CKMI-DT
kW | |
HAAT | 298 m (978 ft) |
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Transmitter coordinates | 45°30′20″N 73°35′30″W / 45.50556°N 73.59167°W |
Repeater(s) | see § Transmitters |
Links | |
Website | Global Montreal |
CKMI-DT (channel 15) is a
CKMI was established as Quebec City's second station in 1957. Originally a private affiliate of the CBC Television network, It was the only English-language station in the heavily francophone city. It struggled to survive for most of its first four decades, in part because its potential audience was barely large enough to support it. In 1997, it was transformed into a regional Global station for Quebec with additional transmitters, including in Montreal. It moved most of its operations to Montreal that year, though it would nominally remain licensed to Quebec City until 2009. The station's local news broadcasts have typically struggled in the ratings, never advancing beyond a distant second place.
History
MI-5 in Quebec City
The station launched on March 17, 1957, and was the second privately owned station in Quebec. It was licensed to
Upon signing on, CKMI became Quebec City's
Télévision de Québec was nearly forced to sell its stations in 1969 due to the
When there is somebody being interviewed who speaks English, the French reporters at CFCM don't ask English questions.
Karen McDonald, host of Inside Quebec, CKMI-TV's only local program by 1996[11]
CKMI faced severe financial problems for much of its history as a CBC affiliate. This was largely because the area's anglophone population was just barely large enough for the station to be viable as a privately owned CBC affiliate; Quebec City, unlike Montreal, is a virtually monolingual francophone city. As early as 1962, during hearings before the Board of Broadcast Governors (forerunner of the CRTC) for a new French-language station in Quebec City, BBG counsel William Pearson described CKMI as one of the most unprofitable stations in the country.[12] During licence renewal hearings in 1972, Télé-Capitale noted to the CRTC that it was keeping CKMI-TV going despite the lack of any path to profitability.[13] This stood in contrast to its French-language sister station, CFCM, which was reported in 1973 to be the most profitable television station in Canada.[14]
CKMI's three anchor-reporters, who produced the station's three hours a week of local output, were the only English speakers at CFCM-CKMI, reflected in the numerous gallicisms that pocked CKMI's newscasts. Indeed, CKMI's reporters often struggled to find anyone who could speak English well enough to conduct an interview. There were so few viewers that one CRTC licence renewal hearing for the station was met with no public comment whatsoever. At one point in 1981, its highest-rated program attracted only 31,000 viewers, a fraction of the viewership of CFCM's highest-rated program. It was not unheard of for French-language commercials originally produced for CFCM to air on CKMI when it was deemed too expensive to produce a separate English commercial. Despite this, Télé-Capitale had no qualms about keeping the station on the air, viewing it as a public service to Quebec City's anglophone community.[15]
Over the years, the station served mostly as a semi-satellite of
Becoming a Global station
On June 13, 1995, Télé-Métropole and
Global had spent almost a quarter-century trying to get a transmitter in Montreal. When the network originally launched in 1974 as an Ontario-based network, original plans called for a transmitter in
The TVA CanWest deal would take some time to be approved because of another proposed transaction. CFCF and
In November, the CRTC ruled against Global's Alberta stations bid.[26] At the hearing the next month, Izzy Asper took the CRTC to task, noting that English-speaking Montrealers were higher-than-average viewers of American stations available on cable.[27] The CRTC approved the CKMI Global bid on February 27, 1997; on the same day, it also approved Vidéotron's purchase of CFCF's business contingent on spinning off the English-language stations and TQS.[28]
Over the course of 1997, changes were made in preparation for CKMI's relaunch. In Quebec City, CKMI would move from channel 5 to 20, to permit the CBC to take over the channel 5 facility for CBVE-TV, a full-time repeater of CBMT.[a] The Montreal transmitter, originally assigned channel 67, was changed to 46.[31] With the addition of CKMI, CanWest's station group, the CanWest Global System, would have over-the-air coverage in every province except Newfoundland. This led CanWest to announce that it would rebrand its stations as the Global Television Network.[32]
On September 14, 1997, CKMI formally disaffiliated from CBC and joined Global. Full-time programming on the Sherbrooke and Montreal transmitters began on the same day.[33] A number of popular American shows purchased by CFCF but to which Canadian rights were owned by CanWest moved from that station to CKMI, where they lost half or more of their audience.[34] The Montreal rebroadcaster was criticized for poor reception and a low effective radiated power: 4.85 kW, compared to 697 and 1,334 kW at the two other UHF stations in the city.[35] As a result, in April 1998, the effective radiated power was increased to 33,000 watts.[36] In 2002, Global bought out TVA's remaining interest in CKMI.[2]
The station shifted most of its operations, as well as the focus of its news coverage, to Montreal soon after the launch of the Montreal transmitter; however, it remained licensed to Quebec City, and its "official" main studio remained in Sainte-Foy. Over the course of the 2000s, Global cut back its presence in Quebec City and the Eastern Townships, leaving its Sherbrooke bureau unstaffed before closing it altogether in 2007.
