CKMI-TV
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CKMI-DT-1 is the Global Television Network
owned-and-operated station
in Quebec
.
Originally a privately owned CBC Television
affiliate in Quebec City
, the station moved most of its operations to Montreal
in 1997 after launching a rebroadcaster there and becoming a Global affiliate as Global Quebec. This was made official in 2009 when the Montreal rebroadcaster became its primary transmitter and city of license.
The station is owned by Shaw Media
. In 2009 its main production facilities and news operations relocated from a building shared with French language network TVA on De Maisonneuve Boulevard
East in Montreal to the Dominion Square Building
, home of The Gazette
in Downtown Montreal
.
, CKCV
and CJQC
. It immediately became Quebec City's CBC Television
affiliate, taking all English programming from CFCM. In 1964, following the opening of CBVT, CFCM disaffiliated from Radio-Canada (the French language
arm of the CBC) and joined the loose association of independent stations that evolved into TVA, while CKMI remained with CBC.
Télévision de Québec was nearly forced to sell its stations in 1969 due to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission's (CRTC) new rules requiring radio and television stations to be 80% Canadian-owned. The largest shareholder, Famous Players, was a subsidiary of American film studio Paramount Pictures
. Eventually, Famous Players reduced its shares to 20% by 1971, allowing Télévision de Québec to keep CKMI and CFCM. The company renamed itself Télé-Capitale in 1974.
CKMI and CFCM were bought by Pathonic in 1979, and then by Télé-Metropole (which changed its name to TVA) in 1989. For many years, CKMI was known on-air as "MI-5."
CKMI faced severe financial problems for much of its history as a CBC affiliate, in large part because the area's anglophone population was just barely large enough for the station to be viable as a privately-owned CBC affiliate. (Quebec City, unlike Montreal, is a virtually monolingual francophone
city.) For most of its first 40 years on the air, it stayed afloat only because of the revenues from CFCM (long the dominant station in Quebec City). Much of its viewership came from anglophone members of the National Assembly and anglophone provincial government employees.
For many years, its only newscast was a five-minute update, as its viewership was deemed too small to justify having a full-fledged news department.
It began airing Global shows in the 1980s, and was picked up by most cable systems in Montreal as a result. By 1992, however, growing financial trouble forced CKMI to drop all non-CBC programming and become a de facto repeater of Montreal's CBC O&O, CBMT. It also carried CBMT's newscasts, though CKMI aired its own five-minute newscast, Inside Quebec, before CBMT's Newswatch on weeknights.
Relief did not come until 1997, when TVA sold controlling interest in the station to Izzy Asper
's Canwest, while retaining 49% interest. TVA and Canwest formed a joint venture that assumed ownership of CKMI and disaffiliated the station from CBC, making it a Global station. As part of the deal, CKMI moved to from channel 5 to channel 20, while the CBC set up a rebroadcaster of CBMT on channel 5, using CKMI's old transmitter and site in Sainte-Foy (following the digital transition in 2011, the station relocated to channel 11, using CBVT's old analogue frequency and transmitter atop Mount Bélair
); CKMI's new channel 20 site was installed atop Mount Bélair, where most of Quebec City's FM and television transmitters are located. CKMI then added semi-satellites in Montreal and Sherbrooke. The purchase of CKMI gave Canwest's stations enough coverage of Canada that shortly after the deal was closed, it rebranded all its stations as the Global Television Network. In 2002, Global bought out TVA's remaining interest in CKMI.
The station shifted focus of its operations, as well as the focus of its news coverage, to Montreal soon after the launch of the Montreal transmitter. It also began sending its signal to the Montreal transmitter first. However, until 2009 the station remained licensed to Quebec City, and its "official" main studio remained in Sainte-Foy. CKMI is Global's only former CBC station never owned by WIC.
CKMI's financial situation has not improved much since joining Global, though in recent years it has waged a spirited battle with CBMT for second place behind long-dominant CFCF-TV
. It has been argued that the station's poor financial performance was due to Canwest not being able to sell local advertising in Montreal, home to almost three-fourths of the province's anglophones. This is because CKMI was officially classed as a "regional" station, even though for all intents and purposes it has been a Montreal station ever since moving to Global. However, when the station moved its city of license to Montreal in 2009, it gained local advertising rights in Montreal for the first time. It also rebranded from "Global Quebec" to "Global Montreal". This is in response of CJNT Montreal
sold to Channel Zero
that same year upon the demise of the E! system.
