CJPM-DT
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| Saguenay, Quebec Canada | |
|---|---|
| Channels | Digital: 46 (UHF) (to move to 24 (UHF)) Virtual: 6.1 (PSIP) |
| Branding | TVA (general) TVA Nouvelles (newscasts) |
| Programming | |
| Affiliations | TVA (O&O) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Groupe TVA |
| History | |
First air date | April 14, 1963 |
| Independent (1963–1971) | |
| Technical information | |
| ERP | CJPM-DT: 200 kW CJPM-TV-1: 23.5 kW |
| HAAT | CJPM-DT: 107.4 m CJPM-TV-1: 164 m |
| Transmitter coordinates | CJPM-DT: 48°24′28″N 71°5′4″W / 48.40778°N 71.08444°W CJPM-TV-1: 48°23′20″N 72°5′20″W / 48.38889°N 72.08889°W |
| Translator(s) | 10 CJPM-TV-1 Roberval |
| Links | |
| Website | TVA Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean |
CJPM-DT is the TVA owned-and-operated television station in Saguenay, Quebec, Canada.
Owned by the Groupe TVA subsidiary of Quebecor Media, it broadcasts a high-definition digital signal on UHF channel 46 (or virtual channel 6.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter located at its studios on Rue du Mont Sainte Claire in the former city of Chicoutimi. This station can also be seen on Vidéotron channel 4 and in high definition on digital channel 604.
History[]
CJPM-TV, channel 6 signed on for the first time on April 14, 1963. The station's owner, John Murdock, soon realized that he didn't have the revenue to challenge Radio-Canada affiliate CKRS-TV (now CKTV-DT) on his own. To obtain better programming, he started sharing CJPM's programs with the largest privately owned francophone station in Canada, CFTM-TV in Montreal, owned by Télé-Métropole. Along with Quebec City's CFCM-TV (owned by Télévision de Québec, a consortium of theatre chain Famous Players and Quebec City's two private AM radio stations, CHRC and CKCV, which joined the group in 1964 after disaffiliating from Radio-Canada), this collective of independent stations was the forerunner of TVA, though the network wasn't formally created until September 12, 1971 with CJPM as one of its three charter affiliates, the others being CFTM and CFCM.
John Murdock's family sold the station to Télé-Métropole in 1982. It became a TVA owned-and-operated station when Télé-Métropole bought majority control of the network in 1990. Since then it has been basically a semi-satellite of CFTM, except for newscasts. It was licensed to Chicoutimi until the formation of the "megacity" of Saguenay in 2002.
CJPM-DT signed on its digital signal on August 29, 2011 from a temporary antenna at Mont Sainte-Claire.
External links[]
- TVA Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean
- CJPM-DT history – Canadian Communications Foundation
- CJPM in the REC Canadian station database
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