CKSH-DT, virtual and VHF

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channel 9, branded on-air as ICI Estrie, is an

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, Canada and serving the

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region. The station is owned by the

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(known in French as ''Société Radio-Canada''). CKSH-DT's studios are located on Rue King Ouest in Sherbrooke, and its transmitter is located in Orford. On cable, the station is available on

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channel 10 and in

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channel 602. On

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, it is carried on

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channel 108 and in high definition on channel 1820.

History

The station first

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the air on September 19, 1974. As a privately owned station, CKSH basically functioned as a semi-satellite of CBFT (channel 2) in

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due to not having alternative non-network sources of programming available. After several years, CKSH began airing its own local news and a few programs not carried by CBFT. The station had been owned directly by

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prior to the latter's majority acquisition of the TQS network (later V, now

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), to which Cogeco contributed its existing local stations. Radio-Canada took editorial control of the station's news programming in 2002, although it currently shares a studio with its former

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CFKS-DT (channel 30). CKSH and TVA owned-and-operated station

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(channel 7) in Sherbrooke are seen on some cable systems in Northern

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, serving the

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community. They serve as a vital link to the Québécois culture in these communities. Some parts of

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and

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can also pick up their signals over the air. In September 2007, Radio-Canada announced that it would not renew its affiliation agreement with its three Cogeco-owned affiliates — CKSH,

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and CKTV-TV in Saguenay — after their then-current agreement expired in August 2008. An application to directly acquire the station was filed by Radio-Canada on April 25, 2008, concurrently with Cogeco's proposed sale of TQS to

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. The transaction was approved by the CRTC on June 26, 2008.CRTC Decision 2008-130
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Digital television and high definition

After the analogue television shutdown and digital conversion, which took place on August 31, 2011, CKSH has shut down its analogue transmitter at midnight on September 1, 2011, and started digital broadcasts on its old analogue channel number, 9. However, through the use of

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, digital television receivers display CKSH's

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as 9.1.

References

External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cksh-Dt KSH-DT KSH-DT Television channels and stations established in 1974 1974 establishments in Quebec