As part of a number of cutbacks to Global operations across the country, Canwest closed the station's Sherbrooke bureau and halved the number of employees working at the Quebec City bureau in February 2008. Sherbrooke is now covered by reporters based at the Montreal and Quebec City bureaus.
The station also aired programming from The Score such as WWE Raw
until the fall of 2009.
. Global also airs a half-hour program called Focus Montreal, looking at the events in Montreal during the past week. CKMI-DT is currently the largest Global owned-and-operated station in Canada that does not carry local newscasts on weekday or weekend mornings, or at noon or 5 p.m. on weekdays.
Along with a number of other Global stations, Global Quebec introduced a Greenscreen virtual studio in 2008. The cameras, lighting and reports are remotely controlled (like other regional Global news studios) from Global's broadcast centre in Edmonton
. A number of Montreal-based employees were made redundant with the introduction of this technology, however all Global Montreal anchors are still based out of Montreal.
Meteorologist Anthony Farnell is no longer based in Montreal with CKMI, and presents weather forecasts remotely for CKMI from the studios of sister station CIII-TV
in Toronto
; other than Farnell, Global Montreal does not have any other meteorologists on-staff nor does it operate a sports department.
On August 29, 2011, Global Montreal began broadcasting their local newscasts in 16:9
widescreen
standard definition.
Weather
Reporters
to the station's schedule that it could air American talk shows in the afternoon.
This Morning Live was last cancelled in late 2007 and the last program was broadcast on February 27, 2008. News Final, which had been off air due to low ratings since June 2006, but was brought back after This Morning Live was canceled to help maintain the number of locally produced broadcast hours.
As part of Shaw's offer to take over Canwest's television assets, Shaw Communications is promising to launch local morning newscasts on several Global stations, including Global Montreal. However, it has not been announced when the new Global Montreal morning newscasts will launch.
Global Television Network
Global Television Network is an English language privately owned television network in Canada, owned by Calgary-based Shaw Communications, as part of its Shaw Media division...
owned-and-operated station
Owned-and-operated station
In the broadcasting industry , an owned-and-operated station usually refers to a television station or radio station that is owned by the network with which it is associated...
in Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
.
Originally a privately owned CBC Television
CBC Television
CBC Television is a Canadian television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster.Although the CBC is supported by public funding, the television network supplements this funding with commercial advertising revenue, in contrast to CBC Radio which are...
affiliate in Quebec City
Quebec City
Quebec , also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest...
, the station moved most of its operations to Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
in 1997 after launching a rebroadcaster there and becoming a Global affiliate as Global Quebec. This was made official in 2009 when the Montreal rebroadcaster became its primary transmitter and city of license.
The station is owned by Shaw Media
Shaw Media
Shaw Media is the television broadcasting division of Shaw Communications. Shaw Media owns the Global Television Network, which broadcasts via 11 television stations, as well as various specialty channels including HGTV Canada, Showcase, Food Network Canada, and History Television.Despite also...
. In 2009 its main production facilities and news operations relocated from a building shared with French language network TVA on De Maisonneuve Boulevard
De Maisonneuve Boulevard
De Maisonneuve Boulevard is a major westbound boulevard located in downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is named after the founder of Montreal, Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve. De Maisonneuve Boulevard is about 11 kilometres long and begins on Havre Street in the east end, and ends in the...
East in Montreal to the Dominion Square Building
Dominion Square Building
The Dominion Square Building, also known as the Gazette Building, is a landmark office building in Downtown Montreal facing Dorchester Square on its northern side...
, home of The Gazette
The Gazette (Montreal)
The Gazette, often called the Montreal Gazette to avoid ambiguity, is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, with three other daily English newspapers all having shut down at different times during the second half of the 20th century.-History:In 1778,...
in Downtown Montreal
Downtown Montreal
Downtown Montreal is the central business district of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is nearly enitirely located at the southern most slope of Mount Royal and is approximately bounded by Sherbrooke Street to the north, Papineau Avenue to the east, Guy Street or until Shaughnessy Village to the west,...
