CKTM-DT,
virtual channel
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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
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to
Trois-Rivières
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,
Quebec
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, Canada and serving the
Mauricie region. The station is owned by the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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(known in French as ''Société Radio-Canada''). CKTM-DT's studios are located on Boulevard Saint-Jean (near
Route 40
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) in Trois-Rivières, and its transmitter is located on Rue Principale in
Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel
Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel is a parish municipality in the Mauricie region of the province of Quebec in Canada.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population
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. On
cable
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, the station is available on
Cogeco Cable
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channel 3 and in
high definition on
digital channel 504.
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
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with the
TQS
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O&O
CFKM-TV. As a privately owned station, CKTM effectively functioned as a
semi-satellite of
CBFT
CBFT-DT (channel 2) is a television station in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, serving as the flagship station of the French-language service of Ici Radio-Canada Télé. It is owned and operated by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (known in Fren ...
in
Montreal
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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
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— 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. The transaction was approved by the CRTC on June 26, 2008.
Radio-Canada relocated all its radio and television facilities in the region into an integrated production centre, 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.
[http://www.cbc.radio-canada.ca/facilities/]
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Television channels and stations established in 1958
1958 establishments in Quebec