CJPM-DT,
virtual channel
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6 (
UHF
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digital
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channel 46), is a
TVA owned-and-operated television station
A television station is a set of equipment managed by a business, organisation or other entity, such as an amateur television (ATV) operator, that transmits video content and audio content via radio waves directly from a transmitter on the ea ...
licensed to
Saguenay, Quebec
Saguenay ( , , ) is a city in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada, on the Saguenay River, about north of Quebec City by overland route. It is about upriver and northwest of Tadoussac, located at the confluence with the S ...
, Canada. The station is owned by the
Groupe TVA subsidiary of
Quebecor Media. CJPM-DT's studios and transmitter are located on Rue du Mont Sainte Claire in the former city of
Chicoutimi.
History
The station signed on for the first time on April 14, 1963, as CJPM-TV. Its owner, John Murdock, who died on October 2nd of that same year, soon realized that he didn't have the revenue to challenge
Radio-Canada affiliate CKRS-TV (now
CKTV-DT
CKTV-DT, virtual and VHF digital channel 12, branded on-air as ICI Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, is an Ici Radio-Canada Télé owned-and-operated station licensed to Saguenay, Quebec, Canada and serving the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region. ...
) 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
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, owned by Télé-Métropole. Along with
Quebec City
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'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, alongside 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*
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Television channels and stations established in 1963
1963 establishments in Quebec
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