because of opposition from local television stations. Some cable providers outside of Ontario also continue to carry CHCH as a form of "superstation". Its over-the-air signal also easily covers Buffalo, New York, and Erie, Pennsylvania, across the Canada–United States border.
On June 7, 2004, at 8 p.m. CHCH-TV celebrated its 50th anniversary. The station aired a documentary profiling the station's history, entitled The First 50 Years: A Half Century of CH, which was hosted by Matt Hayes. It was announced that the CH brand would change starting in 2007; however, it remained in use until September 7, 2007. Canwest then rebranded CHCH's local programming from CH Hamilton to CHCH News following the relaunch of the national CH service as E! under a brand licensing agreement with the E! cable channel in the United States. CHCH's non-news schedule was rebranded on the same day as "E! Ontario".
Channel Zero ownership (2009–present)
On February 5, 2009, Canwest announced it would explore "strategic options". These included the possible sale or closure of CHCH and the company's other stations in the E! system, saying a second conventional TV network was no longer key to the long-term success of the company.[12] A grassroots group which was fronted by Live @ 5:30 co-host Donna Skelly announced an intent to purchase CHCH from Canwest and return the station to its former local focus.[13][14]
In March 2009, paperwork filed with the CRTC for a one-year renewal of CHCH's licence revealed that the station was projected to lose nearly $30 million during the station's 2010 fiscal year which began on September 1, 2009—with projected revenues of just $41 million against costs of $69 million. John Douglas, a spokesperson for Canwest, said that CHCH and its other stations in the E! group were money losers during the last decade, coupled with the Canadian broadcasters' dependency on American programming for profits.[15]
On June 30, 2009,
The first film which was broadcast in prime time that night was
In September 2010 CHCH, for the first time since its purchase by Channel Zero, began airing American network television series. Many of the programs which were added, including
On April 10, 2011 Green Party leader Elizabeth May participated in a panel interview on CHCH. She was invited to attend the show as were the leaders of the Bloc Québécois, Liberals, New Democratic Party, and Conservatives, by Channel Zero, whose president was disappointed by May's exclusion from the 2011 election leaders' debates.[24]
On April 18, 2011, CKXT-TV converted from an independent station to a simulcast of the Sun News Network, leaving CHCH as the only independent station in the Toronto/Hamilton area (the station ceased operations approximately seven months later on November 1, 2011). On June 8, 2011, at Channel Zero's upfront presentation for advertisers for the 2011–12 television season, the company announced a programming distribution deal with
During a broadcast of News Now AM on April 20, 2012,
In September 2012, CHCH acquired the rights to Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! from CBC Television, after the network's exclusive contract to carry both game shows expired.[29] The shows were dropped for the fall 2014 season and The Simpsons began airing on Friday nights.[30] In June 2014, CHCH celebrated its 60th anniversary of broadcasting.
2015 news department bankruptcy and aftermath (2015–present)
On December 11, 2015, CHCH cancelled that evening's 6 p.m. newscast amid fears the station was facing a shutdown.[31] Though the station remained on the air, CHCH's daytime rolling news format was discontinued at 4 p.m.; Channel Zero CEO Romen Podzyhun appeared on the air to announce that the station's local newscasts would remain off the air through the weekend, and would return on December 14. In addition, Channel Zero announced that Channel 11, L.P., the subsidiary that had produced CHCH's newscasts since 2009, had filed for bankruptcy. Podzyhun blamed it on a loss of federal subsidy and an inability to draw national advertising revenue to a locally oriented station, but stated that the station itself was not shutting down.
CHCH's news output would be scaled back to what it determined to be its "core news programs", only producing 17+1⁄2 hours of newscasts a week (a morning show and 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts, with no weekend news), after having produced 80 weekly hours of news before the cutbacks; the local news is mainly being maintained to meet the station's licence requirements.[32][33][34] A few programs from Bloomberg Television such as Studio 1.0, Good Fortunes and The Daily Brief were added to the station's schedule the following week.[35] Coincidentally CHCH's former program The Morning Market used resources from Bloomberg twenty years before CHCH shared common ownership with Bloomberg TV Canada. The news graphics that had been used for morning and daytime news programming were kept intact for Morning Live and daytime programming produced by Channel Zero and Bloomberg TV Canada such as The Pinkertons and The Daily Brief.