.
History
The station was founded in 1957 on VHF channel 5 as the second privately owned station in Quebec, co-owned by Télévision de Québec along with the province's first private station, CFCM-TV. Its studios were located alongside CFCM's facilities in Sainte-Foy, then a suburb of Quebec City. Télévision de Québec was a consortium of cinema chain Famous Players and Quebec City's three privately-owned radio stations, CHRCCHRC (AM)
CHRC is a French language Canadian radio station located in Quebec City, Quebec. Known as Québec 800, the station has a news/talk/sports format....
, CKCV
CKCV
CKCV was a French-language Canadian radio station located in Quebec City, Quebec. It operated from 1924 to 1990.For most of its existence the station broadcasted on 1280 kHz on the AM band, using a daytime power of 10,000 watts and a nighttime power of 5,000 watts as a class B station, using a...
and CJQC
CFOM (defunct)
CFOM was a Canadian radio station. Owned by Goodwill Broadcasters of Quebec, it was the only English language radio station in Quebec City until it was shut down in 1976.-History:...
. It immediately became Quebec City's CBC Television
CBC Television
CBC Television is a Canadian television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster.Although the CBC is supported by public funding, the television network supplements this funding with commercial advertising revenue, in contrast to CBC Radio which are...
affiliate, taking all English programming from CFCM. In 1964, following the opening of CBVT, CFCM disaffiliated from Radio-Canada (the French language
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
arm of the CBC) and joined the loose association of independent stations that evolved into TVA, while CKMI remained with CBC.
Télévision de Québec was nearly forced to sell its stations in 1969 due to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission's (CRTC) new rules requiring radio and television stations to be 80% Canadian-owned. The largest shareholder, Famous Players, was a subsidiary of American film studio Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film production and distribution company, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is America's oldest existing film studio; it is also the last major film studio still...
. Eventually, Famous Players reduced its shares to 20% by 1971, allowing Télévision de Québec to keep CKMI and CFCM. The company renamed itself Télé-Capitale in 1974.
CKMI faced severe financial problems for much of its history as a CBC affiliate, in large part because the area's anglophone population was just barely large enough for the station to be viable as a privately-owned CBC affiliate. (Quebec City, unlike Montreal, is a virtually monolingual francophone
Francophone
The adjective francophone means French-speaking, typically as primary language, whether referring to individuals, groups, or places. Often, the word is used as a noun to describe a natively French-speaking person....
city.) For most of its first 40 years on the air, it stayed afloat only because of the revenues from CFCM (long the dominant station in Quebec City). Much of its viewership came from anglophone members of the National Assembly and anglophone provincial government employees.
For many years, its only newscast was a five-minute update, as its viewership was deemed too small to justify having a full-fledged news department.
Relief did not come until 1997, when TVA sold controlling interest in the station to Izzy Asper
Izzy Asper
Israel Harold "Izzy" Asper, , Canadian tax lawyer and media magnate, was the founder of the now defunct CanWest Global Communications Corp and father to its former CEO and President Leonard Asper, former director and corporate secretary Gail Asper, as well as Executive Vice President David Asper...
's Canwest, while retaining 49% interest. TVA and Canwest formed a joint venture that assumed ownership of CKMI and disaffiliated the station from CBC, making it a Global station. As part of the deal, CKMI moved to from channel 5 to channel 20, while the CBC set up a rebroadcaster of CBMT on channel 5, using CKMI's old transmitter and site in Sainte-Foy (following the digital transition in 2011, the station relocated to channel 11, using CBVT's old analogue frequency and transmitter atop Mount Bélair
Mount Bélair
Mount Bélair is a peak in the Laurentian Mountains, Quebec, Canada, with an altitude of . It is located in the Val-Bélair section of Quebec City, approximately west of downtown.-Activities:...
