CJOH-DT

CJOH-DT
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada
Branding CTV Ottawa or CTV (general)
CTV News Ottawa (news)
Slogan Live Local Breaking
Channels Digital: 13 (VHF)
Virtual: 13.1 (PSIP)
Translators see below
Affiliations CTV
Owner Bell Media
(Bell Media, Inc.)
First air date March 12, 1961
Call letters' meaning CJ Ottawa-Hull
Sister station(s) CHRO-TV, CFGO, CFRA, CJMJ-FM, CKKL-FM
Former callsigns CJOH-TV (1961–2011)
Former channel number(s) Analog:
13 (VHF, 1961–2011)
Former affiliations Independent (1961)
Transmitter power 19 kW
Height 373.4 m
Transmitter coordinates 45°30′9″N 75°50′59″W / 45.50250°N 75.84972°W / 45.50250; -75.84972
Website CTV Ottawa

CJOH-DT, VHF channel 13, is a CTV owned-and-operated television station located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The station is owned by Bell Media, as part of a twinstick with CTV Two outlet CHRO-TV (channel 5). The two stations share studios – alongside Bell's Ottawa radio properties – located at the Market Media Mall building on 87 George Street in Downtown Ottawa's ByWard Market, and its transmitter on the Ryan Tower at Camp Fortune in Chelsea, Quebec, north of Gatineau. It also operates rebroadcasters on channel 8 from Lancaster, Ontario (serving Cornwall and, indirectly, Montreal), channel 6 from Deseronto (serving Kingston and, indirectly, Watertown, New York) and on channel 47 in Pembroke.

Since early 2010, CJOH's operations, including its news department, have been based in the George Street building (which was already occupied by CHRO) after a 2009 fire destroyed the station's longtime studios on Merivale Road in Nepean.[1][2] This station can also be seen on Rogers Cable channel 7 and in high definition on digital channel 518 in Ottawa and Glengarry-Prescott-Russell. Bell TV only carried CJOH's local programming, which consisted mainly of newscasts, on channel 197. This changed on October 18, 2010 when Bell carried the local and Canadian programming as well as simsubs on standard definition channel 229.

CJOH provides CTV network coverage for all of Eastern Ontario, a large segment of Western Quebec and portions of Northern New York in the United States.

History

CJOH-TV's former Late Nite Movie logo, from 1988.

Founded by Ernie Bushnell, CJOH signed on for the first time on March 12, 1961. Initially, studio facilities were located at 29 Bayswater Avenue (45°24′24″N 75°43′13″W / 45.4067°N 75.7204°W / 45.4067; -75.7204) until that September when operations were shifted over several weeks to a $2 million (CA$) complex at 1500 Merivale.[3]

It acquired former Cornwall, Ontario CBC affiliate CJSS-TV as a rebroadcaster in 1963, making CJSS the first television station in Canada to cease operations. The channel 6 transmitter in Deseronto became operational in 1972 to serve the Kingston and Belleville markets. Standard Broadcasting owned the station from 1975 to 1988, when it was sold to Baton Broadcasting. Baton was renamed CTV Inc. in 1998 after gaining control of the CTV network the preceding year. CTV in turn would be purchased by Bell Canada and folded into Bell Globemedia, now Bell Media, in 2001.

CJOH was available on cable in Montreal for most of the 1980s and 1990s, as the Cornwall transmitter's footprint reaches the western Montreal suburbs. In the 1980s and early 1990s, when CTV offered Toronto Blue Jays baseball, the Cornwall repeater had to show alternate programming instead, since the area was considered Montreal Expos territory. This substitute programming often had no commercials, and often had no definite end, as the length of baseball games varied. This was discontinued when the Blue Jays left CTV.

Well-known celebrities who first appeared on CJOH include Rich Little, The Amazing Kreskin, Alanis Morissette, Sandra Oh and Peter Jennings. Jennings started his professional career with the station during its early years, anchoring the local newscasts and hosting a teen dance show, Saturday Date, on Saturdays.

