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CKTM-DT

Trois-Rivieres , Quebec Canada
Channels	Digital : 28 ( UHF ) Virtual : 13.1
Branding	ICI Mauricie?Centre-du-Quebec
Programming
Affiliations	Ici Radio-Canada Tele (1958?present, O&O since 2008)
Ownership
Owner	Societe Radio-Canada
History
First air date	April 15, 1958 (66 years ago)  ( 1958-04-15 )
Former call signs	CFTM-TV (unused, never used on air); CKTM-TV (1958?2011)
Former channel number(s)	Analogue: 13 ( VHF , 1958?2011)
Call sign meaning	Television Mauricie
Technical information
Licensing authority	CRTC
ERP	38.9 kW
HAAT	314.6 m (1,032 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	46°29′33″N 72°39′7″W  /  46.49250°N 72.65194°W  / 46.49250; -72.65194
Links
Website	ICI Mauricie?Centre-du-Quebec

CKTM-DT , virtual channel 13 ( UHF digital channel 28), branded on-air as ICI Mauricie?Centre-du-Quebec , is an Ici Radio-Canada Tele owned-and-operated station licensed to Trois-Rivieres , Quebec , Canada and serving the Mauricie region. The station is owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (known in French as Societe Radio-Canada ). CKTM-DT's studios are located on Boulevard Saint-Jean (near Route 40 ) in Trois-Rivieres, and its transmitter is located on Rue Principale in Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel . On cable , the station is available on Cogeco Cable channel 3 and in high definition on digital channel 504.

History [ edit ]

The station first signed on April 15, 1958; the station was the very first broadcasting property owned by Cogeco , which was founded in Trois-Rivieres the previous year.

Until June 2008, the station was owned by Cogeco and was a twinstick with the TQS O&O CFKM-TV . As a privately owned station, CKTM effectively functioned as a semi-satellite of CBFT in Montreal 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 ? 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 . ^[1] The transaction was approved by the CRTC on June 26, 2008. ^[2]

Radio-Canada relocated all its radio and television facilities in the region into an integrated production centre, ^[3] which opened on March 22, 2010, in Trois-Rivieres. Radio-Canada intends on increasing its local programming output on its radio and television stations in the region. ^[4]

References [ edit ]

External links [ edit ]

• Official website (in French)
• CKTM-DT at The History of Canadian Broadcasting by the Canadian Communications Foundation
• CKTM-TV in the REC Canadian station database