In 2015, CHCH-DT teamed up with fellow independent CJON-DT and the three Yes TV stations (including nearby station CITS-DT) to share and syndicate YesTV's secular programming in arrangement referred to in advertising sales information as the Net5 alliance (referring to the three O&Os and two affiliates).[36] Since Fall 2016, CHCH has replaced many airings of these programs with newly acquired daytime shows on weekdays, and movies on the weekends. Net5 was rebranded as indieNET following the addition of two other independent stations.[37]
In the spring of 2016, Channel Zero put the studios of CHCH-DT (from which the station has continuously operated, starting in 1954) on the market. The studios include the historic stone mansion "Pinehurst" (built in 1850 by local politician Tristram Bickle and owned by William Southam from 1892 until his death in 1932), as well as the large silver addition dubbed "Spaceship 11" for its futuristic appearance (built in 1983), for CA$7 million. The sale was to a private investor group named Television City, who would rent out half of "Spaceship 11" to CHCH-DT for two and a half years, while looking for other tenants (Pinehurst is protected by the Ontario Heritage Act and will not be altered). It was expected for the sale to close by the middle of November 2016.[38]
In October 2018, CHCH announced a new location for its studios, leaving its long-time location on Jackson Street West in downtown Hamilton, and moving to 4 Innovation Drive in Dundas. The property was renovated for a news operation, which the station had originally intended to have up and running by the spring of 2021.[39] While the station left the Jackson Street studio in June 2021, delays in renovations to 4 Innovation Drive forced it to move to a temporary studio across the street. On April 11, 2022, CHCH had begun broadcasting from its 4 Innovation Drive studios.
Programming
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As an independent station, CHCH produced local programs such as the children's talent show
The station also produced a number of important Canadian
As of September 2018, CHCH's daytime programming consists of locally produced newscasts geared primarily to the Golden Horseshoe region of Southern Ontario, and a block of classic television series airing weekdays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and featuring sitcoms and dramas from the 1970s and 1980s. In prime time, the station runs only a handful of first-run domestic and American entertainment programs during prime time and the late evening hours as well as movies. A syndication deal with 20th Television provided the station with programming from both the National Geographic Channel and MTM Enterprises libraries, but by September 2018, most of the National Geographic programming was dropped as the station had reformatted to emphasize its retro programming.
Some of CHCH's imported programs air on CHEK-DT in Victoria, British Columbia, a separately-owned independent station which had been CHCH's sister station during the WIC, CH and E! eras. Upon the initial dissolution of the E! system, the two stations jointly purchased a virtually identical lineup of prime time programming at first, although their prime time schedules later began to diverge. CHEK currently airs entertainment programs from Yes TV, which already serves the Toronto–Hamilton market with CITS-DT.
Sports programming
The station broadcast home games from the
For a time, CHCH broadcast local mid-week telecasts of NHL games from the
In August 2020, the Canadian Premier League announced a deal with CHCH to broadcast one game per week, every Sunday, in addition to the two games per week on CBC Sports.[43]
In 2022, CHCH began airing final round coverage of LIV Golf events; it is the tour's only traditional Canadian broadcaster (entire events are streamed on LIV Golf's Facebook and YouTube pages).[44]
Current programming
First-run
- 20/20 (since 2010)
- American Song Contest (since March 2022)
- Canadian Premier League soccer (one match each Sunday since August 2020)
- Inside Edition (since September 2022)
- Nightline (since April 2017)
- OJHLGame of the Week (since January 2019)
- OUA University Rush (since September 2017, previously aired on CHCH from 1993 to 2001)
- To Tell the Truth (since September 2017)
- andPOP (since 2018)
- Morning Live (since 2008)
- LIV Golf Invitational Series (final rounds since June 2022)
Re-runs
- Bewitched (since September 2017)
- Community
- Dr. Ken
- Funny You Should Ask (since September 2018)
- I Dream of Jeannie (since September 2017)
- The Lone Ranger (since June 2018)
- Lost in Space (since September 2018)
- M*A*S*H (since September 2018)
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show (since September 2017)
- Mission: Impossible (since September 2018)
- The Pinkertons (since 2015)
- Rawhide (only for seven seasons from 1959 until 1965) (since September 2017)
- Rock Icons (since September 2017)
- Science of Stupid (since January 2018)
- Top Million Dollar Agent (since 2015)
- White Collar (since September 5, 2016)
Feature films
- CHCH at the Movies (since 2009)
Former programming
- Bloomberg Markets Canada (2015 – August 2017; formerly titled The Daily Brief)
- Bloomberg North (2016 – August 2017)
- This Movie Sucks!
- Sportsline (cancelled during December 2015 bankruptcy)
- Sportscope (cancelled 2008)[45]
- The Simpsons currently airing new episodes on Animation Domination Sundays
- At Home (cancelled 2008)[45]
- Wheel of Fortune (2012–2014; now on Yes TV)
- Jeopardy! (2012–2014; now on Yes TV)
- CMT Canada
- Smallville
- Canada Tonight – National news program aired during WIC ownership.
