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CHCH-TV
CHCH-DT (channel 11) is an independent television station in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Owned by Channel Zero, the station maintains studios on Innovation Drive in the west end of Hamilton; prior to 2021, it was located near the corner of Jackson and Caroline streets in downtown Hamilton for nearly 65 years. The station has additional offices at the Marriott on the Falls in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Its transmitter is located on First Road West in the former city of Stoney Creek. CHCH signed on the air on June 7, 1954, as a CBC affiliate, founded by Ken Soble. Beginning in 1961, it became an independent station which transformed into an national superstation on January 1, 1982, and remained as such throughout its existence. In 1990, the station was acquired by Western International Communications. After several years as an independent station, CHCH was acquired by Canwest in 2000 and became the flagship station for the CH programming service as sister to the flagship CIII ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
E! (Canadian TV System)
The first incarnation of E!, also referred to as E! Entertainment Television, was a Canadian English language privately owned television system that existed from 2001 to 2009 under the ownership of Canwest. At its peak it consisted of eight local television stations located in Quebec, Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia, including five stations owned and operated (O&O) by Canwest and three affiliates owned by Jim Pattison Group. The system was launched in 2001 as CH Television or CH (derived from the call sign of flagship CHCH-TV in Hamilton), providing a secondary schedule parallel to Canwest's larger Global Television Network. It initially focused on airing programs from the U.S. broadcast networks that could not fit on Global's own schedule, in order to avail of simultaneous substitution opportunities. The system became "E!" in fall 2007, as a result of a deal with Comcast to carry programming from that company's U.S.-based E!: Entertainment Television, although it continued ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Soble
Kenneth David Soble (June 12, 1911 "Ken Soble: He Favored Anything that Worked." ''Toronto Star'', December 17, 1966, p. 17. - December 16, 1966) was a Canadian broadcasting executive, who became the owner of radio station CHML and was one of the founders of CHCH-TV, both of which were in Hamilton, Ontario.Ken Soble at the Canadian Communications Foundation. Under his management, CHCH withdrew from the in 1961 to become Canada's first independent television station. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CIII-DT
CIII-DT (channel 41) is a television station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, serving as the flagship station of the Global Television Network. Owned and operated by network parent Corus Entertainment, CIII-DT maintains studios at 81 Barber Greene Road (near Leslie Street) in the Don Mills district of Toronto, and its transmitter is located atop the CN Tower in downtown Toronto. The station reaches much of the population of Ontario through a network of 12 transmitters across primarily the southern and central portions of the province (as a result, it is the ''de facto'' Global outlet for the capital city of Ottawa through repeater CIII-DT-6). Since August 29, 2022, CIII-DT serves as the master control hub for all 15 Global owned-and-operated stations across Canada. History Ken Soble, the founder of CHCH-TV in Hamilton, envisioned a national " superstation" of 96 satellite-fed transmitters with CHCH as its flagship. In 1966, he filed the first application with the Board of Broad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CJNT-DT
CJNT-DT (channel 62) is a television station in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, part of the Citytv network. Owned and operated by network parent Rogers Sports & Media, the station maintains studios inside the Rogers Building at the corner of McGill College Avenue and Cathcart Street near the Place Ville Marie complex in downtown Montreal, and its transmitter is located at Mount Royal Park, near downtown Montreal. History The station signed on the air on September 8, 1997, but had its roots in the 1980s as La Télévision Ethnique du Québec (TEQ), a public access ethnic cable channel. It had plans on moving over-the-air as early as the early 1990s, but was dogged by financial problems. Even after it signed on, its finances were in such a state that it never signed on earlier than noon. Part of the problem was that its effective radiated power was only 11 kilowatts, easily the weakest full-power station in Montreal and one of the weakest in North America—roughly on the same level ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Channel Zero (company)
2308740 Ontario Inc. (doing business as 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, with its main office in the Junction. Ownership structure After a settlement following a lawsuit in 2011 with former co-owners Harold Balde and Anthony D'Andrea, "Channel Zero" created a new simplified ownership structure for all of "Channel Zero" licences, under the name 2308740 Ontario Inc. * C.J. ("Cal") Millar - President and C.O.O; 39.3% * Romen Podzyhun - Chairman and C.E.O; 39.3% * Christopher J. Fuoco - Vice-President, Sales and Marketing; 21.4% Assets Television Channel Zero owns six specialty television channels, including three pornographic channels. CHCH Hamilton is the company's sole over-the-air station, which it acquired from Canwest and took control of on August 31, 2009. It is an independent station licensed to Hamilton, Ontario and w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1961 In Canadian Television
The following is a list of events affecting Canadian television in 1961. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, cancellations, and channel launches. Events * ''Reach for the Top'' broadcasts for the first time on CBUT. Four years later the show launches nationally on CBC. * CHCH becomes an independent station after seven years of CBC network affiliation. * October 1 - The Canadian Television Network launches as Canada's second national television network. The original affiliates are CFCN, CHAN, CJAY, CFTO, CJCH, CFCF, CJOH, and CFRN which was a former CBC affiliate. * The CTV National News airs its first broadcast not long after the launch of CTN. The original anchors are Peter Jennings, Charles Lynch and Peter Stursberg. The show gets off to a slow start but soon becomes the network's highest rated program. Debuts Ending this year Births *February 24 - Lynette Gillis, Actress, voice actress and singer *September 16 - Jen Tolley, Actress, voice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canwest