Morissette was briefly part of the cast on a local sketch comedy show, You Can't Do That On Television, aimed at the preteen and teen demographics. Originally conceived as a local and partially live production in 1979, it was derided by parents from its very beginning as a local show on CJOH in 1979 for its ubiquitous bathroom humour and for breaking with the Canadian tradition of kind, gentle, and educational shows for children, as well as for the shock value of certain sketches such as its infamous "green slime". The controversy did not stop it from becoming a huge hit, locally and eventually globally; it became a huge success in the United States for the Nickelodeon cable channel starting in 1982 and was subsequently distributed in many other countries.

CJOH's former logo as part of the Baton Broadcast System, c. 1994-1998.
CJOH-TV's logo from 1994.
CJOH's former logo (1998-2005). As of October 2005 logos with the stations' callsigns are no longer used on CTV stations; instead they all use the main CTV logo.

From 1990 to 1997, the station was co-owned with Pembroke-based CHRO-TV, which was for the majority of that period a CTV affiliate for the Upper Ottawa Valley. In 1997, as part of a major trade, CHRO was transferred to CHUM Limited, and became a NewNet (later A-Channel and now CTV Two) station primarily serving Ottawa. In 2007, CTVglobemedia received Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approval to acquire CHUM; while CTV did not originally plan to keep A-Channel, it decided to do so following a CRTC requirement to sell the Citytv system. This once again made CJOH and CHRO sister stations in a market with only one other local English-language station, CBOT. Interestingly, while the CRTC forced the Citytv sale because of concerns about media concentration with multiple stations in the same city, it had no problem allowing the Ottawa twinstick, apparently due to the precedent set by the stations having common ownership in the 1990s.

On August 1, 1995, the station's longtime sports anchor Brian Smith was shot in the station's parking lot by Jeffrey Arenburg, a released mental patient with a history of threatening media personalities, who claimed the station was broadcasting messages inside his head. Smith died in hospital the following day.[4] The incident led to renewed calls across Canada for strengthening of the Canadian government's gun control legislation and provided the impetus for Brian's Law (Ontario Bill 68) - an amendment of the Mental Health Act and Health Care Consent Act which introduced community treatment orders and new criteria for involuntary commitment to psychiatric facilities.[5] Arenburg was released from a mental hospital in Penetanguishene in 2006, then imprisoned for two years for assaulting a U.S. border guard in 2008.[6]

CJOH changed its branding to "CTV Ottawa" in 2005, when CTV's owned-and-operated stations began to stop using their callsigns within each station's branding. The newsroom was destroyed by a four-alarm fire during the early morning hours of February 7, 2010, destroying equipment and the news archives. The building itself remained intact until it was demolished in December 2011. CJOH's news operations were permanently relocated to CTV's ByWard Market building. This would be the first time the ByWard Market studios would have an evening newscast since the cancellation of sister station CHRO-TV's A News in March 2009. An adjacent office building housing former sister station CKQB-FM was not affected by the fire.[7][8]

Programming

Following many budget cuts to local programming beginning in 1996, the vast majority of shows broadcast on CJOH-DT simply consists of American programming simultaneous substitutions, or simsubs. Canadian content has been reduced to only a handful of shows, including The Marilyn Denis Show every weekday at 10:00 a.m. and reruns of Flashpoint every Saturday night at 10:00 p.m.

Regular local programming

With the exception of Canada AM and Question Period, none of these programs are available in HD. This is also why CJOH-DT on Bell TV is only broadcast in standard definition television.

Telethons

Former local programing

News operation

CJOH-DT presently broadcasts 15½ hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 2½ hours on weekdays, and 1½ hours each on Saturdays and Sundays); in lieu of a local morning newscast (which instead airs on sister station CHRO), CJOH displays local news headlines on a news ticker during its broadcast of CTV's semi-national morning program Canada AM.

Local newscasts (under the name CTV News) are aired weekdays at noon, 6 p.m. and 11:30 p.m.[13] The newscasts were previously called Midday Newsline/Newsline/Nightline (depending on the time of day) from the 1970s until 1998, and CJOH News from 1998 to 2005. (In 1982, the 6 p.m. newscast Newsline became, for a brief time, Canada's first 90-minute local supper hour newscast.) From December 10, 2011 to autumn 2012, the noon and 6 p.m. broadcasts broadcast for one hour, though the Sunday evening 6 p.m. broadcast remained a half-hour program.[14] Since April 2012, the audio feed of CJOH's 6 p.m. newscast is simulcast on sister radio station CFRA-AM. The Sunday 6 p.m. newscast expanded to one hour in the fall of 2012. On July 7, 2014, the station unveiled a new studio to accompany the transition to high definition news production.