); CKMI's new channel 20 site was installed atop Mount Bélair, where most of Quebec City's FM and television transmitters are located. CKMI then added semi-satellites in Montreal and Sherbrooke. The purchase of CKMI gave Canwest's stations enough coverage of Canada that shortly after the deal was closed, it rebranded all its stations as the Global Television Network. In 2002, Global bought out TVA's remaining interest in CKMI.
The station shifted focus of its operations, as well as the focus of its news coverage, to Montreal soon after the launch of the Montreal transmitter. It also began sending its signal to the Montreal transmitter first. However, until 2009 the station remained licensed to Quebec City, and its "official" main studio remained in Sainte-Foy. CKMI is Global's only former CBC station never owned by WIC.
CFCF-TV
CFCF-DT is a CTV-owned and operated station located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada...
. It has been argued that the station's poor financial performance was due to Canwest not being able to sell local advertising in Montreal, home to almost three-fourths of the province's anglophones. This is because CKMI was officially classed as a "regional" station, even though for all intents and purposes it has been a Montreal station ever since moving to Global. However, when the station moved its city of license to Montreal in 2009, it gained local advertising rights in Montreal for the first time. It also rebranded from "Global Quebec" to "Global Montreal". This is in response of CJNT Montreal
CJNT-TV
CJNT-DT is a Canadian multicultural television station in Montreal, Quebec. The station is owned and operated by Channel Zero and uses the on-air brand Metro 14.-History:...
sold to Channel Zero
Channel Zero Inc.
Channel Zero is an independent Canadian broadcasting and media group, which holds assets in television broadcasting and film distribution.The company is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.-Ownership structure:...
that same year upon the demise of the E! system.
As part of a number of cutbacks to Global operations across the country, Canwest closed the station's Sherbrooke bureau and halved the number of employees working at the Quebec City bureau in February 2008. Sherbrooke is now covered by reporters based at the Montreal and Quebec City bureaus.
The station also aired programming from The Score such as WWE Raw
WWE RAW
WWE Raw ) is a sports entertainment television program for WWE that currently airs on the USA Network in the United States...
until the fall of 2009.
News programming
Global Montreal currently airs a half-hour newscast at 6 p.m. (titled Evening News) and an hour-long newscast at 11 p.m. (titled News Final) seven days a week. The Saturday evening edition of News Final is shortened to a half-hour to allow the broadcast of Saturday Night LiveSaturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live is a live American late-night television sketch comedy and variety show developed by Lorne Michaels and Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title of NBC's Saturday Night.The show's sketches often parody contemporary American culture...
. Global also airs a half-hour program called Focus Montreal, looking at the events in Montreal during the past week. CKMI-DT is currently the largest Global owned-and-operated station in Canada that does not carry local newscasts on weekday or weekend mornings, or at noon or 5 p.m. on weekdays.
Along with a number of other Global stations, Global Quebec introduced a Greenscreen virtual studio in 2008. The cameras, lighting and reports are remotely controlled (like other regional Global news studios) from Global's broadcast centre in Edmonton
Edmonton
Edmonton is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta and is the province's second-largest city. Edmonton is located on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Capital Region, which is surrounded by the central region of the province.The city and its census...
. A number of Montreal-based employees were made redundant with the introduction of this technology, however all Global Montreal anchors are still based out of Montreal.
Meteorologist Anthony Farnell is no longer based in Montreal with CKMI, and presents weather forecasts remotely for CKMI from the studios of sister station CIII-TV
CIII-TV
CIII-DT-41 is a television station owned by Shaw Communications that serves much of the population of the Canadian province of Ontario. It is a flagship station of the Global Television Network...
in Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
; other than Farnell, Global Montreal does not have any other meteorologists on-staff nor does it operate a sports department.
On August 29, 2011, Global Montreal began broadcasting their local newscasts in 16:9
16:9
16:9 is an aspect ratio with a width of 16 units and height of 9. Since 2009, it has become the most common aspect ratio for sold televisions and computer monitors and is also the international standard format of HDTV, Full HD, non-HD digital television and analog widescreen television ...
widescreen
Widescreen
Widescreen images are a variety of aspect ratios used in film, television and computer screens. In film, a widescreen film is any film image with a width-to-height aspect ratio greater than the standard 1.37:1 Academy aspect ratio provided by 35mm film....
standard definition.
