CJEO-DT (channel 56) is a
multicultural television station in
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, part of the
Omni Television network. It is
owned and operated by
Rogers Sports & Media alongside
Citytv station
CKEM-DT (channel 51). Both stations share studios with Rogers' local radio stations on
Gateway Boulevard in Edmonton, while CJEO-DT's transmitter is located near
Yellowhead Highway/
Highway 16A.
History
The station was licensed by the
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) on June 8, 2007, and first signed on the air on September 15, 2008. The station was originally assigned the call sign CHXE by
Industry Canada, but this was changed to CJEO in February 2008.
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In late 2015, Rogers' television stations in Edmonton moved from their studios in downtown Edmonton to the headquarters of Rogers' Edmonton radio stations on Gateway Boulevard.
Newscasts
Omni Alberta formerly produced local newscasts aimed at the Cantonese
Cantonese ( zh, t=廣東話, s=广东话, first=t, cy=Gwóngdūng wá) is a language within the Chinese (Sinitic) branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages originating from the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding ar ...
, Mandarin
Mandarin or The Mandarin may refer to:
Language
* Mandarin Chinese, branch of Chinese originally spoken in northern parts of the country
** Standard Chinese or Modern Standard Mandarin, the official language of China
** Taiwanese Mandarin, Stand ...
, and South Asian communities across the province. While there were newsgathering teams in both Edmonton and Calgary, the production of the newscasts themselves were based out of CKEM's studios in Downtown Edmonton. The newscasts were discontinued and replaced by Omni's national newscasts in September 2011; the national newscasts still featured contributions from Edmonton-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 31, 2011, when Canadian television stations in CRTC-designated mandatory markets transitioned from analogue to digital broadcasts,flash cut
A flash cut, also called a flash cutover, is an immediate change in a complex system, with no phase-in period.
In the United States, some telephone area codes were split or overlaid immediately, rather than being phased in with a permissive d ...
its digital signal on UHF
Ultra high frequency (UHF) is the ITU designation for radio frequencies in the range between 300 megahertz (MHz) and 3 gigahertz (GHz), also known as the decimetre band as the wavelengths range from one meter to one tenth of a meter (on ...
channel 44. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers will display CJEO-TV's virtual channel
In most telecommunications organizations, a virtual channel is a method of remapping the ''program number'' as used in H.222 Program Association Tables and Program Mapping Tables to a channel number that can be entered via digits on a receiver' ...
as 56.1.
References
External links
*
CJEO-DT history
– Canadian Communication Foundation
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Television channels and stations established in 2008
2008 establishments in Alberta