- Chuck
- CHCH News Now (2009–2015)
- CHCH Noon News (1988–2015)[46]
- CHCH Niagara Express (cancelled 2008)[45]
- CHCH Straight Talk (cancelled 2008)[45]
- First Edition [47]
- Square Off
- Supernatural (2010–2015)
- The Morning Market – Morning financial news program; aired in the late 1990s[48]
- The Originals (2013–2015)
- Nashville (Fall 2015 – May 2016)
- I Hate Hollywood (since 2012)
- FABLife (Spring 2016 – September 10, 2016)
- Access Hollywood (2014 – September 2, 2016)
- Dateline Mystery (2015 – Spring 2016)
- Space)
- Raising Hope (Reruns; 2015–2016)
- Killer Comebacks (Reruns; 2016)
- British Drama Night (2015–2016)
- Judge Judy (September 5, 2016 – September 15, 2017; Program previously aired when CHCH was affiliated with CH/E! and in the 1990s, now airs exclusively on YesTV)
- Strong (First-run, 2016)
- The X-Files (Reruns, 2016–2017 season)
- Rosewood (First-run)
- Cheers (Reruns, 2016–2017 season)
- Numb3rs(Reruns, 2016–2017 season)
- Happy Days (Reruns, 2016–2017 season)
- Last Man Standing (First-run)
- CSI: NY (Reruns, 2016–2017 season)
- House of Cards (September 2017 – November 2017; removed after sexual assault allegations towards star Kevin Spacey)
- Hoff the Record
- Krown Countdown U
- Justice With Judge Mablean (since 2015–2018)
- Right This Minute (since September 12, 2016–2018)
- Studio 1.0 (since 2015–2017)
- The Americans (September 2017–2018)
- Batman (September 2017–2018)
- Betty White's Off Their Rockers
- The Bob Newhart Show (September 2017–2018)
- Brain Games(January 2018 – September 2018)
- Degrassi: The Next Generation (October 3, 2016–2018)
- Genius
- Good Fortunes (since 2015–2017)
- The Incredible Dr. Pol
- The Monkees (Since January 2018)
- Newhart (Since January 2018)
- The Partridge Family (Since September 2017)
- The Red Green Show (1991–1993)
- Sleepy Hollow (Since September 2017)
- The Strain
News operation
CHCH airs 30+1⁄2 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 5+1⁄2 hours each weekday and 1+1⁄2 hours each on Saturdays and Sundays).[49]
Since 2008
In late 2008, Canwest placed CHCH's longest serving news anchors, Connie Smith (whose last day on the air occurred on November 28, 2008) and Dan McLean (who left on December 12) on forced retirement, blaming financial troubles and budget cuts. After their departures, Annette Hamm began handling anchoring duties on a shortened noon newscast, and co-hosting Morning Live with Bob Cowan, while Nick Dixon took over anchoring duties on the 6 p.m. newscast. Since being taken over by Channel Zero on August 31, 2009, Hamm and Cowan have co-hosted a restored hour-long newscast at noon. A few local non-news programming were also cancelled at this time including At Home, Sportscope, Niagara Express, and Straight Talk.
In January 2009, CHCH's Morning Live program began to be simulcast on former Toronto sister station CIII-TV owing to the cancellation of its own morning newscast Global News Morning. The simulcast on CIII was dropped at the end of August after Channel Zero took control of CHCH, with CIII replacing it with lifestyle programming reruns and rebroadcasts of its 11 p.m. newscast from the previous night. While the station continued to share helicopter traffic services provided by the Canadian Traffic Network, the arrangement between Canwest and CHCH ended on December 31, 2009, as Canwest held the exclusive rights to CTN services in the Greater Toronto Area. Upon becoming an independent station on August 31, 2009, the station adopted a news-intensive format, replacing network programming in the 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m. periods on weekdays with expanded newscasts.
On September 12, 2011, CHCH increased its local news programming by launching a 90-minute extension of Morning Live, titled Morning Live First Edition, airing weekdays from 4 to 5:30 a.m.; this made CHCH the first Canadian television station (and the first in the Buffalo–Niagara region; WGRZ would follow with a 4:30 a.m. newscast in 2012) to air a morning newscast that starts before 5:30 a.m. The program expanded to two hours, extending it from 4 to 6 a.m. on September 10, 2012. As a result, the station moved the original Morning Live broadcast's start time by a half-hour and its end time by one hour, running it from 6 to 10 a.m.[50]
Its heavy weekday newscast total was largely due to a prominent daytime rolling news block on weekdays (airing from 4 a.m. to 5 p.m., along with an hour-long newscast at 6 p.m., and 11 p.m.). In addition, the station also produced a half-hour sports discussion program called Sportsline, which aired each weeknight at 5 p.m.; and a half-hour political discussion program Square Off, which immediately followed Sportsline at 5:30 p.m. The rolling news block was removed for an hour at 1 p.m. to air Justice with Judge Mablean.
