Television stations in Montreal :
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CBFT
CBFT is the flagship station of Télévision de Radio-Canada, the French language
television network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Its studios and
master control are located at Maison Radio-Canada in Montreal.
On cable, CBFT is seen on Vidéotron channel 4 in the Montreal area, Charter
Plattsburgh channel 5 and Comcast Burlington channel 22; it is also seen on
direct broadcast satellite throughout Canada.
It was the first television station in Canada, launching on September 6, 1952.
The station aired programming in both French (60 percent) and English (40
percent) until January 10, 1954, when CBMT was launched.
Through its translator network, CBFT can be seen in most of Quebec, parts of
Ontario, and most of northern Canada (Northwest Territories and Nunavut).
For all intents and purposes, most Radio-Canada affiliates are semi-satellites
of CBFT, carrying identical programming, other than commercials and regional
news.
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CBMT
CBMT is the CBC's television station in Montreal, Quebec. Programming on CBMT is
seen on a network of more than 50 rebroadcasters throughout Quebec and in three
communities in northern Manitoba: Brochet, Poplar River, and Shamattawa.
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Concordia University Television
Concordia University Television (CUTV) is Canada's oldest student-run television
station. Founded in 1969 in the Montreal area on the campus of Concordia
University, CUTV has a strong focus on media literacy and training. The station
is under the umbrella of the Concordia Student Broadcasting Corporation (CSBC),
along with CJLO and the Concordia Amateur Radio Club (CUARC, callsign VE2CUA).
In recent years, CUTV has broadened its focus to include both on and off-campus
media support. Most notably, the station hosted the inaugural Summer Video
Bootcamp in July 2007. The bootcamp taught video-based moviemaking skills to a
group of youths from the Montreal area. CUTV has also been involved in the
Atwater Library Digital Literacy Project as well as several other initiatives in
the community.
CUTV is also the home of makealottamovies, a monthly filmmaking workshop open to
both the student body as well as the community. This workshop teams up
experienced and inexperienced filmmakers with the goal of making a short film in
three days. It allows individuals to learn the basics of filmmaking in a very
short amount of time. At the end of the month, CUTV hosts a screening for
everyone to see, showcasing all of the finished films.
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CFCF-TV
CFCF-TV (now identified on air as CTV Montreal) is a CTV-owned and operated
station located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. CFCF broadcasts on channel 12 at a
maximum ERP of 316 kW.
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CFJP-TV
CFJP-TV is the callsign for V's flagship television station in Montreal, Quebec,
Canada.
The station was originally owned by the family of Jean Pouliot, then-owner of
CFCF. It was acquired by Cogeco in 2001 concurrently with Cogeco's acquisition
of the network. As an owned and operated station of the network, CFJP was part
of V's takeover by Remstar Corporation.
CFJP-TV launched a high definition simulcast on June 4, 2007 available on
Videotron and Cogeco cable in Quebec. It signed on over the air on channel 42
from their studio building in Montreal in December 2007.
CFJP formerly had a rebroadcaster in Rimouski, CJPC-TV channel 18, but this
switched to being a semi-satellite of CFTF-TV in June 2007.
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CFTM-TV
CFTM-TV channel 10, is the flagship of the TVA television network, located in
Montreal, Quebec.
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CFTU-TV
CFTU-TV is a Canadian French language educational television station in the
province of Quebec, owned by a private consortium known as CANAL, consisting
primarily of Quebec-based post-secondary institutions. CFTU currently uses the
on-air brand, Canal Savoir. It is licensed to and located in the city of
Montreal.
CFTU is available over-the-air on channel 29 in Montreal; on cable through much
of Quebec, parts of Ontario, New Brunswick, and Western Canada; and on satellite
(Bell TV channel 152 and Shaw Direct channel 720).
CFTU broadcasts at 10 kilowatts, one of Montreal's weakest television signals,
on the same level as most low-powered UHF stations in the United States. As a
consequence, the station's over-the-air signal is very poor, even in Montreal.
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CJNT-TV
CJNT-TV is a multicultural television station in Montreal, Quebec. The station
is owned and operated by Channel Zero with a format focused on music videos and
foreign films, while also airing some locally-produced ethnic programming.
CJNT broadcasts at 11 kilowatts, one of the weakest television signals in
Canada, on the same level as most low-powered UHF stations in the United States.
Its over-the-air coverage area is effectively limited to the Island of Montreal
and Jésus Island, and a few areas on the mainland—a far smaller area compared to
the other Montreal stations. In most of this area, it is practically unviewable
except on cable.
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CKMI-TV
CKMI-TV-1 (branded as Global Montreal) is the Global Television Network
owned-and-operated station in Quebec.
Originally a privately owned CBC Television affiliate in Quebec City, the
station moved most of its operations to Montreal in 1997 after launching a
rebroadcaster there and becoming a Global affiliate as Global Quebec. This was
made official in 2009 when the Montreal rebroadcaster became its primary
transmitter and city of license.
The station is owned by Shaw Media. In 2009 its main production facilities and
news operations relocated from a building shared with French language network
TVA on De Maisonneuve Boulevard East in Montreal to the Dominion Square
Building, home of the Montreal Gazette in Downtown Montreal.
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Télé-Québec
Télé-Québec is a French language public educational television network in the
Canadian province of Quebec. Known legally as Société de télédiffusion du Québec
(Quebec Television Broadcasting Corporation), it is a provincial crown
corporation owned by the Government of Quebec. The network's main studios and
general offices are located in Montreal, at the corner of Saint Catherine and
Fullum Streets in Ville-Marie.
Télé-Québec is equivalent to Ontario's TVOntario and TFO, British Columbia's
Knowledge and Saskatchewan's SCN, and similar to the US PBS network, in that it
is somewhat modest in scope, runs mostly educational or cultural programming,
and does not try to compete with privately owned television networks or with the
Radio-Canada television network owned and operated by the federal government.
The network also runs commercials during its programming, not unlike its federal
counterparts Radio-Canada and CBC Television. The latter, by contrast, does
strongly compete with private networks and overlaps with their programming
categories.
All programming on Télé-Québec is in French, though there are a few shows and
movies that are presented in the original language (predominantly English), with
French subtitles.
Télé-Québec operates local offices in Val-d'Or, Trois-Rivières, Rimouski,
Gatineau, Sept-Îles, Quebec City, Sherbrooke, Saguenay and Carleton.
Télé-Québec also has a 25% stake in the French-Canadian arts specialty channel,
ARTV; they are also one of the partners in the TV5 Québec Canada and TV5MONDE
consortiums.
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