Notable current on-air staff

Notable former on-air staff

Transmitters

Station City of licence Channel ERP HAAT Transmitter Coordinates
CJOH-TV-6 Deseronto 6 (VHF) 100 kW 204.5 m 44°8′30″N 77°4′33″W / 44.14167°N 77.07583°W / 44.14167; -77.07583 (CJOH-TV-6)
CJOH-TV-8 Cornwall 8 (VHF) 260 kW 187.5 m 45°10′34″N 74°31′36″W / 45.17611°N 74.52667°W / 45.17611; -74.52667 (CJOH-TV-8)
CJOH-TV-47 Pembroke 47 (UHF) 492 kW 125.7 m 45°50′2″N 77°9′49″W / 45.83389°N 77.16361°W / 45.83389; -77.16361 (CJOH-TV-47)

All of these, and a long list of other CTV rebroadcasters nationwide, were to shut down on or before August 31, 2009, as part of a political dispute with Canadian authorities on paid fee-for-carriage requirements for cable television operators.[15][16] A subsequent change in ownership assigned full control of CTVglobemedia to Bell Media; as of 2011, these transmitters remain in normal licensed broadcast operation.[17]

The transmitters in Cornwall and Deseronto also overlap the coverage areas of the transmitters of CKWS-DT in Kingston, Ontario, which became a CTV affiliate in 2015; no plans have been announced on any changes to CJOH's transmitter network.

Digital television and high definition

Digital channel

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming[18]
13.1 1080i 16:9 CJOH Main CJOH-DT programming / CTV

Analogue-to-digital conversion

CJOH has made its network programming available in standard definition on Bell TV (channel 229) and in high definition through Videotron (channel 607), Cogeco Cable (digital channel 701) and Rogers Cable (digital channel 518).[19] On August 31, 2011, when Canadian television stations in CRTC-designated mandatory markets transitioned from analogue to digital broadcasts,[20] the station flash cut its digital signal into operation on VHF channel 13. The station's news operations completed upgrades to high definition capabilities, and the first HD news broadcast took place on July 7, 2014 starting with the noon hour newscast.

References

  1. ↑ CTV Ottawa to stay at A Ottawa indefinitely.
  2. ↑ After the CTV fire, one last reunion at Merivale Road, CTV Ottawa, 2010-04-24
  3. ↑ Inglis, Fred (1961-10-21). "CJOH Opens Amid 'Hollywood Air'". Ottawa Citizen. p. 3. Retrieved 2010-04-11.
  4. ↑ Widow shocked by unconditional release of husband's killer, CBC News, November 22, 2006
  5. ↑ New rules for Ontario mental health care, CBC News, December 5, 2000
  6. ↑ Ottawa sportscaster's killer jailed 2 years in U.S. for assault, CBC News, September 25, 2008
  7. ↑ "CTV Ottawa newsroom destroyed by fire", CTV Ottawa, 2010-02-07
  8. ↑ "Fire destroys CTV newsroom", CBC.ca, 2010-02-07
  9. ↑ Katie Donovan says farewell to Regional Contact.
  10. ↑ CTV's Question Period. "Twitter @ctvqp". Twitter. Retrieved 2012-05-05.
  11. ↑ "A lifetime of Willy and Floyd". Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved 2012-01-09.
  12. ↑ Brent, Paul. "Twitter / @m2wPaul". Twitter. Retrieved 2012-01-15.
  13. ↑ CTV Ottawa News Open
  14. ↑ CTV Ottawa Expands Local Weekend News, Broadcaster Magazine, 29, 2011.
  15. ↑ CTV list of transmitters to be shut down
  16. ↑ Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2009-407
  17. ↑ http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/com100/2011/r110727.htm
  18. ↑ RabbitEars TV Query for CJOH
  19. ↑
  20. ↑ Digital Television - Office of Consumer Affairs (OCA)

External links

Coordinates: 45°21′32″N 75°44′15″W / 45.358915°N 75.737536°W / 45.358915; -75.737536

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