On December 11, 2015, at 4 p.m., Channel Zero CEO and Chairman Romen Podzyhun announced, in a pre-recorded message, that Channel 11 L.P., the division responsible for providing news programming for CHCH and the employer of the relevant staff, was declaring bankruptcy, and news programming was suspended immediately. He added that a major restructuring and changes to news coverage would start the following Monday.
Restructuring of the news operation
Because of the bankruptcy, the entire staff of 165 was cut in the news organization. The new company that was formed in the restructuring offered jobs to 81 people, including 58 full-time and 23 part-time positions.[51] Chris Fuoco, Channel Zero vice-president, said that by 3 p.m. on December 15, 77 people had accepted the offer of employment with the new company.[52]
The restructuring was viewed by some as a
A
After several calls, emails, and social media posts from viewers over the two months since the restructuring, CHCH announced on February 18, 2015, that Morning Live would return to a start time of 6 a.m. on February 22. The show would be live from 6 to 9 a.m., with the 8 a.m. hour broadcast repeated from 9 to 10 a.m.
On September 7, 2016, CHCH announced the return of local weekend news programming with two half hours of news at 6 and 11 p.m. starting October 29, 2016, citing advertiser and viewer demand.[56] The announcement came three months after the CRTC announced plans to launch a fund to subsidize local newscasts.[49]
Affected on-air employees
The CHCH web site said that "Going forward, Morning Live will air between 7 a.m. to 9 a.m., the 6 o'clock newcast will be anchored by Nick Dixon and Taz Boga, and Taz will return for a half hour at 11:00 p.m."
Square Off became a podcast called Unplugged, and later No Fun Intended by former co-hosts Mark Hebscher and Liz West; it had the same format.[58] However, it appears the podcast ended; both Hebscher and West moved on to independent projects. Hebscher hosted a sports-focused podcast until he retired in May 2023. West is working in independent productions.
Notable on-air staff
- Annette Hamm – co-host, Morning Live
Former on-air staff
- CTV Toronto
- Lisa Hepfner – reporter; now a federal Member of Parliament for Hamilton Mountain
- Heather Hiscox – anchor and executive producer; now news anchor for CBC News Network
- Dan McLean – senior news anchor (1970–2008); later news anchor at CIXK-FM in Owen Sound, Ontario; retired June 2013
- Jennifer Mossop – news anchor and executive producer; later Liberal Member of Provincial Parliament for Stoney Creek, and now a communications consultant
- Geoffrey Scott – Ottawa correspondent in the late 1960s and early 1970s; former Canadian Member of Parliament for the riding of Hamilton—Wentworth, 1978–1993.
Technical information
Subchannel
Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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11.1 | 1080i | 16:9 |
CHCH-DT | Main CHCH-DT programming |
Analogue-to-digital conversion
The station launched its digital signal on
On March 9, 2012, Channel Zero-operated
On November 12, 2013, CHCH began transmitting a test signal on UHF channel 15, displaying
Transmitters
On August 28, 1996, CHCH received CRTC approval to add new rebroadcast transmitters across most of Ontario.[64] The launch of the transmitters in 1997 coincided with the rebranding of the station as "ONtv".
Station | City of licence
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Channel | Virtual | ERP | HAAT
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Transmitter coordinates |
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CHCH-DT-1 | Ottawa | 22 ( UHF )
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11 | 25 kW | 216 m (709 ft) | 45°13′2″N 75°33′49″W / 45.21722°N 75.56361°W |
CHCH-DT-2 | London | 14 (UHF) | 51 | 68 kW | 271.3 m (890 ft) | 42°50′27″N 81°51′29″W / 42.84083°N 81.85806°W |
CHCH-DT-3 | Muskoka
|
28 (UHF) | 67 | 67 kW | 306.7 m (1,006 ft) | 44°58′14″N 79°46′57″W / 44.97056°N 79.78250°W |
CHCH-TV-4 | Sudbury | 41 (UHF) | N/A | 35 kW | 171.9 m (564 ft) | 46°25′29″N 81°0′53″W / 46.42472°N 81.01472°W |
CHCH-TV-5 | Sault Ste. Marie | 38 (UHF) | N/A | 5 kW | 112.5 m (369 ft) | 46°35′50″N 84°16′53″W / 46.59722°N 84.28139°W |
CHCH-TV-6 | North Bay | 32 (UHF) | N/A | 5 kW | 116 m (381 ft) | 46°18′10″N 79°24′39″W / 46.30278°N 79.41083°W |
CHCH-TV-7 | Timmins | 11 ( VHF )
|
N/A | 3.3 kW | 142.2 m (467 ft) | 48°28′12″N 81°17′49″W / 48.47000°N 81.29694°W |
During the
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External links
Media related to CHCH at Wikimedia Commons
- CHCH official website
- Canadian Communications Foundation – CHCH-DT History Archived September 23, 2017, at the Wayback Machine
- CHCH-DT in the REC Canadian station database