CFJC-TV (
analogue channel 4) is a
television station
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in
Kamloops, British Columbia
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, Canada, affiliated with
Citytv
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. Owned by the
Jim Pattison Broadcast Group
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, the station has studios on Pemberton Terrace and Columbia Street West in Kamloops, and its transmitter is located near Southern Yellowhead Highway/
Highway 5
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, southeast of
Kamloops Airport
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.
History
The station first signed on the air on April 8, 1957 as CFCR-TV, originally operating as a
CBC affiliate; the station changed its call letters to CFJC-TV (taken from local radio station CFJC, its owner at the time) on September 1, 1971. The television and radio stations were purchased by the Jim Pattison Group in 1987.
By the 1990s, CFJC had delegated its national advertising sales to
Western International Communications
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, owner of fellow CBC affiliate
CHBC in
Kelowna
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. WIC began selling the two stations' advertising as a single unit under the name ''BCI TV''. For years, both stations carried virtually identical programming schedules apart from local newscasts, with the majority of non-CBC programming coming from
Global
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and, to a lesser extent, WIC itself (Global was not available as a standalone network in the B.C. interior until
Vancouver
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station
CHAN-TV
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became an affiliate in 2001).
Canwest
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acquired CHBC in 2000 and assumed the same role in selling advertising and providing programming, primarily from its CH
television system
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. During the 1990s and early 2000s, the station branded itself as ''CFJC TV7'', in reference to its cable channel position in the Kamloops area.
On November 1, 2005, the
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
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(CRTC) announced it ha
received an applicationfrom Pattison to disaffiliate CFJC from CBC Television. According to documents filed with the commission, the continuation of CFJC's
joint sales agreement
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with CHBC, which had previously received clearance to disaffiliate and become a CH station under Canwest – was contingent on CFJC's concurrent disaffiliation. The CRTC gave its approval on February 1, 2006, and CFJC disaffiliated from the CBC on February 27, 2006. While CFJC initially branded itself as ''The All-New Independent TV7'' after its disaffiliation, Canwest continued to supply the bulk of the station's programming, and CFJC became, in effect, the first CH station that was not owned by Canwest.
In September 2007, CH was rebranded as "
E!", complete with several E!-branded programs, making it difficult for CFJC to continue to call itself "independent". By October, the station had embraced the new E! identity in its general branding outside of local programming, and rebranded its newscasts from ''CFJC TV7 News'' to simply ''CFJC News'', in line with the Canwest-owned E! stations elsewhere in the country.
The 2006 affiliation switch had left CBC Television solely dependent on cable and satellite carriage of its Vancouver station
CBUT
CBUT-DT (channel 2) is a television station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, serving as the West Coast flagship of CBC Television. It is part of a twinstick with Ici Radio-Canada Télé station CBUFT-DT (channel 26). Both stations sh ...
in the market, with no new terrestrial transmitters being installed in the Kamloops area. The
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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indicated it had not budgeted for this scenario and therefore could not afford to replace the transmitters, as it has done in most cases in years past when private affiliates left the network. Most other stations from which the transmitters have been replaced became
owned-and-operated station
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s, while CFJC remained independently owned.
The CBC later announced that the transmitters of Jim Pattison's two other former CBC affiliates that switched to E!,
CKPG-TV
CKPG-TV (Analog television, analogue channel 2) is a television station in Prince George, British Columbia, Canada, affiliated with Citytv. The station is owned by the Jim Pattison Group#The Jim Pattison Media Group, Jim Pattison Broadcast Group, ...
in
Prince George and
CHAT-TV
CHAT-TV ( analogue channel 6) is a television station in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada, affiliated with Citytv. Owned by the Jim Pattison Broadcast Group, the station has studios at 10 Boundary Road SE in the nearby town of Redcliff, and its tra ...
in
Medicine Hat
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, would not be replaced, and no transmitters were scheduled to be installed for the future in these areas. All three areas ended up being served by other television networks. However, despite a limited Francophone population in the absence of an Anglophone network,
Radio-Canada
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station
CBUFT out of Vancouver was available over-the-air in Kamloops and Prince George, and CBUFT sister station
CBXFT
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out of
Edmonton
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was available in Medicine Hat until CBC shut down its rebroadcast transmitters in 2012.
On July 14, 2009, Pattison announced that CFJC and its other E! affiliates would begin receiving programming from
Rogers Media
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's
Citytv
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system starting September 1; CFJC and CKPG would also become part of a new regional sales initiative known as "inTV". Canwest had previously announced it would sell or close its E! stations, leaving the Pattison stations without a programming source. On May 3, 2012, Rogers announced that it renewed the Citytv affiliation agreements with the Jim Pattison Group, which were originally slated to expire that August; under the agreement, CKPG largely became a
semi-satellite
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of
CKVU-DT
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, broadcasting the majority of its programming in pattern with the Vancouver O&O (including ''
Breakfast Television
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''), but opting out for locally produced midday and evening newscasts.
News operation
CFJC-TV broadcasts 10 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (two hours each weekday); there are no newscasts on Saturdays or Sundays. On May 18, 2012, CFJC-TV began broadcasting its local newscasts in
high definition.
Transmitters
CFJC-TV has eight
rebroadcast transmitters serving outlying communities in the mountainous region.
The
semi-satellites of CFJC-TV are listed in ''bold italics''
Digital television and high definition
According to a 2009 CRTC decision, CFJC-TV is not required to activate its digital signal, as Kamloops was not a mandatory market for digital conversion,
which took place in most other markets on August 31, 2011.
[Digital Television – Office of Consumer Affairs (OCA)](_blank)
When CFJC signs on its digital signal, the station will broadcast on VHF channel 13. Through the use of
PSIP
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, digital television receivers will display CFJC-TV's
virtual channel
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as its analogue-era VHF channel 4.
References
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