Newscast titles
- Global Quebec NewsGlobal NewsGlobal News is the news and current affairs division of Global Television Network in Canada, overseeing all local and national news programming on the network's eleven owned-and-operated stations .-National programs:...
(1997–2009) - Global Montreal NewsGlobal NewsGlobal News is the news and current affairs division of Global Television Network in Canada, overseeing all local and national news programming on the network's eleven owned-and-operated stations .-National programs:...
(2009–present)
News team
Anchors- Richard Dagenais - Focus Montreal host; also reporter
- Amanda Jelowicki - News Final (weeknights at 11 p.m.); also reporter
- TBA - Weekend Evening News (weekends at 6 p.m.) and News Final (weekends at 11 p.m.)
- Jamie OrchardJamie OrchardJamie Orchard is a Canadian journalist. She is the host and news anchor for Evening News and Focus Montreal on Global Montreal.She was born and raised in the Montreal suburb of Brossard, Quebec.-External links:*...
- Evening News (weeknights at 6 p.m.) and host of Focus Montreal
Weather
- Anthony Farnell - meteorologist; Evening News (nightly at 6 p.m.) and News Final (nightly at 11 p.m.) - based out of Global OntarioCIII-TVCIII-DT-41 is a television station owned by Shaw Communications that serves much of the population of the Canadian province of Ontario. It is a flagship station of the Global Television Network...
Reporters
- Elysia Bryan-Baynes
- Domenic Fazioli
- Lisa Fiset
- Natasha Gargiulo - entertainment reporter
- Peter Anthony Holder
- Anne Leclair
- Caroline Plante - Quebec City bureau reporter
- Tim Sargeant
- Paola Samuel
Former anchors and presenters
- Raymond Filion - Evening News co-anchor
- Paul Graif (now working for CFCFCFCF-TVCFCF-DT is a CTV-owned and operated station located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada...
) - Tracy McKee - This Morning Live host
- Andrew Peplowski - This Morning Live host
- Aphrodite Salas - Evening News co-anchor
This Morning Live
After being rebranded as Global, the station aired a live two and a half hour (and subsequently three) hour morning magazine program from Montreal called This Morning Live, hosted by Andrew Peplowski and Tracy McKee. It was aired in place of cartoons that aired on most Global stations in the morning because Quebec provincial law requires children's programming to be shown commercial-free over the air. A side benefit of this was that it added enough Canadian contentCanadian content
Canadian content refers to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission requirements that radio and television broadcasters must air a certain percentage of content that was at least partly written, produced, presented, or otherwise contributed to by persons from...
to the station's schedule that it could air American talk shows in the afternoon.
This Morning Live was last cancelled in late 2007 and the last program was broadcast on February 27, 2008. News Final, which had been off air due to low ratings since June 2006, but was brought back after This Morning Live was canceled to help maintain the number of locally produced broadcast hours.
As part of Shaw's offer to take over Canwest's television assets, Shaw Communications is promising to launch local morning newscasts on several Global stations, including Global Montreal. However, it has not been announced when the new Global Montreal morning newscasts will launch.
Global Tonight
An evening lifestyle program that suffered poor ratings and was succeeded by Global News @ 5:30.QC Magazine
A weekly program covering the week's news in Quebec City; cancelled when the Quebec City bureau was scaled down in 2007.Transmitters
Semi-satellites are in bold italics| Station | City of licence City of license A city of license or community of license, in American and Canadian broadcasting, is the community that a radio station or television station is officially licensed to serve by that country's broadcast regulator.... |
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Transmitter Coordinates |
| CKMI-DT | Quebec City Quebec City Quebec , also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest... |
20 (UHF Ultra high frequency Ultra-High Frequency designates the ITU Radio frequency range of electromagnetic waves between 300 MHz and 3 GHz , also known as the decimetre band or decimetre wave as the wavelengths range from one to ten decimetres... ) |
18 kW | 446.3 m | 46°49′21"N 71°29′43"W |
| CKMI-DT-2 | Sherbrooke | 11 (VHF Very high frequency Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency... ) |
1.0 kW | 613.1 m | 45°18′43"N 72°14′30"W |