CJCO-DT (channel 38) is a

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, Alberta, Canada, part of the

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network. It is

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alongside

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station

CKAL-DT CKAL-DT (channel 5) is a television station in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, part of the Citytv network. It is owned and operated by Rogers Sports & Media alongside Omni Television station CJCO-DT (channel 38). The two stations share studios at 7 ...

(channel 5). The two stations share studios at 7 Avenue and 5 Street Southwest in

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; CJCO-DT's transmitter is located near Old Banff Coach Road/ Highway 563.

Overview

The station was licensed by the

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(CRTC) on June 8, 2007, and it launched on September 15, 2008. The station was originally assigned the call sign CHXC by

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, but this was changed to CJCO in February 2008.CRTC
OMNI Alberta

The station's primary focus is

programming and documentaries. Like the other Omni stations across the country, the station once aired a large amount of syndicated American shows such as ''

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'' and ''

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'', but those have since been dropped as of the start of the 2015–16 season.

Newscasts

Omni Alberta formerly produced local newscasts aimed at the

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, and South Asian communities across the province. While there were newsgathering teams in both Edmonton and Calgary, the production of the newscasts themselves were done out of CKEM's studios in

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. The newscasts were discontinued and replaced by Omni's national newscasts in September 2011; the national newscasts still featured contributions from Calgary-based reporters. On May 30, 2013, Rogers announced that it would immediately close down the production facilities for both Omni Alberta stations as a result of budget cuts—ending the production of local programming and news content from the stations.

Technical information

Subchannel

Analogue-to-digital conversion

On August 11, 2011, three weeks before Canadian television stations in CRTC-designated mandatory markets transitioned from analogue to digital broadcasts, CJCO shut down its analog transmitter and

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its digital signal into operation on

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channel 38. As of July 28, 2020, due to the DTV spectrum repack happening across North America, CJCO-DT has moved from UHF 38 to UHF 34. The

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remains as 38.1.

References

External links

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CJCO-DT history
– Canadian Communication Foundation * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cjco-Dt 2008 establishments in Alberta JCO-DT Television channels and stations established in 2008 JCO-DT