CJSS-TV was a television station in

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. In operation from 1959 to 1963 as a private affiliate of

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, the station was later converted to a

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CJOH-TV CJOH-DT (channel 13) is a television station in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, part of the CTV Television Network. It is owned and operated by network parent Bell Media alongside Pembroke-licensed CTV 2 outlet CHRO-TV (channel 5). Both stations share ...

. The station originally signed on as a

affiliate on October 18, 1959, owned by Stanley Shenkman. Shenkman also acquired the

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s CKSF and CKSF-FM, which both adopted the CJSS call sign as well. In 1963, CJSS was acquired by Ernie Bushnell and converted into a rebroadcaster of

's CTV affiliate

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, making CJSS the first TV station in Canada ever to cease operations as its own station and become a repeater for another. After many years of use to

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the Montréal market,

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took the station permanently

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in 2017. The radio stations were sold to a local family, and subsequently broadcast as part of

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. Of these stations, 1220 AM (as

CJUL CJUL was an English-language Canadian radio station located in Cornwall, Ontario. Owned and operated by Corus Entertainment, it broadcast on 1220 kHz with power of 1,000 watts as a class C station, using an omnidirectional antenna. The station ...

) left the air August 18, 2010 leaving just

CJSS-FM CJSS-FM (101.9 Hertz, MHz) is a commercial radio, commercial radio station in Cornwall, Ontario, Cornwall, Ontario. The station broadcasts a classic hits format branded as ''Boom FM, Boom 101.9''. CJSS is owned by Corus Entertainment, which acquir ...

retaining the original call sign.

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The Brisson Brothers
star on their own TV series "The Town & Country Show" on CJSS-TV in Cornwall, (Ottawa Country Music Hall of Fame, 1994).
237 Water Street East
former home of CJSS radio; in the late 1950s and early 1960s, this building served as the studios for short-lived CJSS-TV 8. * JSS JSS Television channels and stations established in 1959 Television channels and stations disestablished in 1963 Mass media in Cornwall, Ontario 1959 establishments in Ontario 1963 disestablishments in Ontario JSS-TV {{Canada-tv-station-stub