CKTM-DT

CKTM-DT, virtual channel 13 (UHF digital channel 28), branded on-air as ICI Mauricie–Centre-du-Québec, is an Ici Radio-Canada Télé owned-and-operated station licensed to Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada and serving the Mauricie region. The station is owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (known in French as Société Radio-Canada). CKTM-DT's studios are located on Boulevard Saint-Jean (near Route 40) in Trois-Rivières, and its transmitter is located on Rue Principale in Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel. On cable, the station is available on Cogeco Cable channel 3 and in high definition on digital channel 504.

CKTM-DT
Channels
BrandingICI Mauricie–Centre-du-Québec
Programming
AffiliationsIci Radio-Canada Télé (1958–present, O&O since 2008)
Ownership
OwnerSociété Radio-Canada
History
First air date
April 15, 1958 (1958-04-15)
Former call signs
CFTM-TV (unused, never used on air); CKTM-TV (1958–2011)
Former channel number(s)
Analogue:
13 (VHF, 1958–2011)
Call sign meaning
Télévision Mauricie
Technical information
Licensing authority
CRTC
ERP38.9 kW
HAAT314.6 m (1,032 ft)
Transmitter coordinates46°29′33″N 72°39′7″W
Links
WebsiteICI Mauricie–Centre-du-Québec

History

The station first signed on April 15, 1958; the station was the very first broadcasting property owned by Cogeco, which was founded in Trois-Rivières the previous year.

Until June 2008, the station was owned by Cogeco and was a twinstick with the TQS O&O CFKM-TV. As a privately owned station, CKTM effectively functioned as a semi-satellite of CBFT in Montreal due to a lack of non-network sources of programming. The station had been owned directly by Cogeco prior to the latter's majority acquisition of TQS, to which Cogeco contributed its existing local stations. Radio-Canada took editorial control of the station's news programming in 2002, although it continued to share a studio with CFKM.

In September 2007, Radio-Canada announced that it would not renew its affiliation agreement with its three Cogeco-owned affiliates — CKTM, CKTV-TV in Saguenay and CKSH-TV in Sherbrooke — after their then-current agreement expired in August 2008. An application to directly acquire the stations was filed by Radio-Canada on April 25, 2008, concurrently with Cogeco's proposed sale of TQS to Remstar Corporation.[1] The transaction was approved by the CRTC on June 26, 2008.[2]

Radio-Canada relocated all its radio and television facilities in the region into an integrated production centre,[3] which opened on March 22, 2010, in Trois-Rivières. Radio-Canada intends on increasing its local programming output on its radio and television stations in the region.[4]

References
  1. CRTC Notice of Public Hearing 2008-5.
  2. CRTC Decision 2008-130
  3. "Marie-Josée Montminy : Radio-Canada confirme son déménagement | Arts & Spectacles". www.cyberpresse.ca. Archived from the original on 2012-03-24.
  4. http://www.cbc.radio-canada.ca/facilities/
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