Canwest Global Communications Corporation, which operated under the corporate name Canwest, was a major Canadian media conglomerate based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with its head offices at Canwest Place. It held radio, television broadcasting and publishing assets in several countries, primarily in Canada. Canwest entered Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act, bankruptcy protection in late 2009, leading to the sale of the company's assets. Canwest's newspaper arm was sold to a group of creditors led by ''National Post'' CEO Paul Godfrey, through a newly formed company named Postmedia Network. The sale of the company's broadcasting arm to Shaw Communications closed on October 27, 2010, after CRTC approval for the sale was announced on October 22; those assets were then collectively known as Shaw Media. On April 1, 2016, the broadcasting assets were subsumed into Corus Entertainment, an existing broadcasting firm also owned by the Shaw family. Following the sale of assets, the comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CHML
CHML is a radio station, broadcasting at 900 AM in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. CHML's transmitter power is 50,000 watts using an eight-tower directional antenna array with a signal oriented largely west-northwest to east-southeast, covering the Niagara Peninsula and Western New York, USA strongest; the array is located between Peter's Corners and Cambridge. Its studios are located on West Main Street (next to Highway 403) in Hamilton. The station airs a news/talk format branded as ''Global News Radio 900 CHML''. CHML is owned by Corus Entertainment. History CHML began operations in 1927 as a response to censorship of political discussions by Hamilton's first radio station, CKOC. The original owner was Maple Leaf Radio Company, operated by George H. Lees, a former mayor of Hamilton. The "HML" in the call-sign stood for "Hamilton Maple Leaf". CHML made its debut on Wednesday September 28, 1927. In those early years, CHML operated at 341 meters (880 kHz). In early December 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1954 In Canadian Television
This is a list of Canadian television-related events in 1954. Notable events * CBWT, Winnipeg's CBC Television-Radio Canada Television station debuts on May 31, 1954. Births *January 31 – Greg Bond, musician, actor and writer (d. 1989) *March 4 – Catherine O'Hara, Canadian–American actress, writer and comedian *March 13 – Robin Duke, actress and comedian ('' SCTV'', ''Saturday Night Live'') *May 24 – Marc Akerstream, actor (d. 1998) *July 5 – Debra McGrath, actress and comedian ('' SCTV'') *August 21 – Johanne Garneau, Québécoise actress *August 23 – Jeannie Elias, Canadian–American actress and voice actress Greg Matthew Television shows Debuts *''Country Canada'' *'' CBC News: The National'' Endings *''Pépinot et Capucine'' (1952-1954, SRC) Programs on-air this year CBC *''Country Canada'' (1954-2007) *''CBC News Magazine'' (1952-1981) *'' The National'' (1954–present) *'' The C.G.E. Show'' (1952-1959) *''Hockey Night in Canada'' (1952–present ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Global Television Network
The Global Television Network (more commonly called Global, or occasionally Global TV) is a Canadian English-language terrestrial television network. It is currently Canada's second most-watched private terrestrial television network after CTV, and has fifteen owned-and-operated stations throughout the country. Global is owned by Corus Entertainment — the media holdings of JR Shaw and other members of his family. Global has its origins in a regional television station of the same name, serving Southern Ontario, which launched in 1974. The Ontario station was soon purchased by the now-defunct CanWest Global Communications, and that company gradually expanded its national reach in the subsequent decades through both acquisitions and new station launches, building up a quasi-network of independent stations, known as the CanWest Global System, until the stations were unified under the Ontario station's branding in 1997. History NTV The network has its origins in NTV, a new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Superstation
''Superstation'' (alternatively rendered as "super station" or informally as "SuperStation") is a term in North American broadcasting that has several meanings. Commonly, a "superstation" is a form of distant signal, a terrestrial television, broadcast television signal—usually a commercial broadcasting, commercially licensed station—that is retransmitted via communications satellite or Microwave transmission, microwave relay to multichannel television providers (including cable television, cable, direct-broadcast satellite television, direct broadcast satellite and internet Protocol television, IPTV services) over a broad area beyond its primary broadcast range, terrestrial signal range. Outside of their originating media market, superstations are often treated akin to a conventional basic cable channel. Although six American television stations—none of which has widespread national distribution beyond home satellite or regional cable coverage—still are designated under ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western International Communications
WIC Western International Communications Ltd. (or WIC) was a Canadian media company that operated from 1982 to 2000, with operations including broadcast and specialty television, radio, and satellite distribution via a majority interest in Canadian Satellite Communications (or Cancom). The company itself was acquired by CanWest Global Communications, which kept most of WIC's broadcast television stations and a variety of related television production assets. As a result of a takeover battle leading up to the acquisition, Shaw Communications assumed WIC's interest in Cancom, while a separate company owned by the same Shaw family, Corus Entertainment, acquired various radio stations and specialty services. A handful of assets would be acquired by other companies for competitive reasons. With the sale of Canwest's broadcasting assets to Shaw a decade later, the Shaw family now controls almost all of the assets of the former WIC – through either Shaw or Corus – the sole except ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