On October 27, 2010, Shaw Communications completed its purchase of Canwest's television assets after Canwest had entered into creditor bankruptcy protection in late 2009. As a result, Canwest's television division became Shaw Media.[41]
News operation
Global entered the Montreal news market in direct competition with CFCF and its highly-rated Pulse newscasts. Benoît Aubin of TVA was tapped as the first news director for Global in Quebec,[42] and Heather Hiscox was the first anchor for Global's supper-hour local news, which aired at 5:30 p.m. to contrast with the 6 p.m. Pulse. Reflecting the regional architecture of CKMI, the station originally had four reporters in Quebec City and one in the Eastern Townships.[33] Mike Boone, television critic for the Montreal Gazette, criticized the newscast's lack of time for stories and felt that it was hampered by needing to provide regional stories not of much interest to Montreal.[43]
In December 1997, CKMI debuted a daily entertainment magazine, Global Tonight, hosted by Jamie Orchard.[44] However, in June, it axed those programs and its 11 p.m. news and sports programs, moving its evening news to 6 p.m. and reallocating resources to the creation of a longform morning show.[45] The morning show, This Morning Live, debuted in 1998.[46] It was another four years before Global began producing a late newscast again in Quebec.[47] This Morning Live was canceled after a decade in 2008.[48]
As part of Shaw Communications's offer to take over Canwest's television assets, Shaw promised to launch local morning newscasts on several Global stations, including CKMI. On January 28, 2013, CKMI-DT launched a three-hour weekday morning newscast, airing from 6 to 9 a.m.[49][50]
While Global had gradually been introducing centralized newscast technical production, in 2015, it began to present entire local newscasts for Montreal from Toronto. Beginning that August, weekend newscasts were produced remotely from Toronto.[51][52] Global Montreal also introduced a half-hour noon newscast,[51] and extended its evening news to an hour.[53][54]
As of May 2017, Global Montreal's 5:30 p.m. supper-time newscast ranked second in the Montreal English TV market, with 28,000 viewers tuning in compared to CTV Montreal's 189,000 viewers and CBC Montreal's 27,000 viewers.[55] Although CKMI was still far behind CFCF, its viewership numbers had risen significantly since 2011, when it finished at the bottom of the ratings with only 6,900 viewers and a three percent share.[56]
In August 2020, evening anchor Jamie Orchard was laid off.[57] In September 2020, CKMI cancelled Focus Montreal and replaced Orchard with Tracy Tong, who anchors from Toronto; this left only the morning newscast as being presented from Montreal.[58]
On September 6, 2022, presentation of the 5:30 and 6:30 p.m. newscasts returned to the Montreal studio after the station named Aalia Adam the new anchor of Global News at 5:30 and Global News at 6:30; Adam also anchors newscasts for the Maritimes.[59][60]
Notable former on-air staff
- Heather Hiscox – news anchor (now on CBC News Network)[61]
- Leslie Roberts – anchor (moved to CIII-DT in Toronto, resigned in January 2015)[62]
- Jamie Orchard – weeknight anchor (laid off in August 2020)[57]
Technical information
Subchannel
Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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15.1 | 1080i | 16:9 |
CKMI-HD | Main CKMI-DT programming / Global Montreal |
Analogue-to-digital conversion
In August 2011, CKMI converted all three of its transmitters to digital ahead of the conversion deadline of August 31.
Transmitters
Station | City of licence
|
Digital channel | Virtual channel | ERP | HAAT
|
Transmitter coordinates |
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CKMI-DT | Quebec City | 20 ( UHF )
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20.1 | 18 kW | 446.3 m (1,464 ft) | 46°49′21″N 71°29′43″W / 46.82250°N 71.49528°W |
CKMI-DT-2 | Sherbrooke | 10 ( VHF )
|
15.1 | 1.0 kW | 613.1 m (2,011 ft) | 45°18′43″N 72°14′30″W / 45.31194°N 72.24167°W |
Notes
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External links
- Global Montreal
- CKMI-TV history at the Canadian Communications Foundation
- CKMI-TV in the REC Canadian station database